Tommi Korpela

Sisu: Road to Revenge

Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, 'the man who refuses to die' dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues — a fight to the death.

Release Date2025-10-21

Charactersd Finnish Man

Vote Count44

Deadwind

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Release Date2018-03-14

Charactersd Alex Hoikkala

Episode Count12

Vote Count147

Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe

Matti is 11 years old and dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of Finnish wilderness. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. This movie based on Salah Naoura’s award-winning children book offers entertainment for people of all ages.

Release Date2018-04-19

Charactersd Father Sulo

Vote Count11

Constellation

When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.

Release Date2024-02-21

Charactersd Björn Hallgren

Episode Count1

Vote Count324

Unna and Nuuk

11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.

Release Date2006-01-20

Charactersd Nuukin isä

Vote Count5

Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas

A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.

Release Date2016-10-19

Charactersd Rafael Angstinen

Vote Count3

8 Views of Lake Biwa

On the shimmering shores of Europe’s otherworldly edge, two teenage girls, Hanake and her best friend are discussing their first love interest while gazing out at yachts sailing to Kyoto. They whisper prayers and poems, the language of their longings. But the magic is fading in their isolated fishing village as they’re dealing with a recent disaster, with some indulging in erotic art, some in spiritual spells. It becomes clear that intimacy alone won’t help them process their loss.

Release Date2024-02-16

Charactersd Planton

Vote Count2

Little Siberia

A pastor's faith turns upside down when a meteorite lands in his small Finnish town, its impact stirring up chaos and criminal intentions.

Release Date2025-03-20

Charactersd Tarvainen

Vote Count67

Night of the Living Dicks

A woman who has had enough of anonymous dick pics finds eyeglasses that give her the ability to see which men are the real dicks – but the dicks can also see her.

Release Date2021-03-01

Charactersd Simo Rantamies

Vote Count2

Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel

A little girl has secret superpowers but can’t use them when a highway project is threatening the nearby forest. Desperate to save it, she invents an elaborate lie about an endangered flying squirrel inhabiting the woods.

Release Date2025-12-19

Charactersd Opettaja Sakari Pennilä

Kaverille ei jätetä

Release Date1999-10-03

Charactersd Mafia

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Flight Before Christmas

A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

Release Date2008-09-22

Charactersd Porolauman johtaja (voice)

Vote Count153

Super Furball Saves the Future

To save the world, Super Furball has to save the bees. In order to do so, the heroic guinea pig has to redeem the biggest bully in school.

Release Date2022-10-14

Charactersd Sakari Laaksonen

Vote Count53

Bubble

16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.

Release Date2022-11-25

Charactersd Teuvo

Vote Count8

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…

Release Date2010-12-03

Charactersd Aimo

Vote Count625

Priest of Evil

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.

Release Date2010-10-29

Charactersd Kengu

Vote Count34

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 Kalle

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

The Fakir

The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.

Release Date2006-09-16

Charactersd Fakir's Father

Vote Count1

The Other Side of Hope

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

Release Date2017-02-03

Charactersd Melartin

Vote Count342

Man's Job

Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.

Release Date2007-02-23

Charactersd Juha

Vote Count35

Suojelijat

Release Date2008-03-04

Charactersd Luumu

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Void

Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it.

Release Date2018-09-28

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Charactersd Eero Kaila

Vote Count21

Purge

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Release Date2012-09-07

Charactersd Martin Truu

Vote Count60

Two Bodies on a Beach

A woman wakes up on a beach tied in a plastic press wearing only underwear and high heels. “Not again”, she sighs and decides to track down the enemy and strike back. She gets a companion from an older woman, who has been pushed to the borders of society. During their journey through classical cinematic landscapes these nameless women from different generations struggle to connect and understand each other’s perspectives while their passion for men and male attention gets in away.

Release Date2019-03-07

Charactersd Astronautti

Vote Count7

Lights in the Dusk

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Release Date2006-02-03

Charactersd Lecturer

Vote Count152

The Mine

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.

