The best Manuel Zarzo’s comedy movies

Manuel Zarzo

Manuel Zarzo

26/04/1932 (92 años)
Today we present the best Manuel Zarzo’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 Manuel Zarzo’s movies.
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The Legend of Frenchie King

The Legend of Frenchie King
5.2/10
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

Dark Habits

Dark Habits
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/03/1983
  • Character: Cura
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)

A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/04/1970
  • Character: Ugo
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

The Beehive

The Beehive
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1982
  • Character: Consorcio López
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

Cry, Onion!

Cry, Onion!
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 25/08/1975
  • Character: Jack (uncredited)
Onion Jack (Franco Nero) has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

Saturday, Sunday and Friday
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1979
  • Character: Camillo Magnaghi, l'amante di Enza (episodio "Domenica")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
7/10
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?

Stico

Stico
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1985
  • Character: Claudio
Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.

Cupido contrabandista

Cupido contrabandista
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1962
  • Character: Manolo
John is a shy and good-natured man who lives in Ceuta and does everything by correspondence, from studying a career or learning judo to getting a girlfriend. She is from Madrid and the time has come for Juan to meet her so he takes a boat to the peninsula. In the boat he coincides with Maria, a beautiful young woman who goes to the capital to study chant and which he had previously met accidentally. During the trip, foreign smugglers try to use John to pass inadvertently stolen diamonds in Tangier.

Little Funny Guy

Little Funny Guy
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/04/1973
  • Character: Ralph Morisco
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.

El soplagaitas

El soplagaitas
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/05/1981
  • Character: Feliciano
Ramiro is a good man. He is a musician, but unemployment is so great that it has had to put Scottish bagpipes playing a Scotch Pub also married. One night coming home from work encountered in a corner, with Julian; believes has stolen his wallet and to take back what is theirs thinks Julian attacks is municipal councilor in the city. The theft of this portfolio will complicate the life of Ramiro, that of Julian and the many characters ...

Tiovivo c. 1950

Tiovivo c. 1950
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/09/2004
  • Character: Rueda
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.

Nuevo en esta plaza

Nuevo en esta plaza
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1966
  • Character: Tato
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values​​. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.

País S. A.

País S. A.
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1975
  • Character: Enrique Fernández / Robert
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

Seven Golden Men Strike Again
5.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 01/02/1966
  • Character: Alfonso (l'espagnol)
The Professor (Leroy) and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.

Adolescencia

Adolescencia
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 21/01/1982
  • Character: Vendedor de motos (as Manolo Zarzo)

Susana

Susana
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1969
  • Character: Paco
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.

Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore!

Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore!
5.3/10
George Hilton is the infamous highway robber Stefano Pelloni, known as Il Passatore and Edwige Fenech is his opinionated leading lady, Mora, in this slapstick 'comedy'

El vikingo

El vikingo
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1972
  • Character: Tomás

El abuelo tiene un plan

El abuelo tiene un plan
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1973
  • Character: Manolo
Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.

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