Markku Maalismaa

Actor

April 6, 1965 (61 years)

Yli-Ii, Finland

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

7.3

Modernit miehet

Teacher

No description available

8.0

Kaverille ei jätetä

Harri Harju

No description available

7.0

Uudisraivaaja

Yrittäjä #2

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7.1

Raid

Ratsumies

Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries". Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end. The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction.

6.6

Helsinki Syndrome

Antti Ojapelto

Family man Elias Karo takes four journalist hostage at their newspaper’s headquarters, in a desperate attempt to get them to reveal the wrongdoing wreaked on his family during the 90's recession.

6.0

Raid

Horseman

Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.

6.6

M/S Romantic

Henkka

One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.

6.2

Matkalaukkukostaja

Matti Keppilä

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6.8

The Mine

Rikospoliisi

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 Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.

7.0

Viimeiset siemenperunat

Pönkänen

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6.5

Bordertown: The Mural Murders

Pertti Suomaa

A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.

N/A

Hunajan maku

Eero Välttilä

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N/A

Rakkauden nälkä

Timo Harjunpää

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5.7

Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men

Pastori Hukkanen

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 pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.

5.4

Maria's Paradise

Prosecutor

A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.

6.7

The Wedding Waltz

Junnu

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 of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.

6.5

Nainen kedolla

Sami Pirilä

Museum conservator Laura Malkaluoto is a top professional in her field. She studies art forgeries at a large museum. One morning, Sami Pirilä, a Finnish-born museum director living in Ecuador, is impressed by Laura's professional skills; Laura's ability to distinguish between genuine and fake, truth and falsehood. Soon Laura realizes that there is something suspicious about Sami. He may not be who he claims to be. The Woman in the Field is a dramatic thriller about human deception and forgery. It takes place in 21st-century Finland, in elegant museums and decaying rural areas. A love story full of twists and turns about truth and lies, suspicion and certainty, authenticity and falseness, and how difficult it is to find the unambiguous truth.

5.5

Huomenna

Smith

The story of an unspecified country ravaged by civil war, with its rebels and spies.

6.2

The Interrogation

Hyvönen

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 uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

5.1

Flowers of Evil

Harju

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.