The best Gianni Franco’s comedy movies

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If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gianni Franco’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 Gianni Franco.

The Taming of the Scoundrel

The Taming of the Scoundrel
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1980
  • Character: un conoscente di Elia al bar
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...

Buona Giornata

Buona Giornata
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/03/2012
  • Character: Senatore

Colpi di fortuna

Colpi di fortuna
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/2013
  • Character: Padre di Bernardo

Fratelli d'Italia

Fratelli d'Italia
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1989
La storia si divide in tre episodi, con un'auto a noleggio a fare da filo conduttore:

Department Store

Department Store
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1986
  • Character: intervistatore per il detersivo
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

I due carabinieri

I due carabinieri
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1984
  • Character: Carabiniere

Fantozzi The Return

Fantozzi The Return
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1996
  • Character: Commissaro di Polizia
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?

Fantozzi to the Rescue

Fantozzi to the Rescue
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/01/1990
  • Character: Ispettore che arresta Fantozzi
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

'o Re

'o Re
6.8/10

The Comics 2

The Comics 2
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1991
  • Character: il padre del bambino che vuole fare la foto con la renna
A few funny little novels about different aspects of life.

State buoni se potete

State buoni se potete
8/10
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids. His newest kid is the young thief Cirifischio, making a lot of problems. When Cirifischio has an argument with a young boy of a local aristocrat, the boy turns out to be a girl, the young Leonetta, some kind of a sex slave for her owner. Neri adopts her too, and the young people fall in love. 15 Years later, the devil is back and leads Cirifiscio onto a murder. Now lawless, the thief must flee Neri and leave Leonetta back...

I Won the New Year's Lottery

I Won the New Year's Lottery
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1989
  • Character: il garagista
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/10/2002
  • Character: Bertolazzi, investigatore privato
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But What Sign Are You?

But What Sign Are You?
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/12/2014
  • Character: Dottor Pellegrino
A few stories about the different Zodiac signs.

Il commissario Lo Gatto

Il commissario Lo Gatto
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/12/1986
  • Character: Pedretti, detto Bazooka
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.

Father Hope

Father Hope
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 17/04/2005
  • Character: Ettore Peluso

Si vive una volta sola

Si vive una volta sola
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/2021
  • Character: Architetto Lenzi

Caccia al tesoro

Caccia al tesoro
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/2017
  • Character: Dentista

Via Montenapoleone

Via Montenapoleone
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1987
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.

Crimes and Perfumes

Crimes and Perfumes
4.8/10
Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the same. Another girl, Porzia, is murdered in the same way and Eddy finds out that the motive of the crimes dates back some fifteen years.

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