Matti Lehtelä
Actor · 1906 – 1971 · Riihimäki, Finland
Movies24
Movie5.0Science FictionDramaIn the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
Movie5.6ComedyDramaA story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
Putkinotko
1954 · 5 votes
Movie8.0DramaLauri and Anna are released from prison. They run into trouble when they cannot find work because of their past. Lauri obtains false identity papers, which enable him to get a job at a factory. A dangerous criminal named Asseri begins blackmailing Lauri, who is using the alias "Pentti Tahvana." Lauri's true identity is revealed in connection with the murder of Kaalep, the factory's night watchman.
Ristikon varjossa
1945 · 2 votes
Movie5.3CrimeThrillerTanja Bulkova arrives in Finland under the name Toini Salonen and, with the help of spy chief Rosenberg, becomes the secretary of engineer Rautavuori and discovers the drawings of a secret invention.
Salainen ase
1943 · 7 votes
Movie4.6ComedyA Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
Vääpelin kauhu
1957 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceA new steward, agronomist Paul, arrives at the Siltala estate. The self-assured steward causes tension among the gentry, especially among the estate's owner, Captain Lilli's widow. The flamboyant Lieutenant Hugo courts the owner of Siltala, but Lilli and Paul find common ground.
Siltalan pehtoori
1934 · 1 votes
Movie4.9ComedyJustiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom.
Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
1959 · 12 votes
Movie5.7ComedyA young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
Nuori mylläri
1958 · 3 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeLasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Kovanaama
1954 · 4 votes
Movie4.6ComedyPekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
1957 · 12 votes
Movie6.3ComedyThe life of First Lieutenant Heikki Lilja, who is dating Colonel Taipale's daughter Tiina, is turned upside down when his company is ordered to search for the dangerous escaped convict Kahle-Kustaa. Things are complicated by Lilja's friend, the artist Paaso, and Paaso's admirer Merja Metsä, Lilja's strict superior Colonel Taipale, and Police Chief Mäkinen.
Johan nyt on markkinat!
1966 · 3 votes
Movie4.8ComedyThrillerTwo Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
1959 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ComedyCrimePolice chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.
Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
1957 · 3 votes
Movie4.8DramaHistoryIn the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Tanssi yli hautojen
1950 · 4 votes
Movie5.3ComedyTrade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-faced bowling boy as the company's errand boy. Widowed trade counselor Gunilla Lillukka tries to get married to Pätkä, who has been promoted to assistant director.
Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
1958 · 10 votes
Movie7.0RomanceHistoryWager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
1943 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaWintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Lumisten metsien tyttö
1960 · 1 votes
Movie5.7WarDramaFor six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Movie6.2ComedyThe everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Hilmanpäivät
1954 · 5 votes
Movie5.5DramaStory of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.
Movie7.8DramaCrimeA cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Varsovan laulu
1953 · 4 votes
Movie5.3ComedyThrillerAn ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
1959 · 7 votes
Movie6.7DramaMaria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Lain mukaan
1956 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaHelsinki judge Wilhelm Thorén arrives to investigate the financial mess at Niementaustan Manor. The estate of the declining Carenius noble family is on the verge of bankruptcy and should be put up for sale.
Jossain on railo
1949 · 1 votes