Peter Franzén
Also Known As: Петер Францен, پیتر فرانزن
Biography: Peter Vilhelm Franzén (born August 14, 1971) is a Finnish actor, author, screenwriter, and director. As an actor, Franzén has appeared in over 50 films and TV series. For his role in Dog Nail Clipper (2004), Franzén was awarded a Jussi Award for Best Actor as well as earning praise from film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine who called the actor "one of the most talented and versatile thesps in Finland". In his career he has appeared in Finnish, Estonian, German, English, Swedish, and Hungarian speaking roles. In 2015, Franzén was cast as King Harald Finehair from the fourth season of Vikings. Franzén has also casted in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming The Wheel of Time TV series.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Keminmaa, Finland
Birthday: August 14, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Train Birds
Overview: Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
At Point Blank
Overview: A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigation takes them in a dangerous direction that proves to have unforeseen consequences. The hunt for the robbers is intense and their methods become more refined and terrifying. Klara ends up in the line of fire, both literally and figuratively, and the investigation takes her in a direction that she could never have imagined.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-13
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Badding
Overview: The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-08-18
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Threat
Overview: A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the war veteran Haglund who is a leader of a special taskforce.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-02-06
Popularity:
Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
Overview: Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-12-21
Popularity:
Names in Marble
Overview: Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2002-11-01
Popularity:
Ambush
Overview: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-01-22
Popularity:
Set Point
Overview: On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2004-03-04
Popularity:
On the Road to Emmaus
Overview: A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-10-05
Popularity:
Dog Nail Clipper
Overview: Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-02-13
Popularity:
Three Wise Men
Overview: Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-11-14
Popularity:
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
Overview: The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-01-06
Popularity:
Body of Water
Overview: Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-10-07
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Purge
Overview: Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-09-07
Popularity:
Open Up to Me
Overview: At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-03-08
Popularity:
A Summer by the River
Overview: Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-02-13
Popularity:
Asphalto
Overview: As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations, and automotive sports.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-25
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Suolaista ja makeaa
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1995-03-17
Popularity:
Boudica
Overview: Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-26
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Gunman
Overview: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-16
Popularity:
Red Is the Color of
Overview: The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront desires and frustrations that threaten to destroy the illusions of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-16
Popularity:
Black Lotus
Overview: An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-12
Popularity:
Alibi
Overview: Pain, not just war, makes strange bedfellows. In bed, APRIL SANCHEZ and JENNA BRYANT hatch a plan to turn the plot of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" into reality. The two women, who met by accident in a bar, quickly became secret lovers, and shared not only their bodies, but their innermost anger and sorrow. Now, they will each kill the others' "spouse"; and since there is no connection between the two, no one will suspect them. The Perfect Murder. But, true to any Hitchcock movie, things are not always what they seem to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date:
Popularity:
Nightless Night
Overview: Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-10-27
Popularity:
The Abyss
Overview: As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground mine.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-09-15
Popularity:
Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
Overview: GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-07-27
Popularity:
Johan Falk: The End
Overview: The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and trying to kill his wife could be the biggest mistake the organization has ever made. GSI closes up around Johan's family and the final battle begins ...
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-24
Popularity:
Homecoming
Overview: Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-08-21
Popularity:
Beck 31 - Gunvald
Overview: An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-01-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Kites Over Helsinki
Overview: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-09-07
Popularity:
Priest of Evil
Overview: Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-10-29
Popularity:
Rally On!
Overview: This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-02-27
Popularity:
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Overview: Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-27
Popularity:
Lovers & Leavers
Overview: This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-02-01
Popularity:
Ashes in the Snow
Overview: The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
Popularity:
Kissan kuolema
Overview: In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-09-02
Popularity:
Jewel of the Sahara
Overview: Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-28
Popularity:
The Matriarch
Overview: Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-09-14
Popularity:
Rikos & rakkaus
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-02-05
Popularity:
Bad Luck Love
Overview: A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-09-29
Popularity:
Cleaner
Overview: Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
Popularity:
Isabella
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Popularity:
Meander
Overview: After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-01
Popularity:
Baba's Cars
Overview: Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-03-31
Popularity:
Tie naisen sydämeen
Overview: Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1996-09-27
Popularity:
Lapland Odyssey 2
Overview: It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-09-30
Popularity:
Tale of the Sleeping Giants
Overview: Tale of the Sleeping Giants is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a journey into the rich mythology of ancient Scandinavians and Lapps told in the form of a nature movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-12-25
Popularity:
Princess
Overview: Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-10
Popularity:
Mystery of the Wolf
Overview: Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her mother, who shares her mysterious connection with nature.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-12-15
Popularity:
Takatöölö Story
Overview: A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-12-20
Popularity:
Hamsters
Overview: A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend, Minnie the mouse. In the village he is considered a bit odd and he is indeed special! When a lottery-winning family moves in next door, Hamsteri gets the hoarding opportunity of his dreams and in the process changes the course of the lives of Rurik, a bookkeeper who has lost his will to live, his wife Tellu and their children. Thus begins hoarding for what Hamsteri imagines will be "the cruellest winter ever".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-01-04
Popularity:
Deadly Rituals of the Flesh Loving Freaks - Katoamispiste
Overview: A man, his convertible and very dark thoughts. A mysterious woman in a red dress appears. Soon the man wakes up in a room. Is it all just a nightmare?
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-05
Popularity:
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
Popularity: