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Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)
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Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)
Original name: Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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
Plot: president, laziness, social climber, son in law, father in law, idle rich, fortune hunter, marriage for money, hardware store

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, black and white and funny films with plots about marriage for money, social climber, fortune hunter, laziness, son in law, father in law and idle rich mostly in Comedy and Western genres. Some movies like Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law: Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976), Tupla-Uuno (1988), Numbskull Emptybrook (1973), Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975), Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: lottery, father in law, marriage for money, son in law, social climber, fortune hunter, laziness
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Numbskull Emptybrook's Memory Slowly Comes Back (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: friend, idle rich, fortune hunter, laziness, social climber, son in law, clown, diving, amnesia, personality change, marriage for money, father in law ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Numbskul Emptybrook Back in the Country (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: political intrigue, psychotherapy, marriage, invention, countryside, village life, wife, daughter, laziness, fortune hunter, marriage for money, social climber ...
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84%
The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: idle rich, marriage, dog, beach, secretary, sandwich, sleepwalking, mechanic, son in law, marriage for money, fortune hunter, bet ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Numbskull Emptybrook Loses His Memory (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Plot: idle rich, accident, lesbian, flashback, hidden camera, drag, social climber, nervous breakdown, collision, father in law, amnesia, fortune hunter ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Happy End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: black and white
Plot: misunderstanding, marriage, class differences, class society, high society, wife, hung over, restaurant, wedding, broken mirror, beach, idle rich ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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71%
Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: president, prime minister, disguise, modern art, marriage for money, political campaign, government, pet dog, fortune hunter, bet, social climber, laziness ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Tupla-Uuno (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Tupla-Uuno
Plot: beach, secretary, businessman, ceo, marriage for money, mistaken identity, father in law son in law relationship, board of directors, drunk, retirement, son in law, martial arts ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland
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68%
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: black and white
Plot: marriage, married couple, con artists, unemployed, tram, diet, talent, social climber, laziness, marriage for money, cottage, mechanic ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Uuno Turhapuro – kaksoisagentti (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: classical music, concert, minister, marriage for money, double agent, dinner, gadget, father, idle rich, train conductor, hypnosis, police officer ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: army, soldier, military, silly humor, disorder, goofy hero, hapless soldier, marriage for money, social climber, military service, military officer, fortune hunter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: movie star, idle rich, neighbor, professor, husband wife relationship, flirting, actor, social climber, mother in law, marriage for money, fortune hunter, job seeking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: hotel, vacation, golf, disco, family vacation, summer vacation, job, son, bullfighting, holiday, husband wife relationship, father in law son in law relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Flying Fools (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: invention, talent agent, horse race, robot, beauty pageant, beauty queen, flying, inventor, air battle, airplane, prototype
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Pohjan tähteet (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: lapland, satire, film producer, jealousy, bus, love triangle, farce, actress, journey, sauna, filmmaking, actor ...
Place: finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy
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 763
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style: funny, black and white
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
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Head of State (2016)
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 7.7
 556
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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20%
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 619
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 7.2
 760
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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