Juhani Niemelä
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L'Homme sans passé
Mar 01, 2002En 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.
Drama
Niskavuoren nuori emäntä
Dec 06, 1987TV movie from 1987. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.
Drama
Klaani – tarina Sammakoitten suvusta
Nov 30, 1984Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.
Drama
Iron Horsemen
Jan 27, 1995Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Action
Umur
Sep 20, 2002Drama
Joulukuusivarkaat
Dec 21, 2009Drama
Tilinteko
Feb 13, 1987Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.
Drama
Vaiennut kylä
Jan 31, 1997Drama
Routasydän
Mar 05, 1993In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.
Science Fiction
Cha Cha Cha
Jan 20, 1989A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!
Comedy
Olavi Virta
Oct 05, 2018The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.
Music
Loma
Dec 17, 1976After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.
Comedy
Tuhlaajapoika
Oct 30, 1992Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Drama
Teräsleidit
Jan 03, 2020Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Drama
L'Autre côté de l'espoir
Feb 03, 2017Helsinki. Deux destins qui se croisent. Wikhström, la cinquantaine, décide de changer de vie en quittant sa femme alcoolique et son travail de représentant de commerce pour ouvrir un restaurant. Khaled est quant à lui un jeune réfugié syrien, échoué dans la capitale par accident. Il voit sa demande d’asile rejetée mais décide de rester malgré tout. Un soir, Wikhström le trouve dans la cour de son restaurant. Touché par le jeune homme, il décide de le prendre sous son aile.
Comedy
Les lumières du faubourg
Feb 03, 2006Koistinen, gardien de nuit, arpente le pavé à la recherche d'une petite place au soleil, mais l'indifférence générale et la mécanique sans visage de la société se liguent pour briser ses modestes espoirs les uns après les autres. Un groupe de bandits exploite sa soif d'amour et son poste de veilleur de nuit avec l'aide d'une femme calculatrice. Ils organisent un cambriolage dont Koistinen est rendu seul responsable. Et voilà celui-ci privé de son travail, de sa liberté et de ses rêves.
Drama
Havukka-ahon ajattelija
Dec 25, 2009Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
Drama
Tous les chats sont gris
Jan 29, 2010Mikael est un juge respecté et un père exigeant. Lorsque l’hypnotique Tilda, sa fille issue d’un premier mariage, réapparaît, l’équilibre familial est totalement bouleversé. Dani, le fils aîné de Mikael et de cette première épouse, découvre alors sa sœur qu’il n’a jamais connu. Une grande complicité s’installe rapidement entre les deux adolescents, au grand dam de leur père qui ne comprend pas leur relation, allant jusqu’à imaginer le pire...
Drama
Zombie ja Kummitusjuna
Jul 26, 1991Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
Drama
Kolmistaan
Feb 01, 2008Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the love of her life.
Drama
Pieni pyhiinvaellus
Mar 17, 2000In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.
Enkeli tulessa
Nov 01, 2004Drama
Niskavuoren Heta
Dec 13, 1987
Putoavia enkeleitä
Dec 05, 2008The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
Drama
Deadwind
Dec 19, 2021Quelques mois à peine après avoir perdu un être cher, l'inspectrice Sofia Karppi enquête sur le meurtre d'une femme liée à une entreprise en bâtiment d'Helsinki.
Drama
Vain muutaman huijarin tähden
Apr 01, 1998Matkalaukkukostaja
May 01, 1991Drama
Lottovoittajien maa
Apr 04, 1990Drama
Korpelan kujanjuoksu
Sep 30, 2018Comedy
Yhdeksän miehen saappaat
Dec 28, 1969
Päin perhettä
Oct 28, 1992Comedy
