The best Franco Giacobini’s movies

Franco Giacobini

Franco Giacobini

15/03/1926- 27/12/2015
Today we present the best Franco Giacobini’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Franco Giacobini’s movies.
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La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1960
  • Character: Journalist at the Telephone (uncredited)
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

The Mercenary

The Mercenary
7.1/10
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyHistoryWar
  • Release: 14/02/1963
  • Character: Sergente maggiore (uncredited)
The Shortest Day is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles. Dozens of many other well-known actors accepted to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free, to avert the bankruptcy of the production company Titanus.

Sing Sing

Sing Sing
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/10/1983
  • Character: il barone Orfeo della Torre
Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...

It Can Be Done, Amigo

It Can Be Done, Amigo
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 31/03/1972
  • Character: L'uomo chi mangia la terra
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

Erik the Conqueror

Erik the Conqueror
6.2/10
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

Totò diabolicus

Totò diabolicus
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/04/1962
  • Character: Dottor Santoro
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.

Run with the Devil

Run with the Devil
7/10
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.

Operation Kid Brother

Operation Kid Brother
3.5/10
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.

Il gatto mammone

Il gatto mammone
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/12/1975
  • Character: Priest
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1963
  • Character: The Lawyer Ovidio (segment "Società calcistica, La")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/11/1977
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.

Lo smemorato di Collegno

Lo smemorato di Collegno
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/09/1962
  • Character: Giornalista

I motorizzati

I motorizzati
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1962
  • Character: Alberto
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

Scrivilo sui muri

Scrivilo sui muri
3.9/10
Sole, an university student bored of her daily routine, meets Pierpaolo and Alex and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them.

Totò Sexy

Totò Sexy
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/09/1963
  • Character: Un galeotti
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.

Hercules in the Haunted World

Hercules in the Haunted World
6.2/10
Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.

Il mantenuto

Il mantenuto
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1961
Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.

Assassination in Rome

Assassination in Rome
5.3/10
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/02/1971
  • Character: Boemondo
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

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