Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää (March 28, 1951 in Helsinki – July 13, 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them. He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977. He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matti Pellonpää, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 2.873
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1951-03-28
  • Place of Birth : Helsinki, Finland
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Matti Pellonpää Movies

  • 1986
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    Shadows in Paradise

    Shadows in Paradise

    7.308 1986 HD

    Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets...

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  • 1988
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    Ariel

    Ariel

    7.1 1988 HD

    After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and...

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  • 1991
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    Night on Earth

    Night on Earth

    7.524 1991 HD

    An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

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  • 1994
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    Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

    Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

    5.8 1994 HD

    After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager...

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  • 1989
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    Leningrad Cowboys Go America

    Leningrad Cowboys Go America

    6.9 1989 HD

    The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country,...

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  • 1982
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    The Worthless

    The Worthless

    6.2 1982 HD

    Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

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  • 1992
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    La Vie de Bohème

    La Vie de Bohème

    7.5 1992 HD

    Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with...

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  • 1993
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    Chaplinesque

    Chaplinesque

    1 1993 HD

    Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.

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  • 1991
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    Zombie and the Ghost Train

    Zombie and the Ghost Train

    6.9 1991 HD

    Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns...

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  • 1989
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    Paper Star

    Paper Star

    4.6 1989 HD

    Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the...

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  • 1983
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    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    6.86 1983 HD

    In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who...

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  • 1994
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    Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

    Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

    6.7 1994 HD

    Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

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  • 1986
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    Päätepysäkki

    Päätepysäkki

    2 1986 HD

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  • 1993
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    Sutki

    Sutki

    1 1993 HD

    Finnish comedy.

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  • 1989
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    Dirty Hands

    Dirty Hands

    5.3 1989 HD

    A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...

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  • 1981
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    Kauhea murhamies Lalli

    Kauhea murhamies Lalli

    1 1981 HD

    TV play about the legend of Lalli.

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  • 1990
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    Dolly and Her Lover

    Dolly and Her Lover

    5.8 1990 HD

    Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...

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  • 1983
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    Onnentyttö

    Onnentyttö

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1978
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    Päivä ennen

    Päivä ennen

    4 1978 HD

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  • 1989
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    Cha Cha Cha

    Cha Cha Cha

    6.7 1989 HD

    A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

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  • 1992
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    Where Is Musette?

    Where Is Musette?

    1 1992 HD

    Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

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  • 1984
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    Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää

    Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää

    1 1984 HD

    Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's documentary, we meet...

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  • 1986
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    Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

    Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

    4.5 1986 HD

    A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his...

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  • 1991
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    Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers

    Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers

    4.536 1991 HD

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  • 1985
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    Viimeiset rotannahat

    Viimeiset rotannahat

    5.3 1985 HD

    Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in...

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  • 1995
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    Iron Horsemen

    Iron Horsemen

    6 1995 HD

    Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

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  • 1985
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    Calamari Union

    Calamari Union

    6.81 1985 HD

    A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off...

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  • 1985
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    Ylösnousemus

    Ylösnousemus

    5.5 1985 HD

    A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

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  • 1990
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    Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut

    Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut

    4 1990 HD

    That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for...

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  • 1976
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    Antti Puuhaara

    Antti Puuhaara

    7 1976 HD

    In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the...

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  • 1981
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    Pedon merkki

    Pedon merkki

    4.6 1981 HD

    Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

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  • 1984
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    Aikalainen

    Aikalainen

    3 1984 HD

    A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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  • 1984
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    Rakkauselokuva

    Rakkauselokuva

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Boys

    The Boys

    7 1962 HD

    When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys...

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  • 1975
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    Kesän maku

    Kesän maku

    3 1975 HD

    Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular...

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  • 1986
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    Näkemiin, hyvästi

    Näkemiin, hyvästi

    6 1986 HD

    When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

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  • 1970
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    Akseli and Elina

    Akseli and Elina

    6.4 1970 HD

    A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime...

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  • 1979
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    Ruskan jälkeen

    Ruskan jälkeen

    4 1979 HD

    It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.

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  • 1993
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    The Last Border

    The Last Border

    4.2 1993 HD

    One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

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  • 1983
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    Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

    Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

    4 1983 HD

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  • 1984
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    Kello

    Kello

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1983
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    Regina ja miehet

    Regina ja miehet

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1987
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    Hamlet Goes Business

    Hamlet Goes Business

    6.6 1987 HD

    When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

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  • 1984
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    The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

    The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

    6.6 1984 HD

    Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to...

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  • 1977
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    Viimeinen savotta

    Viimeinen savotta

    5.6 1977 HD

    Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after...

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  • 1981
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    The Liar

    The Liar

    6.3 1981 HD

    Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an...

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  • 1986
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    Rocky VI

    Rocky VI

    5.733 1986 HD

    Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki...

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  • 2011
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    Bohemian Eyes

    Bohemian Eyes

    6.7 2011 HD

    Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

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  • 1984
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    Marked

    Marked

    5.8 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Jackpot 2

    Jackpot 2

    5.1 1982 HD

    Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys'...

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  • 1994
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    Pieniä valheita

    Pieniä valheita

    2.7 1994 HD

    The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular...

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  • 2013
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    Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

    Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

    4.6 2013 HD

    Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.

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  • 1989
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    Kumma juttu

    Kumma juttu

    1 1989 HD

    A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend.

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  • 1969
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    Finnish Frustrations

    Finnish Frustrations

    1 1969 HD

    Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone. Special prize at Tampere Film Festival 1970.

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  • 1987
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    Hamlet Goes Business

    Hamlet Goes Business

    6.6 1987 HD

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  • 1985
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    ... And You Will Be a Clown

    ... And You Will Be a Clown

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1996
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    Drifting Clouds

    Drifting Clouds

    7.6 1996 HD

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  • 1994
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    Total Balalaika Show

    Total Balalaika Show

    6.3 1994 HD

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  • 1994
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    Konstan pylkkerö

    Konstan pylkkerö

    2 1994 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Hobbits

    The Hobbits

    4.833 1993 HD

    Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based...

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