The best Philippe Leroy’s comedy movies

Philippe Leroy

Philippe Leroy

15/10/1930 (93 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Philippe Leroy’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 Philippe Leroy.
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The Libertine

The Libertine
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1968
  • Character: Istruttore di tennis
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/02/1976
  • Character: Charles La Motte
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Montecarlo Gran Casinò

Montecarlo Gran Casinò
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1987
  • Character: Duroc

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
6.8/10
Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.

It's All About Karma

It's All About Karma
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/03/2017
  • Character: Ludovico Stern
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

The Fish in Love

The Fish in Love
5.2/10
In Florence, the young carpenter Arturo dreams of becoming a great writer. In fact he has the talent to be able to write fantasy stories for children, and so he is snubbed by Italian critics. However Arturo does not give up, and sends the proofs to a famous Florentine editor. Meanwhile, the family of Arturo is broke because his uncle is gone bankrupt with an useless shop. But fame for Arturo arrives early, because the publisher remains excited about the fantastic stories, and so the book is published with the title: The Fish in Love. Arturo starts to know celebrity and wealth, but soon gets bored, because he feels himself suffocated by the fame. Indeed Arturo falls in love with beautiful Matilde, promised in marriage to a pompous man of Bergamo. With her, Arturo flees into a house in the woods, and plans a new life, just like in the fairy tales.

State buoni se potete

State buoni se potete
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1983
  • Character: Ignazio di Loyola
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids. His newest kid is the young thief Cirifischio, making a lot of problems. When Cirifischio has an argument with a young boy of a local aristocrat, the boy turns out to be a girl, the young Leonetta, some kind of a sex slave for her owner. Neri adopts her too, and the young people fall in love. 15 Years later, the devil is back and leads Cirifiscio onto a murder. Now lawless, the thief must flee Neri and leave Leonetta back...

Intimate Relations

Intimate Relations
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1975
  • Character: Franco

Teste di cocco

Teste di cocco
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/2000
  • Character: Yanez

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.

Hotel Gagarin

Hotel Gagarin
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/05/2018
  • Character: Virgil
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

Roma bene

Roma bene
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1971
  • Character: Giorgio Santi
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.

Un maresciallo in gondola

Un maresciallo in gondola
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/02/2002
  • Character: Armand Dupont

The Cat

The Cat
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 27/04/1977
  • Character: Don Pezzolla, the priest
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...

The Return of Casanova

The Return of Casanova
5.8/10
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.

Give Me Five

Give Me Five
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1980
  • Character: Pope
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

Seven Golden Men Strike Again
5.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 01/02/1966
  • Character: Albert (le professeur)
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.

The Mandrake

The Mandrake
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/11/1965
  • Character: Calimaco
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Courage fuyons

Courage fuyons
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/10/1979
  • Character: Chalamond
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/07/1971
  • Character: Romolo "Sartana" Moretti

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