Janne Reinikainen

Acting

Janne Reinikainen

Born

1969-03-10 (57)

Place of birth

Kangasniemi, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Nurses poster
7.9

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.

Nurses

2014

Kaverille ei jätetä poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999

Queen of Fucking Everything poster
7.0

A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world.

Queen of Fucking Everything

2025

Naked Harbour poster
5.8

In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt.

Naked Harbour

2012

Lapland Odyssey poster
6.5

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 with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

Lapland Odyssey

2010

The Man Who Died poster
6.1

Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies.

The Man Who Died

2022

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 16 titles

Naked Harbour poster
5.8

In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt.

Naked Harbour

2012

Lapland Odyssey poster
6.5

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 with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

Lapland Odyssey

2010

The Grump poster
6.6

A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.

The Grump

2014

Happier Times, Grump poster
6.4

The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.

Happier Times, Grump

2018

Bad Family poster
6.0

The 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

The Eternal Road poster
6.6

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

The Eternal Road

2017

Love and Other Troubles poster
5.2

Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher.

Love and Other Troubles

2012

Mandatory Swedish poster
3.3

A story about a relationship with problems. She is upset at how Swedish speaking Finns are treated in their home country. He is seriously constipated. Will the relationship survive when her idealism clashes with his biological needs?

Mandatory Swedish

2017

Miami poster
4.8

Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their father dies, Anna looks for and finds Angela. The fascinating, high-strung Angela asks the timid Anna to accompany her on tour and, before long, trouble from Angela’s past catches up to them and the sisters’ love is put to the test.

Miami

2017

Above Dark Waters poster
6.1

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

Above Dark Waters

2013

Fucking Bunnies poster
6.1

Raimo’s comfortable, middle-class bubble is burst when a Satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door.

Fucking Bunnies

2017

Flying Finns poster
NR

A short film about the close-minded but hopeful couple called Koistinen, who should just stay home instead of travelling.

Flying Finns

2012

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand poster
4.8

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand

2014

A Patriotic Man poster
5.5

Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team.

A Patriotic Man

2013

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

Lapland Odyssey 2 poster
5.6

It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.

Lapland Odyssey 2

2015

2000s · 5 titles

The Matriarch poster
6.4

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

The Matriarch

2007

Badding poster
5.5

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.

Badding

2000

On the Road to Emmaus poster
6.2

A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.

On the Road to Emmaus

2001

Aita poster
4.7

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.

Aita

2001

The Prince of Soap poster
3.6

Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.

The Prince of Soap

2006

Series credits

Nurses poster
7.9

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.

Nurses

2014

Kaverille ei jätetä poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999

Kaverille ei jätetä poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999

Queen of Fucking Everything poster
7.0

A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world.

Queen of Fucking Everything

2025

The Man Who Died poster
6.1

Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies.

The Man Who Died

2022

Team Ahma poster
9.3

Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

Team Ahma

1998

Virta poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Virta

2011

Studio Julmahuvi poster
8.3

Sketch show Studio Julmahuvi ran for 8 episodes on YLE in 1998. The show is a parody of YLE's own programming, squeezing an entire evening's worth of programming into a half-hour show which included everything from news and weather to a children's show and a German police drama, with commercials and TV-spots on the side. The show was created with an impressive budget of 67 000 € per episode which resulted in extremely high production-values.

Studio Julmahuvi

1998

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hömppäveikot

1996

Eroja ja sovintoja poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eroja ja sovintoja

2023

Mennen tullen poster
8.2

Mennen Tullen is a four-part parody mini-series created by Studio Julmahuvi. It aired on YLE between 2000 and -01. Though created in a form of a serious murder-mystery it is in fact a dark comedy with occasional absurd elements, technology and conventions. The cast of characters are from Julmahuvi's various fictional cop-series and there are also other references to Julmahuvi's previous productions.

Mennen tullen

2000

Big Bang poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Big Bang

1998

Napamiehet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Napamiehet

2015

Seventeen poster
2.0

The year is 1917. Rumors of the Russian Revolution are spreading to Helsinki, disrupting the lives of both Prime Minister Oskari Tokoi and the bourgeois Nikolajeffie family. The family's 17-year-old daughter Olivia and the same-aged maid Iita, who works for the family, are best friends. They meet a young socialist boy, Juho, and become entangled in politics, which puts their friendship to the test. Olivia disappears, and Iita realizes that it is a matter of life and death. At the same time, Oskari Tokoi's government seeks to make Finland independent from Russian rule.

Seventeen

2017

Dirty Snow poster
6.8

The 2001 World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, lead to the biggest scandal in Finnish sporting history.

Dirty Snow

2023

No artwork available
9.3

Julmahuvi comedy groups first TV series.

Toini ja Heikki Haaman Show

1995

Behind the camera