The best Totò’s comedy movies

Totò

Totò

15/02/1898- 15/04/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Totò’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 Totò.
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The Witches

The Witches
6/10
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

Hawks and Sparrows

Hawks and Sparrows
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 04/05/1966
  • Character: Totò Innocenti; frate Ciccillo
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/06/1958
  • Character: Dante Cruciani
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

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.

The Treasure of San Gennaro

The Treasure of San Gennaro
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/11/1966
  • Character: Don Vincenzo
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

The Gold of Naples

The Gold of Naples
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/12/1954
  • Character: Don Saverio Petrillo
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid ; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".

Gli onorevoli

Gli onorevoli
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1963
  • Character: Antonio LaTrippa
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

Totòtruffa '62

Totòtruffa '62
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1961
  • Character: Antonio LoRuffo
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

The Overtaxed

The Overtaxed
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1959
  • Character: Torquato Pezzella
Since the IRS has ordered new taxes, all traders in the village are tormented. Only Torquato Pezzella, a wealthy merchant of rain does not give in to despair general. To escape the contributions it has offered a tax advisor, the very respectable Curto Hector, who is in reality an ignorant on the subject. Still, Pezzella that has so far managed to avoid the taxes through the valuable advice of his new partner. Until one day an inspector of the brigade versatile, the formidable Topponi Fabio decides to check himself the accounting of this individual who is enriched by eye and does not report to the state. The note is difficult to digest; home Pezzella owes more than fifteen million in contributions. However, an unexpected event will upset all the data ...

Totò diabolicus

Totò diabolicus
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/04/1962
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.

Toto and Cleopatra

Toto and Cleopatra
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1963
  • Character: Marc'Antonio / Totonno
Mark Antony recalled to Rome from Alexandria by Ottavio wants him to marry his sister Octavia, Fulvia lawful wife is kidnapped by replacing it with Totonno brother, who looks like him as a drop of water. Totonno must be but here in Egypt Cleopatra mistreats the point of being sentenced to death but was pardoned Marc Antony returned. Octavius ​​declares war on Egypt, Mark Antony and Totonno dies take his place back at the side of Octavia in Rome served by Cleopatra who made ​​his slave.

The Band of Honest Men

The Band of Honest Men
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1956
  • Character: Antonio Buonocore
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1951
  • Character: Ferdinando Esposito
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. A lengthy persecution by police Bottoni, who manages to catch it starts. In an oversight Esposito manages to flee again. Bottoni superiors inform him that if no catches him will lose his job.

Totò all'inferno

Totò all'inferno
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/03/1955
  • Character: Antonio Marchi / March' Antonio

Side Street Story

Side Street Story
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1950
  • Character: Pasquale Miele
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

Destinazione Piovarolo

Destinazione Piovarolo
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1955
  • Character: Antonio La Quaglia

Poverty and Nobility

Poverty and Nobility
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/04/1954
  • Character: Don Felice Sciosciammocca
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/09/1962
  • Character: Antonio La Puzza; l'amministratore di Canarinis

Noi duri

Noi duri
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/02/1960
  • Character: L'Algerino

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1957
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.

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