Armi Toivanen

Armi Toivanen

Born: June 19, 1980
in Tampere, Finland

Movies for Armi Toivanen...

My Father’s Badger
Title: My Father’s Badger
Character: Maarit
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: Movie
After her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand. On the day of the departure, she finds her mother Sylvi and her father’s taxidermy badger in a bar and Sylvi makes a revelation that may change Maarit’s departure plans.
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Comeback
Title: Comeback
Character: Helena
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
No Love Lost shot to global fame like a shooting star and made millionaires out of its members. Guitarist Tony drank his millions and hasn't been able to play a chord in years. The guitars have been pawned and no new songs are being written. A message about singer-songwriter Katarina reaches Tony. The singer, who has been sober for a long time, has relapsed into drugs with fatal consequences. Katarina's teenage daughter Ellie, who has been placed in a family home, contacts Tony to find out about her family background. In the process, she reveals a secret to Tony that could enable No Love Lost to make a comeback and save Tony's finances. Tony decides to go to the funeral and get to know his daughter enough to get a DNA sample from her to confirm paternity - and gain access to Katarina's inheritance.
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Ski Girls
Title: Ski Girls
Character: Mallu
Released: February 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Ski Girls tells about four friends who have visited different ski resorts every year since their youth. They call themselves Ski Girls, even though they never ski and can no longer be called girls either. This time they are reunited for Emma's wedding. Emma's fifth wedding, that is. Their friendship will be tested as the other Ski Girls decide to stop Emma from making another mistake by getting married.
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The Woodcutter Story
Title: The Woodcutter Story
Character: Maija
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp.
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Title: Bad Apples
Character: Vera von Clause
Released: May 9, 2021
Type: TV
Student activist Onerva is committed to an experimental psychiatric program for women at a 1970s sanatorium.
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Knock, Knock
Title: Knock, Knock
Character: Leila
Released: December 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Leila is a recently divorced woman. She looks around the empty house and finds it difficult to understand that this is her life. The night before moving out, Leila wakes up to a knocking that seems to come from inside her living room wall. A man inside claims to be a time traveler from the future.
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Title: The Paradise
Character: Anni Mäntymäki
Released: February 9, 2020
Type: TV
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
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Title: The Paradise
Character: Anni
Released: February 9, 2020
Type: TV
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
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The Human Part
Title: The Human Part
Character: Maija 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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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Carla
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
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Glass Ceiling
Title: Glass Ceiling
Character: Jenna
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Sari works in middle management for a multinational company, and a promotion is within her grasp. She just has to finish her last presentation, break the glass ceiling and make it to the conference room in time.
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The Midwife
Title: The Midwife
Character: Kristiina Alatalo
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
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 she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Tiina
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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Headfirst
Title: Headfirst
Character: Essi Kurhinen
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
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Raspberry Boat Refugee
Title: Raspberry Boat Refugee
Character: Tiina
Released: August 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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 suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
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Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
Title: Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
Character: Rehtori, Paten äiti
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Title: 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Character: Sanna Manner
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
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The Hijack That Went South
Title: The Hijack That Went South
Character: Liikenneministerin avustaja
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
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Ella and Friends
Title: Ella and Friends
Character: Rehtori, Paten äiti
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: Movie
A young girl and her friends try to save their small rural school from being demolished to make way for a race track.
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Title: Elämää suurempaa
Character: Päivi Väisänen
Released: November 11, 2012
Type: TV
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So It Goes
Title: So It Goes
Character: Elli
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Out into the big wide world as fast as possible. That’s Elli’s plan. But where should she get the money from, if not steal it? When Heze falls for her, she steals from him and both have to learn: “Adulthood is a big pain in the arse”.
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Title: The Look of a Killer
Character: Laura
Released: February 6, 2011
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Putous
Released: January 9, 2010
Type: TV
Finnish sketch comedy television show.
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Title: Ihmebantu
Released: June 6, 2009
Type: TV
Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show.
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Hellsinki
Title: Hellsinki
Character: Krista
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.