# The best Paolo Villaggio movies

Much more than accountant Fantozzi: from Brancaleone at the Crusades to Fellini and Lina Wertmüller, the Paolo Villaggio films that Sky TG24, Movieplayer and Il Messaggero remember as his most important.

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- Feb 29, 2024 · Daniele Ferrari
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## Top 12

1. **The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976)** (19 · ▲20 ▼1) — The battleship, Countess Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare and the company film club.
2. **Fantozzi (1975)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Luciano Salce brings Italy's unluckiest accountant, born in Villaggio's books, to the screen.
3. **Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — An anthology film by Comencini, Loy, Magni, Monicelli and Scola.
4. **Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)** (11 · ▲14 ▼3) — Mario Monicelli and Vittorio Gassman, with Villaggio as Thorz.
5. **The Voice of the Moon (1990)** (9 · ▲13 ▼4) — Fellini's last film, alongside Roberto Benigni; David di Donatello for best actor.
6. **Fracchia the Human Beast (1981)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Neri Parenti: shy Fracchia mistaken for a ruthless criminal.
7. **The Secret of the Old Woods (1993)** (7 · ▲12 ▼5) — Ermanno Olmi adapts Dino Buzzati: a colonel and a talking forest.
8. **Il... Bel Paese (1977)** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — Luciano Salce: an engineer returns to Italy after years abroad.
9. **Ciao, Professore! (1992)** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — Lina Wertmüller: a Ligurian primary teacher sent to a school near Naples.
10. **Dear Goddamned Friends (1994)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Mario Monicelli: a ragtag team of boxers touring postwar Tuscany.
11. **I pompieri (1985)** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — Neri Parenti, with Lino Banfi and Massimo Boldi: three reserve firefighters.
12. **Fantozzi Against the Wind (1980)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — The Coppa Cobram bicycle race and a diet clinic.
13. **Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto (1972)** (-2 · ▲2 ▼4) — Directed by Vittorio Gassman, who stars alongside Villaggio.

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