The best Bud Spencer’s action movies

Bud Spencer

Bud Spencer

31/10/1929- 27/06/2016
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Bud Spencer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Bud Spencer.

They Call Me Trinity

They Call Me Trinity
7.4/10
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.

Crime Busters

Crime Busters
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 01/04/1977
  • Character: Wilbur Walsh
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

Double Trouble

Double Trouble
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/10/1984
  • Character: Antonio Coímbra / Greg Wonder
A stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
7.1/10
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure

Aladdin

Aladdin
5.3/10
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.

Even Angels Eat Beans

Even Angels Eat Beans
6.2/10
Two nice guys, a wrestler and an Ice-cream vendor are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is Sorriso. With the help of many coincidences they play along with Sorriso "working" for him, just to survive, but, when they receive the order to butcher the components of a very indigent family they are unmasked.

Watch Out, We're Mad

Watch Out, We're Mad
7.3/10
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

Go for It

Go for It
7/10
After Mason picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport.

I'm for the Hippopotamus

I'm for the Hippopotamus
6.6/10
In Africa, Slim and Tom don't like it when a German tyrant starts selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian zoos. Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson by beating the hell out of him and his gang.

Banana Joe

Banana Joe
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Banana Joe
Bud Spencer plays Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port (hence his name). One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe (in typical direct-approach manner) evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss. Torsillo finds out that Joe is trading bananas without a license and decides to exploit it. Upon his next delivery, Joe is apprehended by the police and given the choice of either acquiring a legal license or getting his boat taken away and himself arrested for illegal shipment. Joe travels to the nearest city, which to him is a new world, as he grew up in the rainforest.

Buddy goes West

Buddy goes West
6.5/10
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.

The Knock Out Cop

The Knock Out Cop
6.7/10
This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!

Bomber

Bomber
6.2/10
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.

Flatfoot in Egypt

Flatfoot in Egypt
6.1/10
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

Ace High

Ace High
6.5/10
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

Miami Supercops

Miami Supercops
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 12/12/1985
  • Character: Steve Forest / L.A. Ray
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.

All the Way Boys

All the Way Boys
6.6/10
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners

The Two Missionaries

The Two Missionaries
6.3/10
Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process. (from Wikipedia)

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid
6.1/10
A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."

They Called Him Bulldozer

They Called Him Bulldozer
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 15/09/1978
  • Character: Bulldozer
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

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