Gianni Franco

The Warmth of Dance (2026)

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan. ...

The Contract (2024)

Following up on a murder investigation, failed journalist Giuseppe falls into the trap of the devil. ...

Com’è umano lui! (2024)

The film retraces the early years of Paolo Villaggio's career, from when he was an employee to the success of the Fantozzi film series. ...

A Lot Like Paris (2024)

Three estranged siblings arrange a fake trip to Paris to fulfill the wish of their terminally-ill elderly father. ...

My Paper Dolls (2023)

End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage from puberty to pre-adolescence experienced between first loves and rugby matches and that from the world ...

Il viaggio leggendario (2023)

Two YouTubers find themselves trapped inside a fantasy videogame. They have to restore peace in the kingdom to return home. ...

The Christmas Show (2022)

Sofia and her two sons, Ricky and Alice, lead a disenchanted life amid the many difficulties of everyday life, but for the Rovati family this will be an extraordinary Christmas. Their unexpected participation in the following reality Christmas Show, will l ...

I Am Santa Claus (2021)

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn't want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams ...

Si vive una volta sola (2021)

Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South. ...

Dogman's Rabies: Underdog (2018)

Inspired by one of the most savage and violent crimes committed in Rome in the 1980s, "Rabbia Furiosa" is the story of Fabio, a small-time neighborhood crook, known as "Er Canaro" (the Dog Man) who suffers years of abuse and mistreatment from Claudio, a lo ...

Caccia al tesoro (2017)

La Macchina Umana (2017)

Future. An analyst and his young patient Stefano, who is unable to relate serenely with love, talk during a psychoanalytic session. His tales of sentimental adventures become a fresco of enthusiasm and vitality, which we only glimpse in the eyes of our ana ...

Ma tu di che segno 6? (2014)

Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology. ...

Third Person (2014)

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. ...

Colpi di fortuna (2013)

Buona giornata (2012)

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest ...

Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi (2011)

The story of a 18-year-old, grown up without the love of a family, and his relationships with adult women, trying to get back to normal. ...

Interferenze (2009)

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo (2006)

Four stories about football. ...

A Colombia (2006)

Dunkin and Jay, two aimless friends in Los Angeles, decide to escape their problems and take a spontaneous trip to Colombia in search of change. ...

Belle da morire 2 (2005)

Louise, an up and coming model, will do anything it takes to become a top model. Along the way she finds herself involved in the nastier side of the business. ...

Casa Eden (2004)

A World of Love (2003)

The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three underage boys. ...

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. ...

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting (2002)

Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money? ...

Il destino ha 4 zampe (2002)

Father Hope (2002)

Don Vasari is an anti-conformist priest. For this reason he is transferred to a juvenile prison in a small town in the southern of Italy. Nino, a sixteen year old inmate, is accused of murder but Don Vasari does not believe his guilt and he starts a courag ...

Un Colpo al Cuore (2000)

The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi. ...

Alex the Ram (2000)

Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, ...

Non lo sappiamo ancora (1999)

To Fly! (1999)

1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape the many small daily harassment. His desire would be to become an airplane pilot and for this the notes of ...

Rugantino (1998)

A Liar in Paradise (1998)

Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family. ...

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld. ...

Body and Soul (1997)

Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief. ...

The Wax Mask (1997)

Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifeli ...

Fantozzi The Return (1996)

Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaught ...

Squillo (1996)

Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although sh ...

I Don't Speak English (1995)

If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learn ...

Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret (1995)

A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman. ...

The Final Scoop (1994)

Marco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather material on the homosexual world for a story he's working on. Unfortunately, he is implicated in a series of murders in which the victims are all gay. Marco become ...

Perdiamoci di vista (1994)

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic. ...

Ci hai rotto papà (1993)

Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses. ...

The Comics 2 (1991)

Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion a ...

I'll Be Going Now (1991)

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman. ...

Fantozzi to the Rescue (1990)

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career. ...

Fratelli d'Italia (1989)

Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters. ...

I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)

Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewr ...

'o Re (1989)

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royal ...

Crimes and Perfumes (1988)

Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the s ...

Phantom of Death (1988)

Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phon ...

Mia moglie è una bestia (1988)

Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins think ...

Delirium: Photo of Gioia (1987)

Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of de ...

Via Montenapoleone (1987)

Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge. ...

Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote is ...

Department Store (1986)

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store. ...

Madman at War (1985)

A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II. ...

I due carabinieri (1984)

Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way. ...

Rats: Night of Terror (1984)

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rat ...

Petomaniac (1983)

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts. ...

State buoni se potete (1983)

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. ...

The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)

A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl... ...

Savage Three (1975)

By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The pol ...