16 Movies Starring Giancarlo Giannini

Jealousy, Italian Style

Jealousy, Italian Style

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-04-30

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Spain

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (526 Reviews)

Director:

Ettore Scola

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Agenore Incrocci

Furio Scarpelli

Ettore Scola

Fullplot:

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

The Seduction of Mimi

The Seduction of Mimi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-02-19

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1026 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Lina Wertmèller (screenplay)

Lina Wertmèller (story)

Fullplot:

In Sicily, the mine worker Carmelo "Mimè" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses his job and cannot find any other job in his village that is controlled by the mobster Don Calogero. He leaves his wife Rosalia with his family and travels to Turin expecting to find a job. He finds an illegal position in the civil construction that is also explored by the Mafia and when a coworker dies in an accident, he finds that the mobsters have dumped his body on the road. However, he does not report the crime to the police and lies to the mobster Salvatore Tricarico telling that he belongs to the family of a powerful mobster. Mimi gets a metallurgic position and joins the Communist Party. Then he fall in love with the virgin Trotskyite street vendor Fiorella Meneghini and they have a boy. When Mimi witness the mobster Vico Tricarico executing several men in a hotel, he survives but he does not report to the police. Mimi is transferred to Catania in a supervisory position against his will. He brings Fiore and their son to Sicily, but he is still married with Rosalia but he claims that he is ill and does not have sex with her. When Mimi learns that Rosalia is pregnant, he finds that he is a cuckold and plots a scheme to seduce and knock up Amalia Finocchiaro, who is the wife of Rosalia's lover. But his revenge does not work as planned.

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (953 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Enrico Medioli

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Valerio Zurlini

Fullplot:

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (955 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Enrico Medioli

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Valerio Zurlini

Fullplot:

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Love and Anarchy

Love and Anarchy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-02-23

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1242 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Italy in the 30s. Tonino, a sad faced, freckled peasant, comes to Rome to kill Mussolini. He has anarchist connections, and his contact in Rome is Salome, a lively flapper and popular professional at the bordello where she lives. She introduces him as her cousin, giving him access to the brothel, and she helps him prepare for the assassination, scheduled a few days after his arrival. Within a day, he has fallen in love with Tripolina, one of the younger prostitutes. Tonino does the madam a favor, and, in exchange, Tripolina gets two days off to spend with him. How will this love affair, Salome's political will, and the assassination plans play out?

Swept Away

Swept Away

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-09-17

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (3678 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. One day she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where everyone had gone earlier. Gennarino sets up a boat but during the trip, the boat breaks down. They spend the night in the middle of the sea.

L'innocente

L'innocente

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-01-11

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (2082 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Gabriele D'Annunzio (novel)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Enrico Medioli (screenplay)

Luchino Visconti (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Luchino Visconti's last film based on a novella by Gabrielle d'Annunzio is a haunting account of aristocratic chauvinism and sexual double standards in turn of the century Italy. Giannini as the psichotic husband whose lust cannot be satisfied. Antonelli as his sensitive and tormented wife and O'Neil as cunning possesive mistress.

Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-01-21

Languages:

Italian, German, Neapolitan, Spanish

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (3343 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe.

A Night Full of Rain

A Night Full of Rain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-01-17

Languages:

Italian, English

Countries:

Italy, Canada

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(144 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Lili Marleen

Lili Marleen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-01-14

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2592 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Manfred Purzer (original screenplay)

Joshua Sinclair (screenplay)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (screenplay)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (additional dialogue)

Lale Andersen (novel)

Werner Uschkurat (German dialogue)

Fullplot:

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. One day 'Willie' helps 'Robert' but has to stay in Germany. As Willie starts to sing the song 'Lili Marleen' she becomes very famous and every soldier hears that song via radio at 8 pm. Although even Hitler wants to meet her she still does not forget 'Robert' and helps to smuggle photos of concentration camps to the free Switzerland. When 'Robert' wants to visit her he is captured he can finally get free again but he will never see Willie again until war is over.

Where's Picone?

Where's Picone?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-04-26

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (186 Reviews)

Director:

Nanni Loy

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Nanni Loy (story)

Nanni Loy (screenplay)

Elvio Porta (screenplay)

Elvio Porta (dialogue)

Fullplot:

I picari

I picari

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-12-18

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Spain

Runtime:

121 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (223 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Cast:

Writer:

Leonardo Benvenuti (story)

Piero De Bernardi (story)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (story)

Mario Monicelli (story)

Leonardo Benvenuti (screenplay)

Piero De Bernardi (screenplay)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Mario Monicelli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The adventures of two derelicts. They are prisoners in a battleship, then, after a mutiny, they succeed to become officers. They leave the boat and start to drift all around the Spain with the mere goal to reach something to eat. A prostitute could set their life.

A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-08-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Mexico

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (23069 Reviews)

Director:

Alfonso Arau

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay)

Mark Miller (screenplay)

Harvey Weitzman (screenplay)

Piero Tellini (story)

Cesare Zavattini (story)

Vittorio de Benedetti (story)

Fullplot:

A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria.

Mimic

Mimic

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-22

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (34304 Reviews)

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Donald A. Wollheim (short story "Mimic")

Matthew Robbins (screen story)

Guillermo del Toro (screen story)

Matthew Robbins (screenplay)

Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

Darkness

Darkness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Spain

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (16024 Reviews)

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Jaume Balaguerè

Fernando de Felipe

Miguel Tejada-Flores (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

There's something in this house... Something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. In fact, its milieu is darkness. Only in it can it show itself and move. It even takes its name: DARKNESS. It's lived here since someone tried to call it, more than forty years ago. Because this house hides a secret, a terrible past, an inconceivably evil act... Seven children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed. And blood, lots of blood...

Incantato

Incantato

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-01-24

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (818 Reviews)

Director:

Pupi Avati

Fullplot:

Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in Bolgna and thus produce an heir for the business. Nello stays in a guesthouse run by Arabella, a wise woman who already knows all about his situation. He shares a room with Domenico, a crafty barber from Naples. After several unsuccessful efforts, Nello meets Angela, an exuberant, beautiful young blind girl with whom he falls hopelessly in love. The girl's father and Nello's parents do not approve of the relationship, but the real problem is Angela's temperament.

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