Cast: Pekka Strang

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pekka Strang. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

2019 · Movie · 106 min. · Finland

Direction J-P Valkeapää

Cast Krista Kosonen · Pekka Strang · Oona Airola · Iiris Anttila

Synopsis The story follows Juha who develops an unexpected but powerful connection with a dominatrix named Mona, following a tragic event in his life that has left him emotionally paralyzed. His dangerous addiction to suffocation is reciprocated by Mona leading them...

6.5

387 votes

6.5

387 votes

The Invincibles

2023 · Series · 45 min. · Finland

Direction Matti Kinnunen

Cast Amanda Pilke · Pekka Strang · Paul S. Tracey · Tatu Sinisalo

Synopsis TV Series (2023-). Inspired by the true events of Finland's banking crisis in the early 1990s. The story follows the young idealist economist Salla Nurminen (Amanda Pilke) from the Bank Inspectorate, who vows to fight corrupt bankers.

6.3

80 votes

6.3

80 votes

Lost Boys

2020 · Documentary · 99 min. · Finland

Direction Sadri Cetinkaya · Joonas Neuvonen

Cast Jani Raappana · Joonas Neuvonen · Pekka Strang

Synopsis A man searches for his friends who go missing in Cambodia.

6.0

312 votes

6.0

312 votes

Tom of Finland

2017 · Movie · 115 min. · Finland

Direction Dome Karukoski

Cast Pekka Strang · Lauri Tilkanen · Seumas F. Sargent · Jessica Grabowsky

Synopsis Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture.

6.0

959 votes

6.0

959 votes

Producing Adults

2004 · Movie · 102 min. · Finland

Direction Aleksi Salmenperä

Cast Minna Haapkylä · Kari-Pekka Toivonen · Minttu Mustakallio · Tommi Eronen

Synopsis 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,...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

The Knocking

2022 · Movie · 87 min. · Finland

Direction Joonas Pajunen · Max Seeck

Cast Pekka Strang · Inka Kallén · Saana Koivisto · Kristian Stierncreutz

Synopsis Three adult siblings go examine their late parents' house in the middle of the forest.

4.9

57 votes

4.9

57 votes

The Paradise (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 50 min. · Finland

Direction Marja Pyykkö

Cast Riitta Havukainen · Fran Perea · Kaija Pakarinen · Hilla Pekkarinen

Synopsis Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki...

4.7

51 votes

4.7

51 votes

Mister8 (TV Series)

2021 · Series · Finland

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Pekka Strang · Krista Kosonen · Olli Rahkonen · Matti Onnismaa

Synopsis There are enough love and surprises in Maria's relationships. And no wonder she has a different man for each day of the week. Maria meets Juho and falls in love, but sadly there is no eighth day in a week.

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The Man Who Died (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Series · 258 min. · Finland

Direction Samuli Valkama

Cast Jussi Vatanen · Eiji Mihara · Saara Kotkaniemi · Sara Soulié

Synopsis 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.

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Attack on Finland

2021 · Movie · 114 min. · Finland

Direction Aku Louhimies

Cast Jasper Pääkkönen · Nanna Blondell · Sverrir Gudnason · Cathy Belton

Synopsis Finland's Independence Day celebration on December 6 is crudely interrupted by an attack to the Presidential Palace. A set of distinguished guests are taken as hostages.

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Armi Alive

2015 · Movie · 84 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Laura Birn · Outi Mäenpää · Jakob Öhrman · Tiina Lymi

Synopsis Armi Alive! is a portrayal of a theatre company that is preparing a play about Armi Ratia, the founder of the iconic Finnish design company Marimekko. Maria, who plays Armi's role, is in the lead when the group keeps asking...

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Merry Christmas (S)

2015 · Movie · 10 min. · Finland

Direction Matti Ijäs

Cast Pertti Sveholm · Aili · Annika Poijärvi · Pekka Strang

Synopsis A Christmas tale in which a train driver named Asko finds an abandoned baby. Who does the child belong to? Who is looking for her? A key, comical reading of the traditional Christmas message set in modern Helsinki.

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Snot and Splash

2023 · Movie · 88 min. · Finland

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Pekka Strang · Kati Outinen · Jari Virman · Sampo Sarkola

Synopsis In a comic adventure, brothers Snot and Splash aim to apprehend a thief who is robbing holes in the city but wind up saving the planet from being pulled into a crumbling waste disposal system.

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Transport (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 50 min. · Finland

Direction Auli Mantila

Cast Emmi Parviainen · Pirkko Hämäläinen · Maria Heiskanen · Arttu Kapulainen

Synopsis Follows the tale of ordinary people under immense pressure, all of whom are connected to the illegal transport of horses along the roads and wires of Europe.

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The Ceiling (S)

2017 · Movie · 14 min. · Finland

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Champion of the World

2021 · Movie · 145 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksey Sidorov

Cast Ivan Yankovskiy · Konstantin Khabenskiy · Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Fyodor Dobronravov

Synopsis In 1978, young ambitious Soviet chess champion Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a former mentor and defector to the West Viktor Korchnoi. Their face-off becomes the most dramatic championship match in chess history.

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Kites Over Helsinki

2001 · Movie · 90 min. · Finland

Direction Peter Lindholm

Cast Pirkka-Pekka Petelius · Paavo Kerosuo · Pekka Strang · Johanna af Schultén

Synopsis Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their...

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Bäckström (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 45 min. · Sweden

Direction Amanda Adolfsson · Jonathan Sjöberg

Cast Kjell Bergqvist · Agnes Lindström Bolmgren · Livia Millhagen · Pekka Strang

Synopsis Unscrupulous and arrogant murder detective Evert Bäckström finds himself with the hardest case he ever had when a skull pierced with bullet holes is found on an uninhabited island in the archipelago. Premiere: April 26 on Acorn TV.

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