Vesa Vierikko
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1956-05-24
Locus Natus: Lappeenranta, Finland
Et ut:
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
The Classic
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
release : 2001.02.23popularis : 1.265
One Foot Under
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...
release : 2009.03.20popularis : 1.204
The Match Factory Girl
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself...
release : 1990.01.12popularis : 12.191
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
Nonstop
A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.17
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
Jackpot
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot...
release : 2006.02.17popularis : 3.475
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
Routa
A man is released from prison after 22 years. He tries to live a simple life as a farmer. At the same time, a company director is fighting a hostile...
release : 2024.04.24popularis : 1.198
Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat
Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next...
release : 1994.11.11popularis : 1.936
Land of Love
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name,...
release : 2003.12.19popularis : 3.387
Lapin kullan kimallus
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the...
release : 1999.09.10popularis : 1.356
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
release : 1990.11.02popularis : 2.17
Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
release : 1991.10.18popularis : 2.132
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
release : 1997.08.15popularis : 2.708
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy...
release : 1994.09.16popularis : 0.912
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons...
release : 1992.10.09popularis : 1.261
Macbeth
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 1.726
Plainlands
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical...
release : 1988.02.26popularis : 5.618
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
release : 2013.02.08popularis : 7.176
Kauhea murhamies Lalli
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
release : 1981.05.08popularis : 1.991
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
My Father’s Badger
After her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand. On the day of the departure, she finds her mother Sylvi and her father’s...
release : 2024.03.06popularis : 1.575
Jon
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the...
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 1.37
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
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 : 2.185
The Winter War
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the...
release : 1989.11.30popularis : 9.069
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 : 7.683
Kyllä isä osaa
The years have passed and the children have flown from the nest to the world... except they haven't. On the contrary. Jonna and Junnu have been lured...
release : 2024.03.28popularis : 1.071
Tootletubs & Jyro
Able to turn abandoned items into useful tools, two eccentric bugs embark on an odd adventure in search of food and resources.
release : 2001.04.13popularis : 1.028
Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville
Ricky Rapper gets a letter from a distant relative who's looking for an heir.
release : 2015.02.13popularis : 1.81
Santa Claus and the Magic Drum
A few days before Christmas Eve the last sack of letters arrives to Santa. At the bottom is a letter that is a bit older than the others, it's a...
release : 1996.12.24popularis : 1.673
ZERO Limits
A village where everyone is wishing to protect it with all forces and together as a band. From a day becoming harder to fight everyone wishing to...
release : 2016.02.06popularis : 1.648
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 : 1.481
Gotta Run!
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso...
release : 1982.02.05popularis : 0.894
Brothers
Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...
release : 2011.03.18popularis : 1.701
The Fascist
A traffic warden runs into a surprising argument with a persisting customer.
release : 2014.11.14popularis : 0.763
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
Laugh or Die
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War...
release : 2018.03.16popularis : 3.098
The Storage 2
Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is...
release : 2018.02.16popularis : 2.132
The Storage
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his...
release : 2011.12.30popularis : 2.087
The Book of Fate
Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there was a...
release : 2003.03.06popularis : 2.913
Linna
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an...
release : 1986.09.12popularis : 0.734
Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the...
release : 1982.12.17popularis : 1.855
Bohemian Eyes
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
release : 2011.01.26popularis : 0.609
Shadow of the Eagle
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive...
release : 2005.09.09popularis : 6.172
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
This winter is extraordinary; Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of hibernating as usually. And winters are certainly...
release : 2017.11.23popularis : 2.994
Anita
Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with...
release : 1994.01.28popularis : 1.589
Hamlet Goes Business
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...
release : 1987.08.21popularis : 5.663
Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
release : 1982.09.17popularis : 3.731
Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
release : 1990.08.24popularis : 0.774
Born American
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
release : 1986.01.14popularis : 5.742
Pieniä valheita
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular...
release : 1994.05.07popularis : 1.317
Rolli and the Secret of All Time
Rolli and little elf girl Juniper along with the rest of the rollis and other strange creatures lead peaceful and rollishly fun lives in their...
release : 2016.09.16popularis : 2.406
Sibelius
Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.
release : 2003.09.12popularis : 1.995
August Fools
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...
release : 2013.10.04popularis : 2.073
Ryhmäteatteri
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
release : 2018.02.03popularis : 1.196
The Mushroom Trip
PJ, a struggling screenwriter and his best friend Jami, a successful car dealer, are fed up with how painfully stuck their heads are in their ways....
release : 2022.09.30popularis : 4.273
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