Franco Javarone
Also Known As: Franco Iavarone, Giovanni Javarone, Gianni Javarone
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Birthday: February 17, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Il viaggio della sposa
Overview: 17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Sue Me
Overview: Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-17
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Gambling City
Overview: Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for them, she is the girl of Corrado, the son of "The President"...
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-23
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Lacrime napulitane
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-06-28
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Overview: Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Race to Danger
Overview: A sailor who landed on the ground only for a bank deposit found himself involved in a spin of misadventures and vicissitudes. He will have to retrieve his ten thousand dollars (to invest in the opening of a Tahiti bar) before the ship resumes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-04-14
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Mai con le donne
Overview: Gino Chelli spends his days between work, his friend Beppe and his contentious girlfriend Tea. He spends the nights dreaming about her former classmate Liza, who now is a famous star. One day, she comes back in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Fontamara
Overview: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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N'Gopp
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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The Soup
Overview: Two homeless men in Rome are arrested due to a misunderstanding. In jail, they meet a man who has been arrested for eating and running from restaurants. Together they embark on a series of escapades around Tuscany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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Vieni a vivere a Napoli!
Overview: Naples is a city that contains many worlds and welcomes them all like a loving mother. Don't be fooled by the invitation contained in the title, however, it could contain a joke: to live here you need the right stomach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Grog
Overview: Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Last Tango
Overview: Alberto Tango is the owner of a small and shabby detective agency in the area close to Naples. His collaborator is Corrado, naive boy with some problems of mental stability. Tango lives by his tricks, often at the limit of legality, to fill the huge debt that he has contracted with the cynical Rava, his ex former employer and current creditor. Tango receives a call from Sergio Tudisco, an important industrial man. He wants to hire him to find her daughter Olga, rebel girl run away. Tudisco gives Tango the sum that would solve the problems with Rava. Tango accepts after a hesitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-22
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Le rose di Danzica
Overview: The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Overview: The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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Ad ovest di Paperino
Overview: It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. The film is set in Florence, Tuscany, with some scenes shot in Prato.The title is an inside joke that refers to the Tuscan village of Paperino, which is a district of Prato; the film's surreal and grotesque undertones are also hinted by the title itself, since "Paperino" is also the Italian name for Donald Duck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-24
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Our Italian Husband
Overview: When Vincenzo Scocozza , an Italian immigrant sculptor living and working in Manhattan, weds the expectant Charlene Taylor, it over complicates his life for he is already married
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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The Three-Legged Fox
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Ribelli per caso
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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32nd of December
Overview: Three episodes about the relativity of time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-28
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Orchestra Rehearsal
Overview: An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Mater natura
Overview: About the misadventures of Desiderio, a pretty young Neapolitan transsexual, and of her group of transvestite friends. Disappointed in love and politics, they set up an organic farm and psychological help centre for men in crisis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-29
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The Voice of the Moon
Overview: Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-05
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Suddenly Heaven
Overview: A confirmed bachelor sees his beliefs about commitment put to the test when a beautiful woman—deserted by her fiancée—forces him to take his place in the romantic trip she had planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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Pinocchio
Overview: Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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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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Solino
Overview: The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-09-23
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Leopardi
Overview: In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Li chiamarono... briganti!
Overview: The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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The Vesuvians
Overview: Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Overview: Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Cartoni animati
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Thus Spoke Bellavista
Overview: In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-06
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Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Overview: An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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Island of the Fishmen
Overview: After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-18
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St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor
Overview: Giuseppe Moscati, Doctor saint of Naples, was a doctor of the early twentieth century, from an aristocratic family devoted his career to serving the poor. The film focuses on the human side, partially leaving aside the spiritual part.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Good News
Overview: A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-24
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