Alma Pöysti

Alma Pöysti

Born: March 16, 1981
in Helsinki, Finland
Alma Pöysti (Finnish: [ˈɑlmɑ ˈpøy̯sti]; born March 16, 1981) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actor. She is the daughter of director Erik Pöysti and granddaughter of Finnish actors Lasse Pöysti and Birgitta Ulfsson. Pöysti has also lived and worked in Sweden.

Movies for Alma Pöysti...

Children of War and Peace
Title: Children of War and Peace
Character: (Voice)
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the upheaval of the First World War and all too aware of the threat posed both outside and within its borders, the newly installed government initiated harsh and draconian policies for its younger generation. All children and youths were drilled in the importance of discipline, rectitude and nationalism. With no exceptions.
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Four Little Adults
Title: Four Little Adults
Character: Juulia
Released: December 27, 2023
Type: Movie
The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative.
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Fallen Leaves
Title: Fallen Leaves
Character: Ansa
Released: September 14, 2023
Type: Movie
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
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A Day and a Half
Title: A Day and a Half
Character: Louise
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
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Silkesapans skratt
Title: Silkesapans skratt
Character: Silkesapan (voice)
Released: August 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A silk monkey and a tapir become friends.
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The Good Driver
Title: The Good Driver
Released: February 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, and to make amends for his past mistakes. But money is tight, and eventually Ivan will resort to extreme measures.
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The Good Driver
Title: The Good Driver
Character: Mia
Released: February 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, and to make amends for his past mistakes. But money is tight, and eventually Ivan will resort to extreme measures.
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Title: Blackwater
Character: Ylja Happolati (1973)
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: TV
Set in the 1970s, Blackwater tells the story of how four random people's lives converge after two tourists are found murdered in a tent near the Swedish mountain town of Blackwater.
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Blue Note
Title: Blue Note
Character: Leena
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Leena prepares a meal for two and leaves her cottage to pick up her husband Boris from the hospital. The nurse warns them of his condition, but they’ve already decided to spend the night together. In the cottage, they have dinner and try their best to enjoy themselves. As the night turns to early morning, we see a camera stand in the bedroom pointing towards them.
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The Limelight Life
Title: The Limelight Life
Character: TV Host
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: Movie
A world-weary reality TV host (Alma Pöysti) is given one last chance by her producer. Accompanied by a cynical filming crew, she goes to find out what happened to a celebrity who wet himself in a dance show on live television.
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The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
Title: The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
Character: Nuori Muumimamma / Mymmeli / Pikku Myy (voice)
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A beautiful summer day in Moomin Valley. Suddenly, a wasp stings Moomintroll, who falls ill and has to stay in bed. To cheer him up, Moominpappa recounts his youthful adventures; his misunderstood childhood, escape from an orphanage and his historic meeting with the inventor Hodgkins.
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Spiral
Title: Spiral
Character: Anna
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Anna sees Jasmine, her former school bully, after years when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface. Spiral is about a ballet class that gets out of hand.
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Future Remains
Title: Future Remains
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 29, 2021
Type: Movie
The Finnish designer Henrik Wahlforss had a flourishing career in industrial design and innovation in the 1970s. In 1980, he decided, however, to leave his career to write a book. Not any book; he wanted to write his prediction about the future, which became for him a life-long project. Combining archive material, interviews, and dramatizations, the film Tidresenären brings the viewer closer to Wahlforss’s fascinating life and predictions.
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Tove
Title: Tove
Character: Tove Jansson
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.
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The Explosion of a Swimming Ring
Title: The Explosion of a Swimming Ring
Character: Linda
Released: January 2, 2020
Type: Movie
The dissolution of a family in 10 minutes.
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Flowers of Evil
Title: Flowers of Evil
Character: Laura
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.
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Permission to Operate
Title: Permission to Operate
Character: Tina
Released: September 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Permission to Operate is a story about a single mother struggling to balance different roles in her life, when her passion for a man overshadows the love of her child. It is a film about love and family, about how we try to be genuinely present for each other and about how we fail or succeed in this pursuit.
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Tsamo
Title: Tsamo
Character: Alisa Moore
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named Tsamo and decides to bring her to Finland. The child, Tsamo, is baptized and Simon starts to teach her European manners. Tsamo thinks she’s married to Simon and acts accordingly, but when Simon marries a lady of his own age and class, she gets confused. Simon is forced to send the girl away and the battle over Tsamo’s identity takes complicated turns.
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Moomins on the Riviera
Title: Moomins on the Riviera
Character: Niiskuneiti (voice)
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test.
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Kristuksen morsian
Title: Kristuksen morsian
Character: Laura
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.
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Dagmamman
Title: Dagmamman
Character: Inka
Released: September 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Malla and her husband are drifting apart. When Malla gets a new daycare child, she understands how lonely she is.
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Naked Harbour
Title: Naked Harbour
Character: Marika
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
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Where Once We Walked
Title: Where Once We Walked
Character: Aina Gadolin
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
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Raptures
Title: Raptures
Character: Lisa
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of Sweden in the 1930s. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
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Sukkwan Island
Title: Sukkwan Island
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In semi-autobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, this is set on a wild island in southern Alaska, accessible only by boat or seaplane, all in wet forests and steep mountains. It is in this setting that Jim decides to take his thirteen-year-old son to live there in an isolated cabin for a year. After a succession of personal failures, he sees the opportunity to make a new start and reconnect with this boy he knows so little.
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The Summer Book
Title: The Summer Book
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Summer Book tells the story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.