Release Date2016-01-22

Charactersd Yksi Talvivaaran johtajista

Vote Count20

Blue Corner

Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.

Release Date2002-10-11

Charactersd Kuulusteleva poliisi

Vote Count6

Love and Other Troubles

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.

Release Date2012-01-27

Charactersd Ronald Reagan (voice)

Vote Count21

The Missile

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

Release Date2024-02-02

Charactersd Pertti Keinänen

Vote Count10

Are You Hungry?

A single mother struggles to connect with her adopted son, who she believes is gay. Her assumptions about her son's needs and desires lead to a cascading series of calamities.

Release Date2019-09-10

Charactersd Microwaveman

Vote Count6

Perfect Commando

Van Hamilton’s first ever trip to his mother’s homeland, Finland, takes a wrong turn as soon as he gets off the plane. The 23-year-old rich kid from California was supposed to have a five-star holiday with his girlfriend Rachel. Instead, he is handcuffed and sent to faraway army barracks to be trained as a commando. Van soon realises that this is not a mistake: he has fallen into a trap set by his parents, who hope that serving in a foreign army will finally turn their loved but spoiled son into a responsible man. Meanwhile, Rachel has to learn to survive in Helsinki without money or a return ticket. She becomes friends with Van’s cousin and his underground rap trio in hopes that familiarizing herself with the customs of the “Nordic white trash” will send her academic career in sociology skyrocketing.

Release Date2020-02-13

Charactersd Majuri Miettinen

Episode Count10

Vote Count5

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 Date2015-09-04

Charactersd Gödel

Vote Count36

Laundry

Humorous fragment of starting over, struggles with life and neighbours. A story of the time when even washing the undies seems difficult.

Release Date2021-02-18

Charactersd Neighbor

Vote Count1

Lake Bodom

Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery.

Release Date2016-08-19

Charactersd Hiker (voice)

Vote Count294

Heroes of the Baltic Sea

Release Date2016-12-26

Charactersd Captain Vrome

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Backwood Philosopher

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

Release Date2009-12-25

Charactersd Maisteri 'Putte' Kronberg

Vote Count18

The Eternal Road

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.

Release Date2017-09-15

Charactersd Jussi Ketola

Vote Count44

Virta

Release Date2011-04-07

Charactersd Tero Hammerberg

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Ken tulta pyytää

Firefighter Jesse heroically rescues ten children from a devastating fire. But it soon becomes clear that Jesse is not a hero after all, and a thrilling adventure begins, the outcome of which is difficult to predict.

Release Date2001-02-09

Charactersd televisiotoimittajan ääni

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 Mutka

Vote Count47

Thank You in Your Language

Actor Tiina Vainio has to make an audition tape in a hotel room as soon as possible for the role of her life.

Release Date2022-11-26

Charactersd Tiina's agent (voice)

Vote Count1

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 Heikki Kiljunen

Vote Count27

The Spiral

The charismatic leader of an artist collective based in Copenhagen plan an art heist. He intends to steal six of the worlds most famous paintings.

Release Date2012-11-02

Charactersd Juha Virtanen

Episode Count5

Vote Count4

Forbidden Fruit

Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.

Release Date2009-02-13

Charactersd Suviseura saarnaaja

Vote Count34

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 Date2013-10-04

Charactersd Jalkanen

Vote Count7

Jerico 2000

Jerico 2000 is a magazine programme parody made by Julmahuvi group. It's mainly made of parts from "Studio Julmahuvi" TV series. It participated in Rose d'Or film festival in Montreux.

Release Date1999-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Vote Count4

Helene

Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He becomes Helen's trusted and lover.

Release Date2020-01-17

Charactersd Editor

Vote Count17

Studio Julmahuvi

Sketch show Studio Julmahuvi ran for 8 episodes on YLE in 1998. The show is a parody of YLE's own programming, squeezing an entire evening's worth of programming into a half-hour show which included everything from news and weather to a children's show and a German police drama, with commercials and TV-spots on the side. The show was created with an impressive budget of 67 000 € per episode which resulted in extremely high production-values.

Release Date1998-10-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Various Characters

Episode Count8

Vote Count12

Hellsinki

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

Release Date2009-01-09

Charactersd Ukin mies

Vote Count50

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

Charactersd Uusniitty

Vote Count44

Forest Giant

Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.

Release Date2020-09-11

Charactersd Virtasalmi

Vote Count16

Bullets

An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.

Release Date2018-10-19

Charactersd Timo Viita

Episode Count10

Vote Count12

Maria's Paradise

A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.

Release Date2019-10-04

Charactersd Eino Vartiovaara

Vote Count10

Raspberry Boat Refugee

Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.

Release Date2014-08-19

Charactersd Father

Vote Count19

The Potato Venture

A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions.

Release Date2020-12-25

Charactersd Bisnesenkeli

Vote Count15

Deadweight

Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah/United States behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi- legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders: In the port of Rotterdam/Netherlands unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory…

Release Date2016-02-11

Charactersd Ahti Ikonen

Vote Count7

Eroja ja sovintoja

Release Date2023-10-16

Charactersd Matti

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Johanneksen leipäpuu

Manical portrait of a small businessman.

Release Date1994-05-02

Charactersd Vetelehtijä Hinkkanen

Vote Count4

V2: Dead Angel

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.

Release Date2007-01-12

Charactersd Tom Marjola

Vote Count43

Raid

Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.

Release Date2003-01-31

Charactersd Russian Criminal

Vote Count31

The Swedish Moment

Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.

Release Date2014-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Kari Lampikallio

Vote Count6

The Classic

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Release Date2001-02-23

Charactersd liikunnan opettaja

Vote Count12

A Good Family

Anna and Henrik are thrust into a dangerous underworld when their son brings a heinous crime to their doorstep. Parental instincts quickly overcome morality as the couple does everything in their power to protect their family and future.

Release Date2022-11-30

Charactersd Lefa Halme

Episode Count6

Vote Count8

Love and Order

The storm has collapsed Finland's infrastructure and made people's lives. What happened also seems to have consequences for people’s emotional lives, especially for men. Rauni Kolehmainen, Commissioner of Public Order Police, tries his best to keep both the world and his own life together.

Release Date2017-10-29

Charactersd Markku Nyqvist

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

Precious Brother

A warm-hearted comedy about three ordinary people in an unusual situation.

Release Date2004-09-08

Charactersd Otto

Ihmebantu

Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show.

Release Date2009-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count7

Vote Count9

The Last Ones

Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives.

Release Date2020-11-13

Charactersd Kari

Vote Count13

Ganes

Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.

Release Date2007-09-28

Charactersd Otto Aaltonen

Vote Count23

Eden

Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.

Release Date2020-08-07

Charactersd Juhani

Vote Count11

Therapy

Therapist Leena and her soon-to-be ex-husband Pekka run a relationship camp in the midst of their own painful break-up. The participants are all very different: an actor who has lost himself and his memory, his spouse, a police officer who cannot let go of his loved one, and a couple whose open relationship is not quite as open as they think. Through surprising twists, painful encounters, and humor, the campers discover new perspectives on each other—and themselves. Perhaps not everything can be fixed, but there is still much to learn.

Release Date2025-12-25

Charactersd Pekka Salokorpi

Parasta aikaa

Release Date2009-12-26

Charactersd Roihu, liikunnansijainen

Episode Count10

Force of Habit

Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

Release Date2019-09-27

Charactersd Kari

Vote Count9

The Bouncer

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.

Release Date2020-11-01

Charactersd Neighbor

Vote Count6

Flowers of Evil

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.

Release Date2016-09-30

Charactersd Koski

Vote Count20

Napamiehet

Release Date2015-03-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Tommi Korpela

Episode Count9

M/S Romantic

One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.

