Anna-Leena Sipilä
Also Known As: Annaleena Sipilä, Annaleena Lahtela
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pyhäjärvi, Finland
Birthday: February 18, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Overseas and Under Your Skin
Overview: Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-01-23
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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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What Remains
Overview: In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to solve a brutal cold case before their obsessive quest for the truth consumes them all.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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How to Take Care of Your Parakeet
Overview: Arvo is lonely, and his annoying big sister Ulla is no help. Arvo decides to get himself a new friend: a parakeet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-10-29
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Nurses – Dreadful Hospital Outage
Overview: Iiris tries to recover from her difficult separation with Artturi when she unexpectedly meets Anton. The relationship doesn't get a chance to progress far when Iiris' son Niilo suddenly becomes ill. Niilo would only need a small operation, but once the boy enters the operating room, the hospital is subjected to a cyber attack. The power is cut off, the ventilators stop working and all access to patient data is blocked. Nurses have to prioritize whose life is the most valuable.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia
Overview: Trollforest is in grave danger, so Rölli the Troll must unite with a Forest Fairy to save their home.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Stars Above
Overview: Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla – each lives in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30 and 40. This deep and beautiful, yet humorous film pictures the encounters between people and the possibilities for choice. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our ability to hold on to our dreams? What are those things which we pass on from one generation to the next? What changes, what remains the same? And to what extent do mothers´ choices, let alone their unspoken secrets, affect their daughters´ lives?
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Light Light Light
Overview: Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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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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Hardly a Butterfly
Overview: Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each other, despite their physical differences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-01-05
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Syrjähyppyjä
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Kill Anneli
Overview: Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-06-11
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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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Ragged Life of Juice Leskinen
Overview: Juice Leskinen was a singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, folk artist – the father figure of Finnish rock lyrics. The most important factor of Juice's life was his love life. Everything else – booze, lyrics and fame – came as its by-product. The movie tells the story of love professional, of a man who felt deeply and extremely sensitively, but wounded many people, including himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-12-26
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The Two and Only
Overview: Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-12-27
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Jill and Joy's Winter
Overview: Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Feisty First-grader
Overview: Hayflower has started school, where she learns a lot of exciting brand new things. Quiltshoe doesn’t like to stay home without a sister to play with. When Hayflower tells about an upcoming fishing trip with her class, Quiltshoe comes up with a complicated plan, so that it will be Quiltshoe attending the trip instead of Hayflower. The trip evolves into a memorable and chaotic happening,
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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Kauhun millimetrit
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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Viisi tytärtäni
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-03-31
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Bad Women
Overview: Johanna, the hostess of the parish house, does her utmost to ensure that everything goes according to plan. There is no room for error. The last thing Johanna needs is a busload of uninvited guests knocking on the door of the parish house on the eve of an important wedding. However, a passing Russian party has had its car broken down and Johanna soon finds herself accommodating the party at the parish house. Johanna's brother is tasked with fixing the car to get the guests on the road and out of the way quickly. Her brother's entrepreneurial friend, on the other hand, sees great opportunities in the situation and decides to act. The clock ticks, the car won't start, the wedding ceremony is about to begin and the recipe for disaster is in motion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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Super Furball
Overview: Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day Emilia’s pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret superpower to transform into Super Furball, who can fly and solve problems with her superpowers. At the same time, the herrings in the nearby Baltic Sea bay are screaming for help because of poisoned water. As the Super Furball, Emilia takes it upon herself to fix the situation and finds ways to be more courageous in her own life.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Little Sister
Overview: Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Off the Meter
Overview: A taxi driver picks up an artist who wants to get to the shore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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