The best Francisco Merino’s comedy movies

Francisco Merino

Francisco Merino

11/09/1931 (92 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Francisco Merino’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 Francisco Merino.

Going Down in Morocco

Going Down in Morocco
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/04/1989
  • Character: Don Mariano
A girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Marocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Marocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open minded there is no problem they would not try to solve. Written by Volker Boehm

Convoy Buddies

Convoy Buddies
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/07/1975
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.

The Miser

The Miser
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/04/1990
  • Character: Mastro Augusto
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

Tiovivo c. 1950

Tiovivo c. 1950
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/09/2004
  • Character: Juez
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1963
  • Character: Pallavicini (segment "Suore")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

Everyone Off to Jail

Everyone Off to Jail
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1993
  • Character: Secretario
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.

Love Ravings

Love Ravings
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/11/1986

Those Who Did Not Go to War

Those Who Did Not Go to War
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/08/1962
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.

El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1992
  • Character: El Cura
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.

Solo ante el Streaking

Solo ante el Streaking
3.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1975
  • Character: Comisario

Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?

Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/08/1995
  • Character: Agente de tráfico
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?

Things I Left in Havana

Things I Left in Havana
5.9/10
Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates.

En un mundo diferente

En un mundo diferente
5.1/10
Two aliens come to Earth to take over the planet. To do so, they plan subdue and clone famous pop singers Juan and Junior.

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