Gianfranco Piccioli

Non aver paura (2005)

Outlaw! (1999)

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as "the gentleman bandit" because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer o ...

We All Fall Down (1997)

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui. ...

Fried Crumbed Brains (1996)

After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Vale ...

The True Life of Antonio H. (1994)

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Ita ...

Donne con le gonne (1991)

Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband. ...

Oostende (1991)

Jim and Jeannot have not seen each other for ten years. They decide to celebrate their reunion with an impromptu weekend in Oostende, Belgium. ...

Benvenuti in casa Gori (1990)

The film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue. ...

Non più di uno (1990)

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1989)

Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth. ...

The Story of Boys and Girls (1989)

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bol ...

Mortacci (1989)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arr ...

Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco) (1988)

Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex. ...

High Frequency (1988)

A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim. ...

Topo Galileo (1988)

A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant. ...

Maramao (1987)

A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood, while experiencing his sexual awakening during a summer vacation of an island. ...

Stregati (1986)

Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia. ...

Blame it on Paradise (1985)

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him ...

Casablanca, Casablanca (1985)

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards. ...

Magic Moments (1984)

Three young friends – aspiring film director Roberto, aspiring producer Ben and aspiring comedian Cico – move to Rome looking for a career in a film industry that they discover being well past its heyday. ...

Son contento (1983)

The Pool Hustlers (1983)

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, b ...

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight (1982)

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco. ...

Ad ovest di Paperino (1982)

It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. The film is set in Florence, Tuscany, with some scenes shot in Prato.The title is an inside j ...

Liquirizia (1979)

Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school. ...

Two Pieces of Bread (1979)

Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede. ...

Beach House (1977)

Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, ...

Puttana galera! (1977)

The presence of mafia boss Vangelli's yacht in front of the island of Ventotene brings a group of prisoners of the penitentiary close. ...

The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)

A doctor kills his girlfriend when he accidentally causes her to fall onto an ornamental flower which has metal spikes. He disposes of her by chopping up and then dissolving her corpse. The woman's sister accuses the doctor and an investigation begins. ...

The Last Hours of a Virgin (1972)

Enrico is a photographer with questionable ethics. ...

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano (2010)