Gianni Ciardo

Il pirata - Memorie da Spoon River (2023)

Jumping from High Places (2022)

To honor her best friend's last wish, a young woman with severe anxiety confronts her greatest fears to try and reclaim her life — and perhaps find love. ...

Nicola: Mussels, Kebab & Coca Cola (2021)

Antonio, a filmmaker running out of ideas, has a vision of the city's patron, St. Nicholas, who asks him to make a film about his true story. So Antonio sets out on a journey in the myth's footsteps, crossing all the countries where the saint is revered. ...

Un Figlio a Tutti i Costi (2018)

Orazio and Anna want a child at all costs. However, due to the stress her husband is under, the baby does not arrive. With him exhausted, his wife has a valid alternative to a possible adoption: another man will give her the child she longs for in a comple ...

Wine to Love (2018)

Laura Rush, director of a luxury New York wine shop, has launched a campaign to buy Italian wineries to unify under her brand. Things become tangled when beautiful Anna Monti, a former top model, arrives in Italy. ...

Mi Rifaccio Il Trullo (2016)

Michele Modugno, a bricklayer from Puglia with a passion for music, lives in a large trullo with his elderly mother, his sister Melania, and his brother-in-law Sebastiano, also a bricklayer and his business partner. To pay off a bank debt, Michele rents a ...

Effetti indesiderati (2015)

The story of three brothers who have to face the failure of their dairy business. ...

La legge è uguale per tutti… forse (2014)

All'improvviso un Uomo (2014)

The narrative follows a former gangster who, in an attempt to escape his tumultuous past, seeks refuge in a new village. Upon his arrival, he adopts the guise of a priest. In this newfound role, he becomes a central figure within the community, significant ...

Il padre delle spose (2006)

Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some time. There, however, a surprise awaits him: Aurora has married a woman. Indignant, Riccardo hastily retu ...

Prisoners of a Nightmare (2001)

A group of teenagers in a coastal house are terrorised by a hooded killer. ...

Il segreto del giaguaro (2000)

'Romano de Roma', incurable '70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias "the Jaguar" has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the ...

Suntanned (1991)

On the Adriatic Riviera the destinies of a variety of characters cross. A piano player is the lover of a rich woman who wants him to become a killer, a call girl is looking for her true love, two workers want to marry two old billionaires. ...

Nulla ci può fermare (1989)

Italiani a Rio (1987)

A bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio. ...

Provare per credere (1987)

A man is left by his wife and to overcome the shock he follows the advice of his playboy friend , who suggests that he jump into the fray and surround himself with beautiful girls. ...

Mixed Double (1986)

Two married couples horn each other .. choosing the same vacant apartment as the place of the escapade! How many misunderstandings can arise in this continuous game of doors that open and close? ...

Ferragosto O.K. (1986)

Funny events of the clients who spend their summer holidays at the Hotel Internazionale in San Benedetto del Tronto. ...

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. ...

Laura... a 16 anni mi dicesti sì (1983)

A young fisherman from Pozzuoli, Gino Esposito, is in love with the sixteen-year-old Laura who reciprocates him with passion; but her family is opposed to the idyll and even goes so wildly to beat the young man. The two pigeons, however, on the advice of t ...

É forte un casino! (1982)

Some friends in an earl's mansion (where one of them works), try to get rich quick by scamming an Arab sheik and then invite a rich Californian heiress to Rome, interested in weaving a relationship with an Italian nobleman. ...

Tradimento (1982)

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 ...

Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo (1982)

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. ...

Pierino il fichissimo (1981)

The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern. ...

Pierino medico della SAUB (1981)

Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome as assistant ...

The Doctor Prefers Sailors (1981)

A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more... ...

Children are Pieces of Your Heart (1981)

A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen: she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies and the man is forced, through hardship, to buy one from a chorus gi ...

L'esercito più pazzo del mondo (1981)

In an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are up to all sorts of things. From a completely wrong flag-raising to a kidnapping, we certainly won't get bored: the two kidnappers ask for an escape route to th ...

College Girl on Vacation (1980)

Massimo Castaldi is a social climber married to Violante who comes from a rich family. His relationship with his mistress Laura is jeopardised when the family moves to their summer house on the Pugliese coast. Nevertheless, Massimo seems to find a solution ...

The Strange Desire (1979)

Two aliens on the planet "Alpha 4" win in competition of the local television "Cripto-Tivvu", a prize travel on Earth. They arrive in Bari, where they enter the bodies of two poor accountants. ...

Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole (2006)

"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari on 8 Ma ...