The best Giacomo Rizzo’s comedy movies

Giacomo Rizzo

Giacomo Rizzo

17/01/1939 (85 años)
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Avanti!

Avanti!
7.2/10
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

The Knock Out Cop

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

Benvenuti al Sud

Benvenuti al Sud
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/2010
  • Character: Costabile Grande
Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

Taxi Girl

Taxi Girl
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/04/1977
  • Character: Rocco
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 Treasure of San Gennaro

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

A Policewoman in New York

A Policewoman in New York
4.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 21/11/1981
  • Character: Il Turco
A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

Welcome to the North

Welcome to the North
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/2012
  • Character: Costabile grande
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

Little Funny Guy

Little Funny Guy
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/04/1973
  • Character: Cassiere
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/02/1977
  • Character: Peppino Ruotolo
Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

We Accept Miracles

We Accept Miracles
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/01/2015
  • Character: Carmine
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/08/1979
  • Character: Cocozza
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/01/1993
  • Character: tenutario della bisca

The Schoolgirl

The Schoolgirl
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/01/1975
  • Character: Photographer
A softcore erotic Italian-comedy movie, shot in Alatri (Frosinone, Italy) in 1975 (released in 1976) by Franco Lo Cascio (future porno director as Luca Damiano). The same Lo Cascio has written the script, based on a own subject, together with Piero Regnoli. The eighteen year-old Patrizia, after the school year in college, returned to his country being hosted by her grandmother and rediscovered his childhood girlfriends. By virtue of its lively temper, she arranges for itself and her friends a ballroom in a shed owned by a notary, who, determined to tear down the structure, calls for law enforcement to evict the young people from the building. The girl and her three uninhibited girlfriends, educated by Marilena (a prostitute also called "la bolognese") manage to corner the City Council by seducing its members: the tobacconist, the photographer and the butcher. They even help the girls to document the misdeeds of the treacherous notary and his lawyer brother.

The Sexbury Tales

The Sexbury Tales
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/05/1973
  • Character: Minchiotto
Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.

School Days

School Days
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1976
  • Character: Professor Straziota
When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town

The Union

The Union
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/08/1972
  • Character: Stelvio De Paolis
A Sicilian worker (Lando Buzzanca), a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer (Renzo Montagnani) sells the company to a multinational company.

Le mille e una notte all'italiana

Le mille e una notte all'italiana
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1972
Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/07/1974
  • Character: Caporale De Martino

Perché non facciamo l'amore

Perché non facciamo l'amore
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: commissario

Napoletans

Napoletans
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/2011
  • Character: Zio Guglielmo
In a small town in southern Italy lives the Di Gennaro family. Gennaro, the householder, is a noted dentist, married to Anna, a housewife, a few years away from converting to Buddhism. They have two sons: Roberto, last year medical student and guitarist in a small band, and Mattia who attended the first year of high school. The Di Gennaros appear to be a perfect family, but each character hides flaws and excesses.

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