Franco Giraldi

Directing

Franco Giraldi

Born 1931-07-11 · Comeno, Slovenia

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. After four westerns, in which he used the pseudonyms of Frank Garfield and Frank Prestand, in 1968 Giraldi directed his first film with his real name, the commedia all'italiana La bambolona . After some other comedies he dedicated himself to literary adaptations.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

2002

Baby Doll poster
7.4

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.

Baby Doll

1968

Baby Doll poster
7.4

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.

Baby Doll

1968

Baby Doll poster
7.4

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.

Baby Doll

1968

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die poster
5.9

A 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

Up the MacGregors poster
4.8

Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.

Up the MacGregors

1967

Up the MacGregors poster
4.8

Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.

Up the MacGregors

1967

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer poster
7.0

To 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

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer poster
7.0

To 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

La rosa rossa poster
7.5

A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.

La rosa rossa

1973

Sugar Colt poster
6.2

In 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

Sugar Colt poster
6.2

In 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

The Apartment poster
7.5

A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

The Apartment

1960

Seven Guns for the MacGregors poster
5.4

Ranch 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

Buscando a Sherezade poster
4.7

Carvalho 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

Buscando a Sherezade poster
4.7

Carvalho 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

Lonely Hearts poster
5.5

The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.

Lonely Hearts

1970

Lonely Hearts poster
5.5

The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.

Lonely Hearts

1970

The Superwitness poster
5.9

A 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

La giacca verde poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La giacca verde

1979

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer poster
6.5

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Entscheidung für die Liebe

1998

No artwork available
NR

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

La frontiera poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La frontiera

1996