Ari Laine
Actor · 1912 – 1998 · Nurmijärvi, Finland
Ari Laine was a Finnish director and an actor.
Movies18
Movie3.3AdventureComedyYoung Tirlittan gets rid of her family after being struck by lightning in her home. While looking for a new home, she meets a friendly policeman, a woman with goat, and a ringmaster with whom Tirlittan ends up performing in a circus.
Tirlittan
1958 · 3 votes
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
Movie5.5ComedyUuno Turhapuro is a lazy man who abhors manual labor, but has the ability to talk himself out of any sticky situation, usually with his long-suffering wife. In this, his first feature film appearance, Uuno embarrasses his wife in public, tricks his best friend, accidentally goes on a diet, and becomes a famous violinist.
Uuno Turhapuro
1973 · 19 votes
Movie6.6ComedyCrimeA man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
1962 · 28 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDirector Emil Rantamo goes with his family to the country for the summer. The family's son Fritsu gets engaged to Tipuli Niemi. Sausage maker Niemi thinks his daughter is engaged to the manager Rantamo himself.
Voi veljet, mikä päivä!
1961 · 1 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaTäällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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
Movie4.0ComedyTwo competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Iloinen Linnanmäki
1960 · 4 votes
Movie5.2AdventureCrimeThe Finnish coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.
VMV 6
1936 · 3 votes
Movie4.2ComedySailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
Laivaston monnit maissa
1954 · 4 votes
Movie4.4DramaCrimeA man sets out to prove his right against a District Court in a small town. The locals are not willing to accept anything but their own truth of the matter.
Totuus on armoton
1963 · 5 votes
Movie5.2ComedyRomanceThe new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the fact that the estate of Siltala is swimming in debt. And the new steward isn't quite what he seems to be.
Siltalan pehtoori
1953 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaWarA major wounded in war falls in love with a nurse who has been widowed in the hospital. However, their love is hindered by the death of the nurse's husband, for which the major is responsible.
Ratkaisun päivät
1956 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyEngineer Kallio, who is searching for uranium, arrives at the summer hotel owned by Director Lehtelä, accompanied by his assistants Joltinen and Pummi and painter Väinö. The manager's daughter Anni, his wife Mammi, and hotel employee Sirkka try to figure out the guests' secret identities.
Yks' tavallinen Virtanen
1959 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicYoung sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
Laivan kannella
1954 · 2 votes
Movie3.7ComedyA comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.
Alaston malli karkuteillä
1953 · 6 votes
Movie5.0DramaJooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
1955 · 5 votes
Movie4.8ComedyRomanceA story set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompanied by Captain Erkki Lahtinen, who returns to his home and back to his wife Jenni. However, during his four-year imprisonment, Erkki has been pronounced dead and Jenni has remarried to office manager Nevamaa.
Yhteinen vaimomme
1956 · 4 votes