Matti Ristinen

Acting

Matti Ristinen

Born

1974-01-07 (52)

Place of birth

Nacka, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Attack on Finland poster
5.6

The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.

Attack on Finland

2021

Syke-elokuva: Kipinöitä yössä poster
7.0

The trauma center is facing its busiest day of the year: New Year's Eve. Jannica Ronkainen, a surgical nurse on duty, is already looking forward to the end of the year. Tired of her relationship troubles, Jannica wants anything but new romantic worries for the coming year – until she encounters a ghost from her past at the hospital. New Year's Eve offers Jannica the chance for one last adventure of the year, but the clinic's new and demanding surgeon, Eero Mustonen, adds challenges to Jannica's plans.

Syke-elokuva: Kipinöitä yössä

2025

Syke: Särkynyt sydän poster
4.0

Everything is on track in the life of the beloved but eccentric surgeon Petteri Holopainen but when a patient close to him is rushed to the hospital, nothing can go back to the way it was. Holopainen loses everything he holds dear. When a familiar person from the past enters his life, Holopainen must decide what still matters.

Syke: Särkynyt sydän

2023

Spede poster
5.7

The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds light on behind-the-scenes events from the late 1960s to the birth story and popularity of Uuno Turhapuro, and Spede's tireless fight for the entertainment industry against the artistic film circles of the time.

Spede

2023

Keskiyön auringosta ikuisuuteen poster
NR

Two lost people meet by chance on a sun-drenched road. They are united by a growing sense of adventure, the inevitability of time, the presence of a secret and the longing for love. Acting as each other's mirrors, they travel through Finland, gilded by the midnight sun, to find something greater than the moment: another like them, themselves and their dream. In eternity, no one is alone.

Keskiyön auringosta ikuisuuteen

2025

Nurses – Dreadful Hospital Outage poster
6.8

Iiris tries to recover from her difficult separation with Artturi when she unexpectedly meets Anton. The relationship doesn't get a chance to progress far when Iiris' son Niilo suddenly becomes ill. Niilo would only need a small operation, but once the boy enters the operating room, the hospital is subjected to a cyber attack. The power is cut off, the ventilators stop working and all access to patient data is blocked. Nurses have to prioritize whose life is the most valuable.

Nurses – Dreadful Hospital Outage

2021

2000s · 11 titles

Exorcist: The Beginning poster
5.4

Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

Exorcist: The Beginning

2004

Christmas Story poster
7.2

Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.

Christmas Story

2007

Frozen Land poster
6.8

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.

Frozen Land

2005

Lacrimosa poster
5.0

A story about love. A famous singer cannot let go of the memory of her late husband. She befriends a man her own age, and there should be nothing standing in the way of their happiness.

Lacrimosa

2008

Frozen City poster
5.3

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.

Frozen City

2006

No artwork available
NR

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

Linnut

2006

Il prossimo tuo poster
NR

Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.

Il prossimo tuo

2009

Kinnunen poster
NR

Amazing adventures of a Finn in Estonia. A Finn in search of wife.

Kinnunen

2007

Overseas and Under Your Skin poster
3.8

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

Overseas and Under Your Skin

2009

Lovers & Leavers poster
4.7

This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?

Lovers & Leavers

2002

Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat poster
5.1

In summer 1944 Finnish Karelia, Martta hastily marries Aarne before evacuating alongside newborn Hilkka’s family, Helmi Elisa and their grandmother as Soviet forces advance. Amidst chaotic retreat, the women struggle to stay united and fatefully intersect with Aarne and Arttu, but the relentless offensive exacts heavy suffering and loss on both civilians and soldiers.

Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat

2000

Series credits

Kotikatu poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kotikatu

1995

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

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood poster
7.2

Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

2000

All the Sins poster
5.7

Cold-blooded murders in the Laestadian community of Varjakka take criminal investigators to the heart of guilt and forgiveness over three decades.

All the Sins

2019

Pirunpelto poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pirunpelto

2009

Sydänjää poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sydänjää

2007

Lihaksia ja luoteja poster
6.7

Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series.

Lihaksia ja luoteja

1996

Unknown Soldier poster
7.5

The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.

Unknown Soldier

2018

Irtiottoja poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Irtiottoja

2003

Pientä laittoa poster
NR

Teppo, who works as an officer in Sodankylä, loses everything after he suffers a brain stroke, forcing him to move to Helsinki to rehabilitate.

Pientä laittoa

2019