The best Gianfranco Barra’s movies

Gianfranco Barra

Gianfranco Barra

05/04/1940 (83 años)
We present our ranking of the best Gianfranco Barra’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gianfranco Barra.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley
7.4/10
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Banana Joe

Banana Joe
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Torquillo
Bud Spencer plays Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port (hence his name). One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe (in typical direct-approach manner) evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss. Torsillo finds out that Joe is trading bananas without a license and decides to exploit it. Upon his next delivery, Joe is apprehended by the police and given the choice of either acquiring a legal license or getting his boat taken away and himself arrested for illegal shipment. Joe travels to the nearest city, which to him is a new world, as he grew up in the rainforest.

Only You

Only You
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1994
  • Character: Danieli Concierge
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she may be able to finally encounter the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets the charming Peter Wright. But can they fall in love if she still believes that she is intended to be with someone else?

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
8.2/10
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Avanti!

Avanti!
7.2/10
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Heaven

Heaven
6.9/10
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

Desirable Teacher 2

Desirable Teacher 2
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1982
  • Character: Professore agli esami

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8/10
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Tigers in Lipstick

Tigers in Lipstick
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/03/1979
  • Character: Lester
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

School Teacher in the House

School Teacher in the House
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1978
  • Character: Dottor Busatti
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/08/1979
  • Character: Commissario Nardecchia
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

Don't Torture a Duckling

Don't Torture a Duckling
7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 29/09/1972
  • Character: Impallomeni (uncredited)
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Be Sick… It's Free

Be Sick… It's Free
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1968
  • Character: Dr. Sandolini
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

The Seduction of Mimi

The Seduction of Mimi
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1972
  • Character: Brigadiere Amilcare Finocchiaro
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.

School Days

School Days
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1976
  • Character: Preside
When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1976
  • Character: Portiere Nocella
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

Up at the Villa

Up at the Villa
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/04/2000
  • Character: Peppino
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

The New Monsters

The New Monsters
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1977
  • Character: il mafioso
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.

Come tu mi vuoi

Come tu mi vuoi
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/10/2007
  • Character: Professore
Giada and Riccardo are opposite. Giada takes her studies seriously. Riccardo simply wants to live the good life. A freak accident causes them to be attached by their forearms. How will they live together (Please somebody post a real overview)

An Italian Miracle

An Italian Miracle
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1994
  • Character: on. Proietti
A film in 8 episodes. A government MP from An spends a wild night of passion with a parliamenatrian from the Refoundation party; Maria Carla lets herself be go during the screening of "Dances with Wolves"; Rosalia has just got married, but the same night in a night club, she is tempted by a soap opera star ; an accountant pretends to be ill just to get in good with a well meaning nurse; a family discovers that their daughter's fiancé is a transexual; a TV compere pretends to be friends with Kevin Kostner to win over a journalist who is mad for the actor; two friends exchange wild erotic tales with each other; a husband leaves his wife in the Seychelles in the arms of a "masseuse" and does not realise that it is actually a man.

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