Peter Franzén
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1971-08-14
Locus Natus: Keminmaa, Finland
Et ut: Петер Францен
Train Birds
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland)....
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 2.186
Bad Boys: A True Story
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they...
release : 2003.01.17popularis : 8.651
At Point Blank
A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal...
release : 2003.12.13popularis : 1.813
Hellsinki
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
release : 2009.01.09popularis : 3.226
Badding
The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
release : 2000.08.18popularis : 1.694
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 : 3.358
The Threat
A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His...
release : 2004.02.06popularis : 2.684
Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare...
release : 2001.12.21popularis : 2.13
Names in Marble
Based on an acclaimed 1935 novel about the War of Liberation (1918-1920) that ensured Estonia's independence, the film tells about a group of young...
release : 2002.11.01popularis : 2.241
Ambush
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for...
release : 1999.01.22popularis : 3.024
Set Point
On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 0.77
On the Road to Emmaus
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
release : 2001.10.05popularis : 2.193
Dog Nail Clipper
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside...
release : 2004.02.13popularis : 1.197
Three Wise Men
Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and...
release : 2008.11.14popularis : 0.922
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed...
release : 2012.01.06popularis : 2.758
Body of Water
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is...
release : 2011.10.07popularis : 1.598
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 : 2.059
Purge
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in...
release : 2012.09.07popularis : 6.252
Open Up to Me
At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual...
release : 2013.03.08popularis : 2.304
A Summer by the River
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed...
release : 1998.02.13popularis : 0.884
Asphalto
As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service...
release : 1998.09.25popularis : 0.361
Heart of a Lion
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
release : 2013.10.18popularis : 3.755
Boudica
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies...
release : 2023.10.26popularis : 26.097
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 : 2.005
The Gunman
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering...
release : 2015.02.16popularis : 12.55
Red Is the Color of
The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and...
release : 2007.09.16popularis : 1.137
Black Lotus
An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.
release : 2023.04.12popularis : 71.424
Alibi
Pain, not just war, makes strange bedfellows. In bed, APRIL SANCHEZ and JENNA BRYANT hatch a plan to turn the plot of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.288
Nightless Night
Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.
release : 2023.10.27popularis : 2.699
The Abyss
As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground...
release : 2023.09.15popularis : 21.209
Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who...
release : 2015.07.27popularis : 2.689
Johan Falk: The End
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization,...
release : 2015.08.24popularis : 2.635
Homecoming
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to...
release : 2015.08.21popularis : 2.229
Beck 31 - Gunvald
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The...
release : 2016.01.01popularis : 2.426
The Mine
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern...
release : 2016.01.22popularis : 2.034
Kites Over Helsinki
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has...
release : 2001.09.07popularis : 1.817
Priest of Evil
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest...
release : 2010.10.29popularis : 1.816
Rally On!
This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver...
release : 2009.02.27popularis : 1.627
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen...
release : 2016.12.27popularis : 0.917
Lovers & Leavers
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
release : 2002.02.01popularis : 1.187
Ashes in the Snow
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An...
release : 2018.10.12popularis : 7.848
Kissan kuolema
In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than...
release : 1994.09.02popularis : 1.015
Jewel of the Sahara
Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife
release : 2001.06.28popularis : 0.99
The Matriarch
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking...
release : 2007.09.14popularis : 3.44
Bad Luck Love
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level...
release : 2000.09.29popularis : 1.939
Cleaner
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban...
release : 2007.09.11popularis : 17.865
Meander
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands...
release : 2021.07.01popularis : 11.509
Baba's Cars
Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.
release : 2006.03.31popularis : 0.958
Tie naisen sydämeen
Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there...
release : 1996.09.27popularis : 0.319
Lapland Odyssey 2
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience...
release : 2015.09.30popularis : 1.526
Tale of the Sleeping Giant
Tale of the Sleeping Giant is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a...
release : 2020.12.25popularis : 0.612
Princess
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski...
release : 2010.09.10popularis : 1.629
Mystery of the Wolf
Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with...
release : 2006.12.15popularis : 1.463
Takatöölö Story
A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.
release : 1993.12.20popularis : 0.538
Hamsters
A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend,...
release : 2023.01.04popularis : 0.21
Deadly Rituals of the Flesh Loving Freaks - Katoamispiste
A man, his convertible and very dark thoughts. A mysterious woman in a red dress appears. Soon the man wakes up in a room. Is it all just a nightmare?
release : 1996.07.05popularis : 0.033
Jäänmurtaja
14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the...
release : 1997.11.21popularis : 0.332