The best Gino Cervi’s comedy movies

Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi

03/05/1901- 03/01/1974
Today we present the best Gino Cervi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gino Cervi’s movies.
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Don Camillo

Don Camillo
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1952
  • Character: Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

The Return of Don Camillo

The Return of Don Camillo
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1953
  • Character: Giuseppe Bottazzi dit Peppone
After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Peppone thought he got the village in his hands. But when the municipality decide to build a dike against the periodic floods, the proprietor of the land refuses. War between the village clans is about to begin. Maybe only the strong hand of the priest could persuade the landlord to change his mind. Will Peppone passed over his pride and send for his enemy?

Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round
7.1/10
Peppone, hardened mayor in Brescello, the small village on the Po river, aspires to become senator. Neither before or after WWII, where he fought against the Germans and fascists, he never went seriously to school, so he needs (at least) a diploma. Believe it or not, don Camillo helps Peppone to pass the examination (with the forecast of moving to Rome) prompting him the solution of geometry's problem. As implicit reward, Peppone writes a composition about "A man I'll never forget": obviously don Camillo, when Peppone was a resistant in WWII, and don Camillo the young military chaplain. Getting the diploma was the first step. The election campaign just started and the two big parties - Christian-democratic and Communist, forgetful of respective favors, settle down an electoral "war of the words", mean tricks (culminating with the famous horny Peppone/Lucifer) and easy propaganda.

Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/10/1961
  • Character: Giuseppe Bottazzi dit Peppone
Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. Even Christ makes a cameo appearance, when things are going a trifle too far.

Don Camillo in Moscow

Don Camillo in Moscow
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistory
  • Release: 17/09/1965
  • Character: Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi
The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is strictly against this but after Don Camillo threatens him to disclose information about an earlier side step the mayor agrees. Don Camillo arranges for false papers: He is now comrade Tarocci. Only Peppone and the other villagers know who he really is. In Russia the agenda includes various cultural events: Ballet, Opera, a fishing competition and various parties...

Il coraggio

Il coraggio
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1955
  • Character: Comm. Aristide Paoloni

Gli onorevoli

Gli onorevoli
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1963
  • Character: Sen.Braschi
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8/10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day
5.8/10
The Shortest Day is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles. Dozens of many other well-known actors accepted to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free, to avert the bankruptcy of the production company Titanus.

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/06/1955
  • Character: Prince Vladimir Bilinsky
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

The Joy of Living

The Joy of Living
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/05/1961
  • Character: Olinto Fossati
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).

Roaring Years

Roaring Years
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1962
  • Character: Salvatore Acquamano
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

Guardia, Guardia Scelta, Brigadiere e Maresciallo

Guardia, Guardia Scelta, Brigadiere e Maresciallo
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1956
  • Character: Maresciallo
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.

O.K. Nero

O.K. Nero
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1951
  • Character: Nero

Love and Chatter

Love and Chatter
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1958
  • Character: Paseroni
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...

The Eye of the Needle

The Eye of the Needle
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1963
  • Character: avvocato d'Angelo
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.

Gangster Boss

Gangster Boss
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Paolo
In Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin's preteen son Eric. Masquerading as Indians, the scamp's favorite game, does the trick. They soon learn such bratty rascal is more trouble then he's worth. The boy's a P.I. instead of paying, and it gets worse.

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

Gli altri, gli altri e noi
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1967
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.

Wild Love

Wild Love
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/06/1955
Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.

Four Steps in the Clouds

Four Steps in the Clouds
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Paolo Bianchi
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....

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