The best Bruno Ganz’s comedy movies

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

22/03/1941- 16/02/2019
Today we present the best Bruno Ganz’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Bruno Ganz’s movies.
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In Order of Disappearance

In Order of Disappearance
7.1/10
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

Bread and Tulips

Bread and Tulips
7.3/10
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her begin. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

The Party

The Party
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/09/2017
  • Character: Godfried
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.

Lumière and Company

Lumière and Company
6.9/10
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Especially on Sunday

Especially on Sunday
6.3/10
Four romantic and lighthearted stories set in the countryside from four Italian directors.

Julia's Disappearance

Julia's Disappearance
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/2009
  • Character: John
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.

The Last Days of Chez Nous

The Last Days of Chez Nous
6.5/10
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

In Times of Fading Light

In Times of Fading Light
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/06/2017
  • Character: Wilhelm Powileit
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

Hands Up!

Hands Up!
6.5/10
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

A Roof Over Your Head

A Roof Over Your Head
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1962
  • Character: Fred Weber
A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away their new neighbors whom he wants out of his building.

The Inventor

The Inventor
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/04/1981
  • Character: Jakob Nüssli
In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.

Ein starker Abgang

Ein starker Abgang
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/07/2008
  • Character: Heinz Kilian

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone

Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/08/1960
  • Character: Kammerdiener
Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among other things, with the industrialist Meissen and his pretty daughter Christine, with whom he falls in love. However, it remains unmatched because it belongs to a different social class. He also works as a hobbyist and inventor, which also requires a lot of money. When his employer refuses to give him a loan because his father is in prison for fraud, he quits disappointed.

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