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Kohtaamisia (2010)
Character: Martta
Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
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Baltutlämningen (1970)
Character: N/A
Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.
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Miriam (1957)
Character: Miriam
After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
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Jokin ihmisessä (1956)
Character: Osmi Järvelä
Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly happy family life with someone else.
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X-Paroni (1964)
Character: Maitotyttö
Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
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...und immer ruft das Herz (1959)
Character: Ara
Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.
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Risti ja liekki (1957)
Character: Mirjam Raakelintytär
Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
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Petos (1988)
Character: Irja Haartman
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 into hiding after the heist.
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Ganes (2007)
Character: Sibyl
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
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Hilja – maitotyttö (1953)
Character: Hilja
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen (1959)
Character: Dolores Gonzales
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
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Me tulemme taas (1953)
Character: Katri Karkela
The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
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Ingen morgondag (1957)
Character: the artist's model
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
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Die toten Augen von London (1961)
Character: Fanny Weldon
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
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Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun (1955)
Character: Eliina Kivistö
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
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Myrsky (2008)
Character: Country Merchant
The father of a Finnish family brings home a cute puppy, Stormheart. No one in the family knows anything about the dog. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart unravels and the dog's new owners learn more about him. They find out that Stormheart's parents had served as guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Pearl, the 7-year-old daughter of the Finnish family, takes the puppy under her wing and Stormheart, who grows up to the size of a bear, undertakes the task of removing all dangers, threats and obstacles from the path of Pearl.
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Der Hexer (1964)
Character: Jean Osbourne
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
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Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Character: Wackel-Heidi
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
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Das siebente Opfer (1964)
Character: Yo Ma
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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Annelin aika (2024)
Character: Self
Documentary film about a woman for whom the sex symbol stamp was a life-long curse - and a gift. A film in which the life story of one woman shows the social atmosphere as the decades change - values and prejudices at their most exposed. A film about Anneli Sauli, Finland's last film star.
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Sisarukset (2023)
Character: Sirkka-täti
Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own lives, surging between one father, two homelands and three adult siblings, from reunification to separation and back again. Over the years, the siblings encounter themselves and each other, their similarities and differences.
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1918 (1957)
Character: Essi Söderman
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
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Onnenpeli (1965)
Character: Leena
Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.
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Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002)
Character: Bar Owner
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 his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
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Käpy selän alla (1966)
Character: Filmitähti
A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki.
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