Hannu-Pekka Björkman
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1969-02-11
Locus Natus: Kannonkoski, Finland
Et ut: H-P Björkman
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 : 8.323
Christmas Story
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy...
release : 2007.11.16popularis : 10.102
The Missile
Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina, a single mother, is fired from her job in a bakery and drifts into the middle of an international...
release : 2024.02.02popularis : 3.753
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
The Interrogation
Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will...
release : 2009.09.25popularis : 1.498
The Border
The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he...
release : 2007.11.30popularis : 2.391
Under the North Star
Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.
release : 2009.12.04popularis : 1.777
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
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
Backwood Philosopher
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a...
release : 2009.12.25popularis : 1.66
Lakeuden kutsu
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen...
release : 2000.01.14popularis : 1.325
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
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 : 5.139
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
Gourmet Club
"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the...
release : 2004.11.29popularis : 1.445
Under the North Star II
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice...
release : 2010.09.24popularis : 4.528
Blackout
Recovering 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...
release : 2008.12.26popularis : 3.465
Butterflies
Siiri, a hardworking millennial, wants to be successful in her job as the advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs. She craves a promotion....
release : 2024.09.27popularis : 8.188
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
The Hijack That Went South
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
release : 2013.01.18popularis : 2.743
Pelle Hermanni ja Hypnotisoija
The people at Circus Hepokatti decide to throw a big surprise party for Herman The Clown, but no one seems to know when Herman's birthday is. No one...
release : 2023.12.22popularis : 2.121
FC Venus
Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the...
release : 2005.12.30popularis : 3.301
For the Living and the Dead
An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard....
release : 2005.02.18popularis : 1.445
Never Alone
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish...
release : 2025.01.17popularis : 1.987
After Us, the Flood
In 2064, the world is on the verge of destruction. The UN has developed a form of time travel: a person’s memories and personality can be...
release : 2024.12.05popularis : 1.9
A Patriotic Man
Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team.
release : 2013.12.04popularis : 2.64
Oh No, Lasse Falls!
The Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 metres final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It...
release : 2023.12.31popularis : 1.424
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
Theo's House
A film about the power and the beauty of architecture and about a middle-aged Nordic architect who, after loosing all in his life, wants once again...
release : 2014.12.12popularis : 1.064
Armi Alive!
Armi Ratia is the woman behind the legendary design company Marimekko and a worldwide celebrity. A theatre company has taken on the task of trying to...
release : 2015.03.20popularis : 2.712
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
Not Withholding Anything from You
How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a...
release : 2024.03.07popularis : 3.048
Amidst
Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!
release : 2024.03.07popularis : 1.883
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 : 3.171
Lapua 1976
On April 13th 1976, a devastating munitions factory accident shook the town of Lapua, Finland. Hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder ignited, causing an...
release : 2023.09.01popularis : 2.235
The Eternal Road
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930,...
release : 2017.09.15popularis : 4.436
The Black Hole
A black hole appears mysteriously in a lilac bush of a tower block district. A sinister-looking comet shines in the sky, and certain events start to...
release : 2024.09.22popularis : 15.763
95
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world...
release : 2017.12.25popularis : 2.612
The Last Bookshop of The World
The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are worried about the decline of literature’s...
release : 2017.10.13popularis : 1.798
The Human Part
Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this...
release : 2018.12.21popularis : 2.055
The Singer
The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an...
release : 2018.10.05popularis : 1.101
Land of Hope
Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past...
release : 2018.10.26popularis : 5.787
Void
Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her...
release : 2018.09.28popularis : 2.903
Somebody Should Do Something
Somebody Should Do Something tells a story of insecurity and longing for freedom, of fear that drives people to poor choices. The main character,...
release : 2019.06.07popularis : 1.469
Aurora
A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.
release : 2019.01.25popularis : 2.878
Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
A 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...
release : 2015.12.21popularis : 1.208
Eila
A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
release : 2003.03.14popularis : 1.349
Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious...
release : 2021.12.22popularis : 5.85
The Renovation
A couple inherit a 'house of their dreams' and for a while they think they got lucky, but soon find themselves in the middle of a renovation...
release : 2020.02.19popularis : 2.413
The Other Side of Hope
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
release : 2017.02.03popularis : 10.064
Upswing
Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
release : 2003.02.28popularis : 2.636
Ricky Rapper and Slick Leonard
Aunt Fanny and aunt Serena try to find a suitable father figure for Ricky.
release : 2014.02.07popularis : 2.678
Hella W
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman,...
release : 2011.01.28popularis : 2.275
Things We Do for Love
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces...
release : 2013.02.01popularis : 1.782
The Woodcutter Story
An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and...
release : 2022.10.07popularis : 7.675
Resistant
Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection...
release : 2021.09.20popularis : 2.308
Hospital - Daughter's Mother
Winter 1975 - author Jeanette Aspen arrives at Lapinlahti Mental Hospital to meet her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, 36 years after sending...
release : 2021.08.13popularis : 0.623
Herman the Circus Clown
Herman the Clown sets out to find his father, whom he hasn't seen since he set off to measure the Earth with his feet. He is secretly followed by the...
release : 2022.09.09popularis : 5.02