Armando Francioli

Acting

Armando Francioli

Born 1919-10-21 · Roma, Lazio, Italia

Acting credits

Stubborn Fate poster
5.1

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Stubborn Fate

1992

Double Cross poster
6.7

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

Double Cross

1951

Queen Margot poster
7.1

Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack...

Queen Margot

1954

Traviata 53 poster
6.9

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.

Traviata 53

1953

The Horse poster
6.9

Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...

The Horse

1970

Tower of Screaming Virgins poster
5.3

King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.

Tower of Screaming Virgins

1968

Rome 11:00 poster
7.7

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.

Rome 11:00

1952

The Merchant of Venice poster
6.7

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

The Merchant of Venice

1953

Wife for a Night poster
5.4

A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.

Wife for a Night

1952

Due soldi di felicità poster
7.0

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

Due soldi di felicità

1955

Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! poster
7.0

Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.

Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!

1953

The Pharaohs' Woman poster
8.0

A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.

The Pharaohs' Woman

1960

The Hawk of the Caribbean poster
6.5

In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere?

The Hawk of the Caribbean

1962

Aquila Nera poster
6.9

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.

Aquila Nera

1946

Se vincessi cento milioni poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se vincessi cento milioni

1953

The Mark of Kriminal poster
5.1

The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .

The Mark of Kriminal

1968

All for the Moral Majority! poster
5.6

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?

All for the Moral Majority!

1984

Dogs and Cats poster
8.0

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.

Dogs and Cats

1952

On Asphalt at Full Speed! poster
5.9

Italian racing film

On Asphalt at Full Speed!

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ritorno dall'abisso

1963

Berlin '39 poster
7.7

A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.

Berlin '39

1993

Milady and the Musketeers poster
6.8

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.

Milady and the Musketeers

1952

Beauties in Capri poster
8.0

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.

Beauties in Capri

1951

The Man From Mykonos poster
6.5

In Belgium, Silvio Donati, a young painter, meets Dorothée Yanakov, a rich woman, older than him. Tempted by her money, Silvio marries her. After a time, while in Mykonos for business, Silvio comes across Pascale, his former mistress. Soon, their flame is rekindled and Dorothée instantly becomes a disturbance. The only way out for Silvio is to get rid of his wife...

The Man From Mykonos

1966