Franco FabriziFilmography

Giovanni Senzapensieri

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Eleonora Giorgi, Franco Fabrizi, Aldo Fabrizi, Anita Durante

Synopsis: In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the Read More

Ginger and Fred

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Martin Maria Blau

Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts Read More

Qualcosa di Biondo

Actors: Sophia Loren, Ricky Tognazzi, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: Sophia Loren plays an Italian cab driver whose 12-year-old son (played by her real-life son Edoardo Ponti) is blinded in an accident. Lacking the funds necessary for her son's operation, Sophia goes the Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell route by scouring the Italian countryside looking for her former Read More

Mi Faccia Causa

Action

Actors: Luc Merenda, Adriana Asti, Susanna Javicoli, Alberto Sorrentino

Synopsis: Bruno Martel Luc Merenda is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi Alberto Sorrentino and a Read More

L'Affaire Suisse

Actors: Jean Sorel, Brigitte Fossey, Franco Fabrizi, Paul Muller, Colette Descombes

Synopsis: In this complex political thriller, a police inspector operating out of Geneva discovers that the death of a Swiss journalist in Italy has more to do with Swiss international banking and high finance than is entirely comfortable. Indeed, as his investigation proceeds, he encounters car bombs and Read More

Gente di Rispetto

Synopsis: The Italian Man with a Flower in His Mouth bears no relation to the Luigi Pirandello one-act play of the same title. Also known as Flower in His Mouth, and The Masters this thriller stars Jennifer O'Neill as an American schoolteacher, newly arrived in Sicily. No sooner has she assumed her duties Read More

L'Agression

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Milena Vukotic, Jacques Rispal

Synopsis: An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. While stopping for gas, Varlin's wife is accosted by a gang of motorcycle thugs, who progress from ogling her Read More

Night Train Murders

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril, Gianfranco de Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Marina Berti

Synopsis: The Last House on the Left was a morally bankrupt but highly profitable film about rape, murder, and revenge. The 1978 sequel, The New House on the Left, may even be more reprehensible than the original. Whereas the murder site of the first film was a remote house, the scene of the crime in the Read More

Claretta and Ben

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Bernadette Lafont, Franco Fabrizi, Gigi Ballista

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Read More

Don't Touch the White Woman

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More

La Mala Ordina

Actors: Woody Strode, Cyril Cusack, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must take matters into his own hands to have revenge. Manhunt was also re-titled The Italian Connection to steal thunder from its French counterpart. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

La Polizia Ringrazia

Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: In this Italian crime drama, Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to Read More

Roma Bene

Death in Venice

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy (Bjorn Andresen). The relationship is ruined by Bogarde's obsession with the Read More

Le Castagne Sone Buone

Actors: Stefania Casini, Gianni Morandi

Synopsis: What started out as a one-night stand grows more complicated as television news-reporter Luigi (Gianni Morandi) encounters the traditional values not only of his girlfriend (Stefania Casini), but of the tiny provincial fishing village in which she lives. Through a series of events, he comes to Read More

L'Homme Orchestre

Actors: Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Paul Preboist, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in the house is his nephew Philippe (Olivier De Funes). One of the former residents becomes pregnant, and anonymous note labels the nephew as the father. Evans seeks out the Read More

Sissignore

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Gastone Moschin, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds a chauffeur taking the rap for his wealthy industrialist boss for a traffic accident. To add injury to insult, the driver discovers on his wedding night that he is married to his boss' mistress as well. Oscar (Ugo Tognazzi) is the little man caught in a world of Read More

Le Petit Baigneur

Actors: Louis de Funès, Robert Dhéry, Andréa Parisy, Colette Brosset, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is completed. The boat, christened Le Petit Baigneur, is wanted by the Boss (Louis De Funes), who pulls out all the stops to possess the coveted craft. Author-actor-director Dhery Read More

Madigan's Millions

Actors: Cesar Romero, Elsa Martinelli, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is the Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of the late gangster Mike Madigan (Cesar Romero). Jason meets Vick Shaw ( Elsa Martinelli) and he mistakenly takes her to be the dead mobster's mistress when in fact she is his Read More

Le Dolci Signore

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

Le Vicomte Regle Ses Comptes

Actors: Jean Yanne, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: In this stylish crime drama, a smooth-talking insurance investigator looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two famous gangs involved in a drug war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bang Bang

Actors: Sheila E., Brett Halsey, Jean Yanne, Franco Fabrizi

Signore e Signori

Actors: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Nora Ricci, Beba Loncar, Alberto Lionello, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Pietro Germi's funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about village life. The film centers on three stories exposing the sexual secrets of the Italian town of Treviso. Toni Gasparini (Alberto Lionello) pretends to be impotent in order to Read More

