Petri Manninen
Also Known As: Pete Manninen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Varkaus, Finland
Birthday: February 19, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Ripa Hits the Skids
Overview: A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Bad Luck Love
Overview: A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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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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Priest of Evil
Overview: Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Kaukana
Overview: Drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
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The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005
Overview: Not meant for the public eye, this film reveals the dark reality of what's wrong with company's product. With its primitive instincts triggered by bad behaviour of people around it, the seemingly tame Father Christmas will forget the intensive training and turn into a brutal beast. You better watch out, you better not cry, There's no room for mistakes.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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The Fakir
Overview: The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Ambush
Overview: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
Overview: Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Korso
Overview: Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-02-28
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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Overview: Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Badding
Overview: The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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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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Vares: Garter Snake
Overview: In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Vares: Private Eye
Overview: On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-07-23
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