Vesa Mäkelä

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Lomalla
4.3

Lomalla

Dec 01, 2000
A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.
Drama
Onnellinen mies
6

Onnellinen mies

May 14, 1979
Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.
Pohjanmaa
6

Pohjanmaa

Feb 26, 1988
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Drama
Myyrän aarre
1

Myyrän aarre

Jan 01, 2001
A small mole is looking for a fallen star in the night forest where everyone else seem to have already found their own treasures.
Animation
Kuningasjätkä
6.5

Kuningasjätkä

Feb 13, 1998
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
Drama
Maraton
1

Maraton

Dec 18, 1997
The year is 1972. Finnish endurance running is in its golden age. The head physician of a mental hospital goes on a bike ride with a marathon runner who has been forgotten in hospital for years. But the ride doesn't follow the expected route...
Drama
Kaikki pelissä
5.8

Kaikki pelissä

Apr 15, 1994
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Crime
Sujut
2

Sujut

Mar 20, 1974
TV Movie
Kuutamolla
4.688

Kuutamolla

Feb 01, 2002
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
Drama
La guerre d'hiver
7

La guerre d'hiver

Nov 30, 1989
Situé au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Après l'invasion de la Pologne par l'Allemagne nazie en septembre 1939, la Russie attaque la Finlande en novembre 1939. Les réservistes finlandais quittent leurs foyers et partent en guerre. Le film se concentre sur deux fermiers de la municipalité de Kauhava dans la province de Pohjanmaa / Ostrobothnia, frères Martti et Paavo Hakala, servant dans un peloton finlandais.
Drama
Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
4.143
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.
Comedy
L'Homme sans passé
7.429

L'Homme sans passé

Mar 01, 2002
En débarquant à Helsinki, un homme se fait voler et frapper à mort. Lorsqu'il reprend conscience, il a perdu la mémoire. Sans argent et sans identité, il est aidé par les SDF de la ville.
Comedy
Hamlet Goes Business
6.6

Hamlet Goes Business

Aug 21, 1987
Ou Helsinki remplace l'ancien royaume pourri de Danemark et ou le roi est le president general d'une importante société et Hamlet le principal héritier. Une interpretation tres personnelle d'Aki Kaurimaki qui transforme la tragedie de Shakespeare en tragi-comédie.
Comedy
Puhallus
5.5

Puhallus

May 07, 1992
The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.
Drama
Au loin s'en vont les nuages
7.6
Ilona et son mari Lauri, respectivement maitre d'hotel et conducteur de tramway, menent une vie tranquille en compagnie de leur chien. Jusqu'au jour ou Ilona perd son travail, quelque temps apres le licenciement de son mari.
Comedy
Häjyt
6.6

Häjyt

Jan 15, 1999
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.
Drama
Pahat pojat
5.7

Pahat pojat

Jan 17, 2003
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
Drama
Manillaköysi
5.2

Manillaköysi

Sep 28, 1976
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.
War
Romanovin kivet
5.222

Romanovin kivet

Nov 26, 1993
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.
Action
Isännät ja isäntien varjot
1
Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in Jopi's heart. Jopi's grown-up boys are hardly happy. The eldest boy fell in love with the house maid. The middle one is, according to Jopi, a strange modern product. The youngest does not enjoy working or working at home. The three-part TV series tells about the peasant's collapse in years of depression.
Drama
Talvisota
1

Talvisota

Dec 18, 1991
Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series.
War & Politics