Esko Salminen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: October 12, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
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Apinan vuosi
Overview: A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-11-11
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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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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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Hamlet Goes Business
Overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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Seitsemän Veljestä
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Siriuksen vieraat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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Preludes to Ecstasy
Overview: Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Cha Cha Cha
Overview: A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-01-20
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Niskavuori
Overview: Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, wants to hold on to her husband until the last. For Liskisa, the matriarch of Niskavuori, the most important thing is the reputation and honor of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Plainlands
Overview: Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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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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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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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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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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The Storage
Overview: Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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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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Yötyö
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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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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August Fools
Overview: An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Valkoinen kääpiö
Overview: The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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Hyväntekijä
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-02-16
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The Prodigal Son
Overview: Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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Harmagedon
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-03-28
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Boy Upside Down
Overview: A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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Kaikki pelissä
Overview: A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Mother of Mine
Overview: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Vieras
Overview: A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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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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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Overview: Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Not Withholding Anything from You
Overview: How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a whole new world for the stage, and why does musician PK Keränen pick up his guitar time and time again? Is creativity a conscious or subconscious process, a pleasure or a compulsion? Veikko Aaltonen’s documentary takes us straight into the heart of creativity with artists from different fields and generations. Celebrating the various forms of passion and creative work, the film presents a compelling case for the significance of art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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Kolme salaisuutta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-06-26
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Days of Grace
Overview: Set in the year 1742 a fisherman's film about a boy who ends leprosy on the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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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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Vain neljä kertaa
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-11-15
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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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Brothers
Overview: Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, failed film producer Mitja, and resentful caretaker Torsti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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Aapo
Overview: Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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The Dissidents
Overview: In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Super Furball
Overview: Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day Emilia’s pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret superpower to transform into Super Furball, who can fly and solve problems with her superpowers. At the same time, the herrings in the nearby Baltic Sea bay are screaming for help because of poisoned water. As the Super Furball, Emilia takes it upon herself to fix the situation and finds ways to be more courageous in her own life.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Make Like a Thief
Overview: Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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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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Poet and Muse
Overview: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Overview: Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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The Storage 2
Overview: Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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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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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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Honeybunnies
Overview: A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Suuri Performanssi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-12-08
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Kymmenen riivinrautaa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Overview: The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Kiss Me in the Rain
Overview: Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Tähtisumua
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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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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Jengi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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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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Ariel
Overview: A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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The Last Border
Overview: One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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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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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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The Winter War
Overview: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Overview: The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and the third in line after the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. As with the Dalai Lama, Karmapa is the same soul which reincarnates in each successor to the office, who is identified by omens, portents and other signs. The Karmapa line actually pre-dates the Dalai Lama's, and their respective importance has alternated in the course of history with either the Karmapa or Dalai Lama holding precedence. Only one of the current Karmapas lives in Tibet, who is recognized by the Dalai Lama but controlled by the Chinese government for political ends. The second Karmapa lives in New Delhi, India and was selected by a Tibetan group in exile. The film was shot in India, Nepal and Tibet and features the Dalai Lama as narrator, providing an incisive spiritual and political view of occupied Tibet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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Gloriously Wasted
Overview: Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Flame Top
Overview: This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Unna and Nuuk
Overview: 11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Once Upon a Time in the North
Overview: 19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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Aarne Tarkas - suomalainen elokuva kiittää
Overview: Aarne Tarkas was a wunderkind of Finnish cinema, a director and screenwriter, a genius who possessed not only an infinite supply of ideas but also a photographic memory. In the 50s and 60s he had a profound impact on Finnish movies and TV.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-01-04
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Vesku from Finland
Overview: "Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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