Ville-Veikko Salminen

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Vaarallista vapautta
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Vaarallista vapautta

Nov 16, 1962
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
Drama
Viettelysten tie
4

Viettelysten tie

Nov 18, 1955
Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.
Drama
Evakko
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Evakko

Aug 30, 1956
Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. The film has a surprisingly perky tone for the subject matter.
Drama
Helunan häämatka
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Helunan häämatka

Sep 16, 1955
A story about the passengers of the inland waterway Heinävesi. Salli, the daughter of the captain, dreams of an acting career and joins a performance by a theater company traveling on a ship.
Comedy
Pohjan tähteet
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Pohjan tähteet

Dec 25, 1969
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
Comedy
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
2
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Comedy
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
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Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Comedy
Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
4.333
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
Comedy
Kuutamosonaatti
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Kuutamosonaatti

Nov 04, 1988
La mannequin Anni Stark prend congé du monde de la mode et se rend en Laponie pour des vacances. Elle sait à peine qu'il y a un groupe de fous qui vit dans les collines dans une ferme proche. Le complot s'épaissit au moment où l'un des résidents commence à harceler Anni, qui reste seule dans la nature avec seulement son chien pour la protéger.
Horror
Likainen puolitusina
4.5

Likainen puolitusina

Aug 27, 1982
A group of men arriving to their military refresher training are tasked with finding a lost football bomb meant for a film shoot.
Comedy
Autotytöt
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Autotytöt

Oct 07, 1960
Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
Drama
Un espion de trop
6.6

Un espion de trop

Dec 16, 1977
Conditionnés à l'écoute d'un extrait du célèbre poème Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening de Robert Frost énoncés au téléphone, des citoyens apparemment inoffensifs se mettent à perpétrer des attentats-suicides sur le sol américain. Un agent reçoit pour mission d'enrayer le processus et découvre leur nature de « cellules dormantes », disséminées sur le territoire lors de la guerre froide, révolue. Quelqu'un a choisi de les réveiller... La phrase réactivant les agents dormants : « Le bois est sombre et m'invite aux loisirs, mais j'ai d'abord un serment à tenir, comme la route est longue avant de dormir. N'oublie pas XXX (nom de l'agent dormant), comme la route est longue avant de dormir »
Thriller
Uuno Epsanjassa
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Uuno Epsanjassa

Sep 27, 1985
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Comedy
Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
6
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Comedy
Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
4.545
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Comedy
Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
4.167
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Comedy
Nuori mylläri
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Nuori mylläri

Feb 14, 1958
A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
Comedy
Harha-askel
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Harha-askel

Mar 27, 1964
Bored with family life the husband Matti goes on a drunken journey.
Drama
Petos
5.2

Petos

Mar 18, 1988
The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
Drama