Ville Virtanen
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ville Virtanen (born August 19, 1961) is a Finnish actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ville Virtanen (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Espoo, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: August 19, 1961
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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Kikka!
Overview: Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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Black Ice
Overview: Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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Where Once We Walked
Overview: The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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Sauna
Overview: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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The Year of the Wolf
Overview: Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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Jackpot
Overview: Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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Bad Family
Overview: The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-01-29
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Producing Adults
Overview: Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Dog Nail Clipper
Overview: Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Lunastus
Overview: In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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Love and Other Troubles
Overview: Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-01-27
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Never Alone
Overview: 1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Overview: That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Lacrimosa
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-01-07
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The Girl King
Overview: A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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No Thank You
Overview: Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-01-10
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Upswing
Overview: Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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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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Thank You, I'm Sorry
Overview: Suddenly alone during the late stages of her pregnancy, Sara receives an unexpected lifeline when Linda, her estranged older sister, arrives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-12-26
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Labrintus
Overview: A crew enters a mysterious maze buried underneath an abandoned Soviet research facility where supernatural disturbances occur.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
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Flocking
Overview: Inspired by true events. A 14-year-old girl reports that she was raped, but is not believed. The entire village turns against her and her family.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-02-01
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Munch
Overview: Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and loneliness most people probably know, even if they have no idea who created it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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White People
Overview: The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Get Away
Overview: A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Law of the Land
Overview: A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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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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Beyond
Overview: One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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The Other Side of Hope
Overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-02-03
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Apinajuttu
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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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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Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre Academy Helsinki working under director Jouko Turkka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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Scenes in the Night
Overview: Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Talvisydän
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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X&Y
Overview: An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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Bergman Revisited
Overview: As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman Revisited is a compilation of six very different films, spanning from Bergmanesque drama to animated critical satire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-12-21
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Bayonet
Overview: Miguel “Bayoneta” Galíndez is a retired boxer from Tijuana who finds himself living in a cramped flat in Finland. As his future begins to look up, a desire for redemption draws him back into the ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Christmas Story
Overview: Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Ursula
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Ella and Friends
Overview: A young girl and her friends try to save their small rural school from being demolished to make way for a race track.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Overview: That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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A Respectable Tragedy
Overview: In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Overview: A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-10-27
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Promise
Overview: The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-12-02
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Under the North Star II
Overview: Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Young Gods
Overview: Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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The Jonsson Gang
Overview: Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Knocking
Overview: After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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The Longest Day
Overview: Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-01-26
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Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Overview: The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Overview: A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-01-06
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Into the Night
Overview: Mira and Johnannes, two young teenagers, have to spend Walpurgis Night in the hospital. Without knowing each other from before, they flee together from the pediatric ward to Mira's hiding place at the swimming pool, where they play and discuss their illnesses. They spend the night at the pool edge and, in the morning, are no longer the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Stormheart
Overview: The father of a Finnish family brings home a cute puppy, Stormheart. No one in the family knows anything about the dog. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart unravels and the dog's new owners learn more about him. They find out that Stormheart's parents had served as guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Pearl, the 7-year-old daughter of the Finnish family, takes the puppy under her wing and Stormheart, who grows up to the size of a bear, undertakes the task of removing all dangers, threats and obstacles from the path of Pearl.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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