The Longer, The Better (1987)

Dono, who is living with his two friends, Kasino and Indro and their respective girlfriends, Kristine (Kiki Fatmala) and Bella (Diana Khan), frequently feels jealous because his has no girlfriend of his own. He then goes to a shaman who gives him a mouse. Once back at their house, Dono releases the mouse and succeeds in upsetting his two friend’s lovers. Under the guise of trying to resolve the pest problem, Dono convinces them to all leave the house. In the meantime, he has arranged a tryst with a young woman he has just recently met and hopes to get to know better while he has the house to himself. However, because his friends and their girlfriends don’t understand what is really going on, all of Dono’s efforts come to naught.

Three friends, Dono, Kasino, and Indro, open a restaurant because of Dono’s cooking expertise. There are situational jokes in the restaurant: the scary food critic who instead gives a good review; Indro and Susan, the cashier, who play around with the security guard’s handcuffs until they have to go around together, which annoys Indro’s girlfriend. There’s also gym humour when Henny, a stewardess friend of Dono, teaches him. And of course, there are jokes among the three friends.

Dono (Wahyu Sardono), Kasino (Kasino Hadiwibowo) and Indro (Indrojoyo Kusumo) get lost and end up on an island where the only occupants are beautiful young women, except for the tribal chief (Tile) and his three obese daughters. Dono and friends are forced to flee the island when the chief decides they have to marry his daughters. Back at home, Dono meets up with Merry (Fortunella). As usual, Dono and Kasino, along with Indro and Merry, Winny (Kiki Fatmala) and Nia (Sally Marcelina) end up on the beach surrounded by lovely young women in bikinis. The relationships of these three pairs are extremely volatile. Suddenly, as man dressed in Arab garb, accompanied by bodyguards, shows up claiming that Merry has been designated as his wife in an arranged marriage. Kasino defeats the bodyguards, who end up in the hospital. The comedic scenes then shift to the hospital and eventually back to the trio’s home again before the film’s end.

Dono, Kasino and Indro (the Warkop Trio) live in a boarding house. Amusement starts when the flat owner, Aunt Sarah, goes on a date. Dono installs a microphone so that the conversation between Aunt Sarah and her date can be heard in every room. As a result, Aunt Sarah starts fighting with the three friends. Then Erna, Aunt Sarah’s niece, arrives for a visit. The three friends compete to attract her heart. One day, the three friends are invited to go with Erna to a nightclub. Inside they meet Aunt Sarah. To avoid conflict, the three friends disguise as women.

In this Warkop DKI comedy, Dono has two girlfriends, Windy and Cindy, so he finds it difficult to arrange dates and they often misunderstand. His sidekicks, Kasino and Indro, are jealous. They ruin Dono’s dating life by degrading Dono in front of the two girls’ parents. Then Dono seeks revenge by tricking the two of them.

As usual, this comedy featuring Dono, Kasino and Indro is more driven by a series of comedic skits than a unified storyline. This story, built around the three comedians, also features two beautiful young women, Linda (Sally Marcelina) and Christin (Nurul Arifin), who have been talked into moving from their dormitory to stay with the trio at their house. Linda is Kasino’s girlfriend, while Christin is dating Indro. Initially this comedy depicts the three friends appearing on a television program. Then the producer, who promises them more screen time, talks them into judging a beach beauty contest, so the film setting jumps to the beach. While there, the potential beauty queens attempt to seduce the three men. Linda and Christin, who are very angry at this, plan revenge against the three friends. The film then moves to an island where a film shoot is going on.

Kasino forbids Dono and Indro, his room mates and also his subordinates at the garage where they work, to fall for women. But secretly, Kasino admires a girl, whose picture he sees for the first time in a magazine. When Dono takes a night shift, he has to repair Marina's broken car. The event upsets Kasino since the bill remains unpaid. Unexpectedly, Marina moves into the dormitory where Dono and friends live. Kasino is shocked, for Marina is the woman he admires all this time. Kasino always chats with Marina, but the lucky guy is Dono. Marina, who is visited by her grandparents for marriage with another man, admits to them that she is already married to Dono. Some comedy elements are included such as Indro, who pretends to have a twin, and Dono, who participates in a women’s football match.

The trio of Dono, Kasino and Indro, are working for an advertising firm. The story begins with the three comedians running here and there, exploiting every opportunity toward humor. Initially, Dono becomes enamored of a belly dancer, whom Indro hits on while Dono is away. It turns out that the belly dancer is being used by a blackmailer to extort money. Then the trio embarks on an effort to make a beer commercial with a chubby actress, Yuli (Tarida Gloria), who makes a big mess of the film shoot. Whatever storyline exists then disintegrates into a series of totally unrelated comedic sketches.

Detective Kasino and two of his men, Dono and Indro (played by the Warkop Trio), fail to retrieve a jewel. But the owner, a Japanese man, does not care about it. They are given another task to protect Michiko, who is threatened with kidnap by criminals. In fact, the owner of the jewel wants to trick the insurance company. Michiko asks Dono, who protects her to run away with the jewel he is asked to keep.

