Gianfranco Piccioli

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Gianfranco Piccioli

Born February 26, 1944 · Viareggio, Toscana, Italy

Died November 27, 2022 · aged 78

No biography available.

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Beach HouseBeach House · 1977
Beach House
★ 6.31977
MovieComedy
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 with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Fried Crumbed BrainsFried Crumbed Brains · 1996
Fried Crumbed Brains
★ 7.51996
MovieDrama
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Valerio decide to have a trip on a house-boat with Marianna, his fiancée, and they bring Antonio with them. Antonio unexpectedly drives the boat far away till it gets stuck on a sandbank. Valerio leaves his brother and Marianna alone on the boat and goes searching for help. A storm obliges the two to spend a night together on an island. During that night Marianna discovers, step by step, the poetic and childish world of Antonio, starting to appreciate the different resources of mentally handicapped persons.
Casablanca, CasablancaCasablanca, Casablanca · 1985
Casablanca, Casablanca
★ 6.41985
MovieComedy
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
The True Life of Antonio H.The True Life of Antonio H. · 1994
The True Life of Antonio H.
★ 8.31994
MovieComedy
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.
We All Fall DownWe All Fall Down · 1997
We All Fall Down
★ 6.61997
MovieComedy
Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui.
Willy Signori e vengo da lontanoWilly Signori e vengo da lontano · 1989
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
★ 6.31989
MovieComedy
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco) · 1988
Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
★ 6.71988
MovieComedy
Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
The Story of Boys and GirlsThe Story of Boys and Girls · 1989
The Story of Boys and Girls
★ 6.71989
MovieDramaComedy
At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

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Fried Crumbed BrainsFried Crumbed Brains · 1996
Fried Crumbed Brains
★ 7.51996
MovieDrama
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Valerio decide to have a trip on a house-boat with Marianna, his fiancée, and they bring Antonio with them. Antonio unexpectedly drives the boat far away till it gets stuck on a sandbank. Valerio leaves his brother and Marianna alone on the boat and goes searching for help. A storm obliges the two to spend a night together on an island. During that night Marianna discovers, step by step, the poetic and childish world of Antonio, starting to appreciate the different resources of mentally handicapped persons.

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