Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Acting

Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Born — Died

1943-05-20 — 2009-07-15

Place of birth

Tirana, Albania

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Francesca Romana Coluzzi (20 May 1943 – 15 July 2009) was an Italian actress. A respected dramatic actress on stage, she is probably best known for her roles in the commedia sexy all'italiana. Life and career Born in Tirana, Albania, of Italian parents, Coluzzi soon moved to Italy with her family to Perugia. As a teenager, during a student twist dancing contest, Federico Fellini noticed her and offered her a role in 8½. Coluzzi declined the offer to continue her studies, but however the encounter with Fellini marked her life, and she eventually decided to leave the university to pursue a career in the cinema. She started her career as a body double, first of Mylène Demongeot in Fantômas …

Known for

Red Sonja poster
5.4

The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.

Red Sonja

1985

Love at First Sight poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Love at First Sight

1992

The Last Days of Pompeii poster
7.5

The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth. The residents of Pompeii include Diomed, a common upstart merchant whose self-made riches from trade allow him to consider running for political office against sitting city magistrate Quintus and an impoverished aristocratic marriage for his daughter Julia; the cultivated Greek Glaucus; the gladiator Lydon; the noble-born Antonius and his sister Ione, the evil Isis-priest Arbaces who is after (their) money and power; the persecution-fearing Christian slaves Petrus, his true love Chloe, and their secret leader Olinthus.

The Last Days of Pompeii

1984

Giovannona Long-Thigh poster
5.9

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Giovannona Long-Thigh

1973

Professione vacanze poster
5.6

Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.

Professione vacanze

1987

The Cousin poster
5.4

Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.

The Cousin

1974

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Red Sonja poster
5.4

The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.

Red Sonja

1985

Desirable Teacher poster
5.6

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.

Desirable Teacher

1981

School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class poster
5.4

It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ...

School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class

1980

Quella peste di Pierina poster
3.9

No synopsis available yet.

Quella peste di Pierina

1982

Same Sea, Same Beach poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Same Sea, Same Beach

1983

The Week at the Beach poster
4.5

On holiday with his son, a father discover he is not so timid.

The Week at the Beach

1981

Hot Spirits poster
4.2

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?

Hot Spirits

1981

Champagne in paradiso poster
5.3

Musical, in the style of GREASE, with dance numbers and entertainment. Set in a high school, about the ups and downs in the love affair between Paola, the class mischief maker, and Marco, a substitute teacher.

Champagne in paradiso

1983

Massimamente folle poster
6.5

The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for unworthiness by the Institute Council; a football referee trying to escape the ire of angry fans; an endless marathon in Piazza Navona; a true but crazy producer, a not crazy but fake producer and a group of actors who want to take revenge on one and the other; a "club of toasts" that spends its time toasting to this and that, to elect new members and honorary members; finally, a censorship commission that, aboard an old and very battered car, fails to reach his workplace.

Massimamente folle

1983

1970s · 33 titles

Giovannona Long-Thigh poster
5.9

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Giovannona Long-Thigh

1973

The Cousin poster
5.4

Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.

The Cousin

1974

The School Teacher poster
5.5

A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.

The School Teacher

1975

The Italian Connection poster
7.1

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

The Italian Connection

1972

In the Highest Heavens poster
6.2

A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.

In the Highest Heavens

1977

Themroc poster
6.4

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.

Themroc

1973

Night Nurse poster
5.3

A dentist invites a elderly patient to stay at his home to recover, unaware that he is a jewel thief. He plans to steal a valuable diamond but then runs into a beautiful nurse who, aside from constantly stripping nude, has plans of her own.

Night Nurse

1979

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? poster
6.4

In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

1972

Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate poster
5.6

Robin Hood fights the evil Sheriff of Nothingham. Friar Tuck brings his friend Moi Kato, a Kung Fu master. Medival movie meets Italo Eastern.

Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate

1976

The Schoolmate poster
5.2

Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy

The Schoolmate

1977

The Smugglers poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

The Smugglers

1971

Come Have Coffee with Us poster
6.3

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.

Come Have Coffee with Us

1970

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear poster
7.0

Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

1971

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza poster
6.2

A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1975

The Highschool Girl, the Devil, and the Holywater poster
4.8

An anthology film in which a guardian angel falls in love with a beautiful dancer a policeman must keep an eye on an arrested transvestite, and a dental technician sells his soul to the devil but is not satisfied with the results.