Release Date2019-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Gusu

Episode Count4

Vote Count15

Sisäilmaa

When the employment office is haunted, performance targets troubles and indoor mold threatens, service manager Anneli Tiainen uses peculiar means in the face of an impossible situation.

Release Date2021-01-01

Charactersd Lakto-Nalle

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Jäät

The story of Leena and Kai, a couple working in the rescue services, whose relationship falls into crisis as Kai becomes exhausted and depressed.

Release Date2010-10-04

Charactersd Kai

Vote Count1

Kauhun millimetrit

Marja Sauri, who lives in Helsinki at the end of the 1980s, is going to the store to replace defective garden shears with new ones. Along the way, she collides with a woman on the street who Marja insults in anger. Within a day, Marja begins to see strange delusions about the same woman she encountered earlier.

Release Date1992-03-06

Charactersd Mies kahvilassa

Vote Count1

Rare Exports Inc.

An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.

Release Date2003-06-19

Charactersd Marker

Vote Count79

The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005

Not meant for the public eye, this film reveals the dark reality of what's wrong with company's product. With its primitive instincts triggered by bad behaviour of people around it, the seemingly tame Father Christmas will forget the intensive training and turn into a brutal beast. You better watch out, you better not cry, There's no room for mistakes.

Release Date2005-09-22

Charactersd Marker

Vote Count53

Mennen tullen

Mennen Tullen is a four-part parody mini-series created by Studio Julmahuvi. It aired on YLE between 2000 and -01. Though created in a form of a serious murder-mystery it is in fact a dark comedy with occasional absurd elements, technology and conventions. The cast of characters are from Julmahuvi's various fictional cop-series and there are also other references to Julmahuvi's previous productions.

Release Date2000-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd 'Rauski' Häkkinen / Herr Mehmet Faruk / Additional characters

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

Boy Upside Down

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.

Release Date2014-08-29

Charactersd Mikael

Vote Count3

Uudisraivaaja

Release Date2006-01-02

Charactersd Sampo Rantanen

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

The Prince of Soap

Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.

Release Date2006-02-10

Charactersd Apulaisohjaaja

Vote Count9

Poliisin poika

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.

Release Date1998-11-01

Charactersd Ollikainen

Vote Count13

Huijarit

Exhausted by odd jobs and a lack of money, Siru manages to lie her way into becoming a fake doctor by a series of misunderstandings. Her new relationship with lawyer Niko is hopefully true, although it seems that not only Siru but several of her close friends are also lying. Some of them even lie for a living.

Release Date2023-12-26

Charactersd Jukka 'Jukkis' Helasuo

Vote Count5

Rikos & rakkaus

In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish’s housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that the man is a petty criminal. Under the leadership of hard-hitting Inspector Rautapää, the city’s police force will have to investigate many kinds of crimes, of which Marsipaani’s close friends know one or another.

Release Date1999-02-05

Charactersd Aarne Sirkiä

Vote Count9

Super Furball

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.

Release Date2018-01-26

Charactersd Sakari Laaksonen

Vote Count5

The Night Servants

19-year old Luukas starts working in his family owned funeral home. They pick up corpses at night from deceased's homes. During one of these gigs Luukas discovers a new talent within him, that opens up a whole new world.

Release Date2019-11-01

Charactersd Jasse

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Wonderland

Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford.

Release Date2017-12-01

Charactersd Harri

Vote Count16

The Home of Dark Butterflies

Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.

Release Date2008-01-11

Charactersd Harjula

Vote Count29

Happier Times, Grump

The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.

Release Date2018-08-24

Charactersd Tiaisen Harri

Vote Count30

Last Cowboy Standing

In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.

Release Date2009-09-04

Charactersd Ossi

Vote Count18

Father's Day

Tinke, who has been drinking his health away, lives in a care home, where his dark humour and his friend Veikko keeps him going. When Saimi's teenage twins, whom he vaguely remembers from years ago, decide to find out about their father, their search leads them to Tinke. Saimi is determined to prevent the twins from meeting Tinke, but Veikko, who has been caught up in the mess, disagrees.