Una Questione D'onore

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about another family. While he is with his wife in Milan, the intended victim is killed by another man and Efisio gets credit for the hit. When his wife becomes pregnant, rumors in Read More

Io la Conoscevo Bene

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More

I Complessi

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This gang-directed comedy combines the talents of Dino Risi, Franco Rossi, and Luigi Filippo Sonego. In "A Decisive Day," Nino Manfredi plays a shy company employee who wins the heart of a longtime flame only to discover she is married. Franco Rossi directs "Complex Of The Nubian Slave" starring Ugo Tognazzi Read More

The Doll That Took the Town

Synopsis: The "doll"in this Italian seriocomedy is played by Virna Lisi. Craving attention, Virna claims that she has been robbed and assaulted. Thanks to this artifice, she becomes a celebrity, and then a high-priced model. Her chickens come home to roost when three innocent men are arrested and charged Read More

Le Facteur S'En Va-T-En Guerre

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Daniel Ceccaldi, Michel Galabru, Jacques Richard, Helmut Schneider

Synopsis: In this French drama, a Parisian postman decides to deliver mail in the army and finds himself fighting involved in the Indochina conflict. There he becomes disillusioned with the constant battles. Then he is captured by the Communists, and when at last he is liberated, he and the Cambodian woman Read More

Le Reflux

Actors: Roger Vadim, Franco Fabrizi, Serge Marquand, Michel Subor

I Maniaci

Synopsis: A minor comedy from Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2; L'Aldila), this anthology is of interest primarily to cult devotees for marking the notorious director's only collaboration with legendary "scream queen" Barbara Steele (La Maschera del Demonio). Lushly photographed and filled with Read More

Le Rat D'Amerique

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marie Laforêt, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with a shady woman and a band of gun runners who Read More

Run with the Devil

Synopsis: A group of starving Roman artists provides the focus of this episodic drama that tells the often tragic story of each of them. One commits suicide after learning that his only patron is his homosexual lover. Another, a female singer, is a nymphomaniac. A third member gives up art in favor of Read More

Noches de Casablanca

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the like-vintage Brazilian film Besame Mucho, the Italian-Spanish Besame is a confusing melange of several genres. Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet, and Franco Fabrizi are the most recognizable faces appearing on camera during the film's 101 minutes. Per the title, which Read More

The Wastrel

Actors: Van Heflin, Ellie Lambetti, Franco Fabrizi, Michael Stellman

Synopsis: This is a standard, somewhat slow-paced drama about a much-needed transformation in a husband and father. Duncan (Van Heflin) is a womanizer who has no faith in the loyalty of any woman and cannot shake that attitude after he falls in love with Liana (Ellie Lambetti) and marries her. One of Read More

Casablanca Nid D'Espions

Actors: Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet, Franco Fabrizi

Copacabana Palace

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Sylva Koscina, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: A stellar international cast compensates somewhat for the rambling plotlessness of The Girl Game. The film takes place during Carnival Time in Rio De Janeiro. As unconfined joy wafts its way through the streets, the lives of several fabulously wealthy visitors and a group of voluptuous Read More

Una Vita Difficile

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: In this slow-starting but effective drama, comedian Alberto Sordi changes hats to play Silvio Magnozzi, a man so dedicated to his high moral standards that he loses out on most of the things he wants in life -including his wife. He watches while others march up the ladder of success way ahead of Read More

Duel of the Champions

Synopsis: Set in ancient Rome, this film follows the struggle of Roman triplets as they battle their Alban arch-enemies to prevent Rome from being annexed to Alba. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Trois Vérités

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Spaak, Michel Etcheverry, Scilla Gabel

Synopsis: Skimming the surface of characterization, this romance-tragedy by François Villiers is based on a novel by Jean-Jacques Gautier and concerns the relationship between Laurent (Jean-Claude Brialy), a painter, and Renée (Michele Morgan) and her daughter Daniele (Catherine Spaak). Just when Renée and Read More

The Nights of Lucretia Borgia

Actors: Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas, Michele Mercier, Arnoldo Foa, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: The Nights of Lucretia Borgia and not her days in history are the openly seductive draw in this standard Italian costume drama with a rather weak storyline. Lucretia of the poisonous vial (Belinda Lee) lusts after the handsome swordsman (Jacques Sernas) who works for her nefarious brother Cesare. Read More

Via Margutta

Actors: Gérard Blain, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Fabrizi, Spiros Focas

