Lauri Nurkse (Actor)
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ADULTS
Oona (20-something) runs a small coffee shop in the heart of hipsteresque Kallio district in Helsinki. Oona’s is not really the classic entrepreneur type: she’s often late to work and throws out customers she dislikes. She’s also constantly in a state of existential crisis over what she should become and whether she’s a somebody or just a nobody. Oona’s best friend is Arttu, a 25 y.o. gay artist-dj-creator-whatever. Together they hate, love, party and cry and try to become adults.
Release Date2019-03-15
Charactersd Mainosohjaaja
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
The Look of a Killer
In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one.
Release Date2011-02-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Mestari
Episode Count8
Invisible Heroes
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
Release Date2019-04-21
Charactersd Kosonen
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Kumman kaa
Release Date2003-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Lassi
Episode Count10
Toisen kanssa
Release Date2014-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Lääkäri
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Kentän laidalla
Release Date2021-05-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Lääkäri
Episode Count8
Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.
Release Date2000-02-29
Charactersd Perttu
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
1944 The Final Defence
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
Release Date2007-12-07
Charactersd Soldier
Vote Count30
Bad Boys: A True Story
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
Release Date2003-01-17
Charactersd Ilkka Takkunen
Vote Count43
Me and Morrison
A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen
Release Date2001-12-28
Charactersd Copy
Vote Count22
The Border
The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Release Date2007-11-30
Charactersd luutnantti Suutari
Vote Count26
Wedding of the Century
A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way.
Release Date2021-10-15
Charactersd Lasse
Vote Count6
Gimme Some Respect
Young Siiri is starting her life on her own. She wants to be independent and live a normal life, although she is mentally handicapped. She begins to make true of her dreams, where she has a real working place and she hopes to find also a husband.
Release Date2010-06-11
Charactersd Sosiaaliviranomainen
Vote Count3
Cyclomania
K and Eetu are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona is coming to work in same courier company.
Release Date2001-03-02
Charactersd K
Vote Count8
Urban Family
Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.
Release Date2015-08-07
Charactersd Semifinalin portsari
Vote Count7
The Interrogation
Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.
Release Date2009-09-25
Charactersd Kumenius
Vote Count12
Off Key
Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned.
Release Date2016-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sydäntautilääkäri
Vote Count13
Putous
Finnish sketch comedy television show.
Release Date2010-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count8
Studio Impossible
Release Date2006-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count15
Pientä laittoa
Teppo, who works as an officer in Sodankylä, loses everything after he suffers a brain stroke, forcing him to move to Helsinki to rehabilitate.
Release Date2019-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Lakeside Murders
The series follows Inspector Sakari Koskinen and his team in the Violent Crimes Unit as they try to solve murders in a Finnish lakeside city of Tampere.
Release Date2021-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count3
Wingman
The series follows the lives of Juha "Juhis" Koski and Tommi Mäkinen-Renwall as neighbours. The men drift too far in their everyday challenges that lead to excessive outcomes. Unwillingly, Tommi and Juhis often find themselves in awkward and embarrassing situations where they are forced to choose one of two bad options. Tommi's wife and Juhis' good friend Harriet does her best to understand the men's antics.
Release Date2016-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count24
Vote Count9
Pirjo
Release Date2018-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Lahti 2001
Release Date2023-11-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Inget Ljus i Tunneln
Release Date2011-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The Look of a Killer
Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.
Release Date2016-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
Koskinen
In the middle of the summer holidays, the body of a drowned man with ligature marks on his wrists is recovered from Tammerkoski river. The investigation by Koskinen's team is further strained by the hit-and-run case of a dubious music manager and the mysterious Carl Friedrich. When a new body is found in Lake Näsijärvi, the connection between the victims is made clear.
Release Date2022-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vares: Private Eye
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Release Date2004-07-23
DepartmentProduction
JobCasting
Vote Count42
Hustlers
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
Release Date2010-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Playing Solo
Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.
Release Date2007-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
André Wickström - Ensimmäinen jäähyväiskeikka
André Wickström performed his first stand-up gig in 1995. Familiar from television, André also makes audiences laugh in clubs and theaters in both Finnish and Swedish. His intelligent and sarcastic humor makes us Finns laugh at ourselves by examining everyday phenomena from a slightly different perspective.
Release Date2006-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Kyllä isä osaa lapissa
The father and mother flee to Lapland to prepare for Christmas, but peace is at a standstill when the children tag along. When Jussi's new girlfriend Viktoria is revealed to be the millionaire's only child, the father does everything he can to make the best possible impression on the family's new daughter-in-law. As one surprise follow after another, the father must put all his “expertise” into play.
Release Date2025-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Uutisvuoto
Uutisvuoto is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Broadcast on Saturday nights on YLE TV1 since 1998, the show receives very high viewing figures. Uutisvuoto mainly follows the same format as Have I Got News For You. The guests are usually celebrities, and frequently politicians. In the last two presidential elections, both of the second-round candidates appeared as guests: to-be-president Tarja Halonen and Esko Aho in 2000, and president Halonen and Sauli Niinistö in 2006. To date, winning the show has correlated with winning the election contest itself. In 2006 the "presidential show" broke all viewing records when it was watched by 1.4 million viewers. The show is so popular in Finland that it was even parodied in the Aku Ankka comic book as Uutiskuono. "Haluatteko lukea hyvän vitsin jonka kuulin äsken Yleisradion kahvilassa?" is Peter Nyman's Uutisvuoto joke book. The book's name is a reference to Nyman's way of telling jokes. He opens with the book's name, then, ignoring all answers, continues: "Ei se mitään, kerron sen silti."
Release Date1998-02-21
Episode Count1
Vote Count5