Hannele Lauri

Acting

Hannele Lauri

Born

1952-07-21 (74)

Place of birth

Tampere, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Ritva Hannele Lauri (born July 21, 1952 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a colonel and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979). The couple divorced in 1994. She was briefly married to Teemu Rinne in the early 2000s. After having studied acting in the Theatre School, Hannele Lauri began her professional career in the Jyväskylä City Theatre. The period lasted from 1975 till 1977 after which she worked as a free-lancer till 1981. After a short period in the…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

70 Is Just a Number poster
6.6

Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.

70 Is Just a Number

2021

Mis?ing poster
7.0

Five friends celebrate the growing media visibility of social media witch Lulu, by mocking age-old divination tools, but the fun leads to one of them disappearing. After experiencing inexplicable events, the rest of the group decides to search for the missing person by following the location information shared in a group chat. The journey takes them to the border between reality and unreality, where the natural becomes disturbed and everyday existence becomes threatening. To find the missing person, they must dare to strip themselves of all superficiality and embark on a journey as flawed and imperfect beings. Will that be enough to survive?

Mis?ing

2025

The Unhanged poster
3.0

The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.

The Unhanged

2023

Snow Angel of Revenge poster
3.0

Traumatized Niina needs a change of scenery and a moment of escape from the world. Together with her friend Suvi, they rent a villa in the countryside. Soon the women find they are not welcome, and it doesn't help that they find themselves in the middle of fateful twists and turns and unwittingly become involved in a mysterious ancient cult. One night, a ragtag group of ancient pagan worshiping locals invade the villa to demand reparations for the women's actions and to perform their rituals. Having survived the atrocities, Niina begins to gather her strength with only one goal in mind - revenge!

Snow Angel of Revenge

2024

Palimpsest poster
8.0

Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.

Palimpsest

2024

2010s · 5 titles

Vesku from Finland poster
6.2

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.

Vesku from Finland

2010

21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage poster
5.7

The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.

21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage

2013

Man and a Baby poster
5.4

Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.

Man and a Baby

2017

The Storage poster
5.2

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.

The Storage

2011

The Storage 2 poster
5.0

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.

The Storage 2

2018

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 10 titles

Kaikki pelissä poster
5.6

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.

Kaikki pelissä

1994

Naisen logiikka poster
3.8

A Finnish comedy seen by under 400 viewers upon original release. Never aired on TV or published on home media.

Naisen logiikka

1999

Puhallus poster
5.5

The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.

Puhallus

1992

Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra poster
5.2

Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.

Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra

1991

Marraskuun harmaa valo poster
6.2

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

Marraskuun harmaa valo

1993

Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla poster
5.5

This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.

Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla

1990

Uuno Turhapuron veli poster
3.1

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

Uuno Turhapuron veli

1994

Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti poster
4.8

Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.

Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti

1992

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies poster
3.7

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

1998

Suolaista ja makeaa poster
4.4

The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve.

Suolaista ja makeaa

1995

1980s · 9 titles

Ansa poster
NR

Daniel Gorban's wife Elisabet has left home after an argument and has been missing for ten days. Daniel is worried about his wife, but the inspector reassures him that there is no cause for concern yet. Pastor Maxim arrives unexpectedly at Daniel's house and tells him that Daniel's wife is with him. However, Daniel does not recognize the woman with the pastor. The woman claims to be Elisabet and has identification to prove it. Furthermore, during the inspector's questioning, the woman knows even the smallest details of the Gorbanis' marriage. Who is telling the truth? And what really happened between the couple?

Ansa

1981

Marked poster
5.0

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.

Marked

1984

Baby Love poster
NR

Mr. X is a rock singer whom the girls Titi and Mari are infatuated with. Jukka-Pekka is writing a novel, and Pontus is researching the events leading up to Marilyn Monroe's death.

Baby Love

1986

Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä poster
6.2

Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.

Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä

1984

Tup akka lakko poster
5.0

'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is a sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in which doctor Jyrä invented a test-tube-adult who looked exactly like Mutikainen, a mathematician. When the test-tube-adult's body emerged, his voice moved into Mutikainen's body because of the doctor's error. Problems ensue.

Tup akka lakko

1980

Pikkupojat poster
6.7

OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!

Pikkupojat

1986

Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti poster
4.8

Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.

Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti

1987

Hei kliffaa hei poster
4.8

The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.

Hei kliffaa hei

1985

Liian iso keikka poster
5.1

Nikolai Savitsenko, aka Nig, runs Crimes for You Ltd, whose other employees are Hikka, Pete and Nig's little sister Mandi. While they are planning the heist of the century, robbing a bank's cash transport vehicle, the gang continues with their usual scams. They divert parking fines to the wrong account, one belonging to Inspector Koistinen, arrange a pre-arranged lottery line by bribing the authorities, and break into a political party's secret office to blow up the safe. Inspector Koistinen is in a tight spot. To make matters worse, he is assigned a new partner, Eevariita, who soon figures out that the same gang is behind all the scams.

Liian iso keikka

1986

1970s · 6 titles

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