Minna Haapkylä
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Minna Haapkylä is a Finnish actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: June 10, 1973
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Female
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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
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Christmas Story
Overview: Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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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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The Interrogation
Overview: Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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The Border
Overview: The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-11-30
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Producing Adults
Overview: Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Sisters Apart
Overview: Taru lives with her husband and this teenage daughter Ninni. The family's life is shaken when Ninni has an accident and Ninni's biological mother and Taru's half-sister Eve show up. Soon things from the women's past will surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Kristuksen morsian
Overview: Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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Vares: Gambling Chip
Overview: Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Suolaista ja makeaa
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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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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MC Helper beKINGs
Overview: Räkä deliver pizzas for a living and spends his free time on moped meetings. In one meeting he meets Liima and together they start working towards the first place in the upcoming race. The moped club MC Helper is born.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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Marathon
Overview: The year is 1972. Finnish endurance running is in its golden age. The head physician of a mental hospital goes on a bike ride with a marathon runner who has been forgotten in hospital for years. But the ride doesn't follow the expected route...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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The Swedish Moment
Overview: Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Charlie Says
Overview: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Armi Alive!
Overview: Armi Ratia is the woman behind the legendary design company Marimekko and a worldwide celebrity. A theatre company has taken on the task of trying to portray the life and work of this complex person. The sets mainly consist of the well-known patterns that we all have grown to love. Armi is a brave, risk-taking businesswoman and her passion for her company repeatedly takes its toll on her employees, finances and family. The company grows while Armi's personal life is shaken by suicide attempts and turbulence. In Armi Alive!, Oscar-nominated film producer and director Jörn Donner portrays a fascinating woman with fervent ideas about the new Finnish man, her company, fabrics and clothes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-03-20
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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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The Snake
Overview: A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Beyond
Overview: One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Void
Overview: Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Somebody Should Do Something
Overview: Somebody Should Do Something tells a story of insecurity and longing for freedom, of fear that drives people to poor choices. The main character, Elvis, falls for the new girl in class, Onerva. Seeking acceptance from his friends, Elvis lies and tells them he’s had sex with Onerva. Due to the lies and misunderstandings, the whole town is soon at a point where somebody should do something.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Honeybunnies
Overview: A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Turnaround
Overview: A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-11-01
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Kiss Me in the Rain
Overview: Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Memory of Water
Overview: Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Eden
Overview: Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-08-07
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Bubble
Overview: 16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Hospital - Daughter's Mother
Overview: Winter 1975 - author Jeanette Aspen arrives at Lapinlahti Mental Hospital to meet her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, 36 years after sending her daughter to Sweden as herself traveled to Southern Europe, at the start of the Winter War. The encounter triggers a drama between the mother and daughter, who are now total strangers to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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Luciferin viimeinen elämä
Overview: A story of the friendship between theatre director Misha and writer Pasha, as well as actress Laura and demon Lucifer, who transforms into a human.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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