The best Matti Pellonpää’s movies

Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää

28/03/1951- 13/07/1995
We present our ranking of the best Matti Pellonpää’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Matti Pellonpää.
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Shadows in Paradise

Shadows in Paradise
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/10/1986
  • Character: Nikander
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

Night on Earth

Night on Earth
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1991
  • Character: Mika
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Ariel

Ariel
7.4/10
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...

Hamlet Goes Business

Hamlet Goes Business
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/08/1987
  • Character: Guard
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

La Vie de Bohème

La Vie de Bohème
7.6/10
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Leningrad Cowboys Go America
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/03/1989
  • Character: Vladimir (Manager)
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

Rocky VI

Rocky VI
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1986
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.

Calamari Union

Calamari Union
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/02/1985
  • Character: Frank
Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
5.6/10
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1983
  • Character: Nikander
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...

The Worthless

The Worthless
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/10/1982
  • Character: Manne
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

L.A. Without a Map

L.A. Without a Map
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1999
  • Character: Rodolfo (archive footage) (uncredited)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

Iron Horsemen

Iron Horsemen
4.5/10
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

The Last Lumbercamp

The Last Lumbercamp
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/11/1977
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
7.1/10
This droll tale of longing and awkward romance follows two misfits - a coffee addict and a vodka-soaked mechanic - as they hit the road in their Soviet-built Volga. Along the way they manage to pick up two women, the Estonian Tatjana and the buxom Russian Klavdia, despite sharing no common language and being completely clueless as to what to do with them next.

The Liar

The Liar
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/02/1981
  • Character: Chandlerin kirjojen ystävä
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.

Antti Puuhaara

Antti Puuhaara
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/11/1976

The Boys

The Boys
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/11/1962
  • Character: Schoolboy (uncredited)
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...

The Clan - Tale of the Frogs

The Clan - Tale of the Frogs
6.6/10
Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

Kumma juttu

Kumma juttu
A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend

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