The best Elio Germano’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Elio Germano’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 Elio Germano.
My Brother Is an Only Child
7/10
Accio and Manrico are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market trader and while under his influence, joins the Fascist party. Accio ("Bully") is a nickname he is proud of because it makes him seem tough. Manrico and their sister Violetta are alarmed to hear their brother listening to Benito Mussolini's speeches in his room. Manrico often physically torments his brother, including stuffing his head in the barrel under the drain pipe of their house.
Rose Island
7/10
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
The Man Without Gravity
5.8/10
A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.
A Whole Life Ahead
6.9/10
The vicissitudes of a newly graduated girl in the universe of the precarious work. Marta is a well- educated girl; she is curious and silent one, which finds work in the call center of a company that sells a futuristic appliance. So she finds out a new fantastic world formed by young telephone operator and fanatic seller, corporate jingle, motivational dance, prize giving, ovation and penance. A bittersweet picture of modern society narrated through the eyes of a funny young philosopher
Napoleon and Me
6.2/10
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
It's All About Karma
5.7/10
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
A Magnificent Haunting
6.6/10
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
I Am Tempesta
5.8/10
Numa Tempesta is a fascinating, charismatic, businessman at the top of his game. Driven by a ruthless, relentless need to succeed, Numa will stop at nothing to close a deal even if it means bending the law. That's until the law catches up to him and to avoid prison, Numa is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter. While there, Numa cannot conduct any business but he must close the deal of the century or lose his fortune. It will take Numa every crafty bone in his body to find a solution and he may just find it where he least expects it.
Lucia's Grace
6/10
Distressed surveyor and single mother Lucia is assigned an important evaluation of a plot of land, where she finds a woman who claims to be the Mother of God.
Respiro
7/10
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
Unfair Competition
6.9/10
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
What Will Become of Us
5.8/10
A coming-of-age comic tale about three eighteen-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys’ older girlfriend.
The Fifth Wheel
6.6/10
The life of a sub-proletarian boy in Rome through the 70S and 80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
Ci hai rotto papà
5.4/10
Ora o mai più
6.3/10
David, a student in Pisa who is about to pass his final exam, gets involved in an anti-globalist group.
Il cielo in una stanza
5.3/10
Cornetti al miele
5.1/10
An Italian comedy directed by Sergio Martino.
