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The Knock Out Cop is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Steno released in USA on 25 october 1973 with Bud Spencer
The Knock Out Cop (1973)
Piedone lo sbirro
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Add to a movie listPiedone lo sbirro (internationally released as Flatfoot, The Knock Out Cop, A Fistful of Hell and Mad Bad Bud) is a 1973 Italian "poliziottesco"-comedy film directed by Steno. The film obtained a great commercial success, generated three sequels and a parody (Piedino il questurino, starring Franco Franchi).
Synopsis
In Naples the Commissioner Rizzo, said "Flatfoot", defeats a gang of drug traffickers. The criminals, from Marseille, were peddling drugs using frozen fish, but Flatfoot has managed to arrest them, with the help of a boss of the Neapolitan underworld, called Manomozza. After the arrest however Flatfoot discovers that Manomozza did the double game and now intends to forge an alliance with the traffickers "Marseilles". Flatfoot, thanks to the tip from a friend, finds the place and time of the meeting between drug dealers, and by punches he sends everyone in the cell.Actors
Bud Spencer
(Inspector Rizzo)
Adalberto Maria Merli
(Tabassi)
Raymond Pellegrin
(De Ribbis)
Juliette Mayniel
(Maria)
Mario Pilar
(Antonino Percuoco)
Flatfoot
(1973)
(1975)
(1978)
(1980)Comments
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There are 149 films with the same actors, 71 films with the same director, 95698 with the same cinematographic genres (including 5 with exactly the same 5 genres than The Knock Out Cop), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Knock Out Cop, you will probably like those similar films :
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, 1h50Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Enzo Cannavale, Renato Scarpa, Robert Webber, Nancy Sit M.H.
Rating63%
The police prepares to trap the Drug Lord of Naples. The plan fails and Rizzo (Bud Spencer) decides to interrogate him for the last time, but when he arrives the Drug Lord has been murdered. Rizzo is accused of the murder and decides to investigate the arrival of an Italo-American mafia man, Frank Barella (Al Lettieri). The information given by Barella and Ferramenti (Dominic Barto) makes Rizzo believe that there is a rat in the police department, and, therefore, he must go to the Far East to find out who he is. On his way through Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau, Rizzo encounters Barella, and this leads him to believe who is the corrupt police senior.
Flatfoot in Africa (1978)
, 1h55Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale, Werner Pochath, Joe Stewardson, Dagmar Lassander, Antonio Allocca
Rating61%
A trail of illicit diamonds takes Flatfoot and his acquaintance, Naples police commissioner Caputo, from Johannesburg to Swakopmund in the hopes of breaking up a South African smuggling ring. They are joined by Bodo, an African child, and confounded in their search by corrupt mining officials and an antagonistic inspector in the South-West African police.
Flatfoot in Egypt (1980)
, 1h44Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale, Angelo Infanti, Cinzia Monreale, Karl-Otto Alberty, Robert Loggia
Rating61%
The Neapolitan Commissioner Rizzo, said "Flatfoot", leaves to Egypt; a major Italian scientist has disappeared. The man in fact, before the kidnapping, was doing a research on the oil fields in Egypt, and as a gang of criminals had put on his trail to get their hands on his projects. Flatfoot, who arrives in the land of the pharaohs, discovers that the scientist is kidnapped because he has realized that a particular beetle is attracted by land oilfields and nests on them. Now that the criminals have in hand the research of the scientist, Flatfoot sets out in search of them ...
Banana Joe (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Steno
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Bud Spencer, Gianfranco Barra, Enzo Garinei, Gunther Philipp, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Gisela Hahn
Rating63%
Bud Spencer plays Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port (hence his name). One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe (in typical direct-approach manner) evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss.
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, 2h7Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Paolo Ferrari, Luiz Floriano Bonfá
Rating51%
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, 1h48Directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Aldo Fabrizi, Gina Lollobrigida, Delia Scala, Tamara Lees, Enzo Maggio, Marcello Mastroianni
Rating71%
La jeune et jolie Vera, lassée de sa vie provinciale, qu'elle partage entre son travail à l'usine et un ami peu fortuné, décide de faire le grand saut dans l'inconnu. Elle quitte sa région natale en même temps que son fiancé et débarque à Rome, consciente de ses atouts. Son but : trouver un riche amant. Elle fait bientôt la connaissance de Franca, par l'entremise de laquelle elle se fait engager dans une revue douteuse. A la tête du spectacle, un certain Marconi...
The Unfaithfuls (1953)
, 1h39Directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy, Tina Lattanzi, Marina Vlady, Irène Papas
Rating64%
Un jeune homme, se disant journaliste, est en réalité un personnage sans scrupules qui vit de chantage envers les femmes mondaines qui trompent leur mari. Mais la carrière de l'individu est brisée tragiquement par une de ses anciennes relations qui, révoltée par son cynisme, le tue froidement.
A Day in Court (1954)
, 1h41Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Giulio Calì, Walter Chiari, Sophia Loren
Rating64%
In Rome it is seeing what happens in the Italian courts during the Fifties. There are all kinds of illegalities committed by the accused, from simple to ladronerie prohibited meetings, the complaints of jealous wives to gross misunderstandings. Judge Lo Russo is known for its inflexibility and severity in the administration of justice, so that on his desk lay a bust of Cicero. He sentinel various people who claim to be innocent but then slowly come to discover their wrongs. Among them is a funny character. Alberto Sordi plays the role of Nando Moriconi, the famous Roman bully who loves America, finished in district court for a misunderstanding, at least according to his statements. In fact, the presence of the Judge Peppino De Filippo, Nando tells of his Saunter with the kids of the suburbs of Rome near the countryside in Ciociaria where he is caught by a policeman while she was bathing. Since wallow in those waters was strictly forbidden, the policeman to give a lesson to Nando, steals all the clothes and leaves him naked. Not knowing where to go, Nando entered the house of a noble countess, who was giving a party with friends.
Execution Squad (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Steno
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf, Mariangela Melato, Franco Fabrizi, Cyril Cusack, Corrado Gaipa
Rating69%
C'est l'histoire d'une organisation secrète d'anciens policiers qui vont au-delà de la loi pour tuer des criminels notoires sans procès. Un inspecteur de police essaie de les arrêter, mais l'avocat (Mario Adorf) n'est pas convaincu par ses théories de conspiration, donc l'inspecteur est fondamentalement seul et ne peut faire confiance à personne.
Double Murder (1977)
, 1h48Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Gianfranco Barra, Agostina Belli, Peter Ustinov, Mario Scaccia
Rating56%
Le commissaire de police Baldassare, assisté d’un homme politique, est chargé d’enquêter sur le mystérieux décès d’un prince dans un immeuble ancien.