
Directing
Franco Giraldi
Born — Died
1931-07-11 — 2020-12-02
Place of birth
Comeno, Slovenia
Known for
Directing
Credits
37 titles
Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Komen , Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia. During the Second World War , still in minor age, he helped the Italian partisans. His first professional contact with the world of cinema was as a film critic from the pages of the newspaper L'Unità. Later Giraldi had the opportunity to work as assistant director of, among others, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe De Santis, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone . Shortly after his work with Leone in A Fistful of Dollars Giraldi directed his first Spaghetti Western, Seven Guns for the MacGregors , released in 1966…
Known for
5.4Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966
9.6Documentary about Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
4.8Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.
Up the MacGregors
1967
7.4A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Baby Doll
1968
5.0No synopsis available yet.
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
5.9A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
2000s · 3 titles
9.6Documentary about Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
6.0Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Italian Kings Of B
2003
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.
Western all'italiana
2004
Behind the camera
5.4Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966
4.8Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.
Up the MacGregors
1967
4.8Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.
Up the MacGregors
1967
7.4A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Baby Doll
1968
7.4A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Baby Doll
1968
7.4A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Baby Doll
1968
5.9A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968
6.2In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Sugar Colt
1967
6.2In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Sugar Colt
1967
6.0A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
The Superwitness
1971
7.5A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.
La rosa rossa
1973
6.5A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
6.3Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
Orders are Orders
1972
5.5The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
Lonely Hearts
1970
5.5The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
Lonely Hearts
1970
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La giacca verde
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Entscheidung für die Liebe
1998
8.0An inexperienced journalist tries to discover who murdered her friend.
Voices
2002
8.0An inexperienced journalist tries to discover who murdered her friend.
Voices
2002
8.5An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
Nights of the Teddy Boys
1959
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La frontiera
1996
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La frontiera
1996
3.8Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.
Colpita da improvviso benessere
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
2002
Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995
Adventure about the life of legendary bandi Fra Diavolo (played by Tony Russel).
La leggenda di Fra Diavolo
1962
4.7Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona leads him to Italy, where she is supposed to have taken a cruise on the Mediterranean.
Buscando a Sherezade
1999
4.7Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona leads him to Italy, where she is supposed to have taken a cruise on the Mediterranean.
Buscando a Sherezade
1999
7.5A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
The Apartment
1960
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Un anno di scuola
1977
7.0To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart? While Catalan pimps and racketeers are being hustled off the streets by crime syndicates from the Middle East, Pepe Carvalho is thinking of retirement, but the need to save the soul of his beloved Barcelona forces him to take on a case that can only end in disaster.
El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
1999
7.0To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart? While Catalan pimps and racketeers are being hustled off the streets by crime syndicates from the Middle East, Pepe Carvalho is thinking of retirement, but the need to save the soul of his beloved Barcelona forces him to take on a case that can only end in disaster.
El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
