Elina Knihtilä

Elina Knihtilä

Mari Elina Knihtilä (born June 6, 1971) is a Finnish actress. Knihtilä has worked for several Finnish theatres, such as the Finnish National Theatre and Q-teatteri, while also having appeared in films and on television. She has received two Jussi Awards; one for a supporting role in the 2008 Heikki Kujanpää film Putoavia enkeleitä and another for a leading role in the 2011 Zaida Bergroth film Hyvä poika. Some of her television work include the comic roles in Läpiveto, Vedetään hatusta and the first season of Putous. Knihtilä is cohabiting with actor Tommi Korpela. Together they have a son.

  • Title: Elina Knihtilä
  • Popularity: 3.772
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1971-06-06
  • Place of Birth: Valkeala, Finland
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Elina Knihtilä Movies

  • 2021
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    Doctor Johansson

    Doctor Johansson

    1 2021 HD

    A nurse, tired of her job, does not notice that a doctor leaves for his break. This gives a patient from the psychiatric unit next door a chance to...

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  • 2020
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    Eden

    Eden

    6.4 2020 HD

    Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the...

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  • 2023
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    Family Time

    Family Time

    5.9 2023 HD

    It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and...

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  • 2023
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    Death Is a Problem for the Living

    Death Is a Problem for the Living

    7.1 2023 HD

    The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a...

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  • 2009
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    Last Cowboy Standing

    Last Cowboy Standing

    6.5 2009 HD

    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.

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  • 2012
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    Flying Finns

    Flying Finns

    1 2012 HD

    A short film about the close-minded but hopeful couple called Koistinen, who should just stay home instead of travelling.

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  • 2017
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    The Democracy of the Spineless

    The Democracy of the Spineless

    1 2017 HD

    A political satire about a decision yet to be made and heard – and in all the hassle, the Prime Minister has gone missing.

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  • 2014
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    Role

    Role

    1 2014 HD

    Lauri Tilkanen is a talented, promising young actor who finds himself among the final candidates vying for the lead role in a high-concept feature...

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  • 2001
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    Tervashampoota

    Tervashampoota

    1 2001 HD

    A story about two women who find a suspicious shampoo bottle in the public showers. After learning that there is nothing questionable about the...

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  • 2009
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    The House of Branching Love

    The House of Branching Love

    5.8 2009 HD

    A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a...

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  • 2024
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    Snot and Splash

    Snot and Splash

    4.8 2024 HD

    Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is...

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  • 2012
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    Almost 18

    Almost 18

    6.2 2012 HD

    Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every...

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  • 2004
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    Producing Adults

    Producing Adults

    5.2 2004 HD

    Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that...

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  • 2012
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    Road North

    Road North

    6.1 2012 HD

    A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other...

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  • 2025
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    Raptures

    Raptures

    1 2025 HD

    Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight...

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  • 2008
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    A Mate

    A Mate

    5.1 2008 HD

    Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon…

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  • 2012
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    Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble

    Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble

    6.1 2012 HD

    Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.

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  • 2006
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    Matti: Hell Is for Heroes

    Matti: Hell Is for Heroes

    5.5 2006 HD

    Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his...

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  • 2014
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    Raspberry Boat Refugee

    Raspberry Boat Refugee

    5.2 2014 HD

    Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a...

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  • 2007
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    V2: Dead Angel

    V2: Dead Angel

    5.6 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    Tuulikki

    Tuulikki

    1 2022 HD

    Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not...

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  • 2015
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    The Midwife

    The Midwife

    5.7 2015 HD

    Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when...

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  • 2024
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    Stormskerry Maja

    Stormskerry Maja

    7.8 2024 HD

    Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja...

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  • 2014
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    The Swedish Moment

    The Swedish Moment

    5.4 2014 HD

    Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s...

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  • 2010
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    Jäät

    Jäät

    6 2010 HD

    A Finnish TV movie.

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  • 2024
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    100 Liters of Gold

    100 Liters of Gold

    1 2024 HD

    Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is getting...

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  • 2017
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    Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger

    Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger

    6 2017 HD

    A film based on the popular children's books by Marjatta Kurenniemi about the exploits of Jill And Joy.

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  • 2015
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    Distractions

    Distractions

    6.2 2015 HD

    Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a...

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  • 2016
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    The Log

    The Log

    6.4 2016 HD

    The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.

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  • 2019
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    Maria's Paradise

    Maria's Paradise

    5.9 2019 HD

    A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with...

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  • 2018
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    Cleaning Woman

    Cleaning Woman

    6 2018 HD

    Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.

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  • 2008
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    Falling Angels

    Falling Angels

    5.8 2008 HD

    The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

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  • 2018
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    The Night Thief

    The Night Thief

    5 2018 HD

    The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story of a Somali man, Farah, whose car starts to...

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  • 2002
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    Rumble

    Rumble

    5.3 2002 HD

    Finnish Road Movie

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  • 2006
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    The Lake

    The Lake

    3 2006 HD

    Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.

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  • 2018
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    Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock

    Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock

    5.2 2018 HD

    Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the girls to look after their absentminded inventor...

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  • 2019
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    Play Rape

    Play Rape

    8 2019 HD

    A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.

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  • 2008
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    The Flight Before Christmas

    The Flight Before Christmas

    5.8 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Happier Times, Grump

    Happier Times, Grump

    6.813 2018 HD

    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....

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  • 2002
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    Stripping

    Stripping

    4.2 2002 HD

    About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her betrothed Jonah at the dinner table and leaves...

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  • 2019
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    Force of Habit

    Force of Habit

    6.7 2019 HD

    Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja...

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  • 2014
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    Jill and Joy

    Jill and Joy

    6.1 2014 HD

    When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the...

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  • 2017
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    The Other Side of Hope

    The Other Side of Hope

    7 2017 HD

    A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

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  • 2008
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    8 Days to Premiere

    8 Days to Premiere

    4.5 2008 HD

    A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg...

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  • 2011
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    The Good Son

    The Good Son

    4.8 2011 HD

    When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.

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  • 2015
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    Jill and Joy's Winter

    Jill and Joy's Winter

    6.2 2015 HD

    Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they...

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  • 2016
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    Waste Land

    Waste Land

    1 2016 HD

    Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers a life outside the...

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  • 2013
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    Above Dark Waters

    Above Dark Waters

    6.1 2013 HD

    A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

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  • 2004
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    Enkeli tulessa

    Enkeli tulessa

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2020
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    The Bouncer

    The Bouncer

    6.8 2020 HD

    A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.

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  • 2015
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    Lovemilla

    Lovemilla

    4.8 2015 HD

    Aimo and Milla are living together at Milla's alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place. They save money to move out of the house. Due to his lack of...

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  • 1997
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    Jäänmurtaja

    Jäänmurtaja

    1 1997 HD

    14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the...

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  • 2014
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    The Swedish Moment

    The Swedish Moment

    5.4 2014 HD

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  • 2015
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    Distractions

    Distractions

    6.2 2015 HD

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  • 2017
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    Love and Order

    Love and Order

    4.7 2017 HD

    The storm has collapsed Finland's infrastructure and made people's lives. What happened also seems to have consequences for people’s emotional...

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  • 2016
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    Kohtuuttomuuksia

    Kohtuuttomuuksia

    6 2016 HD

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  • 2019
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    Shadow Lines

    Shadow Lines

    7.313 2019 HD

    During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral...

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  • 2010
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    Paratiisi

    Paratiisi

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2015
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    Napamiehet

    Napamiehet

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2010
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    Putous

    Putous

    4.8 2010 HD

    Finnish sketch comedy television show.

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  • 2000
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    Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

    Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

    7.3 2000 HD

    Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases....

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  • 2007
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    Karjalan kunnailla

    Karjalan kunnailla

    7 2007 HD

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  • 2011
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    Virta

    Virta

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2017
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    Nerd: DragonSlayer666

    Nerd: DragonSlayer666

    6.5 2017 HD

    Nineteen year old high-schooler has one dream: to become a professional esport player. However, there are many obstacles in the way of his dream,...

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  • 2009
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    Ihmebantu

    Ihmebantu

    8.4 2009 HD

    Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show.

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  • 2019
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    Moominvalley

    Moominvalley

    7.1 2019 HD

    Follow the life and adventures of curious, kind and idealistic Moomintroll. A typical hero in a coming-of-age story, Moomintroll tries to tackle the...

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  • 2024
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    Jarno ja minä

    Jarno ja minä

    8 2024 HD

    An underdog challenges an unbeatable champion of motorcycle Grand Prix championships series in the early 70s, a time when even an amateur could win,...

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  • 2003
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    Ranuan kummit

    Ranuan kummit

    5.2 2003 HD

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  • 2009
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    Ihmebantu

    Ihmebantu

    8.4 2009 HD

    Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show.

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  • 2021
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    Sisäilmaa

    Sisäilmaa

    4.5 2021 HD

    When the employment office is haunted, performance targets troubles and indoor mold threatens, service manager Anneli Tiainen uses peculiar means in...

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  • 1970
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    Sisäilmaa

    Sisäilmaa

    6 1970 HD

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