The best Walter Chiari’s comedy movies

Walter Chiari

Walter Chiari

02/03/1924- 20/12/1991
Today we present the best Walter Chiari’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 Walter Chiari’s movies.
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The Sucker

The Sucker
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/03/1965
  • Character: (uncredited)
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

Bellissima

Bellissima
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1951
  • Character: Alberto Annovazzi
Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust!
6.1/10
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.

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.

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
7.6/10
The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Thursday

The Thursday
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/01/1964
  • Character: Dino Versini
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.

Gli onorevoli

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

Made in Italy

Made in Italy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1965
  • Character: Enrico (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

The Little Hut

The Little Hut
5.6/10
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.

A Day in Court

A Day in Court
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/01/1954
  • Character: Don Michele
Magistrate (Judge) Del Russo presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair with her lawyer. In "The Priest and the Prostitute," Don Michele, a young priest, is charged with wrecking a pool room who claims he was robbed by Anna, a prostitute, and beaten by her pimp. In "Indecent Exposure," Meniconi is a man arrested for indecent exposure who claims he was swimming in the nude and his clothes where stolen. The last case "Lustful Lieutenant," involves Gloriana, a middle-aged prostitute, who's brought before Del Russo on charges of soliciting and who apparently knew Del Russo from a time years ago.

Copacabana Palace

Copacabana Palace
5.1/10

Gran varietà

Gran varietà
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1954

Le tardone

Le tardone
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: Bortolo Masteghin (episode "40 ma non li dimostra")
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.

The Maniacs

The Maniacs
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1964
  • Character: The Sicilian Hitchhiker (segment "L'autostop") / Car Driver (segment "Il sorpasso") / Pasquale Taddei (segment "La protesta") / Client of Night-clubs (segment "Lo strip")
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1963
  • Character: Dr. Corti (segment "Medico e fidanzata")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

The Inveterate Bachelor

The Inveterate Bachelor
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1958
  • Character: Marcello
Despite an ominous warning from his confirmed bachelor mentor (Vittorio De Sica, young Marcello (Walter Chiari) weds the girl of his dreams (María Luz Galicia), only to discover that matrimony can drive a man to murder. Directed by Giorgio Bianchi, this comic import became a lightning rod for controversy in 1958 when Italian censors banned the film due to its negative depiction of marriage.

Obiettivo ragazze

Obiettivo ragazze
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1963
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.

I motorizzati

I motorizzati
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1962
  • Character: Valentino
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

The Reunion

The Reunion
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Cesarino
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.

Caprice Italian Style

Caprice Italian Style
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/04/1968
  • Character: Paolo (ep. La gelosa)
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

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