Juha Kukkonen

Acting

Juha Kukkonen

Born 1965-01-01

Acting credits

Pony Freak poster
3.8

Anna takes part in a talent competition. With the support of her brother Aaro, she wishes to create something new.

Pony Freak

2014

The Pairless poster
4.0

Old friends Masa and Tapsa have very different life situations: Masa is happily married but Tapsa has recently lost his wife and is a single-parent. Masa tries to help Tapsa inviting him to a pottery class. However the whole pottery class begins to help Masa and soon all the lonely ones in the class open up to each other.

The Pairless

2018

Bordertown: The Mural Murders poster
6.6

A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.

Bordertown: The Mural Murders

2021

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sirpaleita

1995

So It Goes poster
6.7

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”.

So It Goes

2012

Producing Adults poster
5.2

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Producing Adults

2004

Keikka poster
NR

A group theater ensemble film about a doctor who wants to help a group of refugees in Finland.

Keikka

2013

The River poster
6.1

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

The River

2001

Rakastin epätoivoista naista poster
4.5

A romantic comedy about 30-year-old Leo and a 40-year-old, pregnant single mother of three, Maarit.

Rakastin epätoivoista naista

1999

Ryhmäteatteri poster
9.0

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

Ryhmäteatteri

2018

Time Out poster
6.4

Story about father and his son and small town bullies and those who stare beside silently approving all bad to happen. Ex-priest moves to small town of Harmaaketo together with his son, where they get instantly bullied and terrorized. Even when there's zero tolerance for such things, no one can or don't want to stop it before it's too late and things escalate to the point of no return.

Time Out

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ensi tiistaina Brahmsia

1997

White Marble poster
6.2

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.

White Marble

1998

Conversations Between Men poster
NR

After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.

Conversations Between Men

2013

Have a nice weekend poster
NR

Short movie about the importance of well-being at work.

Have a nice weekend

2009

Let Her Speak poster
6.0

A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a remark from the audience wakes both speakers and listeners.

Let Her Speak

2019

Don Quijote in Barcelona poster
NR

Lluc, a former academic with strong cultural ties, and Olli, a man who drifted from Finland to the streets of Barcelona, meet while seeking shelter in the same stairwell. Their beginnings are modest, but gradually a connection develops between them, based not on pity but on shared humanity.

Don Quijote in Barcelona

2026

Nuoren Wertherin jäljillä poster
NR

Markus Viitanen, a sculptor living in Suomenlinna, has not seen his son Eero for fifteen years. When he learns of Eero's death, he sets out to find out what kind of person Eero grew up to be during his nineteen years of life, and how the nanny Katri relates to the rest of Eero's life.

Nuoren Wertherin jäljillä

2013

Mystery of the Wolf poster
6.2

Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her mother, who shares her mysterious connection with nature.

Mystery of the Wolf

2006

Lapland Odyssey 4 poster
3.9

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.

Lapland Odyssey 4

2022

Miss Blue Jeans poster
5.8

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

Miss Blue Jeans

2012

Sixpack poster
4.2

Sixpack is a positive story on the outskirts of society. The story takes place in Helsinki on rock and following the advent of exclusion of the story regarding one of summer days. The film's protagonist, Marshal, is stuck in a shabby home. Lihi and Henninen attract the Marshal out and tired of opposition after the Marshal finds them to spend a hot summer day in the park in the world with amazement. The trio crash -day pass to the young, rutjakkeisiin sense of humor to the police. Day lasts from early morning until the evening the rain to bring sorrow alhoon. Eventually, however, the sun began to rise again it's time to become sensitized and look deep into the eyes of friendship.

Sixpack

2011

Alma de Sant Pere poster
6.0

Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is happy in life but constantly dreams of a bigger project that she could work on together with her friends. A project that would bring in their first million. The opportunity finally arises and they buy an old building with a plan to renovate it into luxury apartments. But how to get rid of old tenants without hurting their feelings and without losing your own morals? Furthermore, how to survive from a free fall when you lose all you have? Alma de Sant Pere is a film about dreams, friendships and human values.

Alma de Sant Pere

2016

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