Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Also Known As: H-P Björkman
Biography: Hannu-Pekka Juhani Björkman (born 11 February 1969) is a Finnish actor. He has won two Jussi Awards for the Best Actor for films For the Living and the Dead (2005) and The Human Part (2018). In 2018, he won a Jussi Award for the Best Supporting Actor for film The Eternal Road (2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kannonkoski, Finland
Birthday: February 11, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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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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The Missile
Overview: Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-02-02
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The Flight Before Christmas
Overview: A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-09-22
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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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Under the North Star
Overview: Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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The House of Branching Love
Overview: A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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V2: Dead Angel
Overview: The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-01-12
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Backwood Philosopher
Overview: Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-12-25
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Lakeuden kutsu
Overview: Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-01-14
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Almost 18
Overview: Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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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
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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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Gourmet Club
Overview: "Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect on the members.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-11-29
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Under the North Star II
Overview: Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Blackout
Overview: Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-12-26
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Butterflies
Overview: Siiri, a hardworking millennial, wants to be successful in her job as the advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs. She craves a promotion. Siiri’s job takes her and the hard-to-handle minister, an unpredictable eccentric boss lady, to a big tango festival in a small Finnish town. Siiri’s father Petri, a former tango artist and an overly optimistic middle-aged man, wants to make himself useful to Siiri while trying to hide the fact that he himself is homeless, bankrupt and finally at his wits end. Over the course of one summer weekend both Siiri’s and Petri’s facade comes tumbling down but the tango keeps going on in the sweet Finnish summer night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Raptures
Overview: Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-03-21
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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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Pelle Hermanni ja Hypnotisoija
Overview: The people at Circus Hepokatti decide to throw a big surprise party for Herman The Clown, but no one seems to know when Herman's birthday is. No one has ever organized a birthday party for him before. The birthday arrangements take a surprising turn when the ruthless leader of a rival circus, the ringmaster Tilpehööri, wants Herman to be the attraction of his own circus by any means necessary. When his attempts to trick Herman fail, Tilpehööri decides to bring in the more extreme methods, and soon things start to get weirder and weirder at the Circus Hepokatti.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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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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Nainen kedolla
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Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-10-27
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For the Living and the Dead
Overview: An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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Never Alone
Overview: 1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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After Us, the Flood
Overview: The brilliant young physicist Henrik and his fellow students develop a fusion reactor that produces endless clean energy, potentially saving Earth from environmental catastrophe. The reactor, however, is harnessed for commercial use, and the consequences for the planet and society are devastating. By the year 2064, the world has been ravaged by climate change. The UN succeeds in developing a form of time travel that can return a person's memories and personality to the moment of birth. Henrik is sent back to the past in an attempt to prevent the escalation of a catastrophe before it is too late. Something goes wrong and Henrik is forced to begin his mission from a very different starting point to the one he is used to.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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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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Precious Brother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-08
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Oh No, Lasse Falls!
Overview: The Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 metres final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It is not a big day only for Virén but for the whole nation. But one man cannot win alone. It takes a dedicated group of hardworking, reliable people. In a desolate bunker near the track, six Finnish men are preparing to help Lasse achieve the run of his life. A run that changes history. All for the small, relentless nation from the dark cold North.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-12-31
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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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Theo's House
Overview: A film about the power and the beauty of architecture and about a middle-aged Nordic architect who, after loosing all in his life, wants once again to be a real architect and begins to create a Dream House for rest of the life, but not only for himself but also for a German woman whom he has met only once in his life, 50 years ago in their childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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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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Not Withholding Anything from You
Overview: How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a whole new world for the stage, and why does musician PK Keränen pick up his guitar time and time again? Is creativity a conscious or subconscious process, a pleasure or a compulsion? Veikko Aaltonen’s documentary takes us straight into the heart of creativity with artists from different fields and generations. Celebrating the various forms of passion and creative work, the film presents a compelling case for the significance of art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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Amidst
Overview: Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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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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Lapua 1976
Overview: On April 13th 1976, a devastating munitions factory accident shook the town of Lapua, Finland. Hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder ignited, causing an explosion that took the lives of 40 workers. Lapua 1976 tells a story of love, life, perseverance, grief and hope in the face of unbelievable calamity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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The Eternal Road
Overview: Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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The Black Hole
Overview: A comical triptych about residents in an apartment block district who long for a better life. When a black hole mysteriously appears in a lilac bush, they will have to face aliens, a giant spider, and an Austrian in breeches.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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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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The Last Bookshop of The World
Overview: The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are worried about the decline of literature’s life and the destiny of the street level bookshops in every country. That is why they have a mission to save symbolically “the world's last quality books”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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The Human Part
Overview: Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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The Singer
Overview: The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Tarpeettomia ihmisiä
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-11-21
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Land of Hope
Overview: Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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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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Rumble
Overview: Finnish Road Movie
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Aurora
Overview: A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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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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Eila
Overview: A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
Overview: 10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-12-22
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The Renovation
Overview: A couple inherit a 'house of their dreams' and for a while they think they got lucky, but soon find themselves in the middle of a renovation nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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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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Upswing
Overview: Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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Ricky Rapper and Slick Leonard
Overview: Aunt Fanny and aunt Serena try to find a suitable father figure for Ricky.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Hella W
Overview: The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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Things We Do for Love
Overview: Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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The Woodcutter Story
Overview: An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Resistant
Overview: Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection and peace, and received support for his actions around the world. However, his worldview collided with the nationalist and militaristic atmosphere of the era in Finland. He was considered a troublemaker, a traitor, and a caricature of masculinity. The film is a universal and timeless account of a man persecuted for his opinions. At the same time, it is a description of the weak tolerance of young independent Finland towards dissidents. Pekurinen was executed during the Continuation War by his compatriots on November 5, 1941.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-09-20
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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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Herman the Circus Clown
Overview: Herman the Clown sets out to find his father, whom he hasn't seen since he set off to measure the Earth with his feet. He is secretly followed by the son of Max the Magician, ten-year-old Roni. And so begins an exhilarating adventure full of magic, twists and colorful circus life.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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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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Orenda
Overview: Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power. Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two women intertwine into a tense emotional thriller set on a remote island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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Handbag
Overview: Hanna finds a love letter inside a stolen handbag. The letter is from a lover to a married woman. It is none of Hanna’s business, but still she decides to interfere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-09-29
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