Taneli Mäkelä
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Espoo, Finland
Birthday: March 10, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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FC Venus
Overview: Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) would play against FC HeMan. If the women's team wins, the men will have to give up football, and if the men's team wins, the women will never complain about their hobby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-12-30
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If You Love
Overview: Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-01-06
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The Winter War
Overview: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Lapland Odyssey 3
Overview: In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-08-23
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The Wedding Waltz
Overview: Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Plainlands
Overview: Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Pearls and Pigs
Overview: When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Spede
Overview: The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds light on behind-the-scenes events from the late 1960s to the birth story and popularity of Uuno Turhapuro, and Spede's tireless fight for the entertainment industry against the artistic film circles of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Luottomies-elokuva: All in
Overview: When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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Adult Camp
Overview: Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine themselves and each other to find the necessary elements for growth. Perhaps the camp doesn't fulfill its promise of the "most wonderful week of your life", but one thing's for sure - no one returns home the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Nuoruustango
Overview: Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-17
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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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Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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Minun mereni
Overview: The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas in the world and climate change is only making the situation worse. It is troubled by eutrophication and the lack of oxygen it causes. With Finland's NATO membership, the Baltic Sea has also become part of conflict-sensitive world politics. However, the Baltic Sea is still much more. The wonderful documentary Minun mereni, written, filmed and directed by Ari Heinilä has been a gigantic work. It reveals to us land crabs the amazing beauty of our sea, which is less appreciated. The sea, which changes according to the seasons, offers unique nature experiences. The camera flying in the sky and travelling under the sea picks up spectacular details of the most beautiful destinations in the Archipelago Sea. The voices of the poetic narration act as e.g. Taneli Mäkelä, Irina Björklund and Martti Suosalo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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95
Overview: Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Vaiennut kylä
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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Jackpot
Overview: Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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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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Fakta homma
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Kaikki hyvin, Pekka
Overview: Pekka tries to accomplish absolute equality in one day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Heavysaurs: The Movie
Overview: Heavysaurs is a partly-animated, live-action family adventure about two kids who find five funny dinosaur creatures that love to eat and play rock music. When the creatures are taken into captivity, their rescue takes the kids on an exciting adventure full of challenges and surprises.
Genres: Fantasy Family Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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Moomins and the Comet Chase
Overview: One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Pullahiiri
Overview: A teenager (Sari Puumalainen) starts to suffer from bulimia nervosa after her boyfriend tells her to loose a bit weight. The illness makes her neglect the school and her friends until she realises that she is not alone with her problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Naked Harbour
Overview: Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Reunion
Overview: Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Sexy as Hell
Overview: When an accounting company moves, it’s CEO gets an opportunity to display her awesome management skills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Moomin and Midsummer Madness
Overview: After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating theater.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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Anita
Overview: Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-01-28
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The Other Side of Hope
Overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-02-03
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Blue Corner
Overview: Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Gold Digger
Overview: Marja (Minka Kuustonen) is a blogger. Olavi is one of the richest men in the country. She might be able to save her blog if she dates him, but what if she falls for him for real?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-03-25
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Akallinen mies
Overview: The farmer now has found a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-05
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The Subtenant
Overview: A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Three in Love
Overview: Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Overview: The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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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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Love Records
Overview: The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-01-29
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Once Upon a Time in the North
Overview: 19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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