The best Mario Frera’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mario Frera’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 Mario Frera.
The Monsters
7.4/10
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Complexes
7.2/10
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi tries to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Alfredo, Alfredo
6.5/10
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Side Street Story
7.4/10
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
The Great War
8.1/10
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
The Traffic Policeman
7.2/10
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
La contessa azzurra
5.6/10
Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
The Amazing Doctor G
5/10
Nefarious villain Goldginger(Fernando Rey) is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco(Franco Franchi) and Ciccio(Ciccio Ingrassia) in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
Gastone
6.2/10
Pugni, pupe e marinai
5.5/10
The Masseuses
5.9/10
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
The Sexbury Tales
5/10
Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.
We Want the Colonels
6.8/10
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
6.2/10
Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
La nipote Sabella
6.2/10
...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno
4.4/10
Io non protesto, io amo
7/10
I due vigili
5.5/10
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Destination Fury
7/10
Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Put Your Devil Into My Hell
4.9/10
Ricciardo is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is in love with him.
