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Plot Summary:
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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Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979)
Plot Summary:
A paysan is mistaken for a millionaire to whom he looks exactly like.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 88 min
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Flying Fools (1984)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific (1992)
Plot Summary:
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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Village People (2013)
Plot Summary:
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975)
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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Happy End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady (1977)
Plot Summary:
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)
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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Numbskull Emptybrook Loses His Memory (1982)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti (1992)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Plot Summary:
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)
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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Dirty Bomb (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lissu on 28-vuotias nuori nainen, joka työskentelee levy-yhtiön pr-managerina. Elokuvan alussa Lissu käy kehityskeskustelun esimiehensä, dramaattisen mogulin Martin Bakkan kanssa. Palkankorotusta odottava Lissu järkyttyy pahoin, kun Martin ilmoittaa Lissun olleen pettymys ja uhkaa häntä potkuilla – ellei hän selviä ”viimeisestä mahdollisuudesta”. Viimeinen mahdollisuus osoittautuu levy-yhtiön uudeksi salaiseksi projektiksi, josta puhutaan koodinimellä “Likainen pommi”. Koodinimen takaa paljastuu vanhempiensa levy-yhtiölle myymä 15-vuotias räävitön teinisensaatio PD, jonka alaisuuteen Lissu määrätään. PD on myös kaatumassa olevan levy-yhtiön viimeinen valttikortti. Tuossa tuokiossa Lissu on mukana paitsi todella värikkäässä projektissa, myös varsin omintakeisessa ”huipputiimissä”, jossa pärjää vain kovilla otteilla ja kieroilulla tai olemalla PD:n suosiossa.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Subtenant (2008)
Plot Summary:
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Better Than Andy - The Crazy Finn is Here (2009)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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The Howling Miller (1982)
Plot Summary:
The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: complex
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Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army (1984)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Adult Camp (2015)
Plot Summary:
Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine themselves and each other to find the necessary elements for growth. Perhaps the camp doesn't fulfill its promise of the "most wonderful week of your life", but one thing's for sure - no one returns home the same.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
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Reunion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, contemplative