Release Date2026-03-06

Charactersd Veikko

Amidst

Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!

Release Date2024-03-07

Charactersd Jone

Somebody Should Do Something

Somebody Should Do Something tells a story of insecurity and longing for freedom, of fear that drives people to poor choices. The main character, Elvis, falls for the new girl in class, Onerva. Seeking acceptance from his friends, Elvis lies and tells them he’s had sex with Onerva. Due to the lies and misunderstandings, the whole town is soon at a point where somebody should do something.

Release Date2019-06-07

Charactersd Onerva's Father

Vote Count7

In Dreams

Single father is horrified to discover his daughter inexplicably disappears when she falls asleep.

Release Date2021-12-14

Charactersd Juho, isä

Vote Count1

Falling Angels

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Release Date2008-12-05

Charactersd Lauri

Vote Count4

For the Living and the Dead

An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.

Release Date2005-02-18

Charactersd Kai

Vote Count3

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and “impossible” stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun.

Release Date1997-11-24

Charactersd Mies leipäjonossa

Vote Count14

Hyväveli

Patrolman Loyan tries to find his place in the new police department while keeping his friend Warsame, newly released from prison, on the right track. Loyan's ambition is to get into detective training, but his supervisor Jokisalo thinks he'd be better off patrolling the familiar neighbourhoods with his partner Johanna. The patrol gets down to business when they start investigating what looks like a suicide. Antero Päiviö, a professional criminal and racial bigot involved in drug trafficking, has jumped from his balcony. The man who was first pronounced dead suddenly wakes up and is taken to hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man's story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As the plot unravels, it's hard to know who to trust anymore, when Warsame seems to be up to something behind Loyan's back.

Release Date2022-12-09

Charactersd Havukainen

Things We Do for Love

Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.

Release Date2013-02-01

Charactersd Ismo

Vote Count13

Where Is Where?

Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing.

Release Date2009-09-20

Charactersd Death

Love Is a Treasure

Love Is a Treasure is a 55-minute film about the world of women who have developed psychoses. It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. The episodes are based research and interviews but the stories and dialogue are fiction, combinations of different elements. —The Cinematic Works of Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Release Date2002-02-28

Charactersd Nurse / Man

Vote Count6

On the Road to Emmaus

A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.

Release Date2001-10-05

Charactersd Kuoppala

Vote Count11

The Hullabaloos!

The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, sea and air.

Release Date2022-12-28

Charactersd Adjutantti Korhonen

Vote Count4

Distractions

Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.

Release Date2015-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Charactersd kiinteistövälittäjä Max Strömberg / Ukko, "Ukkeli"

Vote Count21

MC Helper beKINGs

Räkä deliver pizzas for a living and spends his free time on moped meetings. In one meeting he meets Liima and together they start working towards the first place in the upcoming race. The moped club MC Helper is born.

Release Date2022-04-22

Charactersd Mustakäsi

Vote Count2

Jäänmurtaja

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.

Release Date1997-11-21

Charactersd Mutanen

Rumble

A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the Finnish countryside in a red Cadillac. The film centers on the bromance of middle-aged men, booze, and pizza, which they decide to order to their moving car. Not even a Russian truck driver, Stakes' alcohol recommendations, or the police can stop this gang.

Release Date2002-05-31

Charactersd Mäkinen

Vote Count14

Home Sweet Home

A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.

Release Date2011-10-21

Charactersd Jaatinen

Vote Count12

White Marble

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.

Release Date1998-12-21

Charactersd Biljardia pelaava mies

Vote Count4

Gone

Stuck living in his childhood home, now with his own family, Matti has been yearning for change. One day, the wait is over. He finds himself suddenly transported from one place to another – miles away.

