Sulevi Peltola
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1946-12-07
Locus Natus: Viljakkala, Finland
Et ut: Sulevi Antero Peltola, Сулеви Пелтола
Man Exposed
A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.
release : 2006.09.15popularis : 3.02
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 : 1.796
Helsinki, Forever
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...
release : 2008.08.15popularis : 0.587
The Wedding Waltz
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...
release : 1988.09.01popularis : 2.09
Autumn Ball
Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of...
release : 2007.09.13popularis : 2.194
Frozen Land
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with...
release : 2005.01.14popularis : 5.073
Tears of April
There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A...
release : 2008.08.29popularis : 1.345
Il prossimo tuo
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the...
release : 2009.06.19popularis : 0.982
Aikalainen
A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
release : 1984.03.16popularis : 0.504
Koomikko
Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying...
release : 1983.03.11popularis : 0.445
White Marble
Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just...
release : 1998.12.21popularis : 1.246
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very...
release : 1979.12.21popularis : 1.393
Dirty Hands
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...
release : 1989.10.05popularis : 4.239
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
Pearls and Pigs
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old...
release : 2003.08.29popularis : 2.567
Dolly and Her Lover
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...
release : 1990.02.02popularis : 0.493
Legenda - Pieni ihmetarina valtatien varrelta
A small gas station is held in the grip of a sinister trio of men until a rugged stranger, acting as the protector of truckers, appears on the scene....
release : 1989.06.26popularis : 0.38
The Prodigal Son
Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström...
release : 1992.10.30popularis : 0.834
Boy Upside Down
A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
release : 2014.08.29popularis : 0.188
Seitsemän veljestä
The story of the seven Jukola brothers in 19th century Finland.
release : 1979.10.20popularis : 0.379
The Dinosaur
Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening...
release : 2021.03.10popularis : 1.68
Jussi Pussi
Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections....
release : 1970.04.17popularis : 0.633
Raamit ränniin
A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 0.827
Fire-Eater
The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of...
release : 1998.10.30popularis : 0.731
Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to...
release : 2016.10.19popularis : 1.544
Petos
The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go...
release : 1988.03.18popularis : 0.689
Geography of Fear
When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands...
release : 2000.01.21popularis : 2.446
Johanneksen leipäpuu
Manical portrait of a small businessman.
release : 1994.05.02popularis : 0.461
The Temptation of St. Tony
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control...
release : 2009.10.10popularis : 2.453
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 : 1.637
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
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
The Last Ones
Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the...
release : 2020.11.13popularis : 1.159
Lights in the Dusk
Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when...
release : 2006.02.03popularis : 7.066
The Man Without a Past
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...
release : 2002.03.01popularis : 6.149
A Stone Left Unturned
The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 0.997
Naked Harbour
Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter...
release : 2012.02.03popularis : 6.781
Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois
release : 1968.01.29popularis : 0.875
The Other Side of Hope
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
release : 2017.02.03popularis : 10.705
Drifting Clouds
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they...
release : 1996.01.26popularis : 7.776
The Grump
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his...
release : 2014.09.05popularis : 2.628
Blue Corner
Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing...
release : 2002.10.11popularis : 1.057
Blindfolded
Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to...
release : 1999.03.12popularis : 1.099
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 : 2.221
Promise
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
release : 2005.12.02popularis : 1.569
Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable...
release : 2016.02.19popularis : 0.868
The Wrestler
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
release : 1985.09.26popularis : 1.136
Lahja
A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
release : 1997.10.13popularis : 0.473
Vares: Private Eye
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
release : 2004.07.23popularis : 3.882