Synopsis: The focal point of this standard drama by director Mario Camerini is life in the Via Margutta, an artists' sector in Rome, the Italian equivalent of Montmartre in Paris. Stefano (Gerard Blain) is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not necessarily that adroit or interested in promoting Read More

Il Moralista

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franca Valeri, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of Alberto Sordi as Agostino, the de facto head of a censorship board whose double life as a nightclub owner might raise some questions as to his censorial judgment. The Read More

Un Maledetto Imbroglio

Actors: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Cristina Gajoni, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: A puzzling crime case is methodically worked out to a solution in this excellent suspense drama by director (and lead actor) Pietro Germi. Inspector Ingravallo (Germi) is charged with an investigation into the murder of the wife of Remo Banducci (Claudio Gora). The good inspector is only human Read More

R P Z Appelle Berlin

Actors: Peter Van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Franco Fabrizi, Gino Cervi

Un Temoin Dans La Ville

Actors: Lino Ventura, Franco Fabrizi, Sandra Milo, Jacques Berthier

Synopsis: Best known for his 1978, award-winning La Cage aux Folles, director Edouard Molinaro turns to suspense in this routine psychological drama about a man (Lino Ventura) whose psyche changes into that of a serial killer. The man has been traumatized by the murder of his wife and decides to seek Read More

Racconti d'Estate

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Morgan

Synopsis: Five romantic and funny vignettes comprise this Italian anthology that is set amidst the beauty and fun of the famed French coastline. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mariti In Citta

Actors: Giorgia Moll, Nino Taranto, Renato Salvatori, Franco Fabrizi, Memmo Carotenuto

Synopsis: Told in anecdotal fashion, this lightweight comedy examines the amorous activities of husbands who remain in the city while the wives and kiddies are shipped off to summer vacation resorts (shades of The Seven Year Itch!) Most of the individual episodes are obvious in their humor and outcome. The Read More

Everybody Wants to Kill Me

Synopsis: Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their resources in hopes of pulling off the perfect heist. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Addio Per Sempre!

Sait-On Jamais?

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as Does One Ever Know and No Sun in Venice. Set in Italy, this romantic suspenser is inventively paced to the musical improvisations of the Modern Jazz Quartet. On a Venetian holiday, a Read More

Adorabili E Bugiarde

Calabuch

Actors: Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The Spanish/Italian Rocket From Calabuch is significant only as the last film of beloved character actor Edmund Gwenn. The 78-year-old star plays a retired atomic scientist who settles in a peaceful Spanish village. But he can't remain sedentary for long, and soon he's off and about developing a Read More

Racconti Romani

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Franco Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Racconti Romani (Roman Tales) is a fast-paced comedy based on the short stories of Alberto Moravia. Tying the various narratives together is a gang of young Romans who'll do anything to line their pockets with money. Unfortunately, most of their schemes are at odds with the Law, and most culminate Read More

Le Amiche

Actors: Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Valentina Cortese, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Madeleine Fischer

Synopsis: Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and makes several new friends, but is soon drawn into their extremely unpleasant lives. Clelia enters a doomed relationship with a poor architect's assistant (Ettore Manni) Read More

Il Bidone

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina, Sue Ellen Blake

Synopsis: Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini. Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, and Franco Fabrizi play a trio of con artists who victimize the Italian bourgeoisie (who are shown to be no better than the crooks). Giueletta Masina Read More

Siluri Umani

Actors: Raf Vallone, Franco Fabrizi, Andrea Checchi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Christian Marquand

Synopsis: Despite their questionable behavior during WWII, the Italians were generally cast in a sympathetic light in war films of the 1950s. In Siluri Umani (Human Torpedoes), Raf Vallone stars as a member of an elite Italian navy unit. Their mission: to attack a British convoy in motorboats armed with Read More

La Romana

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Franco Fabrizi, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: La Romana (Women of Rome) is a worthwhile early starring vehicle for Gina Lollobrigida. "La Lollo" plays a young woman who is strong-armed into a modelling career by her ambitious mother. Before long, she discovers that there's a lot more money to be had if she sells her body rather than merely Read More

I Vitelloni

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Leonora Ruffo, Riccardo Fellini

Synopsis: Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the director's hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or Read More

The Barbarians

Actors: Pierre Cressoy, Helene Remy, Vittorio Sanipoli

Synopsis: Il Sacco di Roma (The Sack of Rome) delivers what its title promises. The film is set in 1527, the year of the Spanish invasion of Rome. Before the story gets down to business -- e.g. the sacking and humiliation of the Eternal City -- the plot concentrates on the rivalry between two noble Read More