Release Date2019-11-29

Charactersd Matti's Colleague

Vote Count1

Santa

A trip to Lapland leads to immense changes in the life of a single mother and her seven- year- old son. Love, hope and efforts to save the life of the little boy will change dramatically the lives of the two grown-ups. “Santa” - is a story about human relations and often painful challenges that life poses. In order to overcome these challenges one must believe in the miracle of a fairy-tale and... breath in deeply the fresh air of the North. It’s so fresh, you almost want to drink it. And it’s worth living for. The movie contains breathtaking Lapland views and is peppered with Marius Ivaškevičius specialty humor.

Release Date2014-01-31

Charactersd Jussi

Vote Count5

Doctor Johansson

A nurse, tired of her job, does not notice that a doctor leaves for his break. This gives a patient from the psychiatric unit next door a chance to sneak into the empty office. When it is time to call in the next patient, the patient now disguised as a doctor, realises she is in a tough spot but decides to meet with the patient anyway.

Release Date2021-09-23

Charactersd Lääkäri

Prelude

Helena is spending an evening with her family when someone knocks on the door. Unknown man confronts Helena with accusations towards her perfect family. Helena drives the man and the accusations away. But the seed of doubt has been planted.

Release Date2023-11-11

Charactersd Jyrki

Spring Break

The mother of a family is sick with COVID-19. Quarantine and worries have driven them apart, until the father forces the kids for a hike in the woods. They get lost, but it turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to them.

Release Date2020-07-19

Charactersd Antti

Viisasten kivi

A young woman has to attend a self-improvement camp

Release Date1996-03-15

Charactersd Teppo

A Clear Winter's Day

An old man gets lost looking for a post office. Every time he turns around a street corner, he ends up in the same small café. The café owner builds an ice sculpture of the woman he admires.

Release Date1997-12-25

Charactersd Teuvo

Rays of Light

War veteran Aapeli spends his days doing the same tasks over and over, until a spiritual experience changes his outlook on life.

Release Date2023-12-15

Charactersd Aapeli

Police Investigates

A 16 year old girl claims she was abducted. Two police officer are tasked with investigating whether her story is plausible.

Release Date2012-03-08

Charactersd Seppo

Vote Count1

Ranuan kummit

Release Date2003-03-13

Episode Count4

Vote Count5

A Wolf's Palate

Young girl Silvija has been brutally murdered. Her desecrated body was found in the woods by Ulvis, the town’s deaf-mute tattoo artist. Everyone in the small town becomes suspects in this terrible crime, divided into several fierce camps accusing each other. Little by little, the viewer discovers the dark and frightening side of life in this seemingly sleepy, backwater town.

Release Date2025-01-02

Episode Count6

Vilko gomurys

Release Date2025-10-26

Episode Count6

MIS?ING

Five friends celebrate the growing media visibility of social media witch Lulu, by mocking age-old divination tools, but the fun leads to one of them disappearing. After experiencing inexplicable events, the rest of the group decides to search for the missing person by following the location information shared in a group chat. The journey takes them to the border between reality and unreality, where the natural becomes disturbed and everyday existence becomes threatening. To find the missing person, they must dare to strip themselves of all superficiality and embark on a journey as flawed and imperfect beings. Will that be enough to survive?

Release Date2025-12-05

It’s All Right

A raped women meets the authorities.

Release Date2019-09-25

Vote Count1

Dear Pierangelo

One evening while preparing for another hookup, Touko commits the ultimate sin: an unprompted email to a long-lost Italian lover.

Release Date2023-07-16

Waste Land

Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers a life outside the society, at least momentarily. The house is more than a house – it is a utopian space for love, partying and freedom. But can the days of ease last when the squat is confronted both by outside forces and by internal conflicts?

Release Date2016-01-01

Näin tehtiin Poissa

Documentary film about the making of Arttu Haglund's feature film Gone.

Release Date2020-12-14

The Patient

Graveyard shift of a guard gets an unexpected turn.

Release Date2010-09-19