Franca Scagnetti

Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1978

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.

Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina"...

The history of Rome revisited by the group of Bagaglino (Franco, Montesano, Castellacci and Pingitore). Romulus kills Remus, but also manages to get...

Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband,...

Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela,...

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban...

Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in...

A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for...

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...

Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets...

A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in...

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

A young woman struggles to overcome the dehumanization of poverty.

Lucia (Natassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very...

A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the...

The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.

The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they...

Leonidas, of noble lineage but poor, serves in the house of Count Aristide Of the Fava Dongo, waiting patiently for his death to arrive. He dies at...

A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends.

A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the...

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself...

Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.

A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.

Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they...

Daniela, a true Roman girl with a big face, weighs over a hundred kilos and always has the joke ready. She cohabits in a tiny apartment with her...

Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight...

Three friends, Fulvio, Marco and Filippo who are employed in a company that sells agricultural machinery are working under contract in socialist...

Two scoundrels - Tizio and Caio - didn't want to get into the military service so they decide to escape dressed in women's clothes, but were caught...

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.

A group of five people is going to vacation on the island of Rhodes: among them is the good-natured Augusto, who intends to bring a cactus to the...

A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.

Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and...

Carlo, a thirty-something man-child, platonically falls in love with eleven-year-old Giulia.

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for...

The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern.

A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense,...

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.

Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the...

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.

Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men...

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

A group of friends decide to go on vacation and they use an agency, the Via Col Vento tours, to organize it. The latter promises them a holiday of...

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life,...

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.

Two scoundrels - Tizio and Caio - didn't want to get into the military service so they decide to escape dressed in women's clothes, but were caught...

Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected...

The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes...

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the...

Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the...

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has...

Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman...

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.

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his...

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"...

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be...

Spain, occupied by the French. Zorro, the intrepid swordsman, has an accident. As a result, his friend, Father Donato, is forced by oath to find a...

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.

Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court,...

Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He...

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of...

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is...

A middle-age businessman marries a much younger woman, but is still carrying on with his sexy secretary. He somehow still has the energy, however, to...

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...

Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks...

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in...

A young Roman receives from his mother, who is dying, a shocking news: he is the natural son of Adolf Hitler, conceived during a fling between the...

Due to a mistake by the travel agency she works for, a young woman finds herself deeply in debt and stranded in a tourist resort full of incredibly...

Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her...

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...

A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon...