The best Juanjo Menéndez’s comedy movies

Juanjo Menéndez

Juanjo Menéndez

16/05/1929- 07/11/2003
We present our ranking of the best Juanjo Menéndez’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 Juanjo Menéndez.
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The Miracle of Marcelino

The Miracle of Marcelino
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/02/1955
  • Character: Fray Giles
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

El Lazarillo de Tormes

El Lazarillo de Tormes
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/11/1959
  • Character: El escudero
An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.

Sor Citröen

Sor Citröen
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/12/1967
  • Character: Padre Jerónimo
A community of nuns, who is in charge of an asylum for orphan girls, decides to get motorized. A car is absolutely necessary to them in their work and they buy the vehicle. Sister Tomasa will have to drive it. She will soon be known around Madrid as Sor Citroen. But to reach this virtuosity she has had to travel the long vicissitudes of all beginners ... and the maximum aggravating circumstances

La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros

La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/10/1983
  • Character: Luis XIII

Madrid, Costa Fleming

Madrid, Costa Fleming
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1976
  • Character: Florencio
Sexy comedy.

Suspenso en comunismo

Suspenso en comunismo
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/01/1956
  • Character: Govi
The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a "sanctuary" and not by the Virgin of Lourdes, sent to Spain to fulfill a dark mission that failed dismally when mistaken for a priest with his link.

Las viudas

Las viudas
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1966
  • Character: Federico (segment "Luna de miel")
Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino").

El taxi de los conflictos

El taxi de los conflictos
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 16/04/1969
  • Character: Tadeo Fernández
Musical. Thaddeus (Juanjo Menéndez) is a taxi driver who is about to experience a busy work day. Throughout the day you climb into his cab heteogéneos the more characters, which give rise to the most varied situations. When one of them left in the taxi leaves a baby, Thaddeus will have to find out who's not forget that at the end of the day has a date with a mysterious woman (Concha Velasco), apparently, have to tell you something very important.

La venganza de don Mendo

La venganza de don Mendo
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1961
  • Character: Don Pero Collado, Duque de Toro
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.

The Thieves

The Thieves
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1959
  • Character: Zio Alberto
An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds...

Un millón en la basura

Un millón en la basura
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/03/1967
  • Character: Faustino
In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

The Man Who Wagged His Tail
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 27/09/1957
  • Character: Bruno (voice) (uncredited)

Las secretarias

Las secretarias
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1968
  • Character: Andrés
Three young and attractive secretaries, Julia, Paula and Doli, work in an insurance company.

Susana

Susana
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1969
  • Character: Mario
Susana is a girl that is sent to work to a small coast village in the south of Spain. The women in the villages receive her with a cold shoulder. Susana finds out that they are resentful towards their husbands: before, they used to fish close to home and now they fish far away for months and months. Susana will give the women some lessons about living together, so the men would consider going back to old ways. This will make her fall in love again.

Whisky y vodka

Whisky y vodka
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1965
  • Character: Clayton

Manolo by Night

Manolo by Night
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1973
  • Character: Faustino
While Manolo, employed in a tourism agency in the Costa del Sol, enjoys the foreign babes, his wife suffers at home in the city. Advised by a girlfriend she plans revenge by simulating pregnancy. At first, Manolo is very happy to have a baby. However, soon he realizes that he cannot be the father since he was not in the city at the time of conception.

Despido improcedente

Despido improcedente
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/05/1980
  • Character: José

Those Who Did Not Go to War

Those Who Did Not Go to War
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/08/1962
  • Character: Aguilera
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.

Fulano y Mengano

Fulano y Mengano
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/07/1957
  • Character: Carlos
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.

Parque de Madrid

Parque de Madrid
5.6/10
In the Madrid of the fifties, during any day, whether by chance or fate, a series of characters live all kinds of stories, funny stories and some not so, in one of the most beautiful parks that exist in the city, the Retiro park, known as Parque de Madrid.

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