Tapio Piirainen (Director)

Kotikatu

Release Date1995-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count53

Vote Count2

Milkshake

Release Date1994-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Raid

Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries". Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end. The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction.

Release Date2000-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count11

Viimeiset siemenperunat

Release Date1993-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

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

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Linnan juhlat

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.

Release Date2017-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Legend of the Lake Bodom

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.

Release Date2006-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Red Ribbon

Romantic comedy about a guy who wants to get laid before he is retired.

Release Date2012-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Peter von Bagh

Piirainen's documentary on the last years of Peter von Bagh.

Release Date2016-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Glenn

Glenn Nygård, a 40 year old tomato-planter has for the past five years been falling in love with the local bar-keeper Laila. His harsh father has raised Glenn locked-up in the basement of his house. There Glenn has learned to master the guitar but not how to handle women. When Glenn´s father dies abruptly, he finds a stack of letters which where assigned by his mother. The mother might still live somewhere in Sweden. Glenn locks the house down and leaves...

Release Date2008-08-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kissa ja Varjo

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, the woman has been murdered and Kissa has disappeared.

Release Date1993-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Mobile Horror

Mobile Horror based on Juha Jokela's play of same name, telling the story of small firm struggle in 2000 it-boom

Release Date2010-04-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Nyrölä 3

Summer night, fraying country idyll, motorcycle gang and a murder.

Release Date2004-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Viimeiset siemenperunat

Release Date1993-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Finnish Rhapsody

Short film by Tapio Piirainen that is his diploma work when graduating from TaiK / Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

Release Date1990-06-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vasen ja oikea

Both diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, politicians Esko Seppänen and Iiro Viinanen forge a deep friendship despite their ideological differences.

Release Date2015-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Lumihiutalemuodostelma

What happens when functions of a business are intensified until there is nothing but intensifying?

Release Date2012-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Suuri Performanssi

Release Date2008-12-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Puotila

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector