Pirjo Lonka
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Biography: Pirjo Anneli Lonka (born November 14, 1971 in Imatra) is a Finnish actress. She has acted in the Q theater, among others. Pirjo Lonka won the best actress Venla in 2009 for her role as Eija in the psychological thriller Ylikävely.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Imatra, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: November 14, 1971
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Female
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The Hijack That Went South
Overview: Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Man's Job
Overview: Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-02-23
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Joulukuusivarkaat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-12-21
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Laundry
Overview: Humorous fragment of starting over, struggles with life and neighbours. A story of the time when even washing the undies seems difficult.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-02-18
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Heavy Trip
Overview: Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Kalevala – Uusi aika
Overview: In the land Kalevala, Väinämöinen and his troops defend the miraculous machine called Sampo against the invasion of Louhi, the queen of Pohjola, and the Vikings. In present-day Finland, an international corporation led by chairman Kurt Dudler is about to launch a virtual service that directly affects the human mind, which the new CEO Sampo Väinölä opposes. When Sampo's father, Väinö, makes his son aware of the ancient powers, he realises he is involved in an ancient battle between Kalevala and Pohjola.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Light Light Light
Overview: Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Gli immortali
Overview: Chiara works as a lighting technician in the staging of a dance theater show dedicated to Dionysus, who punishes humanity for not believing in his divine nature. When Vittorio, her father, comes into her life with an illness that seems like a divine punishment, Chiara must manage the most universal and atavistic reality that human beings of every part and time share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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Thank You in Your Language
Overview: Actor Tiina Vainio has to make an audition tape in a hotel room as soon as possible for the role of her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-11-26
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The Mine
Overview: A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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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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Summer Is Crazy
Overview: After the bankruptcy of their fine dining restaurant, the Eerolas are stuck in the seaside village of Nauvo with no clear plan for the future. In the shadow of the father’s depression both the mother and the teenage daughter rebel against the stagnant life, each in their own way. In the magical light of the midnight sun, new loves begin while others come to an end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-09-03
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Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Overview: A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-10-19
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Fado
Overview: The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal, determined to win back his former girlfriend Doro, who works at an architectural company in Lisbon.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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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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One Last Deal
Overview: Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Winning Ticket
Overview: Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-01-12
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Fingerpori
Overview: Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Super Comfort
Overview: Taina is preparing a perfect weekend with the family, since her son Eetu is visiting with his girlfriend Noora. Nothing goes as planned. The more Taina tries to entertain everyone, the less comfortable they feel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-03-07
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Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
Overview: A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-12-21
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Are You Hungry?
Overview: A single mother struggles to connect with her adopted son, who she believes is gay. Her assumptions about her son's needs and desires lead to a cascading series of calamities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-10
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Festive Spirit
Overview: The festive spirit of an office party is ruined, when a woman accidentally reveals that their colleague had harassed her at the previous office party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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Ricky Rapper and the Fake Vincent
Overview: Serena Rapper gets a strange prediction: a genius has been born to her immediate family. When Serena finds a drawing Ricky has made, she is certain that Ricky is Vincent Van Gogh reborn. She decides to show Ricky's drawing to the intendant of the Art Museum. At the same time, a sketch of one of Van Gogh's paintings is found in Finland! This discovery starts an exciting chain of events, and in the end, the janitor of the Art Museum, a keen amateur detective, helps Ricky and Nelly to solve the mystery.
Genres: Family Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Ladies of Steel
Overview: Inkeri, 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?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-01-03
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Sihja - The Rebel Fairy
Overview: Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy who leaves her home in the forest. On arrival in the city, she meets a sensitive new friend, a lonely human boy Alfred. Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that the city people have. One day dead birds appear on the city streets. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening the nature.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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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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The Longest Day
Overview: Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-01-26
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A Patriotic Man
Overview: Every 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Man and a Junior
Overview: Antti Pasanen juggles between taking care of Paavo, his work and personal life, until Enni has an accident and he has two kids to take care of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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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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Super Furball
Overview: Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day Emilia’s pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret superpower to transform into Super Furball, who can fly and solve problems with her superpowers. At the same time, the herrings in the nearby Baltic Sea bay are screaming for help because of poisoned water. As the Super Furball, Emilia takes it upon herself to fix the situation and finds ways to be more courageous in her own life.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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The Squirrel
Overview: Pasi, a lonely but kind-hearted designer of artificial animals who accidentally discovers the world's last living squirrel. Pasi decides to defy society's rules and help the squirrel, but things turn out differently than Pasi had planned - the squirrel gets depressed, and Pasi falls in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
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Posse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Täydelliset vieraat
Overview: A group of middle-aged friends get together for dinner. The playful banter between couples who have known each other all their lives escalates into a adult version of the childhood game of truth or dare when no one dares to refuse the challenge. For this evening, all calls, texts, WhatsApps and other messages are public. Is it true that no one has any secrets?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-09-19
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