Gianfranco Barra
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1940-04-06
Place of Birth:Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Banana Joe (1982)
Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana...

Ravanello pallido (2001)
Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma...

Screw Loose (1999)
The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and...

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad (1979)
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

Prickly Pears (1980)
Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful...

Desirable Teacher 2 (1982)
Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.

Gian Burrasca (1982)
Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his...

Love and Anarchy (1973)
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while...

Policewoman (1974)
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

Giggi il bullo (1982)
Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and...

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn (1977)
Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia...

What if Gargiulo Finds Out? (1988)
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot...

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer (1983)
Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo...

Heaven (2002)
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug...

Giovanni Falcone (1993)
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia...

Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a...

School Teacher in the House (1978)
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...

Playing the Field (1974)
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds...

The New Monsters (1977)
A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.

Execution Squad (1972)
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have...

On the Dark Continent (1992)
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local...

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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...

The Jokes (2004)
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

School Days (1976)
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....

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

The Malady of Love (1986)
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis....

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits,...

Up at the Villa (2000)
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British...

L'altra metà del cielo (1977)
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

The Baron's Mazurka (1975)
A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Po valley has for many centuries been the subject of worship. The baron, crippled and an...

Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)
Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for...

Be Sick… It's Free (1968)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

Good Like Bread (1982)
Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met...

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich (1982)
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day,...

A Bear Called Arthur (1992)
A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan,...

Tigers in Lipstick (1979)
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Taste of the Sea (1983)
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

Miracolo italiano (1994)
7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a...

A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)
Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout...

Il pranzo della domenica (2003)
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to...

The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
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...

Why (1971)
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But...

Dirty Linen (1999)
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market...

Come tu mi vuoi (2007)
Giada is a overachieving student who works to pay for college. Riccardo is a spoiled brat who answers her tutoring ad in order to improve his abysmal...

Silent Action (1975)
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise....

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later (1983)
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)
Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with...

The Boss and the Worker (1975)
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

Shadows Unseen (1972)
When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't...

Two Brothers in Trinity (1972)
Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who...

Lion of the Desert (1981)
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...

Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982)
Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

The Invisible Wall (1991)
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

La passione (2010)
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

Bread and Chocolate (1974)
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit...

Dirty Weekend (1973)
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"...

The Gamble (1988)
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost...

Zero in condotta (1983)
Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not...

Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)
Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

The Union (1972)
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained...

Avanti! (1972)
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...

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
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...

Double Murder (1977)
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat...

Only You (1994)
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to...

Flight of the Innocent (1992)
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his...

Il lumacone (1974)
A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.

Tre donne - La sciantosa (1971)
La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of...

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (1974)
Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of...

Benedetti dal Signore (2004)
Benedetti dal Signore is a 2004 Italian comedy television series set in a convent of Franciscan friars.

Vita di Antonio Gramsci (1981)
The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the...