Irja Kuusla
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karstula, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 26, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 04, 1988
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Known For:
Lumisten metsien tyttö
Overview: Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Kultamitalivaimo
Overview: Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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Hedelmätön puu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-03-21
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Haaviston Leeni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Täysosuma
Overview: A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not end.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-11-09
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Tapahtui kaukana
Overview: Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-07-14
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Suotorpan tyttö
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-04-28
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Punainen viiva
Overview: The story of the first elections in Finland
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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Scandal in the Girls' School
Overview: The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Katupeilin takana
Overview: 1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Katarina kaunis leski
Overview: 1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-11-17
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"Minä elän"
Overview: The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Kultainen vasikka
Overview: Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Vaimoke
Overview: Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when she finds about the bet, she agrees to marry him in order to get her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-04-12
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The Women of Niskavuori
Overview: Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher Ilona arrives in the village and causes complications when Aarne falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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En ole kreivitär
Overview: Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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Tuomari Martta
Overview: Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Asessorin naishuolet
Overview: Alfred Haaravirta's worries begin, when his longtime housekeeper dies. So Alfred sends a letter to his old friend Matilda and asks her to be his new housekeeper. But Matilda misunderstands the letter to be a proposal of marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-02-28
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Salakuljettajan laulu
Overview: Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he also gets to know the beautiful dancer Leila.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-11-07
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Naimisiin päiväksi
Overview: A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-01-04
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Rikollinen nainen
Overview: Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife is dead. The woman, who has lost her memory, has ended up in a prison run by her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Pikku Pietarin piha
Overview: A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and hint at magical powers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Eteenpäin – elämään
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-01-29
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Jumalan tuomio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-04-02
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Aatamin puvussa – ja vähän Eevankin…
Overview: The holiday of Pharmacist Himanen and Lieutenant Paavo Kehkonen turns into a nightmare when they pick up Station Chief Viirimäki, who is in a hurry to get to work. Their boat engine dies and runs into the rocks, leaving them stranded on an island with no clothes. Posing as a woman, Himanen gets to know the police chief's daughter Alli, but as a result of coincidences and misunderstandings, the two men end up in jail, each suspected in turn of being a fugitive Vikström.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-08-18
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Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Overview: A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-10-06
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Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Overview: At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-04-06
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Suomisen Ollin tempaus
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Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-11-29
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Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Overview: Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-01-31
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Vieras mies tuli taloon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-11-27
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Helmikuun manifesti
Overview: February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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Halveksittu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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Ballaadi
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-02-13
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Lapseni on minun…
Overview: Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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Kulkurin valssi
Overview: St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-01-19
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Poikamies-pappa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-09-28
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Onnellinen ministeri
Overview: An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-12-21
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Prinsessa Ruusunen
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-04-08
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Suomisen Olli rakastuu
Overview: Olli Suominen fancies his teacher and other shenanigans.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Ristikon varjossa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Overview: In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-08-11
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The Milkmaid
Overview: Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Niskavuoren Aarne
Overview: Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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Hilmanpäivät
Overview: The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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The Doll Merchant
Overview: A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-08-12
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Neiti talonmies
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Pastori Jussilainen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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1918
Overview: Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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Kahden ladun poikki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Autuas eversti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-09-05
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Vääpeli Mynkhausen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Vihdoinkin hääyö…
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Overview: For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Äidittömät
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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Nina ja Erik
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-02-12
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Vatsa sisään, rinta ulos!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-07-31
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Overview: Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Opettajatar seikkailee
Overview: An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-10-28
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Miesmalli
Overview: A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona. Dressed as a vagabond, he soon starts to please Ilona and her many lady friends as shows quick learning skills and soon shows great knowledge of history, art, and literature.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-10-22
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Nokea ja kultaa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-10-21
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Vain sinulle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-04-29
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Nuoruus sumussa
Overview: Three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-04-12
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Kuudes käsky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-01-10
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Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
Overview: Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-07-15
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Tytön huivi
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Maija löytää sävelen
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-07-28
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Yhden yön hinta
Overview: The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Varsovan laulu
Overview: A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Opri
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Taikayö
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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Oksat pois…
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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Majuri maantieltä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Kertokaa se hänelle…
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Pikku suorasuu
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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Onni etsii asuntoa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Jengi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Soldier's Bride
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-02-27
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Saariston tyttö
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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Alaston malli karkuteillä
Overview: A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Pekka Puupää
Overview: Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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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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Hormoonit valloillaan
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Jees, olympialaiset, sanoi Ryhmy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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VMV 6
Overview: Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-02-16
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Poikamiesten holhokki
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-08-28
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Suomisen perhe
Overview: The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-03-02
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Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Rakas lurjus
Overview: It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa
Overview: Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa
Overview: Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
Overview: Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-11-10
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Lännen lokarin veli
Overview: Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-25
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Rykmentin murheenkryyni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Overview: A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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Herra sotaministeri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Lain mukaan
Overview: Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Senni ja Savon sulttaani
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Kuningas kulkureitten
Overview: The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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