Gianfranco Barra

La passione (2010)

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. ...

Come tu mi vuoi (2007)

Giada is a overachieving student who works to pay for college. Riccardo is a spoiled brat who answers her tutoring ad in order to improve his abysmal grades. She's shy and homely. He's handsome and brazen. As they say, opposites attract. ...

A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)

Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, ...

Ma che ci faccio qui! (2006)

The Jokes (2004)

In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000. ...

Il pranzo della domenica (2003)

The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families. ...

Heaven (2002)

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer. ...

Ravanello pallido (2001)

Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suf ...

Vola sciusciù (2000)

In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves to guide them to safety. He brings them to his trusted friend Annamaria's farmhouse, persuading her to hid ...

Up at the Villa (2000)

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II. ...

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his w ...

Screw Loose (1999)

The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all th ...

Dirty Linen (1999)

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. ...

Classe mista 3ª A (1996)

Three teenagers are preparing for their final exams, but their main interest is certainly not their studies. Stefano dumps his girlfriend for the beautiful Caterina, but her boyfriend Gianluca forces him to disguise himself as a Jim Morrison fan to win ove ...

Miracolo italiano (1994)

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce hi ...

Only You (1994)

Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named 'Damon Bradley', but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in ten days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old c ...

Giovanni Falcone (1993)

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. ...

On the Dark Continent (1993)

In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Si ...

Flight of the Innocent (1992)

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end att ...

Gole Ruggenti (1992)

In the run-up to a song festival, all kinds of intrigues and pressures are unleashed behind the scenes: the script must be continually adapted depending on who momentarily prevails in the backroom maneuvers, with record companies, politicians and schemers ...

A Bear Called Arthur (1992)

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him. ...

The Invisible Wall (1991)

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover ...

The Gamble (1988)

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling. ...

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

What if Gargiulo Finds Out? (1988)

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, ...

The Malady of Love (1986)

15th-century physician Robert Briand runs a leper colony that accepts new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Briand finds she displays no apparent signs of disea ...

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later (1983)

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany. ...

Zero in condotta (1983)

Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not reciprocate her feelings. One day Renato, on the occasion of his parents' departure, decides to hold a party at ...

Taste of the Sea (1983)

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations. ...

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 ...

Gian Burrasca (1982)

Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother. ...

Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solv ...

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich (1982)

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who ...

Giggi il bullo (1982)

Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and blows taken. ...

Banana Joe (1982)

Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the ...

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. ...

Desirable Teacher 2 (1982)

Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school. ...

Good Like Bread (1982)

Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married. ...

Lion of the Desert (1981)

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tact ...

Prickly Pears (1980)

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survi ...

Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, ...

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad (1979)

The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother. ...

Tigers in Lipstick (1979)

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each. ...

School Teacher in the House (1978)

Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with h ...

Double Murder (1977)

Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak acci ...

The New Monsters (1977)

A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid ( ...

L'altra metà del cielo (1977)

Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna. ...

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn (1977)

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusias ...

Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations. ...

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. ...

School Days (1976)

When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a yo ...

The Boss and the Worker (1975)

Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory. ...

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he de ...

Silent Action (1975)

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begi ...

The Baron's Mazurka (1975)

A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tea ...

Il lumacone (1974)

A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together. ...

Policewoman (1974)

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department. ...

Bread and Chocolate (1974)

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimis ...

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (1974)

Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci. ...

Playing the Field (1974)

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the ...

Dirty Weekend (1973)

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the ...

Love and Anarchy (1973)

Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. ...

Avanti! (1972)

A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress. ...

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders. ...

The Union (1972)

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company. ...

Two Brothers in Trinity (1972)

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismat ...

Shadows Unseen (1972)

When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case. ...

Execution Squad (1972)

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. ...

The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer – but he just can't shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a ...

Why (1971)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why? ...

Tre donne - La sciantosa (1971)

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" an ...

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects. ...

Be Sick… It's Free (1968)

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it. ...