The best Giovanni Cianfriglia’s action movies

Giovanni Cianfriglia

Giovanni Cianfriglia

05/04/1935 (88 años)
Today we present the best Giovanni Cianfriglia’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 Giovanni Cianfriglia’s movies.
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Crime Busters

Crime Busters
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 01/04/1977
  • Character: Racket in the bowling alley
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

Banana Joe

Banana Joe
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Torcillo's Schläger
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.

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
7.1/10
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure

Watch Out, We're Mad

Watch Out, We're Mad
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/03/1974
  • Character: Boxer in Gymnasium (uncredited)
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

Keoma

Keoma
7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 25/11/1976
  • Character: Gang Member
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid
6.1/10
A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."

2019: After the Fall of New York

2019: After the Fall of New York
5.5/10
After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.

They Called Him Bulldozer

They Called Him Bulldozer
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 15/09/1978
  • Character: Soldier #4 (uncredited)
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

Bomber

Bomber
6.2/10
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 19/02/1976
  • Character: D'Anjou (uncredited)
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Fear Over the City

Fear Over the City
6.9/10
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun
5.6/10
In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive.

Ironmaster

Ironmaster
4.6/10
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.

Escape from the Bronx

Escape from the Bronx
4.7/10
A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 27/08/1976
  • Character: Club Bouncer
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).

Milano-Palermo: Il Ritorno

Milano-Palermo: Il Ritorno
4.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/11/2007
  • Character: Giovanni - Shooting Victim

The Big Racket

The Big Racket
7.1/10
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorising a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth. As a result, the owner's young daughter is raped, and the violence continues. Discovering that the gang is associated with drug dealers, Palmieri is forbidden to continue investigating his case by his superior - so he takes matters into his own hands. Palmieri recruits a couple of men who have become victims of the gang and sets out for a bloody revenge.

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone
6.2/10
During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
3.7/10
A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.

Tuareg: Desert Warrior

Tuareg: Desert Warrior
5.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 12/03/1984
  • Character: Mubalak
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.

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