Birthday:
09-18-1928
Deathday:
12-09-1992 (64 years)
Birthplace:
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Biography
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Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato , 18 September 1928 - 9 December 1992) was an Italian comedian.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with Ciccio Ingrassia but also in more dramatic material such as Comencini's 'Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat.
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Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato , 18 September 1928 - 9 December 1992) was an Italian comedian.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with Ciccio Ingrassia but also in more dramatic material such as Comencini's 'Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat.
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I due maghi del pallone
Act like Mago K. K
event1970 star_border 4.7
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The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Act like Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
event1964 star_border 5.7
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In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
Kaos
Act like Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")
event1984 star_border 7.3
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Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Pugni, pupe e marinai
Act like Salvatore
event1961 star_border 4.7
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Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Stasera mi butto
Act like Bath attendant
event1967 star_border 4.9
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Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Act like Franco
event1966 star_border 5.1
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The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Two Sons of Trinity
Act like Franco Trinità
event1972 star_border 4.3
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Franco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they carry out the washing and drying of the horses and a bar service for the passing riders. One day a stranger saves them from an attempted robbery against them: the girl introduces herself as Calamity Jane, as well as Franco and Ciccio's aunt.
Il mio amico Benito
Act like Terrorista
event1962 star_border 5.1
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A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Act like Principe Don Mimì
event1970 star_border 6.7
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A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
Act like Franco
event1970 star_border 5.3
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Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.
Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno
Act like Franco Pietrasicca
event1972 star_border 6
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A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Act like Franco
event1966 star_border 6
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For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
Armiamoci e partite!
Act like Franco
event1971 star_border 6.1
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Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Act like Don Franco
event1970 star_border 5.3
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Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
Two Sons of Ringo
Act like Franco Merendino / Django
event1966 star_border 5.9
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Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
I due sanculotti
Act like Franco La Capra
event1966 star_border 5.8
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The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
Farfallon
Act like Farfallon
event1974 star_border 6.6
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A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Gerarchi si muore
Act like Scilla
event1961 star_border 5.4
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Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
Act like Nicolino Celletti
event1964 star_border 4.9
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A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Act like Sancio Panza
event1968 star_border 6.2
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Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
I 2 deputati
Act like Franco Franchini
event1969 star_border 6.2
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Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
The Nephews of Zorro
Act like Franco La Vacca
event1968 star_border 5.7
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Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
5 marines per 100 ragazze
Act like factotum
event1961 star_border 5.6
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Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Act like Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
event1975 star_border 4.8
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An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Act like Franco La Rapa
event1969 star_border 6
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Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
Act like Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
event1968 star_border 5.5
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A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
Those Two in the Legion
Act like Franco Cocuzza
event1962 star_border 6.2
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Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
The Swindlers
Act like Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
event1963 star_border 5.9
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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.
The Masseuses
Act like Franco - Nightwatchman #1
event1962 star_border 5.4
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Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Two Escape from Sing Sing
Act like Franco
event1964 star_border 5.4
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Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
Two Public Enemies
Act like Franco
event1964 star_border 5.4
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Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Act like Franco
event1966 star_border 6.1
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Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Act like Franco
event1967 star_border 5.7
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Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
Act like Franco
event1970 star_border 6.5
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Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
002 Operation Moon
Act like Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
event1965 star_border 5.6
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KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.
Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Act like Franco La Pera
event1965 star_border 5.6
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During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
Blue Tango
Act like Gaetano Buttitta
event1987 star_border 2
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Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
The Shortest Day
Act like Franco Lo Grugno
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Those Sweet Creatures
Act like Franco Samperi
event1970 star_border 5.1
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An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.
Sedotti e bidonati
Act like Franco
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
I due vigili
Act like Franco Lo Cascio
event1967 star_border 6
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Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Act like Franco
event1968 star_border 5.9
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Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
Scandal Nudes
Act like polizziotto Franco
event1963 star_border 2
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A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on his way.
