Elina Knihtilä
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Biography: Mari Elina Knihtilä (born June 6, 1971) is a Finnish actress. Knihtilä has worked for several Finnish theatres, such as the Finnish National Theatre and Q-teatteri, while also having appeared in films and on television. She has received two Jussi Awards; one for a supporting role in the 2008 Heikki Kujanpää film Putoavia enkeleitä and another for a leading role in the 2011 Zaida Bergroth film Hyvä poika. Some of her television work include the comic roles in Läpiveto, Vedetään hatusta and the first season of Putous. Knihtilä is cohabiting with actor Tommi Korpela. Together they have a son.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Valkeala, Finland
Birthday: June 06, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Doctor Johansson
Overview: A nurse, tired of her job, does not notice that a doctor leaves for his break. This gives a patient from the psychiatric unit next door a chance to sneak into the empty office. When it is time to call in the next patient, the patient now disguised as a doctor, realises she is in a tough spot but decides to meet with the patient anyway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Eden
Overview: Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-08-07
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Family Time
Overview: It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Death Is a Problem for the Living
Overview: The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Last Cowboy Standing
Overview: In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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Flying Finns
Overview: A short film about the close-minded but hopeful couple called Koistinen, who should just stay home instead of travelling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-12-31
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The Democracy of the Spineless
Overview: A political satire about a decision yet to be made and heard – and in all the hassle, the Prime Minister has gone missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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Role
Overview: Lauri Tilkanen is a talented, promising young actor who finds himself among the final candidates vying for the lead role in a high-concept feature film. The casting process has already been long and arduous, for a role that seems nearly impossible to interpret. In this audition, we see just how far Lauri is willing to go for a chance at stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Tervashampoota
Overview: A story about two women who find a suspicious shampoo bottle in the public showers. After learning that there is nothing questionable about the shampoo, they decide to play a practical joke that has unexpected consequenses.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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The House of Branching Love
Overview: A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
Overview: Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Almost 18
Overview: Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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Producing Adults
Overview: Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Road North
Overview: A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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Raptures
Overview: Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-03-21
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A Mate
Overview: Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
Overview: Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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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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Raspberry Boat Refugee
Overview: Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-08-19
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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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Tuulikki
Overview: Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not wanting to let Tuulikki out of her sight. Tuulikki fights back, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Finally, the mother-daughter relationship escalates when the circumstances prove too much for both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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The Midwife
Overview: Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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Stormskerry Maja
Overview: Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple have children, and life is good until trouble sets in: war arrives on the island, Janne is forced to flee from the English troops, and Maja and the children are imprisoned. The family also faces many financial difficulties and death. Years pass, but Maja remains strong and stays in Stormskerry despite all the hardships and difficulties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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The Swedish Moment
Overview: Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Jäät
Overview: A Finnish TV movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-10-04
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100 Liters of Gold
Overview: Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is getting married, and she asks her sisters if they can make 100 liters of sahti for the wedding. Unfortunately, it’s too good not to drink it. The sisters wake up in a horrible hangover and realize they have drunk it all. They have 24 hours to find 100 liters of good sahti, or they will lose all the respect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger
Overview: A film based on the popular children's books by Marjatta Kurenniemi about the exploits of Jill And Joy.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Distractions
Overview: Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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The Log
Overview: The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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Maria's Paradise
Overview: A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Cleaning Woman
Overview: Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Falling Angels
Overview: The 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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The Night Thief
Overview: The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story of a Somali man, Farah, whose car starts to disappear mysteriously at night. Although the car always shows up in the morning, Farah starts to run late from work, and fears that he could lose his job. Farah’s wife is moving to Finland from Somalia and if Farah were to get fired, his wife’s residency permit would be in danger. Due to the circumstances, Farah decides to do whatever it takes to catch the thief. In the end, things take an unexpected turn when Farah finally faces the person who has been stealing his car.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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Rumble
Overview: Finnish Road Movie
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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The Lake
Overview: Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock
Overview: Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the girls to look after their absentminded inventor brother Gadgetus. Jill and Joy get to know the wonders of Gadgetus’s farm, but everything is at risk of being destroyed when Samuel Shortcut arrives on his bulldozer, ready to destroy everything so that a new highway can be built in the area. Jill and Joy save the farm with the help of a device invented by Gadgetus, but before that they have to get to know the world of dreams and find help from there. Armstrong, a miniature pig, also takes part in the adventure and helps Jill and Joy, along with the other people living in Rose Alley.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Play Rape
Overview: A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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The Flight Before Christmas
Overview: A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-09-22
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Happier Times, Grump
Overview: The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Stripping
Overview: About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her betrothed Jonah at the dinner table and leaves their shared home in a bang, not knowing why yet.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-08-16
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Force of Habit
Overview: Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Jill and Joy
Overview: When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It’s a real dream house: measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Based on a beloved children’s book, Jill and Joy is a story of a dream summer without parents or boundaries. Anything can and will happen as reality and fantasy magically intertwine.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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The Other Side of Hope
Overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-02-03
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8 Days to Premiere
Overview: A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-01-25
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The Good Son
Overview: When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Jill and Joy's Winter
Overview: Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Waste Land
Overview: Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers a life outside the society, at least momentarily. The house is more than a house – it is a utopian space for love, partying and freedom. But can the days of ease last when the squat is confronted both by outside forces and by internal conflicts?
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Above Dark Waters
Overview: A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Enkeli tulessa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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The Bouncer
Overview: A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-11-01
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Lovemilla
Overview: Aimo and Milla live together at her alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place, while saving money to move out. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles, and eventually to turn himself into a robot. Milla doesn't like this new Aimo and leaves him. Aimo's heartache leads him to give up his heart for a metal one, one that doesn't hurt. Milla decides to steal Aimo heart: after all, a woman needs to have a man's heart. Lovemilla is an anarchic comedy trip, a story about love, robots and bodybuilding.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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Jäänmurtaja
Overview: 14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
Overview: On a frosty winter's morning, Hemulen wakes the sleeping Moomins to prepare them for the approaching Christmas. But the Moomintrolls, who normally go dormant during the winter months, have never celebrated Christmas and have no idea what the holiday means. Their confusion and delight in the white winter landscape lead to a journey of discovery, where they are forced to understand the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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