Franco Franchi Movies

The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.

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...

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"...

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

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...

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a...

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military maneuvers. They're very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful...

An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

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...

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.

Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all...

Mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot plots another twisted scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that...

To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and...

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...

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...

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.