Martti Suosalo
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Oct 19, 2007Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.
Drama
Rentun ruusu
Jan 12, 2001
Last cowboy standing
Sep 04, 2009En Finlande dans les années soixante-dix, Rupert et Evert sont deux frères à l'imagination débordante. Malgré une mère instable, leur père fait tout pour que leur enfance soit la plus heureuse possible. Un jour, leur mère quitte le domicile et est très vite remplacée par une nouvelle femme qu'ils n'apprécient pas. Entre crise de larmes et tensions, Rupert va tenter l'impossible pour préserver l'équilibre familial.
Drama
Kalteva torni
Oct 20, 2006A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments.
Drama
Les Feuilles mortes
Sep 14, 2023Deux personnes solitaires se rencontrent par hasard une nuit à Helsinki et chacun tente de trouver en l’autre son premier, unique et dernier amour. Mais la vie a tendance à mettre des obstacles sur la route de ceux qui cherchent le bonheur.
Romance
Kulkuri ja joutsen
Feb 19, 1999The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
Drama
Sibelius
Sep 12, 2003Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.
History
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Aug 15, 1997New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
Comedy
Kulkuset kulkuset
Oct 28, 2022Two diverse families meet for the first time over Christmas dinner. The evening goes off the rails right from the start when the male host couple reveal a closely guarded secret: there's also a hostess in the house, and she's very pregnant! Of course, the frantic group of relatives don't take the news lightly and demand the paternity to be confirmed - which is no simple task. A series of misunderstandings drives the Christmas guests to the brink of a nervous breakdown, and as the evening progresses, Santa Claus himself is forced to look in the mirror. Their Christmas together seems doomed to failure until, to everyone's surprise, the evening culminates in a heart-melting Christmas miracle.
Comedy
Kuinka käänsin rabobeston kylkiasentoon
Feb 04, 2021On the verge of her marital life, a young woman makes a journey into the night to find out why she has lost her heartbeat and turned golden.
Drama
Risto Räppääjä ja viileä Venla
Feb 10, 2012Ricky Rapper and Nelly Noodlehead leave for the island, where Fanny Rapper works as the resort hostess. At the same time, Uolevi Horsmaniemi arrives with his daughter Wendy, who is little older than Ricky and Nelly. Wendy's arrival confuses the relationship between Ricky and Nelly, as Nelly begins to spend more and more time with Wendy.
Comedy
Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras
Feb 12, 2010Summer vacation has just begun. In honor of it, Serena Rapper and Lennart Lindberg decide to go on holiday. Ricky gets a new bicycle as a consolation, but it disappears mysteriously. Ricky and Nelly Noodlehead go looking for it which turns into a thrilling adventure.
Comedy
Risto Räppääjä
Feb 15, 2008Ricky Rapper is a ten year old boy who lives with his aunt Serena and likes to play drums and rap. His aunt breaks her leg, leading to cousin Fanny moving in to take care of the household. Fanny is very strict and that means no more drums for Ricky. With the help of his downstair neighbor Nelly, Ricky seeks to restore the normal order to the apartment.
Comedy
Ja saapuu oikea yö
Jul 13, 2012Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the story is over, Sakari will be been forced to make choices he thought he'd never have to face.
Thriller
Pelle Hermanni ja Hypnotisoija
Dec 22, 2023The people at Circus Hepokatti decide to throw a big surprise party for Herman The Clown, but no one seems to know when Herman's birthday is. No one has ever organized a birthday party for him before. The birthday arrangements take a surprising turn when the ruthless leader of a rival circus, the ringmaster Tilpehööri, wants Herman to be the attraction of his own circus by any means necessary. When his attempts to trick Herman fail, Tilpehööri decides to bring in the more extreme methods, and soon things start to get weirder and weirder at the Circus Hepokatti.
Family
Helmiä ja sikoja
Aug 29, 2003When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
Comedy
Lakeuden kutsu
Jan 14, 2000Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?
Drama
Isänmaallinen mies
Dec 04, 2013Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team.
Comedy
Lapin kullan kimallus
Sep 10, 1999In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
Drama
Yötön Yö
Oct 27, 2023Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.
Horror
Penan erikoiskuljetus
Mar 06, 2024Pena has been driving a truck for 50 years and plans to do so in the future. His memory problem is just a small bump in life's highway.
Drama
Läpi harmaan kiven
Apr 23, 1989"Through the gray stone, the bedrock." Follows the making of Jouko Turka's version of Aleksis Kivi's novel "Seven Brothers". The Finnish national poem. A very close look at the lives and drama education of the students at the Theater Academy in Helsinki. Trying, challenging and partly offensive exercises, mental pressure and Turkka's theatre ideology and method.
Documentary
Tappajan näköinen mies
Feb 05, 2016Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.
Crime
Minun mereni
Aug 29, 2024The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas in the world and climate change is only making the situation worse. It is troubled by eutrophication and the lack of oxygen it causes. With Finland's NATO membership, the Baltic Sea has also become part of conflict-sensitive world politics. However, the Baltic Sea is still much more. The wonderful documentary Minun mereni, written, filmed and directed by Ari Heinilä has been a gigantic work. It reveals to us land crabs the amazing beauty of our sea, which is less appreciated. The sea, which changes according to the seasons, offers unique nature experiences. The camera flying in the sky and travelling under the sea picks up spectacular details of the most beautiful destinations in the Archipelago Sea. The voices of the poetic narration act as e.g. Taneli Mäkelä, Irina Björklund and Martti Suosalo.
Documentary
Aapo
Jul 29, 1994Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
Drama
La guerre d'hiver
Nov 30, 1989Situé 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
Wonderland
Dec 01, 2017Lasse de passer Noël seule, une femme divorcée rejoint une amie en vacances dans une ferme, où elle vit une histoire inattendue.
Comedy
Suomen hauskin mies
Mar 16, 2018Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. Instead, they will be given a new trial. Preparing a comedy in the horrible circumstances, in the midst of hunger and death, seems quite an overwhelming task. Only a handful of real actors are still alive, the rest of the troupe consists of stagehands. Parikka has to use all his inventive skills to be able to produce something funny.
Drama
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
Hamlet
Oct 10, 1985Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre Academy Helsinki working under director Jouko Turkka.
Drama
Palkkasoturi
Apr 18, 1997Drama
Pääosassa Jouko Turkka
Feb 23, 1984The controversial Jouko Turkka, actor, writer, teacher and stage director. With his mostly devoted students at the Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Where he was appointed professor of stage production 1981-1984.
Documentary
Liian paksu perhoseksi
Jan 05, 1998Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each other, despite their physical differences.
Drama
Job Interview
Sep 05, 2016In a world like hell, slum dweller Oogle gets a chance to talk to God, who seems to be on the brink of burn out.
Kivenpyörittäjän kylä
Feb 17, 1995Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day.
Drama
Yöjuna
Sep 13, 1996Thriller
Kolme yötä
Apr 06, 1989Drama
Limbo
Dec 21, 2019A quiet staircase of an ordinary office building. Two colleagues, Markku, an older accountant, and Eeva, younger HR manager are heading down the stairs, one after another. It turns out that earlier that day, Eeva has had to tell Markku that he has been fired from the company after many years. Markku is bitter and full of rage. Then something unordinary happens.
Drama
Vinski et la poudre magique
Dec 22, 2021Vinski et sa mère Krista vivent à Hömpstad, petite ville finlandaise envahie par la criminalité. Excédé par ce banditisme, le jeune garçon décide d'agir en devenant un super-héros. C'est avec l'aide d'un vieil apothicaire qu'il parvient à se rendre invisible grâce à une poudre magique. Il utilise cette technique pour combattre le nouveau fiancé de sa mère, qui se trouve être un escroc.
Family
Pitkä kuuma kesä
Mar 26, 1999
Tuulikaappimaa
Dec 29, 2003Drama
Sokkotanssi
Mar 12, 1999Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Drama
Pieniä valheita
May 07, 1994The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Drama
Täällä Pohjantähden alla II
Sep 24, 2010Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Drama
Kaivo
Sep 29, 1992This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.
Drama
Tango Kabaree
Jan 26, 2001A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves.
Documentary
Back to the USSR – takaisin Ryssiin
Mar 27, 1992Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
Drama
Syke-elokuva: Hätätila
Nov 05, 2021Iiris tries to recover from her difficult separation with Artturi when she unexpectedly meets Anton. The relationship doesn't get a chance to progress far when Iiris' son Niilo suddenly becomes ill. Niilo would only need a small operation, but once the boy enters the operating room, the hospital is subjected to a cyber attack. The power is cut off, the ventilators stop working and all access to patient data is blocked. Nurses have to prioritize whose life is the most valuable.
Drama
Kikka!
Oct 12, 2022Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
Drama
Aalto
Sep 04, 2020Alvar Aalto, un des grands maîtres de l’architecture et du design européen, est considéré comme le père du modernisme. Ce Finlandais a transformé les espaces et les objets en oeuvres – on citera entre autres la Bibliothèque de Viipuri ou le Vase Aalto devenu entre temps, avec ses formes asymétriques, un classique du design. AALTO – le film – nous raconte l’histoire d’Alvar Aalto, le visionnaire, et d’Aino Aalto, sa femme, qui a mis en pratique ses projets d’architecture moderne à base de bois, ainsi que ses concepts de design hors du commun. Ce couple peu conventionnel avait une passion commune pour les constructions organiques et une architecture à vocation humaine. Ils développèrent des valeurs démocratiques, pour concevoir un monde moderne au coeur duquel devait se trouver « l’homme simple ». C’est ainsi qu’ils reprirent l’idée du Bauhaus pour l’étendre au Nord de l’Europe tout en le remodelant de manière spectaculaire.