The Highschool Girl, the Devil, and the Holywater

1979

School Teacher Dances... with Her Class poster
5.1

Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. When the boys team are invited to face off against their superior Russian counterparts, Claudia calls in her dancing girls to be used as a secret weapon.

School Teacher Dances... with Her Class

1979

The Boss and the Worker poster
4.9

Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

The Boss and the Worker

1975

Il maschio ruspante poster
7.5

Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young woman wants to marry him.

Il maschio ruspante

1973

We Are All in Temporary Liberty poster
7.0

A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

1971

Sex Shop poster
5.6

On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...

Sex Shop

1972

Il sergente Rompiglioni poster
6.1

A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.

Il sergente Rompiglioni

1973

Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia poster
5.5

A bumbling police officer suffers a series of demotions, but is determined to prove his worth. At last, he is assigned to an important case—or so he believes, since his colleagues are actually using him as bait. Despite everything, his contribution proves decisive, but even more decisive is that of his wife, a formidable karate champion, amid mistaken identities, brawls, and other complications. To display the long-awaited recognition he has earned, however, the police sergeant has to award it to himself, with the help of a porter.

Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia

1973

Karate, Fist and Beans poster
5.0

Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to Morgan, the banker, in order to free Baby, the banker's daughter, abducted by Espartero and his killers gang. A plan to 'sell' fake dollars to Espartero goes awry, but the two sons of the forger join Quint, and so does Mokaiko, a brave Japanese cook. The rag-tag band of Quinlan meets Espartero in several scraps, and then a climactic confrontation. All are ugly, bad, and dirty (except Baby), and fight accordingly.

Karate, Fist and Beans

1973

The Naked Doorwoman poster
3.9

A young girl comes to Italy to work as a concierge in a Roman apartment building, where she promptly falls into the amorous clutches of various tenants and shop workers, regardless of their age or sex.

The Naked Doorwoman

1976

Father Jackleg poster
5.5

A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.

Father Jackleg

1972

Increase and Multiply poster
4.0

Italian comedy

Increase and Multiply

1973

Occhio Alla Vedova! poster
6.7

Concetta Li Cause, deprived of her husband Oreste by the Mafia, is coveted by Bologna Marcello and Charles postman. Besides the two, there are other suitors because the widow is rich; but Cosa Nostra deploys its resources to prevent the woman from finding a new partner.

Occhio Alla Vedova!

1976

Mio Mao: Fatiche ed avventure di alcuni giovani occidentali per introdurre il vizio in Cina poster
10.0

The young Judas is a rebel intolerant of the Chinese regime, so he decides to go to China with a group of other young revolutionaries like himself.

Mio Mao: Fatiche ed avventure di alcuni giovani occidentali per introdurre il vizio in Cina

1970

Madness poster
3.2

A group of young adults go to a remote villa to do drugs and party, little realizing a woman-hating serial killer who's just escaped from an asylum is hiding out there.

Madness

1971

Ingrid on the Road poster
5.0

After being raped by her father, Ingrid moves to Rome and ends up becoming a prostitute. She finds a friend in Claudia, but Claudia's protector is a sadistic thug by the name of Renato who will show her the worst of the what life in the city has to offer.

Ingrid on the Road

1973

Storia di confine poster
NR

At the end of World War II, a village witnesses and participates in the conflict between border guards and smugglers. Between good and bad deals, hypocrisy, zest for life, self-serving love affairs, and existential doubts, the story, which offers a fresh and realistic glimpse into rural life, ends in tragedy.

Storia di confine

1972

Lady Football poster
3.0

Mario is a hairdresser and thereby maintains his large family. He is an avid footballer and, together with two friends on a football team, girls from the local orphanage. In addition, he falls in love with Elizabeth. By train a lot the team arrives at the national level and makes it even chance to win an important game.

Lady Football

1979

Peccato senza malizia poster
4.0

The young Stefania leaves the orphanage near Ascoli Piceno where she was raised and goes to live with her stepfather, a modest fisherman who lives in a shack near the sea.

Peccato senza malizia

1975

1960s · 4 titles

Serafino poster
6.0

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.

Serafino

1968

002 Operation Moon poster
5.5

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.

002 Operation Moon

1965

The Battle of the Mods poster
8.0

In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" look). Ricky, the son of a wealthy businessman, is a Mod guitar player, and in a gang fight with some Rockers, his girlfriend is killed. He leaves Liverpool for the continent and winds up in Rome, where he becomes involved with his father's mistress.

The Battle of the Mods

1966

The Two Parachutists poster
5.8

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam

The Two Parachutists

1965

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