Gianni Franco

Acting

Gianni Franco

Born

1951-04-11 (75)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina (cresciuto a Torino)

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

Known for

Father Matteo poster
6.3

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.

Father Matteo

2000

Doc poster
8.1

When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.

Doc

2020

The Cesaronis poster
7.2

Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.

The Cesaronis

2006

Signora Volpe poster
7.2

After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Signora Volpe

2022

Third Person poster
5.9

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.

Third Person

2014

The Boys of 3rd C poster
5.9

Rome, late 1980s, Leopardi Classical High School. This is where the various protagonists of the series meet and experience the epic, hilarious exploits of their classmates in 3C, the most outgoing high school students of the entire school year. Bruno Sacchi, a shy, rather plump boy, often awkward but with a big heart. Chicco Lazzaretti, the classic, tireless repeater, obsessed with school and his classmates, always ready to answer teachers in funny ways to distract his classmates. Of course, Daniele and Rossella, typical sweethearts who have grown up together since childhood, are also present, along with the beautiful, blonde Sharon Zampetti, desired by everyone.

The Boys of 3rd C

1987

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Si vive una volta sola poster
5.6

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.

Si vive una volta sola

2021

My Paper Dolls poster
6.0

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 of the countryside to the world of the city.

My Paper Dolls

2023

I Am Santa Claus poster
6.4

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…

I Am Santa Claus

2021

The Warmth Of Dance poster
6.2

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 Warmth Of Dance

2026

The Contract poster
NR

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

The Contract

2024

A Lot Like Paris poster
5.8

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

A Lot Like Paris

2024

The Christmas Show poster
4.9

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.

The Christmas Show

2022

Com’è umano lui! poster
5.8

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.

Com’è umano lui!

2024

Il viaggio leggendario poster
5.8

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

Il viaggio leggendario

2023

2010s · 7 titles

Third Person poster
5.9

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.

Third Person

2014

Deathcember poster
5.3

Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.

Deathcember

2019

Buona giornata poster
5.0

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.

Buona giornata

2012

Ma tu di che segno 6? poster
4.7

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

Ma tu di che segno 6?

2014

Dogman's Rabies: Underdog poster
5.8

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...

Dogman's Rabies: Underdog

2018

Colpi di fortuna poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Colpi di fortuna

2013

Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi poster
5.5

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.

Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi

2011

2000s · 11 titles

Il pranzo della domenica poster
6.3

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.

Il pranzo della domenica

2003

Father Hope poster
6.1

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.

Father Hope

2002

Alex the Ram poster
2.4

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.

Alex the Ram

2000

No artwork available
NR

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.

A Colombia

2006

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting poster
5.7

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?

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting

2002

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo poster
5.4

Four stories about football.

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

2006

Il destino ha 4 zampe poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il destino ha 4 zampe

2002

Un Colpo al Cuore poster
7.0

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

Un Colpo al Cuore

2000

A World of Love poster
3.6

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.

A World of Love

2003

Belle da morire 2 poster
2.0

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.

Belle da morire 2

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Interferenze

2009

1990s · 16 titles

The Phantom of the Opera poster
4.7

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.

The Phantom of the Opera

1998

Fantozzi to the Rescue poster
6.0

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.

Fantozzi to the Rescue

1990

The Wax Mask poster
5.6

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...

The Wax Mask

1997

Ci hai rotto papà poster
6.1

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.

Ci hai rotto papà

1993

I Don't Speak English poster
5.4

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. Learning English hasn't been never so hard.

I Don't Speak English

1995

Fantozzi The Return poster
5.8

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?

Fantozzi The Return

1996

I'll Be Going Now poster
6.1

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.

I'll Be Going Now

1991

The Final Scoop poster
5.2

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.

The Final Scoop

1994

The Comics 2 poster
5.7

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 and then work as a Santa Claus in a Department Store.

The Comics 2

1991

Body and Soul poster
3.2

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

Body and Soul

1997

Non lo sappiamo ancora poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Non lo sappiamo ancora

1999

A Liar in Paradise poster
6.0

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

A Liar in Paradise

1998

Perdiamoci di vista poster
6.1

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

Perdiamoci di vista

1994

Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret poster
3.7

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

Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret

1995

Rugantino poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rugantino

1998

Squillo poster
3.7

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.

Squillo

1996

1980s · 16 titles

Rats: Night of Terror poster
4.8

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.

Rats: Night of Terror

1984

The Taming of the Scoundrel poster
7.1

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

The Taming of the Scoundrel

1980

Delirium: Photo of Gioia poster
5.5

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.

Delirium: Photo of Gioia

1987

Il commissario Lo Gatto poster
6.2

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.

Il commissario Lo Gatto

1986

State buoni se potete poster
6.9

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

State buoni se potete

1983

Fratelli d'Italia poster
5.6

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

Fratelli d'Italia

1989

Phantom of Death poster
5.6

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 phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...

Phantom of Death

1988

Madman at War poster
5.8

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

Madman at War

1985

Crimes and Perfumes poster
4.7

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.

Crimes and Perfumes

1988

'o Re poster
6.6

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.

'o Re

1989

Department Store poster
5.8

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

Department Store

1986

I due carabinieri poster
6.1

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.

I due carabinieri

1984

Petomaniac poster
6.0

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

Petomaniac

1983

I Won the New Year's Lottery poster
6.0

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...

I Won the New Year's Lottery

1989

Mia moglie è una bestia poster
4.5

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 thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman.

Mia moglie è una bestia

1988

Via Montenapoleone poster
3.8

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.

Via Montenapoleone

1987

Series credits

Father Matteo poster
6.3

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.

Father Matteo

2000

Father Matteo poster
6.3

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.

Father Matteo

2000

Doc poster
8.1

When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.

Doc

2020

The Cesaronis poster
7.2

Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.

The Cesaronis

2006

Signora Volpe poster
7.2

After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Signora Volpe

2022

The Boys of 3rd C poster
5.9

Rome, late 1980s, Leopardi Classical High School. This is where the various protagonists of the series meet and experience the epic, hilarious exploits of their classmates in 3C, the most outgoing high school students of the entire school year. Bruno Sacchi, a shy, rather plump boy, often awkward but with a big heart. Chicco Lazzaretti, the classic, tireless repeater, obsessed with school and his classmates, always ready to answer teachers in funny ways to distract his classmates. Of course, Daniele and Rossella, typical sweethearts who have grown up together since childhood, are also present, along with the beautiful, blonde Sharon Zampetti, desired by everyone.

The Boys of 3rd C

1987

Corleone poster
7.9

The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.

Corleone

2007

I misteri di Cascina Vianello poster
NR

I misteri di Cascina Vianello is an Italian television series.

I misteri di Cascina Vianello

1997

Un matrimonio poster
NR

The story, based on the lives of the director's parents, is set in Bologna and begins on the banks of the Reno River. The protagonists are Francesca Osti, daughter of a socialist worker, and Carlo Dagnini, son of a middle-class merchant. Within a few years, Francesca and Carlo leave their respective partners and begin a relationship despite their social and political differences. However, Carlo and Francesca are forced to return to Bologna to their families, partly due to the attack on Togliatti.

Un matrimonio

2013

Fog and Crimes poster
7.5

Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series.

Fog and Crimes

2005

Anna e i cinque poster
NR

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.

Anna e i cinque

2008

Il Sistema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il Sistema

2016

Anni '60 poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Anni '60

1999

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camilla parlami d'amore

1992

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il ricatto

1989