Jaana Saarinen

Jaana Saarinen

Born: June 22, 1955
in Helsinki, Finland

Movies for Jaana Saarinen...

The Grump's Love Story
Title: The Grump's Love Story
Character: Saimi
Released: September 6, 2024
Type: Movie
While on a shopping trip, Grump smells Saimi, a woman who smells just right and throws the whole man into confusion. The Grump would not have believed that his chest could still feel like a young boy's. The Grump has to admit that he enjoys Saimi’s company. The words, looks, and touch of another awaken long-forgotten feelings. The Grump’s sons are incredulous and downright jealous of their father, and they don’t want to trust Saimi’s sincerity… could she be after the inheritance? Family meetings, misunderstandings, moonlight swims, and sleepless nights. Indeed, Cupid's arrow can pierce even an old man's flannel shirt.
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Luottomies-elokuva: All in
Title: Luottomies-elokuva: All in
Character: Juontaja
Released: February 16, 2024
Type: Movie
When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works.
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Title: Forgiven
Character: Tuula
Released: November 13, 2023
Type: TV
Forgiven is a realistic miniseries with dense atmosphere, based on Laura Manninen's novel. 30-something strong-willed Vilma falls in love with Mikko, who is perfect in many ways: a charming, polite, sensitive and sympathetically capricious man. Gradually, Vilma, who has never dreamed of children, realizes that she and Mikko have somehow become a blended family with hustle and bustle and three children. There's a dog, apple trees and beautifully aged house. Little by little, Mikko's true personality is revealed and the seemingly perfect idyll collapses. The abnormal becomes completely normal. Love, shame, fear and need to solve the problems keep Vilma in abusive relationship until the situation escalates to the poins where it's all about surviving and staying alive. The drama series Forgiven deals with love, domestic violence, shame and the culture of silence. Forgiven is a tragic love story, but also a story of survival.
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Spede
Title: Spede
Character: Helmi Pasanen
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds light on behind-the-scenes events from the late 1960s to the birth story and popularity of Uuno Turhapuro, and Spede's tireless fight for the entertainment industry against the artistic film circles of the time.
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Title: Hormonit!
Character: Mallu
Released: September 3, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Ei saa nauraa
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: TV
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Timeman
Title: Timeman
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
A boy, whose mother used to prohibit his time travel games, has grown into an adult. He executes his everyday life like any man - exercising at the gym, working as a nightclub bouncer and spending his spare time with those who just happened to end up around him. An ordinary day comes to a halt when he runs into a familiar woman - with whom he hasn’t met before. The twosome develop an unprecedented sense of connection which makes them question everything they have believed in. As their self-evident future together starts to shine in the horizon, his repressed childhood enters from behind it. Encountering the past drives at stake both - the hopes for true love and his sense of reality.
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The Mushroom Trip
Title: The Mushroom Trip
Character: Susanna
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
PJ, a struggling screenwriter and his best friend Jami, a successful car dealer, are fed up with how painfully stuck their heads are in their ways. They decide to do something about it and rent a cabin on the Finnish archipelago for the weekend to get their minds blown - with magic mushrooms. A little getaway between the men gets out of hand when a series of coincidences turn their plans upside down.
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Title: Kentän laidalla
Character: Tove Jalava
Released: May 22, 2021
Type: TV
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Laundry
Title: Laundry
Character: Neighbor
Released: February 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Humorous fragment of starting over, struggles with life and neighbours. A story of the time when even washing the undies seems difficult.
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Forest Giant
Title: Forest Giant
Character: Mayor
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
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Everything In Between
Title: Everything In Between
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
"Everything In Between" follows a group of filmmakers that are passionate about their work. An intimate portrait of film making and the deep trust that develops in these exceptional circumstances.
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King of Hearts
Title: King of Hearts
Character: Elli Jalkanen
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.
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A Mother
Title: A Mother
Character: Eeva
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
After getting released from prison, Eeva returns to her old home town with only a shoulder bag, cellphone and the clothes she is wearing. She wants to find her grown-up daughter, but the townspeople soon make it clear that she is not welcome.
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Title: Taisto - muovista ja rakkaudesta
Character: Helena
Released: April 15, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: The Happy Hour of the Wolf
Character: tosi-tv-tuottaja
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: TV
After Janne suddenly disappears while taking out the trash, the police tell Heta there’s nothing they can do - a person has every right to go missing if there is no sign of a crime. Troubled, she begins searching for and finds only one clue: it seems Janne had undergone Koistinen’s radical divorce therapy for men.
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Title: ADULTS
Character: Birgitta
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: TV
Oona (20-something) runs a small coffee shop in the heart of hipsteresque Kallio district in Helsinki. Oona’s is not really the classic entrepreneur type: she’s often late to work and throws out customers she dislikes. She’s also constantly in a state of existential crisis over what she should become and whether she’s a somebody or just a nobody. Oona’s best friend is Arttu, a 25 y.o. gay artist-dj-creator-whatever. Together they hate, love, party and cry and try to become adults.
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Title: Modernit miehet
Character: Päivi
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Trainer
Title: Trainer
Character: Ritva
Released: October 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Rise and fall of Jari Sarasvuo, as he transforms from a media person to business training guru during the crazy years of the 1990s and 2000s, just before the financial crash.
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Man and a Baby
Title: Man and a Baby
Character: Mother in law
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.
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Title: Downshifters
Character: Marjo Huotari
Released: October 26, 2016
Type: TV
A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.
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Title: Pitääkö olla huolissaan?
Character: Herself
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: TV
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Sannis
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
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Title: Toisen kanssa
Character: Ulla Poikolainen
Released: March 26, 2014
Type: TV
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Village People
Title: Village People
Character: Vosurouva
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!
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Title: Putous
Character: Maarit Salin
Released: January 9, 2010
Type: TV
Finnish sketch comedy television show.
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Title: Salatut elämät
Character: Maarit Salin
Released: January 25, 1999
Type: TV
Salatut elämät (Secret Lives) is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment block in Helsinki.
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
Title: Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
Character: Jaana
Released: December 16, 1960
Type: Movie