Best movies like Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
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Plot Summary:
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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Our Tropical Island (2001)
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A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 94 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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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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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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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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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Plot Summary:
A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
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I Hired Two Contract Cleaners (1997)
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Two unemployed losers start their own business. They buy an old carpet cleaning machine from Stockholm, instruction manual not included, and begin creating havoc anywhere they turn up, from private residences and airline hangars to the headquarters of the Finnish Security Police.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 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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Numbskul Emptybrook Back in the Country (1986)
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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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Cheech & Chong Roasted (2008)
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Cheech and Chong, the stoner pair who dominated the comedy scene in the 1970s and ’80s and recently reunited for their Light Up America tour, take their place in the hot seat to be roasted by close friends and fellow comedians. The duo made a name for themselves with their drug-laced humor, which kept audiences rolling in the aisles with such comedy routines as “Earache My Eye,” “Basketball Jones,.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: hispanic
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Better Than Andy - The Crazy Finn is Here (2009)
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Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film
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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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My House Husband - Ikaw Na! (2011)
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Nothing prepared ROD (Ryan Agoncillo ) and MIA ALVAREZ (Judy Ann Santos) for the major changes that took place in their lives. ROD worked as a manager of a bank while MIA opted to remain a housewife taking care of their two children — MIGO and KAYE — with an occasional sideline of selling insurance. MIA gave up her promising career in sales because ROD wanted to be the padre de familia. For ROD, it was the role of the man to provide for his wife and children … in the same manner that there was a clear cut delineation as to what are the duties of a husband from that of the wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, soap opera
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Tupla-Uuno (1988)
Plot Summary:
Tupla-Uuno.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min
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King Guillaume (2009)
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Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Do Not Disturb (2016)
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Anna's marriage is on the rocks after her husband John discovered she was having an affair with a much younger man. Confronted by her other half in the honeymoon suite of a Stratford-Upon-Avon hotel, Anna must try to save their marriage, deal with hapless hotel staff and come up with a plan to get through the experience. Unknown to either John or Anna, the suite’s bathroom is occupied by a semi-naked and comatose 21-year-old, who’s trying to sleep off a stag do.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
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Countersex (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of sex themed stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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Odd Brodsky (2014)
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Audrey Brodsky is a lovable loser who hates her job. After 11 years, she finally quits the office to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an actress. There's just one problem - she's not very good at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: meta
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The Old Maid (1972)
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Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 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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Polski film (2012)
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“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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The Extendables (2014)
Plot Summary:
A struggling and publicly disgraced Hollywood icon gets another shot at mega stardom when he is hired to star and direct an action movie in Uzbekistan.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, spoof
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My Wife's Husband (1963)
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After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min
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