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Alamaailma Trilogia 1 Vanki (The Prisoner)

Underworld Trilogy is a drama/thriller television series. The Underworld Trilogy consists of three miniseries. This is number one (The Prisoner): Computer whizz-kid VESA LEVOLA is a decent young man with a promising career who unexpectedly ends up in prison after becoming involved in a street fight. Suddenly he is faced with a situation in which the key to survival lies in making contacts in the criminal underworld. Vesa ends up working for the kingpin of the criminal world, REIJO SUNDSTRÖM, who runs a drug-trafficking organization from behind bars. Prison proving no obstacle for his criminal actions, Sundström secures heroin shipments (codenamed Cuba Libre) from St. Petersburg to Sweden through Finland. Vesa soon realizes he is just a pawn in a game of chess between Sundström and inspector JUHA VIITASALO, who is willing to exceed his powers as a police officer in order to stop Sundström’s racket.

Alamaailma Trilogia 3 Lakimies (The Lawyer)

Underworld Trilogy is a drama/thriller television series. The Underworld Trilogy consists of three miniseries. This is number three (The Lawyer): TOMAS MATTILA is a scruffy, beer-guzzling attorney who has been representing criminals in court for around ten years. He was fired from his previous job as a corporate lawyer and, with the doors of the business world closed for him, he was forced to turn to defending criminals. Unfortunately, he is not particularly good at what he does, and is completely fed up with his frustrating job and his clients. Through a coincidence, however, he gains a new client, the beautiful blonde NINA, who offers him a lucrative job. Without questioning this tempting deal in any way, Mattila believes his luck has turned. He sobers up and begins to enjoy his newfound success, until he finds out that he is helping Swedish white-collar criminals launder money. Mattila realizes too late that there is no way out. The Lawyer is directed by Petri Kotwica and written by Marko Leino. The series’ cast includes top actors from Finland and Sweden, such as Teijo Eloranta, Janne Hyytiäinen, Linda Zilliacus, Shanti Roney and Georgi Staykov.

All The Sins – Season 1

Lauri Räihä, a criminal investigator from Helsinki, is sent to investigate two murders that have occurred in the northern Finnish town where he grew up. The assignment offers Lauri a way out of confronting his own problems.

All The Sins – Season 2

Year 1999. The upcoming millennium is a cause for concern in both, the secular world and the Laestadian community of Varjakka, where a married couple is found dead in the kitchen of their home. Senior Constable Jussi Ritola of the Varjakka local police takes the case, but it throws his personal life into chaos.

Arctic Circle – Season 1

Arctic Circle is set in the unforgiving polar region, amidst the icy landscapes of Finnish Lapland. After Nina Kautsalo, a Finnish police officer, finds a dying prostitute in an old cabin in the wilderness, the ensuing criminal investigation takes a surprise twist when a deadly virus is discovered in the prostitute’s blood. However, when Thomas Lorenz, a German virologist, travels to Lapland to investigate the virus, he and Nina suddenly find themselves in the middle of an exceedingly unusual criminal investigation.

Arctic Circle – Season 2

In the icy landscapes of the Finnish Lapland, a police officer and a virologist team up to solve a crime centered around a deadly virus.

Bad Apples – Season 1

In the 70s, a student activist is committed to a sanatorium. Forced to participate in an experimental treatment for women, she fights back against the program and the methods of her doctor.

Bordertown – Season 1

Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.

Bordertown – Season 2

In season 2, no one will be able to escape their past. The five crimes of the season are called Five Finger Exercise, The Rite of Spring, Cat’s Cradle, Bloodmaid and Without a Shadow. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into humanity’s dark secrets in the midst of a small town’s summer idyll on the shores of Lake Saimaa.

Bordertown – Season 3

While juggling concerns about his family’s future and a spate of new crimes, Kari squares off against an adversary who’s been studying his past cases.

Bordertown: The Mural Murders

A bloody mural, a deadly social media poll and an infamous serial killer force Detective Kari Sorjonen to confront the most difficult case of his career.

Bullets (2018) – Season 1

Bullets combines a detective series with elements of a thriller and political drama. A special agent attempts to undo the plans of a terror cell of female suicide bombers. Bullets was shot in Finland, Belgium and Georgia. Starring Krista Kosonen, Sibel Kekilli “Shae in Game of Thrones” and Tommi Korpela.

Deadwind – Season 1

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30’s who is trying to get over her husband’s death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Deadwind – Season 2

Corruption and murder collide as Helsinki detectives Sofia Karppi and Sakari Nurmi scour the city for the rumored connection.

Deadwind – Season 3

Just months after a tragic loss, detective Sofia Karppi investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a Helsinki construction company.

Enemy Of The People – Season 1

Journalist calls down the wrath of her readers by trying to uncover the connection between the murder of a local football hero and a cryptocurrency. Searching for the truth she risks not only her reputation, but her life.

Freezing Embrace – Season 1

Tells of the drowning of young men, which bring Criminal Commissioner Hautalehto into torturous uncertainty. Can one’s own loved ones be trusted when the secret casts a shadow over the inner circle?

Games People Play

A group of old friends gather to spend the weekend in an idyllic seaside villa to celebrate Mitzi’s surprise birthday, and Mitzi sets off a game that brings old feelings and power dynamics to the surface.

Hooked – Season 1

Drug Crime Detective Oskari is the envy of his colleagues. His connections to underworld and informants is unrivaled. What they don’t know is the mother of his child, Krista, is a drug addict who lives in that world. And now she’s back in his life, shaking his home life on one hand, and offering new connections to knocking down the rise of drug imports. If only he could trust her.

Invisible Heroes

Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d’état.

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