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
Act like Franco Caterina
event1967 star_border 4.3
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A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though.
The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Act like Il brutto - Franco
event1967 star_border 5.8
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Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Act like Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
event1963 star_border 4.9
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Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Paolo il freddo
Act like Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
event1974 star_border 4.9
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A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble.
Primitive Love
Act like Franco
event1964 star_border 4.2
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"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
2 samurai per 100 geishe
Act like Franco Santuzzo
event1962 star_border 5
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Two Sicilian cousins are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they realize they will have to adapt to the local customs. The tour will turn into a long series of troubles: the Sicilian cousins, to obtain the inheritance, will have to turn into real samurai.
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Act like Socio dello scrittore
event1964 star_border 5.6
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Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
Un mostro e mezzo
Act like Franco \ Cesarone
event1964 star_border 5.9
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A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
Le tardone
Act like The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
event1964 star_border 5.2
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A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
L'onorata società
Act like Saruzzo
event1961 star_border 5.7
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Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.
Letti sbagliati
Act like Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
event1965 star_border 4.4
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Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Paths of War
Act like Franco
event1970 star_border 6
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Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
Veneri in collegio
Act like Calogero Junior
event1965 star_border 5.4
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Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée.
Queste pazze, pazze donne
Act like Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
event1964 star_border 4.3
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Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
Fistful of Knuckles
Act like Franco
event1965 star_border 5.6
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Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in ponchos, one rides a small mule, one a large one. They are gun salesmen, peddling their wares from town to town.
I due toreri
Act like Franco Scontentezza
event1964 star_border 5.8
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In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
I due mafiosi
Act like Franco Fisichella
event1964 star_border 5.4
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Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
Story of Fear and a Knife
Act like Franco
event1972 star_border 6.3
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A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
The Sons of the Leopard
Act like Franco / Maria Rosa
event1965 star_border 5.8
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Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
Act like Franco
event1973 star_border 5.5
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The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his country because he smuggled rice from Palermo to Beijing, tries to train in the art of kung-fu with disastrous results.
The World's Gold
Act like Franco Sparapaoli
event1967 star_border 5.5
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Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.
I due Crociati
Act like Franco di Carrapipi
event1968 star_border 6
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Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
I 2 pompieri
Act like Francesco Perricone
event1968 star_border 4
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The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives.
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Act like Franco Gabbiani
event1975 star_border 6.2
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Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Obiettivo ragazze
Act like Cassarà
event1963 star_border 3.8
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Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
All the Gold in the World
Act like Franco
event1968 star_border 3.7
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The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
Littlefoot the Policeman
Act like Franco Petralia
event1974 star_border 6
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Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
Act like Franco
event1970 star_border 5.2
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To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan".
Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Act like Franco
event1969 star_border 6.2
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Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo
Act like Franco / Pepito Gonzales
event1971 star_border 5.8
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Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.
Caprice Italian Style
Act like Cassio
event1968 star_border 6.2
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The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
I due assi del guantone
Act like Franco Marsala
event1971 star_border 4.6
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Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.
Il Figlioccio del padrino
Act like Oronzo Musumeci
event1973 star_border 5.6
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A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
It's a Woman's War
Act like Serg. Franco Samperi
event1971 star_border 5.7
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A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
Two Cat O'Nine Tails… and a Half, in Amsterdam
Act like Franco, il fotografo
event1972 star_border 4.2
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Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble.
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Act like Franco Bello
event1971 star_border 5.5
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During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
On the Day of the Lord
Act like Carceriere
event1970 star_border 4.3
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Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
The Last Judgment
Act like disoccupato
event1961 star_border 6.4
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The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
Il clan dei due Borsalini
Act like Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
event1971 star_border 6.6
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Italian comedy
Brutti di notte
Act like Franco / Bruto Di Notte
event1968 star_border 3.6
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Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
I tre nemici
Act like Fantuzzo
event1962 star_border 4.6
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A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.
Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Act like Franco Franchini
event1972 star_border 4.3
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The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.
Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia
Act like Franco Chiappalone
event1969 star_border 4.7
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A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.
I barbieri di Sicilia
Act like Franco Lo Persico
event1967 star_border 5.8
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In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.
L'eredità dello zio buonanima
Act like Franco Favazza
event1974 star_border 5.8
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When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren and lawyers.
I due pezzi da 90
Act like Franco
event1971 star_border 4.6
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Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico Cavallaro. The two do not know that this is a smuggler of drugs and that you want to serve them to transport the goods.
Ma che musica maestro
Act like Franco, il capobanda
event1971 star_border 5.5
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The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
Satiricosissimo
Act like Franco
event1970 star_border 5.5
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Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?
Act like Franco Benenato
event1971 star_border 5.3
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A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
The Last Italian Tango
Act like Franco
event1973 star_border 5.3
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A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
Il sergente Rompiglioni
Act like Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
event1973 star_border 5.7
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A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.
How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
Act like Franco
event1968 star_border 5.2
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Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt carrying a nuclear weapon, and he is then persued by shady spy, named Ciccio, working for a spy organization led by the sinister Dr. Si (Yes) to find the atom bomb before anyone else does to blackmail the world, which leads to Franco and Ciccio forming an unlikely alliance to get the bomb for themselves.
How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Act like soldato Piscitello
event1965 star_border 5.6
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A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
Latin Lovers
Act like Franco
event1965 star_border 5.9
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The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Avventura al motel
Act like Franco
event1963 star_border 3.8
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A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Easy Love
Act like Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
event1964 star_border 2
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Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Act like 'Occhi Svelti'
event1966
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An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
The Two Magnificent Fresconi
Act like Franco
event1968 star_border 4.9
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Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian Mafia to travel to Milan to sell a large batch of wine. At first they have little luck, but soon they notice one of their competitors having great success using beautiful women to push their product. They adopt this model aggressively, but the women they hire end up enjoying so much success that their husbands become concerned and suspicious of their activities.
The Two Parachutists
Act like Pasquale - Franco Impallomeni
event1965 star_border 5.6
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Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
Act like Matteo
event1981 star_border 3.9
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Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Act like Francheo
event1961 star_border 4.6
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Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
Il voto
event1950 star_border 6
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During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
What Are the Clouds?
Act like Cassio
event1968 star_border 8.5
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Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
Soldati e caporali
Act like Franco
event1964 star_border 4.5
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The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)
Act like Avvocato Franchi
event1964 star_border 5.8
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Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
Corpse for the Lady
Act like Gianni
event1964 star_border 5.1
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Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Canzoni, bulli e pupe
Act like Gaspare
event1964 star_border 5.7
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In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Act like Gatto
event1972 star_border 7.6
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Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
The Loves of Salammbo
event1960 star_border 4.7
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During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
Dirty Weekend
Act like Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1973 star_border 5.3
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A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Act like funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
event1969 star_border 5
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A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
Vino, whisky e acqua salata
Act like cuoco
event1962 star_border 2
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An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
Act like Franco Passalacqua
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.
The Amazing Doctor G
Act like Franco Pecora
event1965 star_border 5.6
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Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
I Kill, You Kill
Act like Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
event1965 star_border 4.2
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Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
War Italian Style
Act like Frank Scordia
event1965 star_border 5.1
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It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
Veneri al sole
Act like Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
event1964 star_border 4.6
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Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
The Maniacs
Act like Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
event1964 star_border 5
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An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
I motorizzati
Act like Un ladro di gomme
event1962 star_border 5.8
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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.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Act like Gatto (3 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7
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Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
You Jane, Me Tarzan
Act like Mercenary (4 ep.)
event1989
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The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for Carmen Russo and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio . The program also included pure variety segments, animated inserts and ballets.
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