Leena Uotila

Leena Uotila

Born: June 16, 1947
in Helsinki, Finland

Movies for Leena Uotila...

Itty Bitty Princess
Title: Itty Bitty Princess
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
When the anarchistic princess of her own life, Princess Itty Bitty is told that her little brother, who still lives in her mother's womb, is about to move into her room, she's had enough. Drawing on the wisdom of her quirky neighbor, Auntie Jenssen, Itty Bitty devises a plan and conjures the bossy grown-ups to Hilldiggle with the help of her magical dog, Sausage.
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Family Time
Title: Family Time
Character: Ella
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral.
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Family Stories Untold
Title: Family Stories Untold
Released: February 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents’ nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lisbeth, who has been forced into a retirement home by her children. It’s a story about a life in which we don’t have the courage to voice our opinions, desires and expectations.
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Free Skate
Title: Free Skate
Character: Grandmother
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
A young and promising Russian figure skater is found beaten and frostbitten in a lay-by of a motorway in Finland. In the hospital, the officials find a letter from her belongings and are able to reconnect her with her Finnish grandmother, whom she has not seen for years. With the help of her grandmother, who offers her the shelter of her home, the figure skater tries to re-establish herself and recover from the trauma and inhumane circumstances that forced her to flee from Russia. She finds a new chance with top figure skating, but despite the bright future, new friends and possibilities, her past won’t let go of her. The figure skater realizes facing her troubled past is the only option to make it to the top.
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Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage
Title: Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage
Character: Ana
Released: October 18, 2022
Type: Movie
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
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The Pastor’s Wife
Title: The Pastor’s Wife
Character: Roosa's mother
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Actress Roosa Heinonen is heading for her first lead role in a historical drama film called The Pastor. Arriving to the film set, she confronts an unpleasant surprise.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.
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Ladies of Steel
Title: Ladies of Steel
Character: Inkeri
Released: January 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
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Title: Melkein totta
Character: Pirjo, pukusuunnittelija
Released: April 13, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Modernit miehet
Character: Matti's mother
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Modernit miehet
Character: Matin isä
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Modernit miehet
Character: Matin äiti
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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The Human Part
Title: The Human Part
Character: Salme Malmikunnas
Released: December 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together.
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Family Time
Title: Family Time
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A Finnish family gathers together to spend time at grandparents’. When the night goes on, we realize that this is how things always go. With a warm and subtly humorous gaze, the film looks closely at the unspoken structures and norms inside a family.
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Varasto 2
Title: Varasto 2
Character: Ene
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Ryhmäteatteri
Title: Ryhmäteatteri
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
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Kaikki hyvin, Pekka
Title: Kaikki hyvin, Pekka
Character: Raija, Pekan äiti
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Pekka tries to accomplish absolute equality in one day.
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Title: Wingman
Character: Koiranulkoiluttaja
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: TV
The series follows the lives of Juha "Juhis" Koski and Tommi Mäkinen-Renwall as neighbours. The men drift too far in their everyday challenges that lead to excessive outcomes. Unwillingly, Tommi and Juhis often find themselves in awkward and embarrassing situations where they are forced to choose one of two bad options. Tommi's wife and Juhis' good friend Harriet does her best to understand the men's antics.
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Off Key
Title: Off Key
Character: Leena Mulkonsaari
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned.
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Jill and Joy's Winter
Title: Jill and Joy's Winter
Character: Grandma Vaaksanheimo
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
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 get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.
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Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl
Title: Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl
Character: Pirkka's mother
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man. Baby Girl's parents, Eila and Rampe, do their best to become friends with Pirkka and his elegant mother. Through coincidence and error Eila occupies her summerhouse neighbors' empty luxury villa. When Pirkka's mother drops by, Eila lies that she and Rampe own the fancy house. The showing off and lying escalate when Eila's mother and sister show up. The real owners of the house, an upper-class couple, Thomas and Monica, are driven away to Eila and Rampe's modest cottage.
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Title: Toisen kanssa
Character: Saaran äiti
Released: March 26, 2014
Type: TV
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The Two and Only
Title: The Two and Only
Character: Jumalan ruoska
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
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Road North
Title: Road North
Character: Margit
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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 again.
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The Inspector
Title: The Inspector
Character: Verotarkastaja
Released: June 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
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Title: Alamaailma Trilogia
Character: Marja
Released: October 11, 2010
Type: TV
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Heartbeats
Title: Heartbeats
Character: Leila
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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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Overseas and Under Your Skin
Title: Overseas and Under Your Skin
Character: Pipsa
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
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?
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Hellsinki
Title: Hellsinki
Character: Tompan äiti
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
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Title: Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
Character: Mailis Santala
Released: February 29, 2000
Type: TV
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Raili
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Eeva-Liisa Läävä
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Pimennys
Character: Toimittaja Varpu
Released: August 30, 1993
Type: TV
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Ripa Hits the Skids
Title: Ripa Hits the Skids
Character: Irma
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
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Lain ulkopuolella
Title: Lain ulkopuolella
Character: Mrs. Kaironen
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
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Pieni yösoitto
Title: Pieni yösoitto
Character: Helinä
Released: April 13, 1987
Type: Movie
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Kummitäti
Title: Kummitäti
Character: Vuokko
Released: March 8, 1987
Type: Movie
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Näkemiin, hyvästi
Title: Näkemiin, hyvästi
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
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Reetta Robinson
Title: Reetta Robinson
Character: Kertoja (voice)
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Reeta is on holiday with her baby brother and parents. When her parents fail to return to their isolated island house after going shopping, Reeta and her brother are marooned.
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Kun Hunttalan Matti Suomen osti
Title: Kun Hunttalan Matti Suomen osti
Character: Pirjo Lundberg
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin
Title: Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin
Character: Hammaslääkäri
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Title: Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Character: Kotiopettajatar
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
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An Unknown Friend
Title: An Unknown Friend
Character: Tarjoilija
Released: January 20, 1978
Type: Movie
The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
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Rakastunut rampa
Title: Rakastunut rampa
Character: Sanelma Kinnunen
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
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Hiekkakuningas
Title: Hiekkakuningas
Character: Annika Hurme
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.