Pekka Laiho
Also Known As: Pekka Matias Laiho
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Birthday: May 14, 1943
Deathday: July 27, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Shadows in Paradise
Overview: Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Kummitäti
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-03-08
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Girl of Finland
Overview: A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Aikalainen
Overview: A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Overview: Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Marathon
Overview: The year is 1972. Finnish endurance running is in its golden age. The head physician of a mental hospital goes on a bike ride with a marathon runner who has been forgotten in hospital for years. But the ride doesn't follow the expected route...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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The Redeemers
Overview: Two cultists do door-to-door missionary work and in one house accidentally kill a person. That same night, a group of live action role-players enter the house. The cultists must hide the body, play along and survive the night.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Overview: Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Menestyksen maku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Kun Hunttalan Matti Suomen osti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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The Joyboys Story
Overview: A mockumentary about a fictional Finnish boy band The Joyboys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-04-05
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8
Overview: Linda is a young psychology student, who wants to help his boyfriend Riku, who has fallen into a state of psychosis by taking him to a mystical cave, where human subconscious and memories start to live their own life. Linda soon realises that she can't help Riku, before she has faced her own most painful traumas.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Pedon merkki
Overview: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Rumble
Overview: Finnish Road Movie
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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The Archer
Overview: Drug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love with Eino's daughter Lena who works at the ambulance switchboard. But no hiding place is good enough to last forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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Klippet
Overview: "The Scam" - A truck driver and his job colleagues figures out how to make the smart move, on their many trips to Finland: Tinkering with cargo pallets that can be sold illegal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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