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Plot Summary:
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
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X-paroni (1964)
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Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
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Flying Fools (1984)
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Two guys from Häme find out that they actually are from Karjala. At the same time Flybug bites one of the guys. That means he must learn to fly or he gonna die. Reborn Karjala-boys goes at the airport and fun begins. Soon they become acquainted with a robot that runs with booze, two scoundrels and beautiful Miss Universum.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
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Kymmenen riivinrautaa (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
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A Charming Mass Suicide (2000)
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Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific (1992)
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Finland is given the global nuclear launch codes and the enemy agents are trying to steal them. It's up to Sergeant First Class Körmy and his soldiers to protect the operation and the president.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975)
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Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
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Happy End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady (1977)
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Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook (1981)
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Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
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Numbskull Emptybrook Loses His Memory (1982)
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Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 82 min
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Sergeant Körmy and the Marshall's Stick (1990)
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The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
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Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976)
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It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
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Numbskull Emptybrook's Memory Slowly Comes Back (1983)
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Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
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Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985)
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Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
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Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti (1992)
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Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
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Uuno Turhapuro – kaksoisagentti (1987)
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Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
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Pohjan tähteet (1969)
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Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
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Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Horned Bastion (1965)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
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Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)
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Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
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Tupla-Uuno (1988)
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Tupla-Uuno.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min
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The Brats (2013)
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Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him to drop everything else in his life as well. The two men then throw themselves into a new brats' life full of adventure, convinced that freedom is elsewhere. But at what cost do we rediscover our adolescent dreams?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, contemplative
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A Stroke of Luck (2016)
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Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Happy Go Lucky (1972)
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A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasili Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army (1984)
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Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Farmer Has a Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
The farmer now has found a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 115 min
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Truffle Runners (2018)
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Steve and Gene have to deliver an expensive box of stolen chocolates to a notoriously violent gangster. Everything is going according to plan until Gene's wife mistakenly assumes the box is a romantic gift from Gene, and eats all of the chocolates.
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Country: USA
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Drunk Parents (2019)
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Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, ironic, feel good
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009)
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A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious
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A Farewell to Jinu (2015)
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Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Fairy-Tale Wedding (2014)
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After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weekend in Switzerland, the five friends rediscover the affection and complicity of the past, and they get a chance to straighten out their destinies. A whirlwind of misunderstandings will bring down their shaky balances, and they'll all find the courage to put themselves on the line and start their lives afresh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining