Leo Jokela
Also Known As: Лео Йокела
Biography: Leo Paavali Jokela (24 January 1927 – 11 May 1975) was a Finnish actor. He is best remembered for his role as a detective Kokki in Matti Kassila's Komisario Palmu films and as a parrot G. Pula-aho in Spede Pasanen's radio programs. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hausjärvi, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 24, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 11, 1975
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Rintamalotta
Overview: Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous situations during the fighting of the Continuation War. Irma is also concerned about Erik's loyalty.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Tyttö ja hattu
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-08-04
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Vaarallista vapautta
Overview: Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Taape tähtenä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-03-23
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The Harvest Month
Overview: The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Kovanaama
Overview: Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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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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Kalle Aaltosen morsian
Overview: The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's housekeeper Marja, first mate Yrjö takes a liking to Marja whom he believes to be miss Hallerman. Meanwhile Kaarina, pretending to be a member of the cleaning staff, starts getting close with lower ranking officer Kalle Aaltonen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-10-08
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Asessorin naishuolet
Overview: After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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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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Inspector Palmu's Error
Overview: A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Viu-hah hah-taja
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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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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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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Villin Pohjolan kulta
Overview: A western set in the "Wild North".
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Kankkulan kaivolla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-08-12
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Toivelauluja
Overview: A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
Genres: Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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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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Orpopojan valssi
Overview: A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful couplet singer - the "king of couplets".
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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Professori Masa
Overview: A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Overview: A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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Serenaadiluutnantti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Köyhä laulaja
Overview: Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding house where the siblings and the poetic accountant live. Since the landlady does not allow music in her nursing home, the musicians practice at Iltatähti and revolutionize the life of the cafe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-04-28
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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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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Overview: A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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Lasisydän
Overview: A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Pieni luutatyttö
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-10-17
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Oksat pois…
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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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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Turkasen tenava!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Minkkiturkki
Overview: A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Overview: While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Scarlet Week
Overview: After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Tukkijoella
Overview: A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Paksunahka
Overview: A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-04
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Putkinotko
Overview: A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-09-10
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Syntipukki
Overview: "Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he knows.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Kulkurin masurkka
Overview: A story about vagabond named Paul and his journeys in the countryside. He is a real charmer and many women will fall in his lap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-01-24
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Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Yö vai päivä
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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The Witch
Overview: An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-10-03
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Vain neljä kertaa
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-11-15
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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Pähkähullu Suomi
Overview: A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Laivaston monnit maissa
Overview: Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-07-16
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Älä nuolase…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-02-09
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Rautatie
Overview: Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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Noin 7 veljestä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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Jokin ihmisessä
Overview: Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly happy family life with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-04-06
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
Overview: A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
Overview: A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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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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Leikkikalugangsteri
Overview: Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with the help of his chamberlain. Both toy manufacturers hire gangster chief Niitti to handle their twilight jobs, but not everything goes according to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Overview: Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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Kahdeksas veljes
Overview: Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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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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Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-11-04
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Iloinen Linnanmäki
Overview: Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Näkemiin Helena
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-02-18
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Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Overview: An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
Overview: A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Lakeuksien lukko
Overview: Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler, and even starts to annoy him by building a dam to defy the project to drain Lohikoski's lands. During the summer, Harri , a student, and Kantola's daughter Annika fall in love, which is not accepted by either of their fathers or Annika's ex-fiancé Tuomas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Kuriton sukupolvi
Overview: Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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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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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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Tähtisumua
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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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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Sotapojan heilat
Overview: A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Sankarialokas
Overview: Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-07-28
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Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
Overview: Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Autotytöt
Overview: Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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Leena
Overview: Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen together and press thinks they are engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-31
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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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Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Overview: Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-08
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Overview: Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Villi Pohjola
Overview: A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Tähtisilmä
Overview: Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delivery girl tries to help the painter to get forward in his career, but meanwhile a rich woman becomes too interested towards the painter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Vääpelin kauhu
Overview: A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Kyläraittien kuningas
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-11-03
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Kanavan laidalla
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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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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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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Laivan kannella
Overview: Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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Iskelmäketju
Overview: Comedic musical film in which Iskelmä OY's manager has to deal with rising stars and old seniors.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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Saatanan radikaalit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-21
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