Åke Lindman
Also Known As: Ake Lindman, Оке Линдман
Biography: Åke Leonard Lindman was a Finnish stage and screen actor, film and stage director. In his youth he was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. His breakthrough as an actor came with his role as the stubborn soldier Lehto in Edvin Laine's movie The Unknown Soldier from 1955.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Birthday: January 11, 1928
Deathday: March 03, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lumisten metsien tyttö
Overview: Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Genombrottet
Overview: Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-11-01
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Herra sotaministeri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Hallin Janne
Overview: In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Viettelysten tie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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Kovanaama
Overview: Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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The Hunters
Overview: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Preludes to Ecstasy
Overview: Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Lady in Black
Overview: The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Overview: In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-08-11
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Risti ja liekki
Overview: Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Vihdoinkin hääyö…
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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Kalabaliken i Bender
Overview: The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Misfire
Overview: A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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The Boy in the Tree
Overview: Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-25
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Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Kertokaa se hänelle…
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Moonwolf
Overview: Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Älä nuolase…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-02-09
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The Chainsaw
Overview: A story of how a team of lumberjacks react when the forest company wants to introduce the chainsaw.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-04-20
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Pekka Puupää
Overview: Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Olet mennyt minun vereeni
Overview: Remembering the past, Rea returns to the moment that changed her life. Coming of age, Rea's alcoholic fate is wrapped around two men, composer Tauno Tarras and sea captain Erkki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Zoombie
Overview: Holger gets called a zombie by his son because he seems so boring. After this he decides to quit working and focuses on his own happiness instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-08-31
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Hornankoski
Overview: The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Ingen morgondag
Overview: It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-16
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A Little Christmas Story
Overview: A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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Kohtalo tekee siirron
Overview: Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Overview: All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-14
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Villin Pohjolan kulta
Overview: A western set in the "Wild North".
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso
Overview: The Vorna brothers search for a hidden valley and its treasures.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-11-08
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The Moon God
Overview: A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, sends the police a video recording.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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The Unknown Soldier
Overview: It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Overview: Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Lotat
Overview: Lotat is a Finnish Documentary about the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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Make Like a Thief
Overview: Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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Dirty Story
Overview: The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Lain ulkopuolella
Overview: On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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1918
Overview: Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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Varsovan laulu
Overview: A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Kiinni on ja pysyy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Yö on pitkä
Overview: Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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Me tulemme taas
Overview: The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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Ondskans år
Overview: Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look forward to a Nazi power takeover in Sweden. At his grandmother, Ragnar meets other thoughts and opinions than at home. Karl Gerhard entertains on the radio. As well as Zarah Leander. It's a chaotic and contradictory time for a boy. Ragnar's Nazi parents still hope for a Nazi-German victory in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-02-18
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Klippet
Overview: "The Scam" - A truck driver and his job colleagues figures out how to make the smart move, on their many trips to Finland: Tinkering with cargo pallets that can be sold illegal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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The Book of Fate
Overview: Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there was a mythical world -free of suffering and injustice. But it wasn't enough. People wanted to play God... They created a pen to control the Book of Fate. Mightier than a sword, it could write off deeds -and bring back the dead. But the book gave power, power caused fear -and fear brought suffering. And the suffering caused wars. Darkness fell on earth, making demands on the pen and the book. But the book was gone. It was thought to be lost forever -but hundreds of years later it reappeared on a small planet called Earth. The prophecy says: Only the chosen will get a second chance from the book. The destiny of the chosen one is to guide the book back. But his journey will be long, filled with errors and grief. This is his story.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Western War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-03-06
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Yöjuna
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Hän varasti elämän
Overview: A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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An Unknown Friend
Overview: The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Suomalaistyttöjä Tukholmassa
Overview: Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of the foreign men who they meet there are crooks and liars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-04
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Silja – nuorena nukkunut
Overview: In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-04-26
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The White Reindeer
Overview: A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-07-18
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Husbonden
Overview: Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-09-26
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Rakkaus kahleissa
Overview: A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Me
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-29
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Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Overview: A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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Laukaus Kyproksessa
Overview: Onni Lintula, a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach he falls in love with the local beauty Stalo. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother, Onni and Stalo find each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-04-02
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Lysande landning
Overview: Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Telefon
Overview: Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Riktiga män bär alltid slips
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Niskavuoren Aarne
Overview: Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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The Log Drivers
Overview: The two sons of the Forsgården estate - Arne and Arthur - both fall for the same woman, the beautiful but poor Lea. She has on the other hand only eyes for Arne. After Arne during a fight thinks he has killed a log driver and flees, Lea finds herself in a difficult situation and is forced to marry Arthur.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-01-12
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Mannen utan ansikte
Overview: A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In addition to himself, the desperate robber threatens to blow up the hostages if the police who left to follow them try to prevent the escape.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-02-24
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Teerenpeliä
Overview: Sisters Pirkko and Brita travel to Aulango together with their landlady Sigrid to look for wealthy spouses. At the same time brothers Erkki and Olavi hope to find girls who would love them for their own sake and not for their money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-08-02
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The Archer
Overview: Drug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love with Eino's daughter Lena who works at the ambulance switchboard. But no hiding place is good enough to last forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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Paradise America
Overview: Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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