Jasper Pääkkönen
Actor
Actor
As: Max Tanner
“Omerta 6/12” begins as a hostage thriller, with a Serbian terrorist group executing a coordinated attack on the presidential reception ball on Dec. 6, Finland’s Independence Day.
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Ville Virtanen | Tommi Korpela | Eero Aho | Pekka Strang
As: Seppo Havelin
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Runtime: 156 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Clarke Peters | Norm Lewis | Delroy Lindo | Isiah Whitlock Jr. | Jonathan Majors
As: Felix Kendrickson
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Robert John Burke | Alec Baldwin | Brian Tarantina | Isiah Whitlock Jr. | John David Washington
As: Mike
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters.... and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away?
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Charles Henri Belleville
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Craig Parkinson | Sofia Boutella | Robert Sheehan | Joelle Koissi
As: Kyypakkaus
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Hannu Salonen
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Jukka Puotila | Antti Reini | Miska Kaukonen | Karoliina Blackburn
As: Harri
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Dome Karukoski
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Peter Franzén | Laura Birn | Pamela Tola | Jussi Vatanen
As: Kyypakkaus
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Mikko Leppilampi | Ilkka Heiskanen | Antti Reini | Jussi Lampi
As: Anders
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.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Amanda Pilke | Laura Birn | Alma Pöysti | Aino Louhimies
As: Kyypakkaus
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Stars: Ilkka Heiskanen | Kaarina Hazard | Antti Reini | Minna Haapkylä | Risto Kaskilahti
As: Kyypakkaus
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Maria Järvenhelmi | Ilkka Heiskanen | Antti Reini | Eppu Salminen
As: Kyypakkaus
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Lauri Törhönen
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Matti Onnismaa | Antti Reini | Eppu Salminen
As: Kyypakkaus
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Anders Engström
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Matti Onnismaa | Mikko Leppilampi | Antti Reini | Eppu Salminen
As: Kapu
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Dome Karukoski
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Kari Ketonen | Timo Lavikainen | Pamela Tola | Jussi Vatanen
As: Muumi (voice)
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a ...
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Maria Lindberg
Stars: Outi Alanen | Vuokko Hovatta | Taneli Mäkelä | Jarmo Koski | Ilpo Mikkonen
As: Korppu
Besides the journey of Tomppa and Krisu, the main characters of the film, Rööperi tells the story of Gypsy Kari, Arska, Bisquit, Uki and a bunch of other bad boys and criminals; it tells of their memorable and unscrupulous journey from crime and poverty to becoming respectable citizens, going to jail—or dying too young. The wrong side of the law is seen through the eyes of Koistinen, a local police ...
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Aleksi Mäkelä
Stars: Peter Franzén | Samuli Edelmann | Pihla Viitala | Juha Veijonen | Kari Hietalahti
As: Kikke
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Matti Grönberg
Stars: Tuija Ernamo | Heikki Silvennoinen | Mikko Kivinen | Timo Kahilainen | Heikki Hela
As: Dan 'Dante Hell' Hellman
The tough Detective Vares, gets hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Aleksi Mäkelä
Stars: Hannu-Pekka Björkman | Juha Veijonen | Lotta Lindroos | Jussi Lampi | Johanna Kokko
As: Matti
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships and forty six World Cup circuit victories.Once his career as a professional athlete ended, however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Aleksi Mäkelä
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Peter Franzén | Juha Veijonen | Kari Hietalahti | Elina Hietala
As: Niko Smolander
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Mikko Leppilampi | Matleena Kuusniemi | Petteri Summanen | Pamela Tola
As: Jarmo
Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Aleksi Mäkelä
Stars: Jorma Tommila | Juha Veijonen | Laura Malmivaara | Markku Peltola | Jari Halonen
As: Aleksi
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Minna Virtanen
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Amira Khalifa | Mi Grönlund | Nicke Lignell | Hanna Karjalainen
As: Eero Takkunen
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. The cast is an impressive one: the brothers are portrayed by Peter Franzen, Lauri Nurkse, Niko Saarela and Jasper Pääkkönen while their really evil father is played by Vesa-Matti Loiri, one of the grand old men of Finnish cinema.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Aleksi Mäkelä
Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen | Peter Franzén | Niko Saarela | Lauri Nurkse | Vesa-Matti Loiri
As: Arvi Hongisto
Directed by: Matti Kassila
Stars: Antti Litja | Liisamaija Laaksonen | Tuula Nyman | Lasse Pöysti | Johanna Kerttula