The best Enzo Cannavale’s movies

Enzo Cannavale

Enzo Cannavale

05/04/1928- 18/03/2011
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Enzo Cannavale’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 Enzo Cannavale.
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Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso
8.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/11/1988
  • Character: Spaccafico
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Taxi Girl

Taxi Girl
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/04/1977
  • Character: Commissario Angelini
Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.

The Paramedic

The Paramedic
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/02/1982
  • Character: avvocato Generoso Gallina
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

The Teasers

The Teasers
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/10/1975
  • Character: Osvaldo
Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

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.

The School Teacher

The School Teacher
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1975
  • Character: Peppino
Edwige Fenech plays the sexy private teacher of Franco (Alfredo Pea) who immediately falls madly in love with her. Franco tries and tries to seduce her by faking his own suicide.

The Knock Out Cop

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

Flatfoot in Africa

Flatfoot in Africa
6.2/10
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

Flatfoot in Hong Kong
6.4/10
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

The Treasure of San Gennaro

The Treasure of San Gennaro
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/11/1966
  • Character: Gaetano
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/02/1976
  • Character: Bracalone da Napoli
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Il Ragazzo di Campagna

Il Ragazzo di Campagna
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1984
  • Character: Blind Man
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.

More Than a Miracle

More Than a Miracle
6/10
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.

My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1985
  • Character: Cav. Ferrini
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 Comics

The Comics
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1990
  • Character: Il prete
A few funny little novels about different aspects of life.

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1978
  • Character: The Guru
Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant
5.9/10
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.

The ways of the Lord are over

The ways of the Lord are over
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1987
  • Character: Papà di Camillo

Casta e pura

Casta e pura
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/10/1981
  • Character: Don Bottazzi
Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

L'affittacamere

L'affittacamere
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/08/1976
  • Character: Maresciallo Pasquale Esposito
Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.

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