Franco Caracciolo

Christmas Vacation '91 (1991)

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each fr ...

Pierino torna a scuola (1990)

Had come of age and unemployed, Peter decides to go back to school to take the elementary school. However, his academic performance continues to be poor so much so that his grandmother to play for the votes of a report card to the football pools coupon. Th ...

Nightmare in Venice (1989)

A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. ...

Il ragazzo del Pony Express (1986)

A youth who has recently graduated can't find a job. One day he unintentionally snatches a bag from a girl and buys a motorbike with the "proceeds" of the theft. Then he begins to work as a mail express courier. At first the girl denounces him then falls i ...

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball (1985)

The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea. ...

Sue Me (1985)

Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems. ...

L'allenatore nel pallone (1984)

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far to ...

Cop in Drag (1984)

Rome, Italy, early 1980s. A guy who worked at the Blue Gay, a transvestite cabaret, is found murdered, strangled. Marshal Nico Giraldi is responsible for investigating, infiltrating the Roman Gay community. ...

Cinderella '80 (1984)

A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobi ...

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer (1983)

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports L ...

Si ringrazia la regione Puglia per averci fornito i milanesi (1982)

Count Tacchia (1982)

In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in lov ...

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up (1982)

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court. ...

Violence in a Women's Prison (1982)

Laura Kendall, also known as Emanuelle, arrives at a remote prison with a long, fictional rap sheet that will allow her to go undercover to report on the cruelties behind bars. ...

Più bello di così si muore (1982)

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute. ...

Vigili e vigilesse (1982)

A group of policemen and policewomen from different municipalities are in Rome to take a course that will take them on a study trip to London. ...

Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982)

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter. ...

Grunt! (1982)

A tribe of cave men worships an egg that has gained magical powers after being struck by lightning. A rival tribe manages to steal the egg. ...

Desirable Teacher (1981)

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside t ...

Quando la coppia scoppia (1981)

A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation. ...

L'amante tutta da scoprire (1981)

Erika and George are two crooks hired by a rich lady to get rid of her philandering husband. ...

The Traveling Companion (1981)

A ruined noble decides to organize a robbery on a luxury train. He decides to get help from a busty starlet that should distract passengers ... ...

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective (1979)

After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi. ...

Assassination on the Tiber (1979)

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder. ...

Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice? (1979)

Two detectives are hired to discover if a rich industrialist is having an affair. The detectives pose as a gay butler and as a female cook in order to spy on all of the happenings within the house. ...

Killer Nun (1979)

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patie ...

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers (1978)

Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for. ...

The Perfect Killer (1977)

Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. While in prison, he is offered a chance to participate in an escape plan. What he doesn't know is that once he is on the outside, the group responsible for th ...

The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977)

Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up. ...

Nerone (1977)

Parody of real life events of the Roman emperor Nero. ...

Lips of Lurid Blue (1975)

Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allo ...

Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was ...

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)

After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Mean ...

Vampiro romano (1970)

With Vampiro romano, Leonardi made his last experimental film before switching to collective videomaking with the group Videobase, which focused on political investigation and counter-information. "We are all vampires. We live and move forward, intellectua ...

The Monsters (1963)

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes. ...

8½ (1963)

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one ...