Vesa-Matti Loiri
Also Known As: Matti Loiri, Vesku Loiri
Biography: Vesa-Matti Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro. Loiri was one of Finland's most appreciated entertainment artists.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 04, 1945
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 10, 2022
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Hangover
Overview: Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-06-12
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Bad Boys: A True Story
Overview: The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Seitsemän Veljestä
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Seth Mattsonin tarina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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Uuno Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-08-24
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1975-08-29
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Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro
Overview: It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon
Overview: Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-08-26
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Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Overview: Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Uuno Epsanjassa
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Overview: Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit
Overview: Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
Overview: Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle
Overview: Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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Kummeli Kultakuume
Overview: Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Lentävät luupäät
Overview: Two brothers from Häme discover that they are actually from Karelia. During the celebration of the newfound fact, one of the brothers is bitten by a bug. After seeking medical help from a doctor - who tries to tell the brothers that he is not a doctor of medicine - the doctor decides to trick the boys by convincing them that the insect in question is called Insectum propellatum, also known as the aviation bug, and unless the affected brother learns how to fly, the bite might turn fatal. During their shenanigans, they become acquainted with a robot that runs on booze, two scoundrels, and the beautiful Miss Universe!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Pikkupojat
Overview: OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Sanoilla on hintansa - elokuva Juha Junnu Vainiosta
Overview: A dramatized documentary film about singer-songwriter and lyricist Juha "Junnu" Vainio from Kotka.
Genres: Documentary Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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Hei kliffaa hei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Jussi Pussi
Overview: Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Leikkikalugangsteri
Overview: Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with the help of his chamberlain. Both toy manufacturers hire gangster chief Niitti to handle their twilight jobs, but not everything goes according to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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Liian iso keikka
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Pohjan tähteet
Overview: Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Vesku from Finland
Overview: "Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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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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The Magnetic Man
Overview: A look at the life and music of Pekka Streng who died at the age of 26 in 1975.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Rumble
Overview: Finnish Road Movie
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Tup akka lakko
Overview: 'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in witch doctor Jyrä (Hämäläinen) invented test-tube-adult (Spede) who look exactly like matematition Mutikainen. When the test-tube-adults body emerged 'cause doctors mistake, voice moved living into Mutikainens body. And that is reason for many problems what happen to people in this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Girl of Finland
Overview: A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Hellyys
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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Kuuhun ja takaisin - keskioluen tarina
Overview: Documentary about medium strength beer in Finland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-01-18
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The Boys
Overview: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Jon
Overview: Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Hirttämättömät
Overview: Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Overview: Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Overview: Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Tupla-Uuno
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Uuno Turhapuron poika
Overview: Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Spy Games
Overview: A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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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
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Who Is Joe Louis?
Overview: The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
Overview: Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Rakastunut rampa
Overview: Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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Noin 7 veljestä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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Ulvova mylläri
Overview: The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-11-05
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Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
Overview: Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Overview: This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Overview: Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet
Overview: The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Kahdeksas veljes
Overview: Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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The Storage
Overview: Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre
Overview: One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-04-21
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Master Cheng
Overview: Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Pedon merkki
Overview: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Tähtikeinu
Overview: L. Onerva and Eino Leino - two people, two rebels, prisoners of a difficult love relationship. Along with two passionate poets, there will be a third wheel, a young and talented composer Leevi Madetoja.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-03
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Ripa Hits the Skids
Overview: A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Shadow of the Eagle
Overview: The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Blindfolded
Overview: Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Satan in the House
Overview: Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-11-18
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Turhapuroilmiö
Overview: A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-03-24
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