Acting
Jarkko Niemi
Born October 30, 1984 · Tuusula, Finland (age 41)
Jarkko Niemi (born 30 October 1984, in Tuusula) is a Finnish actor. He is an actor and writer, known for Syke: Särkynyt sydän (2023), Rölli ja kultainen avain (2013) and Love Records: Gimme Some Love (2016).
Known For
The Elf · 2025The Elf
★ 5.32025
MovieFamilyFantasy
Siblings Lumi and Talvi are separated as children. In search of her sister, Lumi ends up in Elfland, where elves prepare Christmas presents for all the children of the world. The elves are initially suspicious of the human child who appears out of nowhere, but Pyry, an elf boy, welcomes Lumi with interest. Pyry is eager for new adventures and his friendship with Lumi looks like a chance for an exciting journey.
Therapy · 2025Therapy
2025
MovieDramaComedy
Therapist Leena and her soon-to-be ex-husband Pekka run a relationship camp in the midst of their own painful break-up. The participants are all very different: an actor who has lost himself and his memory, his spouse, a police officer who cannot let go of his loved one, and a couple whose open relationship is not quite as open as they think. Through surprising twists, painful encounters, and humor, the campers discover new perspectives on each other—and themselves. Perhaps not everything can be fixed, but there is still much to learn.
Risto · 2011Risto
★ 4.22011
MovieComedy
The beloved actor Risto gets paralyzed - quadriplegiac - in a studio accident. The accident brings him massive financial compensation and a flood of sympathy. Suddenly there is money for everything that Risto's young and beautiful wife has always wanted. She gives up her boring job and becomes an artist.
Kamome Diner · 2006Kamome Diner
★ 7.32006
MovieDramaComedy
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
Gone · 2019Gone
★ 4.02019
MovieDramaMystery
Stuck living in his childhood home, now with his own family, Matti has been yearning for change. One day, the wait is over. He finds himself suddenly transported from one place to another – miles away.
The Eternal Road · 2017The Eternal Road
★ 6.72017
MovieHistoryDrama
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage · 201321 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
★ 5.82013
MovieComedyRomance
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
Lake Bodom · 2016Lake Bodom
★ 5.32016
MovieHorror
Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery.
Movies
The Elf · 2025The Elf
★ 5.32025
MovieFamilyFantasy
Siblings Lumi and Talvi are separated as children. In search of her sister, Lumi ends up in Elfland, where elves prepare Christmas presents for all the children of the world. The elves are initially suspicious of the human child who appears out of nowhere, but Pyry, an elf boy, welcomes Lumi with interest. Pyry is eager for new adventures and his friendship with Lumi looks like a chance for an exciting journey.
Therapy · 2025Therapy
2025
MovieDramaComedy
Therapist Leena and her soon-to-be ex-husband Pekka run a relationship camp in the midst of their own painful break-up. The participants are all very different: an actor who has lost himself and his memory, his spouse, a police officer who cannot let go of his loved one, and a couple whose open relationship is not quite as open as they think. Through surprising twists, painful encounters, and humor, the campers discover new perspectives on each other—and themselves. Perhaps not everything can be fixed, but there is still much to learn.
Risto · 2011Risto
★ 4.22011
MovieComedy
The beloved actor Risto gets paralyzed - quadriplegiac - in a studio accident. The accident brings him massive financial compensation and a flood of sympathy. Suddenly there is money for everything that Risto's young and beautiful wife has always wanted. She gives up her boring job and becomes an artist.
Kamome Diner · 2006Kamome Diner
★ 7.32006
MovieDramaComedy
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
Gone · 2019Gone
★ 4.02019
MovieDramaMystery
Stuck living in his childhood home, now with his own family, Matti has been yearning for change. One day, the wait is over. He finds himself suddenly transported from one place to another – miles away.
The Eternal Road · 2017The Eternal Road
★ 6.72017
MovieHistoryDrama
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage · 201321 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
★ 5.82013
MovieComedyRomance
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
Lake Bodom · 2016Lake Bodom
★ 5.32016
MovieHorror
Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery.
One Foot Under · 2009One Foot Under
★ 4.22009
MovieComedyDrama
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 few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.
Ella and Friends 2: Paterock · 2013Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
★ 6.82013
MovieComedyFamily
Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.
Syke: Särkynyt sydän · 2023Syke: Särkynyt sydän
★ 4.02023
MovieDrama
Everything is on track in the life of the beloved but eccentric surgeon Petteri Holopainen but when a patient close to him is rushed to the hospital, nothing can go back to the way it was. Holopainen loses everything he holds dear. When a familiar person from the past enters his life, Holopainen must decide what still matters.
Onni von Sopanen · 2006Onni von Sopanen
★ 9.02006
MovieComedyFamily
11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.
Let My People Go ! · 2011Let My People Go !
★ 5.02011
MovieComedy
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go. Should he follow his people or his heart?
Hush · 2012Hush
★ 4.62012
MovieThriller
Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the story is over, Sakari will be been forced to make choices he thought he'd never have to face.
Adult Camp · 2015Adult Camp
★ 4.22015
MovieComedy
A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine themselves and each other to find the necessary elements for growth. Perhaps the camp doesn't fulfill its promise of the "most wonderful week of your life", but one thing's for sure - no one returns home the same.
