Gianni Franco

Acting

Gianni Franco

Born 1951-04-11 · Buenos Aires, Argentina (cresciuto a Torino)

Acting credits

The Taming of the Scoundrel poster
7.2

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

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

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

Delirium: Photo of Gioia poster
5.4

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

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

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

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

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

The Wax Mask poster
5.7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Petomaniac poster
5.9

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

Petomaniac

1983

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

The Final Scoop poster
5.4

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

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

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

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

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

A Lot Like Paris poster
5.7

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

A Lot Like Paris

2024