Jasper Pääkkönen
Biography: Jasper Pääkkönen (born July 15, 1980) is a Finnish actor and entrepreneur. Pääkkönen became famous in Finland playing Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002) and have since then starred in many #1 Finnish box office hits, including Bad Boys (2003), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006) and Lapland Odyssey (2010). He made his international breakthrough role in historical drama television series Vikings (2015-2020) as Halfdan the Black. In March 2019, it was reported that Pääkkönen had been attached to Spike Lee's Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods. A week later, it was announced that Pääkkönen had also landed a major role in the upcoming Black Tower series based on the novels by Stephen King, but the series was subsequently cancelled in early 2020.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 15, 1980
Deathday: N/A
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Addiction
2004-01-16
Addiction
Overview: 30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Bad Boys: A True Story
2003-01-17
Bad Boys: A True Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Hellsinki
2009-01-09
Hellsinki
Overview: In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
2006-01-13
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Overview: Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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V2: Dead Angel
2007-01-12
V2: Dead Angel
Overview: The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-01-12
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Vares: The Girls of April
2011-04-20
Vares: The Girls of April
Overview: Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-04-20
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Vares: The Kiss of Evil
2011-01-06
Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Overview: A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-01-06
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Vares: Private Eye
2004-07-23
Vares: Private Eye
Overview: On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-07-23
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Frozen Land
2005-01-14
Frozen Land
Overview: When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-01-14
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Vares: Garter Snake
2011-08-05
Vares: Garter Snake
Overview: In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Lapland Odyssey
2010-10-15
Lapland Odyssey
Overview: Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Vares: Tango of Darkness
2012-10-05
Vares: Tango of Darkness
Overview: The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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Vares: Gambling Chip
2012-03-16
Vares: Gambling Chip
Overview: Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Heart of a Lion
2013-10-18
Heart of a Lion
Overview: Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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The Unhanged
2023-05-24
The Unhanged
Overview: The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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Vares: The Sheriff
2015-01-07
Vares: The Sheriff
Overview: Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom nobody knows and we do not discuss. Vares drifts dangerously close to the "jury", the secret underworld lord clubs, the members of the human spirit is a cheap commodity. Rummaging through the case Vares get too close to the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-01-07
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A Rare Grand Alignment
2024-10-03
A Rare Grand Alignment
Overview: Directed by Cinqué Lee. Plot currently unknown.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Vares X
2024-10-23
Vares X
Overview: Vares gets a desperate phone call from his friend Kyypakkaus, who needs rescuing. While Vares rescues his friend, the daughter of a private detective's stepfamily is kidnapped. Vares is forced to play for higher stakes than ever before. Events become intertwined with a mysterious sex cult and an underworld showdown. Who can Jussi Vares finally save?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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Jet Trash
2016-06-24
Jet Trash
Overview: Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters.... and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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BlacKkKlansman
2018-08-09
BlacKkKlansman
Overview: Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Moomins and the Comet Chase
2010-08-06
Moomins and the Comet Chase
Overview: One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Da 5 Bloods
2020-06-12
Da 5 Bloods
Overview: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-12
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Naked Harbour
2012-02-03
Naked Harbour
Overview: Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Attack on Finland
2021-11-19
Attack on Finland
Overview: The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Moomin and Midsummer Madness
2008-04-18
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
Overview: After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating theater.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
1988-12-16
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Overview: Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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The Subtenant
2008-09-12
The Subtenant
Overview: A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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