Documentary
Ryhmäteatteri
Feb 03, 2018
Puolin ja toisin
Nov 17, 2013An asphalt contractor, who has sacrificed his life to make a profit, finds himself in a financial dead-end. The ever gentle-minded road engineer Rauno Kannisto is hired to the construction site, to build a road that cuts through the vast forests by the Russian border. He knows nothing of the financial difficulties. Soon, Rauno finds himself in a situation where he doesn't know which way to turn. The sub-contractor becomes the main contractor, workers are loaded in containers from the other side of the border, and the contractor's wife has a smile that makes you lose your sleep. Middle of the Road is a dark comedy about loyalty and greed.
Comedy
Sieniretki
Sep 30, 2022PJ, a struggling screenwriter and his best friend Jami, a successful car dealer, are fed up with how painfully stuck their heads are in their ways. They decide to do something about it and rent a cabin on the Finnish archipelago for the weekend to get their minds blown - with magic mushrooms. A little getaway between the men gets out of hand when a series of coincidences turn their plans upside down.
Comedy
Pelle Hermanni
Sep 09, 2022Herman the Clown sets out to find his father, whom he hasn't seen since he set off to measure the Earth with his feet. He is secretly followed by the son of Max the Magician, ten-year-old Roni. And so begins an exhilarating adventure full of magic, twists and colorful circus life.
Family
Pikku-Siperia
Mar 21, 2025The everyday life of the small village of Hurmevaara is shaken when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night. According to the town's mayor, the meteorite is very valuable for the future of the slowly dying village. Joel, the village priest, and a veteran peacekeeper, ends up guarding the meteorite in an old museum before it is sent to London for a more detailed evaluation. But a precious meteorite gets a lot of attention... While Joel protects the meteorite from both amateur and professional criminals, he tries to unravel an even greater mystery surrounding his own life. Joel's wife has recently revealed that she, finally, is pregnant. Great news, but unfortunately, Joel is unable to have children due to his war injury. He just hasn't told his wife.
Drama
Raportti hurjasta joukosta
Jun 14, 1989Summary of VHS tapes filmed by Raimo Mikkola from the production of Jouko Turkka's TV series Seitsemän veljestä.
Documentary
Kansanradio – runonlaulajien maa
Mar 10, 2021A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country is a carnivalesque portrayal of the Finnish landscape of the soul and abode. The short film is based on the iconic YLE programme “People’s Radio”, and its visual material has been created by the road movie method of driving across summery Finland. The film paints a panorama of what Finland looks like today. Its narration progresses through humour into civic anarchy, ultimately also towards the longing for human connection.
Documentary
Havumetsän lapset
Mar 28, 2024Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main object of love is the Finnish forest. This cinematic documentary explores environmental feelings and witnesses how the 22-year old protagonist Ida grows up to be the leader of the new Forest Movement.
Documentary
Aalto
Sep 04, 2020Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main object of love is the Finnish forest. This cinematic documentary explores environmental feelings and witnesses how the 22-year old protagonist Ida grows up to be the leader of the new Forest Movement.
Documentary
Alamaailma Trilogia
Feb 21, 2011Crime
Hunajan maku
Sep 20, 1993Drama
Raid
Mar 27, 2000Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series.
The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries".
Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end.
The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction.
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
Kaverille ei jätetä
Jan 04, 2004Drama
Kaverille ei jätetä
Jan 04, 2004Drama
Kaverille ei jätetä
Jan 04, 2004Drama
Kaverille ei jätetä
Jan 04, 2004Drama
Kaverille ei jätetä
Jan 04, 2004Drama
Operaatio Interheil
Mar 07, 2001Thriller about Antti, an unemployed architect who is hired by the Security Police to infiltrate an ultra-right-wing organisation in a town in southern Finland. The group is passive and not dangerous. To keep his job Antti starts to invent action for the group.
Crime
Punainen Kolmio
Dec 27, 2015Drama
Ilonen talo
Oct 30, 2006Drama
Taisto - muovista ja rakkaudesta
Apr 15, 2019
Milkshake
May 02, 1994Drama
Matkalaukkukostaja
May 01, 1991Drama
Fakta homma
Jan 27, 1998Fakta homma is a Finnish comedy television series. It first aired on Finnish TV in 1986 and last aired in 1998.
Comedy
Rikospoliisi ei laula
Nov 19, 2006Drama
Tappajan näköinen mies
Mar 27, 2011In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one.
Crime
Jurismia!
Mar 19, 2002Comedy
Keihäsmatkat
Mar 22, 2020Drama
Renki
Apr 23, 2023A man in his 40s hires a handyman to help out with his daily chores. Soon, he finds himself in competition for the love of his family.
Drama
Paratiisi
Sep 01, 2024Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
Drama
Paratiisi
Sep 01, 2024Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
Drama
Talvisota
Dec 18, 1991
Team Ahma
Jun 27, 2007Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.
Drama
