The best Roberto Risso’s comedy movies

Roberto Risso

Roberto Risso

22/11/1925- 16/11/2010
Today we present the best Roberto Risso’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 Roberto Risso’s movies.

Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams
6.9/10
Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to a remote Italian mountain village named Sagliena. He's anxious to marry, and selects young Gina Lollobrigida as his bride; but she is already in love with his shy subordinate Roberto Risso. Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, Carotenuto makes advances towards her, but she spurns him. Forsaking the girl to the arms of Risso, the Marshal decides to settle for village midwife Marisa Merlini. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a difficult situation.

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal
5.5/10
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

Frisky

Frisky
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/12/1954
  • Character: Carabiniere Stelluti
"Bread, Love and Jealousy" (Italian: Pane, Amore e Gelosia), known as "Frisky" in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. The film is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by "Bread, Love and Dreams" and followed by "Scandal in Sorrento". It is usually considered one of the most famous examples of Pink neorealism.

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistoryWar
  • Release: 14/02/1963
  • Character: Soldato austriaco (uncredited)
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.

Cocagne

Cocagne
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1961

Una pelliccia di visone

Una pelliccia di visone
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1956
A newlywed couple wins the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which maybe will change their life forever.

La moglie è uguale per tutti

La moglie è uguale per tutti
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/10/1955
  • Character: Michele
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.

Paris, Palace Hotel

Paris, Palace Hotel
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/10/1956
  • Character: Gérard Necker, dit Brugnon
On Christmas Eve, Françoise, a manicurist at the Paris-Palace-Hotel, is invited to celebrate by Henri Delormel, an attractive fifty-something man. She later meets Gérard driving a Cadillac, and passes herself off as the wealthy Delormel's daughter. For his part, the young garage employee claims to own the vehicle.

Adorabili e bugiarde

Adorabili e bugiarde
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/08/1958
  • Character: Gino Gorni

Il campanile d'oro

Il campanile d'oro
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Pasquale

The Suitcase of Dreams

The Suitcase of Dreams
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistory
  • Release: 29/10/1953
  • Character: Giorgio Astori
In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.

Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!

Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/10/1958
Italian comedy

A qualcuna piace calvo

A qualcuna piace calvo
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/05/1960
Two girls (a secretary and a musician) disguise themselves as men in order to work for a famous bald actor.

The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue

The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 29/11/1951
  • Character: Prince Charming
Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.

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