Featuring the Warkop DKI group, Dono, Kasino, and Indro live in the same boarding house as Lisa and Selly. After reading the answers of a magazine quiz, Indro wonders if one of the girls in the boarding house is in love with him. After many jokes and funny situations, it turns out to be just a misunderstanding. Kasino himself is having terrible luck when, by mistake, a bank employee gives him more money that he has asked for. He intends to return the money but has to go through many comic situations and obstacles. Then it is Dono’s turn, who has a Caucasian girlfriend, to go through similar obstacles.

In this comedy, Dono, Kasino and Indro go hunting. Dono passes out during the hunt and is looked after by a local chief, whose daughter, Dono falls for. Soon after, he discovers the girl’s character, and runs away. He gets into another accident and is hospitalised. Then Dono falls in love with his nurse, Susy. But Indro also falls for Susy, but in the end, none of them wins her heart.

Three poor students help Mr. Broto who is a victim of a hit and run accident. Apparently, Mr. Broto has a treasure map and this treasure quest makes the trio enter the forest, climb hills and cross rivers. Then Dono gets a girlfriend named Maya, the daughter of the person who hit Mr. Broto. There are many slapstick comedy moments such as the crashing the doors, or slipping on banana peels, to lighten the mood of the treasure quest.

The Warkop DKI team - Dono, Kasino, Indro – returns with two female friends, Winny and Anita, to manage an ugly old hotel, and transform it into a proper hotel. The managing of the hotel becomes fodder for the comedy: a female guest who turns out to be the younger sibling of the room renter; Dono who really likes rats; a dead person in the hotel; a sleepwalking guest, etc.

Not unlike the other Warung Kopi (Warkop) comedies featuring (Dono, Kasino and Indro), this film is also made up of a series of comedic skits featuring plenty of pretty faces and beautiful bodies. In this film, initially the Warkop trio are training to become security guards, whose commandant turns out to be a patient from a mental hospital. Then, they masquerade as women in order to get jobs at a company that is only hiring women. All of their career attempts end humorously.

A mysterious masked burglar is in action. Dono (Dono) Kasino (Kasino), Indro (Indro), Anneke (Intan Fully) and Debby (Eva Arnaz) are worried that their house might be the next target. They hatch a plan to catch the burglar and Dono places an ad in the paper taunting the thief as part of their strategy. A police officer, who has been assigned to help, shows up, but is mistaken for the burglar because of his appearance: buckteeth and wearing a gold bangle on his right wrist. Dono and housemates immediately capture him by feeding him drugged onde-onde cakes. After the police officer has passed out, a man in a police uniform shows up, saying that he has been assigned to help them catch the robber. It turns out that this man is actually the thief, who intends to wreak revenge on Dono and friends for their attempt to capture him.

Sanwani’s mother is too ambitious. She even dominates her children. In three months, Sanwani, the director of a company, has to get married. And her daughter Pratiwi is betrothed to Paijo, Sanwani’s friend. But Sanwani’s wedding has to be postponed for a year because of venereal disease. Together with Slamet, Sanwani has to receive daily injections by Poltak the head nurse.

When they're not romancing their girls, the Warkop comedy trio forms a team to help people in need, which includes solving a child kidnapping case and finding themselves facing off against ghosts and the kuntilanak (the Indonesian version of a banshee).

Dono, Kasino, and Indro (played by the Warkop Trio) are hired as puppet ballet dancers. Their jokes and fighting stunts, delight the audience. But soon after, Gozal, a real estate businessman acquires the land, where the puppet ballet building sits on. The dispute over the land and its certificate becomes the film’s satire. Finally, Dono and friends challenge the champions of Gozal to a boxing match.

Dono works in a cigarette agency. Kasino works in a car workshop. They recommend Indro to work in Tina and Santi’s boarding house. Comedy happens when Indro’s girlfriend and her father pay a visit. Indro has to arrange Tina and Santi’s living space, so that he won’t be suspected of anything. More comedy arises when Santi’s fanatical mother also visits. Then Kasino drives Dono’s girlfriend and the car crashes. The car manages to be sold but then the buyer demands his money back. Dono has to hold a boxing match with the buyer.

Kasino tries to impress Vera, who wants to act in a movie. Kasino convinces her that he has a famous film director friend, Indro, who recently returned from abroad. On a holiday, Indro, Susan and Henny go on a camping trip. Kasino, who brings Vera along, has initiated this trip. Lola brings along Dono. She is actually after Indro while Dono is after her. Vera, who believes that Indro is a film director, goes after him. More misunderstandings occur until Kasino’s lie is finally exposed. Then Kasino tries to chase another girl, this time is in a restaurant. But the girl, Julia, already has a boyfriend, Tony, a thug. Unfortunately, it is Indro who becomes the boyfriend’s jealous target. Indro is followed wherever he goes and it makes him paranoid. Dono and Kasino suggest that he hides in a coffin and they would announce that he is dead. At first, Tony believes this, but he wants to prove it himself. Luckily, Julia comes to give an explanation so Indro is rescued from his predicament.