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Plot Summary:
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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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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Ralliraita (2009)
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This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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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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Heavy Weather (1995)
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At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Unhanged (1971)
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Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, black and white
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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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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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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
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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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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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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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Guts (1999)
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A frustrated screenwriter incorporates the wild events he's become part of into his current script.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
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Gourmet Club (2004)
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"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect on the members.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 65 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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Jackpot (2006)
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Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (2013)
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The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Who Gets the Dog? (2016)
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A couple going through a divorce squabble over custody of their beloved dog.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
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The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending towards other dogs. But one day when the young Nataniel takes him for a walk, he's mixed up with the stray dog Moocher who looks like his identical twin. Henceforth Moocher takes Liberty's place in the White House. From now on a different spirit reigns in the White House.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 208
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Country: USA
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No Thank You (2014)
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Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining