Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Conflict

A small, Finnish seaside town is preparing to celebrate midsummer's eve. An unknown enemy arrives and takes the entire area hostage.

Release Date:2024-11-30

Character:Kai Laavakuru

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:7

Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.

Release Date:2018-12-30

Character:Kapteeni Kaarna

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:23

Ryhmäteatteri

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

Release Date:2018-02-03

Unknown Soldier

The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).

Release Date:2017-10-27

Character:Kaarna

Vote Count:192

Honeybunnies

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

Release Date:2017-01-06

Character:Pekka

Vote Count:11

Reunion 2: The Bachelor Party

The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing. Niklas and Antti decide to throw Tuomas the bachelor party of all times – but things don’t always turn out as planned – and the dudes end up in the funeral service of their old classmate.

Release Date:2016-11-02

Character:Lääkäri

Vote Count:18

Downshifters

A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.

Release Date:2016-10-26

Character:Raimo Laamanen

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2016-02-05

Character:Ruuskanen

Vote Count:12

Love Records

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

Release Date:2016-01-29

Character:Toivo Kärki

Vote Count:10

The Midwife

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

Release Date:2015-09-04

Character:Jouni

Vote Count:34

Reunion

Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.

Release Date:2015-02-25

Character:Lääkäri

Vote Count:38

Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl

Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man. Baby Girl's parents, Eila and Rampe, do their best to become friends with Pirkka and his elegant mother. Through coincidence and error Eila occupies her summerhouse neighbors' empty luxury villa. When Pirkka's mother drops by, Eila lies that she and Rampe own the fancy house. The showing off and lying escalate when Eila's mother and sister show up. The real owners of the house, an upper-class couple, Thomas and Monica, are driven away to Eila and Rampe's modest cottage.

Release Date:2014-12-26

Character:Rampe

Vote Count:3

Tellus

As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.

Release Date:2014-11-16

Character:Taneli Lokka

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:8

Ella and Friends 2: Paterock

Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.

Release Date:2013-12-27

Character:Levy-yhtiön pomo

Vote Count:2

August Fools

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.

Release Date:2013-10-04

Character:Poliisi

Vote Count:6

8-Ball

8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.

Release Date:2013-02-22

Character:Elias Kaski

Vote Count:34

Once Upon a Time in the North

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.

Release Date:2012-02-17

Character:Notary Kustaa

Vote Count:22

Hella W

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.

Release Date:2011-01-28

Character:Eino Salmelainen

Vote Count:11

Princess

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.

Release Date:2010-09-10

Character:potilas Kuronen ("Rovasti")

Vote Count:30

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 Date:2007-12-07

Character:Kenraaliluutnantti Airo

Vote Count:29

Ketonen & Myllyrinne

Ketonen & Myllyrinne is like a brush of a rubber glove on naked thigh. The show doesn't apologize to anyone and nothing is sacred to it, except Sundays.

Release Date:2006-10-08

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Linnut

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

Release Date:2006-09-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Busse

Addiction

30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction

Release Date:2004-01-16

Character:Teppo

Vote Count:39

Ranuan kummit

Release Date:2003-03-13

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Kites Over Helsinki

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.

Release Date:2001-09-07

Character:Henrik Bexar

Vote Count:11

The Classic

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Release Date:2001-02-23

Character:Veisterä

Vote Count:11

Ou Nou

Release Date:2001-02-05

Department:Production

Job:Casting

Character:Tapio Rautakoura

Episode Count:1

Kaverille ei jätetä

Release Date:1999-10-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Teukka

Episode Count:17

Vote Count:1

Lapin kullan kimallus

In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.

Release Date:1999-09-10

Character:Nils Lepistö

Vote Count:9

Blindfolded

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.

Release Date:1999-03-12

Character:Ilmari Lätti, parturi

Vote Count:6

Team Ahma

Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

Release Date:1998-01-11

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Jarno Ahma

Episode Count:[ 35 ]

Vote Count:2

Lahja

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.

Release Date:1997-10-13

Character:Jouni

Vote Count:5

Uuno Turhapuron veli

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

Release Date:1994-08-26

Character:Purkka-Pekka Putelius

Vote Count:7

Anita

Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.

Release Date:1994-01-28

Character:DC Härkönen

Vote Count:4

Tuntemattomalle Jumalalle

Release Date:1993-03-15

Character:Raymond Mäkinen

Episode Count:5

Lyrics and Lace

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.

Release Date:1992-11-06

Character:Näremäki

Vote Count:6

Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra

Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.

Release Date:1991-08-23

Character:Pentti Tömisevä

Vote Count:7

Pakanamaan kartta

Release Date:1991-01-02

Character:Will

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:4

Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari

Release Date:1990-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Rampe

Vote Count:5

Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla

This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.

Release Date:1990-08-24

Character:Töppö

Vote Count:7

Dirty Hands

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

Release Date:1989-10-05

Character:Slick

Vote Count:10

Onks' Viljoo näkyny?

Release Date:1988-11-04

Character:Erkki Nyysteen / Postiljooni Uutela / Naema-Aslak / Valtte / Leo / Napoleon

Vote Count:9

Hymyhuulet

Release Date:1987-09-26

Character:various

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:2

Hamlet Goes Business

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?

Release Date:1987-08-21

Character:Hamlet

Vote Count:44

Älä itke Iines

Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions. The dialogue is entirely improvised by the actors.

Release Date:1987-02-20

Vote Count:2

V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.

Release Date:1986-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Heikki "Hese" Nurmi

Vote Count:1

Linna

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.

Release Date:1986-09-12

Character:Jeremia

Vote Count:3

The Unknown Soldier

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).

Release Date:1985-12-06

Character:Hietanen

Vote Count:37

Calamari Union

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.

Release Date:1985-02-08

Character:Frank

Vote Count:73

Mutapainin ystävät

Release Date:1984-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Various Characters

Episode Count:9

Velipuolikuu

Release Date:1983-09-24

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Character:

Episode Count:15

Vote Count:1

Jon

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.

Release Date:1983-02-25

Character:Jon's friend

Vote Count:6

Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä

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.

Release Date:1982-12-17

Character:Vartija

Vote Count:4

Pölhölä

Release Date:1981-12-25

Character:Virkamies

Vote Count:8

Kauhea murhamies Lalli

TV play about the legend of Lalli.

Release Date:1981-05-08

Character:Nilla Peuransurma

The Manila Rope

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

Release Date:1976-09-28

Character:Sotapoliisi

Vote Count:4

Pulttibois

Pulttibois was a popular Finnish sketch comedy television show that premiered on MTV3 in 1989 and which starred a two-man cast of comedic actors - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius and Aake Kalliala. Both Petelius and Kalliala previously had been known for their work on YLE sketch comedies during the 1980s. In Pulttibois, Petelius and Kalliala created a compilation of 'over the top' sketches that were often scorned by critics, but loved by television viewers, eventually leading to a large cult following.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:5