The best Gianfranco Barra’s comedy movies

Gianfranco Barra

Gianfranco Barra

05/04/1940 (84 años)
We present our ranking of the best Gianfranco Barra’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gianfranco Barra.
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Only You

Only You
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1994
  • Character: Danieli Concierge
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she may be able to finally encounter the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets the charming Peter Wright. But can they fall in love if she still believes that she is intended to be with someone else?

The Seduction of Mimi

The Seduction of Mimi
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1972
  • Character: Brigadiere Amilcare Finocchiaro
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.

Banana Joe

Banana Joe
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Torquillo
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.

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.

Desirable Teacher 2

Desirable Teacher 2
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1982
  • Character: Professore agli esami

School Teacher in the House

School Teacher in the House
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1978
  • Character: Dottor Busatti
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1974
  • Character: The turk
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Why

Why
7.6/10
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

Tigers in Lipstick

Tigers in Lipstick
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/03/1979
  • Character: Lester
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Come tu mi vuoi

Come tu mi vuoi
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/10/2007
  • Character: Professore
Giada and Riccardo are opposite. Giada takes her studies seriously. Riccardo simply wants to live the good life. A freak accident causes them to be attached by their forearms. How will they live together (Please somebody post a real overview)

Be Sick… It's Free

Be Sick… It's Free
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1968
  • Character: Dr. Sandolini
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

Eccezzziunale... veramente

Eccezzziunale... veramente
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1982
  • Character: Ispettore Patanè
Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

Sugar, Honey and Pepper
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/10/1980
  • Character: Giudice
Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. Third. Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad

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

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/02/1977
  • Character: Alberto Scapicolli
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.

The Passion

The Passion
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/2010
  • Character: Dottore
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

A Dinner for Them to Meet

A Dinner for Them to Meet
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/02/2007
  • Character: Corrado
Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.

Time for Loving

Time for Loving
6.1/10
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

Screw Loose

Screw Loose
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1999
  • Character: Guido Puccini
The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.

La poliziotta

La poliziotta
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/11/1974
  • Character: Dottor Gargiulo

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