Movies like Flying Fools

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Flying Fools (1984)
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Flying Fools (1984)
Original name: Lentävät luupäät
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 with a robot that runs with booze, two scoundrels and beautiful Miss Universum.
Plot: robot, airplane, inventor, horse race, invention, beauty pageant, flying, air battle, beauty queen, talent agent, prototype
Place: finland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, humorous and semi serious films with plots about marriage for money, laziness, fortune hunter, social climber, idle rich, son in law and father in law mostly in Comedy and Western genres. Some movies like Flying Fools: Pohjan tähteet (1969), Numbskull Emptybrook (1973), Tupla-Uuno (1988), Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985), The Unhanged (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
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 ⇓
39%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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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26%
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X-paroni (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: doppelganger, body swapping, dual role, aristocrat, archery, musical performance, butler, car chase, gadget, noble, baron, countryside ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Too Much (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of ...
Style: independent film
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
22%
Better Than Andy - The Crazy Finn is Here (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.
Style: mockumentary, independent film
Plot: modern art, performance art, actor, sex scene, sex
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Pinay Pie (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A funny story about three female friends. Karen is the smart and fashionable one among the three. Love is the cousin of Karen. She works in the cosmetics section of a department store, and dreams of becoming a beauty queen someday. Yolly is the ...
Style: satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious
Plot: friendship, beauty pageant, beauty queen, male female relationship, relationships, friends, couple relations, love affair, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, relationship problems, women ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
I Hired Two Contract Cleaners (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Mother of Invention (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: inventions and discoveries, ambition, contests and competitions, found footage, rivalry, inventor, multiple contestants, humour, invention, rivals, lonely
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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El hombre del pito mágico (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Story: Raúl has invented something that can change the destiny of humanity: a whistle whose sound awakens an unstoppable sexual desire.
Style: erotic
Plot: orgy, female pubic hair, sexual initiation, invention, lesbian sex, lesbian, guilt, prostitute, sex, female nudity, friendship, bare breasts ...
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20%
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Village People (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, captivating, humorous
Plot: president, gay couple, gay, village, teenager, lapland, assassination attempt, retirement home life, small town life, small town, retirement home, social relations ...
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Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: marriage, couples, love and romance, research, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage, one night stand, wedding, divorce, love, relationships, single ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, eastern europe
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19%
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Sexina (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teen pop sensation Sexina is also a private detective that fights evil in the music industry. When she finds out a missing scientist been forced to create a robot boy band for "The Boss" of Glitz records, all hell breaks loose!
Style: detective
Plot: robot, music industry, private detective, scientist, evil, boy, band
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific (1992)
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 ⇓
19%
I Love Hong Kong (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After his business goes bust, Ng Shun (Tony Leung Ka Fei) and his family move back to his old apartment to stay with his father. He has not returned for 10 years because the apartment is too small for his family. Furthermore, the environment is ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: friendship, family relations, money problems, relationships, family problems, cooking, pregnancy, drag, mahjong, flashback, beauty pageant, morality ...
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19%
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Dirty Bomb (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, semi serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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