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The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook (1981)
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The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook (1981)
Original name: Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
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 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.
Plot: dog, beach, bet, laziness, mechanic, secretary, social climber, son in law, father in law, sleepwalking, mistaken identity, idle rich, marriage, sandwich, fortune hunter, marriage for money, grocery store, garage, eating
Place: finland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, captivating and black and white films with plots about marriage for money, social climber, fortune hunter, laziness, marriage, idle rich and son in law mostly in Comedy and Western genres. Some movies like The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook: Tupla-Uuno (1988), Numbskull Emptybrook (1973), Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976), Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975), Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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95%
Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)
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 ...
Plot: idle rich, father in law, marriage for money, social climber, laziness, son in law, fortune hunter, president, hardware store
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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 ⇓
92%
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 ⇓
88%
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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 ⇓
88%
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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87%
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
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87%
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
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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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81%
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
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73%
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 ⇓
65%
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 ...
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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
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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
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38%
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 ⇓
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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
Plot: eccentricity, rural setting, town, summer, presumed dead, village idiot, scheming, village, old age, father son relationship, search party, missing person ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
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Country: Finland
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Plot: marriage, couples, love and romance, research, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage, one night stand, wedding, divorce, love, relationships, single ...
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: captivating, humorous, entertaining
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Place: finland, eastern europe
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Gourmet Club (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 65 min.
Story: "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 ...
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22%
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The Unhanged (1971)
Genre: Western, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, black and white
Plot: desert, fistfight, cowboy, gunfight, fast draw, lone ranger, prisoner, scheming, water, sheriff, cowboys and indians, reward ...
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22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
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Place: finland, helsinki finland, swiss alps, france, switzerland ...
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Guts (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: chess, military, army, young heroes, limousine, police, chase, spy, bare breasts, cruise ship, gay slur, security guard ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Jackpot (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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.
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Plot: gambling, con artists, family relations, cons and scams, card playing, friendship, poker, bingo, money, greed, escapades, plan ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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20%
Who Gets the Dog? (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple going through a divorce squabble over custody of their beloved dog.
Style: sweet, sentimental, feel good, touching
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dog, pets, divorce, couples, winter, animal, family life, couple relations, pet owner relationship, love, animal life, lifestyle ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sergeant Körmy and the Marshall's Stick (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Plot: young heroes, conscription, beauty pageant, theater, security guard, prank, police, military, soldier, relic, mobbing, officer ...
Place: finland
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Ralliraita (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, captivating, light
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Heavy Weather (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Plot: publisher, chorus girl, sibling relationship, aristocracy, pig, marriage, book, high society, domineering mother, blackmail, private detective, butler ...
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19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: dog, bulldog, switching roles, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, misfit, odd couple, pets, getting home ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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