Gianni Franco

Gianni Franco

Born: April 11, 1951
in Buenos Aires, Argentina (cresciuto a Torino)

Movies for Gianni Franco...

It Looks Like Paris
Title: It Looks Like Paris
Character: Vannuccini
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Three brothers who haven't spoken to each other for years would like to satisfy the wish of their elderly and ill father who has never seen Paris.
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Il viaggio leggendario
Title: Il viaggio leggendario
Character: Platone
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Two YouTubers find themselves trapped inside a fantasy videogame. They have to restore peace in the kingdom to return home.
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The Christmas Show
Title: The Christmas Show
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
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 lead them to live overwhelming situations and the arrival of the mysterious neighbor, the charming Pierre, will return to make Sofia’s heart beat.
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I Am Santa Claus
Title: I Am Santa Claus
Character: Padre di Luciano
Released: November 3, 2021
Type: Movie
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 the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…
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Si vive una volta sola
Title: Si vive una volta sola
Character: Architetto Lenzi
Released: April 28, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Doc – Nelle tue mani
Character: Ernesto Galbiati
Released: March 26, 2020
Type: TV
When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.
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Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Title: Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Character: Commissario Ferri
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
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 local boss of the criminal underworld. When he is driven to desperation and the brink of madness, he will carry out a terrible and bloody act of vengeance...
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Caccia al tesoro
Title: Caccia al tesoro
Character: Dentista
Released: November 23, 2017
Type: Movie
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La Macchina Umana
Title: La Macchina Umana
Character: psychoanalyst
Released: October 31, 2017
Type: Movie
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 analyst.
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Title: Il Sistema
Character: banchiere Carrabba
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Ma tu di che segno 6?
Title: Ma tu di che segno 6?
Character: Dottor Pellegrino
Released: December 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.
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Title: Un matrimonio
Released: December 29, 2013
Type: TV
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Colpi di fortuna
Title: Colpi di fortuna
Character: Padre di Bernardo (segment "Non è vero ma ci credo")
Released: December 21, 2013
Type: Movie
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Third Person
Title: Third Person
Character: Taxi Driver (Rome)
Released: September 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Buona giornata
Title: Buona giornata
Character: Senatore
Released: March 30, 2012
Type: Movie
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 businessmen.
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Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi
Title: Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi
Character: Padre di Luca
Released: April 19, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Anna e i cinque
Character: Alfonzi
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: TV
Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper by night.
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Il nostro messia
Title: Il nostro messia
Character: Santucci
Released: May 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses.
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Title: Corleone
Character: Francesco Delfino
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: TV
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.
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Title: I Cesaroni
Character: Primo Calori
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: TV
I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season.
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4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Title: 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Character: Adamo Casalgrande (segment "La donna del Mister")
Released: May 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Four stories about football.
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Title: Fog and Crimes
Character: Calò
Released: November 30, 2005
Type: TV
Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series.
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Belle da morire 2
Title: Belle da morire 2
Character: Magid
Released: September 21, 2005
Type: Movie
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Father Hope
Title: Father Hope
Character: Ettore Peluso
Released: April 17, 2005
Type: Movie
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 courageous investigation to help him.
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
Title: Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
Character: Bertolazzi, investigatore privato
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
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?
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Un Colpo al Cuore
Title: Un Colpo al Cuore
Character: Marco Roversi
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: Movie
The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi.
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Alex the Ram
Title: Alex the Ram
Character: brigadiere Santucci
Released: July 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Direttore del carcere
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Vincenzo Lo Monaco
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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Non lo sappiamo ancora
Title: Non lo sappiamo ancora
Released: December 23, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Anni '60
Character: Direttore dell'azienda
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Rugantino
Title: Rugantino
Released: December 22, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Montluc
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: I misteri di Cascina Vianello
Character: Giovanni Forleo
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: TV
I misteri di Cascina Vianello is an Italian television series.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Magid
Released: July 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief.
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The Wax Mask
Title: The Wax Mask
Character: Inspector Palazzi
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: Movie
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 lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
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Fantozzi The Return
Title: Fantozzi The Return
Character: Commissaro di Polizia
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
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 granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
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Call Girl
Title: Call Girl
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
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 she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.
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Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret
Title: Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret
Released: April 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman.
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Ci hai rotto papà
Title: Ci hai rotto papà
Character: Sig. Cecconi
Released: September 3, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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The Final Scoop
Title: The Final Scoop
Character: Commissioner
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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 becomes a suspect and is forced to investigate the crimes himself in order to prove his innocence.
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The Comics 2
Title: The Comics 2
Character: il padre del bambino che vuole fare la foto con la renna
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
A poster worker must remove the poster of the original movie, when the figures of Renato and Paolo suddenly moves and leaves the poster driving an ambulance dressed as nurses.
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I'll Be Going Now
Title: I'll Be Going Now
Released: February 8, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Fantozzi to the Rescue
Title: Fantozzi to the Rescue
Character: Ispettore che arresta Fantozzi
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Fratelli d'Italia
Title: Fratelli d'Italia
Released: November 23, 1989
Type: Movie
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
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I Won the New Year's Lottery
Title: I Won the New Year's Lottery
Character: il garagista
Released: June 6, 1989
Type: Movie
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 typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...
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Title: Il ricatto
Character: Receptionist d'albergo
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: TV
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'o Re
Title: 'o Re
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
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 royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
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Crimes and Perfumes
Title: Crimes and Perfumes
Released: June 26, 1988
Type: Movie
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 same. Another girl, Porzia, is murdered in the same way and Eddy finds out that the motive of the crimes dates back some fifteen years.
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Mia moglie è una bestia
Title: Mia moglie è una bestia
Character: Piero, collega di Gianni
Released: February 9, 1988
Type: Movie
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Delirium: Photo of Gioia
Title: Delirium: Photo of Gioia
Released: April 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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 death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.
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Via Montenapoleone
Title: Via Montenapoleone
Released: March 13, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: I Ragazzi della 3ª C
Character: Il suicida
Released: January 13, 1987
Type: TV
I ragazzi della 3ª C is an Italian television series.
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Il commissario Lo Gatto
Title: Il commissario Lo Gatto
Character: Pedretti, detto Bazooka
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
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 island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: intervistatore per il detersivo
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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Madman at War
Title: Madman at War
Character: Cerioni
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.
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I due carabinieri
Title: I due carabinieri
Character: Carabinieri Officer
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Rats: Night of Terror
Title: Rats: Night of Terror
Character: Video
Released: August 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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 rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.
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Petomaniac
Title: Petomaniac
Character: Sam
Released: October 28, 1983
Type: Movie
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
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State buoni se potete
Title: State buoni se potete
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
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The Taming of the Scoundrel
Title: The Taming of the Scoundrel
Character: un conoscente di Elia al bar
Released: December 20, 1980
Type: Movie
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
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Com’è umano lui
Title: Com’è umano lui
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie