
Kari Sorvali
Actor · 1951 – 2026 · Pori, Finland
Movies16
Movie6.9CrimeDramaFormer student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
MovieDramaPatrolman 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.
Hyväveli
2022
Movie4.5DramaComedyFinnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
Movie6.9DramaWarAfter Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.
Movie5.1DramaA 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.
Lahja
1997 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaMax Sjöman, Architect: "This is the story of my daughter. Her life was short. Short is not purposeless. I brick her picture into the cornerstone of an atomic power station. It is my testament to the future generations. They'll see from that photograph what a healthy child once looked like."
Movie4.0TV MoviePäivä ennen
1978 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaCrimeOn her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
Lain ulkopuolella
1987 · 9 votes
Movie4.8ComedyNew takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
1997 · 14 votes
Movie4.7HorrorComedyA sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buried revolutionaries. When Arvo drifts to Helsinki and falls into illicit moonshining and wild pursuits of a celebrity, Sulo and their revived mother set out to retrieve him from his urban excesses.
Movie6.0DramaComedyBased on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Movie5.9HorrorComedyA female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties.
Movie4.9ComedyStigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn't believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it.
Movie4.9CrimeDramaWhen her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
Movie8.0DramaMovie about family called Virtanen in Finland under regime of Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who ruled the country over 25 years.
Virtaset ja Kekkonen
1993 · 1 votes
MovieYötuuli
1992
Series15
TV7.9DramaLike good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.
TV7.3ComedyPeräkamaripojat
2001 · 7 votes
TV8.0DramaComedyKaverille ei jätetä
1999 · 2 votes
TV8.0DramaCrimePaholaisen tytär
2002 · 4 votes
TV7.1DramaCrimeRaid 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.
Raid
2000 · 19 votes
TV7.0DramaTie Eedeniin
2003 · 1 votes
TV5.0Virta
2011 · 2 votes
TV6.2DramaMatkalaukkukostaja
1991 · 6 votes
TV6.5DramaMysteryThe story of Helena Koskinen, a camera assistant, and Tapani Helander, a studio director, who met in England while on a filming trip. The series begins when Helena suffers a serious brain injury in an accident at work, leading to memory loss, and actor Risto Kareinen sells a wristwatch containing a listening device to the Russian manager of an Estonian rock band for 100 marks.
Pakanamaan kartta
1991 · 6 votes
TV8.0Kiinnisidottu
1994 · 1 votes
TVDramaPoikkeustila
2007
TV6.3ComedyInfluenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of destruction.
Lentsu
1990 · 8 votes
TV7.0ComedyViimeiset siemenperunat
1993 · 3 votes
TV1.0DramaSata lasissa
2013 · 2 votes
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