Franco Franchi Movies

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...

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...

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.

The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.

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...

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...

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They...

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

Italian comedy

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...

An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the...

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero...

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.