Franco Javarone

Franco Javarone

Born: February 17, 1943
in Naples, Campania, Italy

Movies for Franco Javarone...

Vieni a vivere a Napoli!
Title: Vieni a vivere a Napoli!
Released: March 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Naples is a city that contains many worlds and welcomes them all like a loving mother. Don't be fooled by the invitation contained in the title, however, it could contain a joke: to live here you need the right stomach.
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Last Tango
Title: Last Tango
Character: Bracignano
Released: March 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Alberto Tango is the owner of a small and shabby detective agency in the area close to Naples. His collaborator is Corrado, naive boy with some problems of mental stability. Tango lives by his tricks, often at the limit of legality, to fill the huge debt that he has contracted with the cynical Rava, his ex former employer and current creditor. Tango receives a call from Sergio Tudisco, an important industrial man. He wants to hire him to find her daughter Olga, rebel girl run away. Tudisco gives Tango the sum that would solve the problems with Rava. Tango accepts after a hesitation.
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Leopardi
Title: Leopardi
Character: Ginardo
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
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St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor
Title: St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Moscati, Doctor saint of Naples, was a doctor of the early twentieth century, from an aristocratic family devoted his career to serving the poor. The film focuses on the human side, partially leaving aside the spiritual part.
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Mater natura
Title: Mater natura
Character: Guido
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
About the misadventures of Desiderio, a pretty young Neapolitan transsexual, and of her group of transvestite friends. Disappointed in love and politics, they set up an organic farm and psychological help centre for men in crisis.
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Our Italian Husband
Title: Our Italian Husband
Character: Don Peppino
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
When Vincenzo Scocozza , an Italian immigrant sculptor living and working in Manhattan, weds the expectant Charlene Taylor, it over complicates his life for he is already married
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The Three-Legged Fox
Title: The Three-Legged Fox
Character: Sabatino
Released: February 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Suddenly Heaven
Title: Suddenly Heaven
Character: Beppino
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Lorenzo is a confirmed bachelor who creates atmospheric SFX for movies. His beliefs about love are put to the test when he meets Amaranta, a beautiful woman who has commissioned a fake snowfall as a surprise to her boyfriend—who doesn't show up, forcing Lorenzo to take his place in the romantic trip Amaranta had planned.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Mangiafuoco
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
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Solino
Title: Solino
Character: Alfredo
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: Movie
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
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N'Gopp
Title: N'Gopp
Character: Santopadre (as Franco Iavarone)
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
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Ribelli per caso
Title: Ribelli per caso
Character: Don Ciro
Released: April 20, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Ferdinando Coppola
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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Li chiamarono... briganti!
Title: Li chiamarono... briganti!
Released: May 28, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
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Il viaggio della sposa
Title: Il viaggio della sposa
Character: Antuono
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds.
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The Vesuvians
Title: The Vesuvians
Character: (segment "La stirpe di Iana") (as Franco Iavarone)
Released: June 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
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Cartoni animati
Title: Cartoni animati
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Title: Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Character: Gentleman (as Franco Iavarone)
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
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The Voice of the Moon
Title: The Voice of the Moon
Character: Pigafetta
Released: March 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Title: What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Character: De Crescenzo, lo strozzino (as Giovanni Javarone)
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
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, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
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Race to Danger
Title: Race to Danger
Character: (as Franco Iavarone)
Released: April 14, 1988
Type: Movie
A sailor who landed on the ground only for a bank deposit found himself involved in a spin of misadventures and vicissitudes. He will have to retrieve his ten thousand dollars (to invest in the opening of a Tahiti bar) before the ship resumes.
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32nd of December
Title: 32nd of December
Character: Peppe o' criminale (segment "I penultimi fuochi")
Released: January 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Three episodes about the relativity of time.
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Mai con le donne
Title: Mai con le donne
Character: Capo Gang
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Gino Chelli spends his days between work, his friend Beppe and his contentious girlfriend Tea. He spends the nights dreaming about her former classmate Liza, who now is a famous star. One day, she comes back in town.
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Sue Me
Title: Sue Me
Character: Rosario Mancuso
Released: January 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems.
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Thus Spoke Bellavista
Title: Thus Spoke Bellavista
Character: l'avvocato Russo
Released: October 6, 1984
Type: Movie
In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual.
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Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
Title: Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
Character: Il Rosso
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Title: Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: Re dell'occulto (episodio "Il pelo della disgrazia")
Released: November 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
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Title: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Character: Commissario capo
Released: September 18, 1983
Type: TV
Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.
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State buoni se potete
Title: State buoni se potete
Character: Il capitano delle guardie
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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Grog
Title: Grog
Character: Pasquale
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
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Ad ovest di Paperino
Title: Ad ovest di Paperino
Character: Notturno
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
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 joke that refers to the Tuscan village of Paperino, which is a district of Prato; the film's surreal and grotesque undertones are also hinted by the title itself, since "Paperino" is also the Italian name for Donald Duck.
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Lacrime napulitane
Title: Lacrime napulitane
Character: ingegnere (come Franco Iavarone)
Released: June 28, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Soup
Title: The Soup
Character: Assaggiatore
Released: February 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
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Fontamara
Title: Fontamara
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
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The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Title: The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Character: The Watchman
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Commissario
Released: November 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
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Le rose di Danzica
Title: Le rose di Danzica
Character: Klaus von Knobelsdorf
Released: November 23, 1979
Type: Movie
The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.
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Island of the Fishmen
Title: Island of the Fishmen
Character: Jose
Released: January 18, 1979
Type: Movie
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
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Orchestra Rehearsal
Title: Orchestra Rehearsal
Character: Bass tuba player
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
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Gambling City
Title: Gambling City
Character: Lisander (as Giovanni Javarone)
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for them, she is the girl of Corrado, the son of "The President"...