The best Gigi Ballista’s movies

Gigi Ballista

Gigi Ballista

01/12/1918- 02/08/1980
We present our ranking of the best Gigi Ballista’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 Gigi Ballista.
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Midnight Express

Midnight Express
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/08/1978
  • Character: Chief Judge
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/03/1976
  • Character: General
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Roma bene

Roma bene
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1971
  • Character: Vitozzi
Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.

Giovannona Long-Thigh

Giovannona Long-Thigh
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1973
  • Character: Commendatore La Noce
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Lady Caliph

Lady Caliph
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/12/1970
  • Character: Il principe industriale
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.

The Queens

The Queens
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/04/1966
  • Character: The Priest
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.

Confessions of a Lady Cop

Confessions of a Lady Cop
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/02/1976
  • Character: Questore Moretti
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.

Horse Fever

Horse Fever
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1976
  • Character: Conte Dallara
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.

The Family Vice

The Family Vice
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/10/1975
  • Character: Conte Giosuè
When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.

House of 1000 Pleasures

House of 1000 Pleasures
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/02/1972
  • Character: Genie in Lamp
Italian sex comedy version of Arabian Nights

La poliziotta

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

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1966
  • Character: Giacinto Castellan
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria
7.3/10
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

The Schoolmate

The Schoolmate
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1977
  • Character: Girardi
Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy

The Sunday Woman

The Sunday Woman
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 23/12/1975
  • Character: Vollero
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens...

Blume in Love

Blume in Love
6.2/10
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

The Maniacs

The Maniacs
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1964
  • Character: Count at the Party (segment "l'hobby") (uncredited)
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

Trastevere

Trastevere
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/11/1971
  • Character: Count
Trastevere is a 1971 Italian comedy film. This is the first and only film directed by actor and screenwriter Fausto Tozzi. The film was heavily cut by producer Alberto Grimaldi, who cut off the roles of Umberto Orsini, Martine Brochard and Riccardo Garrone.

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
7.6/10
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...

Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses

Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/10/1968
  • Character: Engineer
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.

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