Finland:K-8 certified movies

Mouse That Roared, The (1959)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sellers, Peter | Seberg, Jean | Hartnell, William | Kossoff, David | Leo McKern | Parke, MacDonald | Willis, Austin | Bateson, Timothy | Landis, Monte | Gifford, Alan | Gordon, Colin | Kasket, Harold | Brown, Wally | Cey, Jacques | Clay, Charles
Directors: Arnold, Jack
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stringer, Kimberly | Dominguez, Chazz | Hall, Shari | Parnell, R.J. | Kaff, David | Hendra, Tony | McKean, Michael | Guest, Christopher | Shearer, Harry | Kirby, Bruno | Cromie, Jean | Maher, Patrick | Begley Jr., Ed | Kortchmar, Danny
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Morse, David | Black, Lucas | Moriarty, Cathy | Meat Loaf | Steiger, Rod | Schiff, Richard | Beasley, John | Wagner, Robert | Emmerich, Noah | Seacat, Sandra | Ben-Victor, Paul | Beyer, Brad | Flagg, Fannie | Perkins, Elizabeth
Directors: Banderas, Antonio
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A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.

Rear Window (1954)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Titan A.E. (2000)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Pullman, Bill | Leguizamo, John | Lane, Nathan | Garofalo, Janeane | Barrymore, Drew | Perlman, Ron | Linz, Alex D. | Loc, Tone | Breuer, Jim | Scarabosio, Christopher | Cummings, Jim | Rocket, Charles | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Chin, Tsai
Directors: Bluth, Don
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One thousand years from now, aliens destroy Earth in fear of the Titan project. Some humans escape, becoming a downtrodden Diaspora, living in impoverished settlements. The mysterious Titan spacecraft also escapes, and its inventor has hidden it before dying. A spacecraft captain and its pilot, Korso and Akima, two humans, seek out Cale, the youthful son of the dead scientist and explain that he must help them find the Titan, which holds a mechanism to unite and save humanity. Cale refuses, but the arrival of the killer aliens persuades him to join Korso. Can he avoid his pursuers, know friend from foe, find the Titan, and embrace his humanity, a nature he has despised until now?

Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Candy, John | Jones, Jeffrey | Potts, Annie | Thomerson, Tim | Corbin, Barry | Smith, Shawnee | Bromfield, Valri | Steckler, Doug | Coleman, Renée | Mann, Wesley | Kelsey, Tamsin | Flaherty, Joe | Roeske, Fiona | O'Byrne, Lori | Goodger, Michele
Directors: Flaherty, Paul
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Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately, talent seems to have skipped a generation, and Harry is reduced to “gumshoe” work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan, which requires the inclusion of an incompotent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case, Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts, Crumb actually makes some headway in the case…

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Berle, Milton | Caesar, Sid | Hackett, Buddy | Merman, Ethel | Rooney, Mickey | Shawn, Dick | Silvers, Phil | Terry-Thomas | Winters, Jonathan | Adams, Edie | Provine, Dorothy | Anderson, Eddie 'Rochester' | Backus, Jim | Blue, Ben
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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On a hilly highway in the California desert are three cars and a truck. In one car are Russell Finch, his wife Emeline, and her obnoxious mother; in another car are Melville Crump and his wife Monica; in another are two pals, Dingman “Dingy” Bell and his obese friend Benjy Benjamin; and in the truck is delivery driver Leonard “Lennie” Pike. Suddenly the four vehicles are nearly struck by a wildly fleeing car that smashes through the guardrail and plummets down the embankment. The other vehicles stop and the men rush to help the injured driver, who turns out to be a wanted felon, “Smiler” Grogan, who is fatally injured and whose dying words to his would-be rescuers are an alert that a large case with hundreds of thousands of dollars is to be found buried beneath “a big W.” A detective arrives at the scene and questions the men, who all explain that they could make no sense of what Grogan was saying. But after the detective and his partner leave, the men begin wondering if Grogan’s dying words are true, and eventually a series of wild misadventures ensues as the four parties begin searching for the mysterious “big W,” find it and the treasure - and find themselves facing potential arrest at the hands of area police captain G.C. Culpepper.

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Gaynes, George | Winslow, Michael | Graf, David | Easterbrook, Leslie | Bailey, G. W. | Lee, Christopher | Perlman, Ron | Forlani, Claire | Schlatter, Charlie | Israel, Richard | Berger, Gregg | Dolinsky, Vladimir | Guest, Pamela | Nisbet, Stuart | St. James, David
Directors: Metter, Alan
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The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing. With a sequel to the game he wants to put backdoors in all computer systems on which it gets installed, thus providing access to the police and other government systems.

Bowfinger (1999)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Murphy, Eddie | Graham, Heather | Baranski, Christine | Kennedy, Jamie | Alexi-Malle, Adam | Sudduth, Kohl | Newman, Barry | Stamp, Terence | Downey Jr., Robert | Patino, Alejandro | De Contreras, Alfred | Fabian, Ramiro | Sanchez, Johnny | Brooks, Claude
Directors: Oz, Frank
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Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed.

Joe’s Apartment (1996)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Connell, Jerry | Ward, Megan | West, Billy | Hudlin, Reginald | Turner, Jim | Denton, Sandra 'Pepa' | Vaughn, Robert | Ho, Don | Sterling, Jim | Mahmud-Bey, Shiek | Huddleston, David | Bello, Frank | Kayson, Lord | Molina, Alejandro | Ezell, Wayman
Directors: Payson, John
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Joe comes from Iowa to New York and, being short of money, wants to find an apartment with very low rent. His quest is successful, but he must share the residence with some 50,000 cockroaches. The insects turn out to be Joe’s best friends.