Elina Knihtilä
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1971-06-06
Locus Natus: Valkeala, Finland
Et ut:
Doctor Johansson
A nurse, tired of her job, does not notice that a doctor leaves for his break. This gives a patient from the psychiatric unit next door a chance to...
release : 2021.09.23popularis : 0.755
Eden
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the...
release : 2020.08.07popularis : 3.212
Family Time
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and...
release : 2023.11.10popularis : 5.299
Death Is a Problem for the Living
The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a...
release : 2023.09.22popularis : 3.205
Last Cowboy Standing
In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
release : 2009.09.04popularis : 2.68
Flying Finns
A short film about the close-minded but hopeful couple called Koistinen, who should just stay home instead of travelling.
release : 2012.12.31popularis : 0.846
Role
Lauri Tilkanen is a talented, promising young actor who finds himself among the final candidates vying for the lead role in a high-concept feature...
release : 2014.12.31popularis : 1.156
The Democracy of the Spineless
A political satire about a decision yet to be made and heard – and in all the hassle, the Prime Minister has gone missing.
release : 2017.12.31popularis : 0.851
Tervashampoota
A story about two women who find a suspicious shampoo bottle in the public showers. After learning that there is nothing questionable about the...
release : 2001.12.31popularis : 0.54
The House of Branching Love
A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a...
release : 2009.08.21popularis : 2.033
Snot and Splash
Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is...
release : 2024.01.19popularis : 1.507
Almost 18
Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every...
release : 2012.03.09popularis : 2.192
Producing Adults
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that...
release : 2004.09.17popularis : 5.176
Road North
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other...
release : 2012.08.24popularis : 6.099
Raptures
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of Sweden in the 1930s. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions...
release : 2025.03.21popularis : 3.48
A Mate
Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon…
release : 2008.10.24popularis : 1.065
Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.
release : 2012.10.12popularis : 16.188
V2: Dead Angel
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before...
release : 2007.01.12popularis : 2.916
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his...
release : 2006.01.13popularis : 4.325
Raspberry Boat Refugee
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a...
release : 2014.08.19popularis : 2.733
Tuulikki
Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not...
release : 2022.11.18popularis : 4.068
The Midwife
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when...
release : 2015.09.04popularis : 5.804
Stormskerry Maja
Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja...
release : 2024.01.19popularis : 5.347
The Swedish Moment
Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s...
release : 2014.11.07popularis : 1.028
100 Liters of Gold
Two middle-aged sisters, Taina and Pirkko, are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.014
Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger
A film based on the popular children's books by Marjatta Kurenniemi about the exploits of Jill And Joy.
release : 2017.01.27popularis : 1.881
Distractions
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a...
release : 2015.09.11popularis : 2.39
The Log
The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.
release : 2016.03.11popularis : 1.153
Maria's Paradise
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with...
release : 2019.10.04popularis : 2.809
Cleaning Woman
Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.
release : 2018.09.27popularis : 0.713
Falling Angels
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...
release : 2008.12.05popularis : 1.289
The Night Thief
The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story of a Somali man, Farah, whose car starts to...
release : 2018.02.01popularis : 0.867
The Lake
Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.
release : 2006.09.22popularis : 0.366
Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock
Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the girls to look after their absentminded inventor...
release : 2018.12.25popularis : 2.423
Play Rape
A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.
release : 2019.09.25popularis : 3.765
The Flight Before Christmas
A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his...
release : 2008.09.22popularis : 12.592
Happier Times, Grump
The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden....
release : 2018.08.24popularis : 2.146
Stripping
About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her betrothed Jonah at the dinner table and leaves...
release : 2002.08.16popularis : 1.684
Force of Habit
Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja...
release : 2019.09.27popularis : 2.786
Jill and Joy
When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the...
release : 2014.01.17popularis : 3.672
The Other Side of Hope
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
release : 2017.02.03popularis : 10.064
8 Days to Premiere
A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg...
release : 2008.01.25popularis : 2.763
The Good Son
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.
release : 2011.03.25popularis : 6.014
Jill and Joy's Winter
Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they...
release : 2015.10.09popularis : 1.719
Waste Land
Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers a life outside the...
release : 2016.01.01popularis : 0.885
Above Dark Waters
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
release : 2013.09.06popularis : 5.701
The Bouncer
A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.
release : 2020.11.01popularis : 1.408
Lovemilla
Aimo and Milla are living together at Milla's alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place. They save money to move out of the house. Due to his lack of...
release : 2015.02.06popularis : 3.025