
Acting
Merja Larivaara
Born 1964-07-04 · Haukipudas, Finland
Merja Larivaara is a Finnish stage and screen actress.
Acting credits
6.0The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
Bad Family
2010
5.8A 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.
Ripa Hits the Skids
1993
NRA film about a night out dancing in 1961. About love that is crushed before it can flourish.
Viimeinen ilta
1987
5.6Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
The Hijack That Went South
2013
4.9Urho 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!
Village People
2013
4.5This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.
The Well
1992
5.7Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
Aapo
1994
6.4Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob.
Tie naisen sydämeen
1996
10.0Divorced Asta and her daughter Anni go on a summer holiday touring Finland with Asta's sister and her husband. On the trip they visit a submarine, a mine, a dinosaur land and search for Santa Claus in Lapland.
Rengasmatka
1988
4.0When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone. Marja ends up with an illegal abortion when there are only bad options ahead.
Marja
1994
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Viisi tytärtäni
1997
5.7The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
2012
4.6Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
2004
7.2The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
Hayflower and Quiltshoe
2002
4.7Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.
Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät
1993
5.3The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guitar and loving parents.
Rock'n Roll Never Dies
2006
The story of a woman who leaves her family in Finland because she is offered a job at a refugee camp in Africa.
Vuoden viimeinen kesä
1998
4.1A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.
Game Over
2005