Samuli Vauramo
Also Known As: Samuel Vauramo
Biography: Samuel Vauramo was born on October 22, 1981 in Vantaa, Finland. He is an actor, known for The American (2010), Bunraku (2010) and War of the Dead (2011). Got the nickname "Sam The Slam" for doing his own stunts during the filming of "Bunraku". Most of the stunts involved falling down on hard surfaces. Repeatedly. He was chosen as one of the "Shooting Stars" at Berlin International Film Festival 2009.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vantaa, Finland
Birthday: October 22, 1981
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Gender: Male
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The American
Overview: Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-31
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Routa
Overview: A man is released from prison after 22 years. He tries to live a simple life as a farmer. At the same time, a company director is fighting a hostile takeover from a bigger corporation. Two different kind of journeys collide in sudden ways.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Beauty and the Bastard
Overview: Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Tears of April
Overview: There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A lieutenant is enforced into a homosexual relationship with his commanding officer to save the Red female with whom he is infatuated.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara
Overview: There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-07-28
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Unknown Soldier
Overview: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Autumn Blood
Overview: Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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War of the Dead
Overview: Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.
Genres: Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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East of Sweden
Overview: Three men meet on a night train on the border of Finland and Sweden. All three are concealing something, and a sudden confrontation amongst them leads to disastrous consequences, with two of them being forced to make a joint decision.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-03-02
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The Matriarch
Overview: Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Legend of the Lake Bodom
Overview: The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-12-18
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Jill and Joy
Overview: When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It’s a real dream house: measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Based on a beloved children’s book, Jill and Joy is a story of a dream summer without parents or boundaries. Anything can and will happen as reality and fantasy magically intertwine.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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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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