Forbidden Fruit · 2009Forbidden Fruit
★ 6.32009
MovieDrama
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
The Missile · 2024The Missile
★ 6.22024
MovieDramaComedy
Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.
Overseas and Under Your Skin · 2009Overseas and Under Your Skin
★ 4.02009
MovieDramaComedy
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
Rolli and the Golden Key · 2013Rolli and the Golden Key
★ 2.72013
MovieAdventureMusic
A flock of storks fly in the misty sky, all carrying white bundles. One of the bundles falls and a little girl called Juniper ends up in a strange world. This is the beginning of a wonderful, magical adventure as the girl tries to find out who she really is and where she came from. She finally meets an old troll called Rolli who tells the girl his own, eventful story. The girl and the troll become friends and together they encounter a dangerous threat against the fairytale woods. This is a universal tale of bravery and friendship that takes its audience through exciting plot twists, circus spotlights and the splendor of the fantastic forest.
The Storage 2 · 2018The Storage 2
★ 5.02018
MovieComedy
Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.
Young Gods · 2003Young Gods
★ 4.12003
MovieDramaThriller
Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!
Under the North Star II · 2010Under the North Star II
★ 7.02010
MovieDramaWar
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Love Records · 2016Love Records
★ 4.12016
MovieMusicComedy
The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
Siblings · 2023Siblings
★ 3.02023
MovieDrama
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.
TV Shows
Nurses · 2014Nurses
★ 7.92014
SeriesDrama
Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.
Kontio & Parmas · 2018Kontio & Parmas
★ 7.02018
SeriesComedyCrime
Veteran police lieutenant Kontio will have to work closely with a new partner, a much younger female officer Parmas. Small Town Police Department of Valkeakoski, Finland, will never be the same.
Tanssii tähtien kanssa · 2006Tanssii tähtien kanssa
★ 2.02006
Series
Tanssii tähtien kanssa is a Finnish version of the British BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing. The show has run on MTV3 since March 3, 2006, on Sunday evenings.
The show was originally hosted by Marco Bjurström and Ella Kanninen. Ella Kanninen left the show after the second season and was replaced by model and Season 2 contestant Vanessa Kurri. In 2009, Kurri was replaced by Vappu Pimiä after only one season. Marco Bjurstöm left the series after Season 4 and Mikko Leppilampi took over as host. Ella Kanninen returned to host the seventh season due to Pimiä's maternity leave; Pimiä returned to host the eighth season with Leppilampi. From 2022 Pimiä was joined by Ernest Lawson.
The series' title is a pun on the title of the film Dances with Wolves, Tanssii susien kanssa.
Modernit miehet · 2019Modernit miehet
★ 7.32019
SeriesComedy
Sunset Grove · 2025Sunset Grove
2025
SeriesComedyCrime
Three retirement home residents - Siiri, Irma, and Anna-Liisa - investigate mysterious disappearances and their cook's suspicious death while navigating friendship and aging. Based on Minna Lindgren's books.
Hotel Swan Helsinki · 2020Hotel Swan Helsinki
★ 6.02020
SeriesDramaMystery
A hotel manager of the brand-new Hotel Helsinki, is found dead one day before the opening festivities, leaving behind him a suicide note.
Kotka 10 · 2023Kotka 10
2023
Series
The C More original series Kotka 10 is an intimate drama about the rescuers of the Kotka central fire station, their exciting and dangerous tasks and their mutual relationships. The rescue missions seen in the series are based on real cases.
Karjalan kunnailla · 2007Karjalan kunnailla
★ 6.32007
SeriesDrama
The Look of a Killer · 2011The Look of a Killer
★ 7.02011
SeriesCrimeDrama
In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one.
Kumman kaa · 2003Kumman kaa
★ 10.02003
SeriesComedy
Nymphs · 2014Nymphs
★ 5.42014
SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
They live among us, forever young and deadly seductive. And unlike vamps, it's not blood they crave from their male, as 17-year-old Didi Tiensuu discovers when she beds her boyfriend for the first time and promptly kills him. The sultry nymphs Kati and Nadia take Didi under their wings in her new life as a divine being and sexual predator.
Siskonpeti · 2014Siskonpeti
★ 7.02014
SeriesComedyDrama
Virta · 2011Virta
★ 5.02011
Series
Sunnuntailounas · 2018Sunnuntailounas
★ 7.02018
SeriesComedy
Toisen kanssa · 2014Toisen kanssa
★ 7.02014
SeriesDrama
Dear children · 2022Dear children
★ 7.02022
SeriesComedyDrama
Dear children is a new comedy series from the creators of Siskonpeti about sibling relationships and mother relationships; when someone is the most beloved and the most infuriating at the same time. The adult sisters return to their childhood home to look after their wild mother, who is recovering from a cerebral infarction. The visit, which was intended to be short, drags on and the childhood home serves as a refuge for the sisters' personal crises.
Sisäilmaa · 2021Sisäilmaa
★ 6.02021
SeriesDramaComedy
When the employment office is haunted, performance targets troubles and indoor mold threatens, service manager Anneli Tiainen uses peculiar means in the face of an impossible situation.
Exit · 2022Exit
2022
SeriesDrama