The best Adolfo Celi’s comedy movies

Adolfo Celi

Adolfo Celi

27/07/1922- 19/02/1986
We present our ranking of the best Adolfo Celi’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Adolfo Celi.
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Danger: Diabolik

Danger: Diabolik
6.5/10
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

My Friends Act II

My Friends Act II
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1982
  • Character: Professeur Sassaroli
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Madly in Love

Madly in Love
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/12/1981
  • Character: Gustav
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.

My Friends

My Friends
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/08/1975
  • Character: Il Professor Sassaroli
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.

That Man from Rio

That Man from Rio
7/10
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1974
  • Character: Le médécin
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

The Bobo

The Bobo
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/03/1967
  • Character: Francisco Carbonell
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1976
  • Character: Vladimiro Palese
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

Male Companion

Male Companion
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/11/1964
  • Character: Benvenuto
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Brancaleone at the Crusades
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1970
  • Character: Re Boemondo
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot
6.8/10
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.

Three Nights of Love

Three Nights of Love
6.3/10
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

Cafè Express

Cafè Express
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/02/1981
  • Character: Ispettore Capo Ministero
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1985
  • Character: Professor Sassaroli
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

The Archangel

The Archangel
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/07/1969
  • Character: Marco Tarocchi Roda
Comedy about a lawyer who is suspected of murder

Midas Run

Midas Run
4.8/10
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Horse Fever

Horse Fever
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1976
  • Character: il giudice
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.

King of Hearts

King of Hearts
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 21/12/1966
  • Character: schottischer Colonel
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.

Snow Job

Snow Job
5.7/10
Lucio (Vittorio Gassman) and his sidekick (Adolfo Celi) accidently gets mixed up with a gang of international counterfeiters in this fast-moving and suspenseful comedy with music from Ennio Morricone. The crooks hope to upset the U.S. economy by flooding the world with bogus bills. Lucio is an overworked businessman who only wants a little rest and relaxation. Instead, he is skiing in Northern Italy on one day and the next day enduring the searing heat in the Egyptian desert.

Pure as a Lily

Pure as a Lily
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/03/1976
  • Character: L'onorevole
Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.

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