
Miitta Sorvali
Actor · b. 1956 · Kitee, Finland
Movies21
Movie5.2ComedyDramaExhausted 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.
Huijarit
2023 · 5 votes
Movie5.5What happens when functions of a business are intensified until there is nothing but intensifying?
Lumihiutalemuodostelma
2012 · 3 votes
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.
Movie5.7ComedyDramaA carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.
Aurora
2019 · 30 votes
Movie5.6ThrillerCrimeAarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Movie6.7ComedyDramaWhen 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?
MovieFamily
Movie1.7DramaMarion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.
Kristuksen morsian
2014 · 3 votes
Movie6.0HorrorComedyGrandmother returns from the grave to haunt her family.
Kuolema käy kuusi beessä
1993 · 2 votes
Movie3.0ComedyWhen Tommi's father-in-law Johan is ordered to take a break after a medical emergency, the family decides to go on vacation to sunny Spain. Johan has one condition: he wants to take his car with him. Tommi agrees to drive Johan's car to Spain – together with Juhis. However, things don't go quite as planned, and when Johan's car is stolen, Tommi and Juhis decide to take matters into their own hands, and soon our heroes are hurtling from one disaster to the next at breakneck speed.
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.
Movie5.0ComedyA weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.
Movie6.8ComedyFamilyAnni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.
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.
Movie3.8ComedyA tough crisis comedy on a swing weekend where four different age couples face each other mentally and physically. Everyone has a crisis, either on the surface or hidden, and hence their own reasons to try to save their relationship. The weekend's dress code is with or without a bathrobe, and falling in love and jealousy are forbidden.
Swingers
2018 · 10 votes
Movie3.3ComedyA black comedy about the dysfunctional relationships, love, and hate; concerning a small town sausage factory manager whose careless love affairs affect the lives of the factory workers as well as the women in his life.
Movie4.7ComedyFamilyThat Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
1990 · 6 votes
Movie4.4ThrillerMysteryRecovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
Blackout
2008 · 11 votes
Movie6.1DramaWarThe film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
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
MovieVarpuset
2005
Series18
TV4.3ComedyRealityFinnish sketch comedy television show.
Putous
2010 · 10 votes
TV7.2DramaCrimeKylmäverisesti 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.
TV6.0ComedyKovan viikon ilta
2023 · 2 votes
TV9.0Talk ShowLevyraati was a Finnish television show which ran from the 1961–1992 originally on YLE and starting from 1992 on MTV3. It was based on the British Juke Box Jury. The show was originally hosted by Jaakko Jahnukainen and for a brief period by Vesa Nuotio. However, the show was most famously hosted by Jukka Virtanen from 1980 till 1997 when the show went on a five year hiatus. For its 2002–2003 run it was hosted by Raakel Lignell and later by Ruben Stiller. The show has been on unspecified hiatus since 2005. In the program Finnish celebrities would rate recordings and, in later years, music videos with a score from 1 to 10. With four guests in the panel the maximum score was 40 and the winning song or video would be performed during the ending credits. One of the panel members was a frequent guest placed among three weekly guests.
Levyraati
2024 · 1 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
TV8.3DramaFollows the ups and downs of Raikas Oy men's clothing company as well as the life of Raikas family, who live in Onnela from 1962 through to the recession of 1991. Happiness is fleeting.
Puhtaat valkeat lakanat
1993 · 3 votes
TV7.5ComedyDramaDear children is a new comedy series from the creators of Siskonpeti about sibling relationships and mother relationships; when someone is the most beloved and the most infuriating at the same time. The adult sisters return to their childhood home to look after their wild mother, who is recovering from a cerebral infarction. The visit, which was intended to be short, drags on and the childhood home serves as a refuge for the sisters' personal crises.
TVComedyErityiset
2021
TVComedyTalk Show
TV6.0ComedyCrimeDuke of Sipoo is a comedy about corruption and family man, Pasi Kovalainen, who has built his empire mostly by questionable means. Kovalainen himself doesn't think he's a criminal, but a average man trying to make a living and a victim of bureaucracy. Prosecutor takes interests in his actions and puts two criminal investigators to investigate everything he does, planning to catch him even for something small and get him put behind bars. At the same time, one reporter and group of other people want his head on a plate too.
TV- TV5.5
Musta tuntuu
1985 · 2 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
TV3.7DramaLuonnollinen kuolema
1992 · 3 votes
TV9.0ComedyHellapoliisit
1989 · 1 votes
TV6.5Histamiini – joulukalenteri
1980 · 2 votes
TVReality
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