Gianni Franco
Also Known As: Christoph Bretner
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina (cresciuto a Torino)
Birthday: April 11, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Romance Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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The Wax Mask
Overview: 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...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Ci hai rotto papà
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-03
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I Am Santa Claus
Overview: Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Rugantino
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Madman at War
Overview: A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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Rats: Night of Terror
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-08-03
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Crimes and Perfumes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-06-26
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I Won the New Year's Lottery
Overview: Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Il viaggio leggendario
Overview: Two YouTubers find themselves trapped inside a fantasy videogame. They have to restore peace in the kingdom to return home.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-23
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Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret
Overview: A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-11
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The Christmas Show
Overview: Sofia and her two sons, Ricky and Alice, lead a disenchanted life amid the many difficulties of everyday life, but for the Rovati family this will be an extraordinary Christmas. Their unexpected participation in the following reality Christmas Show, will lead them to live overwhelming situations and the arrival of the mysterious neighbor, the charming Pierre, will return to make Sofia’s heart beat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Non lo sappiamo ancora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-12-23
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A Lot Like Paris
Overview: Three estranged siblings arrange a fake trip to Paris to fulfill the wish of their terminally-ill elderly father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-01-18
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La Macchina Umana
Overview: Future. An analyst and his young patient Stefano, who is unable to relate serenely with love, talk during a psychoanalytic session. His tales of sentimental adventures become a fresco of enthusiasm and vitality, which we only glimpse in the eyes of our analyst.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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Un Colpo al Cuore
Overview: The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-10-15
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4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Overview: Four stories about football.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-18
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Il nostro messia
Overview: Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-23
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Com’è umano lui!
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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Body and Soul
Overview: Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-07-22
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My Paper Dolls
Overview: End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage from puberty to pre-adolescence experienced between first loves and rugby matches and that from the world of the countryside to the world of the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-13
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Belle da morire 2
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-21
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Casa Eden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Fantozzi The Return
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Buona giornata
Overview: A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-30
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'o Re
Overview: One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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The Comics 2
Overview: A poster worker must remove the poster of the original movie, when the figures of Renato and Paolo suddenly moves and leaves the poster driving an ambulance dressed as nurses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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I due carabinieri
Overview: Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Ma tu di che segno 6?
Overview: Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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Department Store
Overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
Overview: Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Fantozzi to the Rescue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Fratelli d'Italia
Overview: Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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Alex the Ram
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-07-21
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Mia moglie è una bestia
Overview: Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-02-09
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Diciottanni - Il mondo ai miei piedi
Overview: The story of a 18-year-old, grown up without the love of a family, and his relationships with adult women, trying to get back to normal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-19
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The Taming of the Scoundrel
Overview: A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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Colpi di fortuna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-12-21
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Il commissario Lo Gatto
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-04
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Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Overview: 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...
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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Via Montenapoleone
Overview: Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-03-13
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State buoni se potete
Overview: Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Father Hope
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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I'll Be Going Now
Overview: After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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The Final Scoop
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Squillo
Overview: Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Caccia al tesoro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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Delirium: Photo of Gioia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-04-02
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Third Person
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Si vive una volta sola
Overview: Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-04-28
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Savage Three
Overview: By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The police are convinced this recent spate of crimes is politically motivated, but world-weary veteran Commissario Santaga (Enrico Maria Salerno) suspects a far more terrifying explanation: that these young men are motivated by nothing more than boredom and disaffection at civilized society. As Ovidio's behavior escalates, a psychological game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two adversaries, building towards a shocking final confrontation.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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The Contract
Overview: Following up on a murder investigation, failed journalist Giuseppe falls into the trap of the devil.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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To Fly!
Overview: 1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape the many small daily harassment. His desire would be to become an airplane pilot and for this the notes of "Volare" by Domenico Modugno accompany his days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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A Liar in Paradise
Overview: Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-12-04
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A World of Love
Overview: The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three underage boys.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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Il destino ha 4 zampe
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-06-02
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Interferenze
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Una vita violata
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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