Armando Francioli
Know for: Acting
Born: 1919-10-21
Place of birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Queen Margot (1954)
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between...
Traviata 53 (1953)
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the...
Wife for a Night (1952)
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Rome 11:00 (1952)
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic...
Il prigioniero del re (1954)
Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
Beauties in Capri (1951)
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Fumeria d’oppio (1947)
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate...
The Mark of Kriminal (1968)
The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a...
Milady and the Musketeers (1952)
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
The Hawk of the Caribbean (1962)
In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners...
The Pharaohs' Woman (1960)
A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When...
Paolo e Francesca (1950)
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's...
Don Cesare of Bazan (1942)
In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! (1953)
Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his...
Dogs and Cats (1952)
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years...
Stubborn Fate (1992)
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare,...
Berlin '39 (1993)
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
Il piccolo vetraio (1955)
A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot? (1971)
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an...
On Asphalt at Full Speed! (1970)
Italian racing film
The Glorious Avenger (1953)
Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
I Piombi di Venezia (1953)
An Italian historical melodrama
The Merchant of Venice (1953)
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's...
All for the Moral Majority! (1984)
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as...
Tower of Screaming Virgins (1968)
King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of...
The Man From Mykonos (1966)
In Belgium, Silvio Donati, a young painter, meets Dorothée Yanakov, a rich woman, older than him. Tempted by her money, Silvio marries her....
Double Cross (1951)
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Due soldi di felicità (1955)
A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
The Horse (1970)
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things...
Aquila Nera (1946)
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and...
Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia (1955)
Cinematic version of Rossini's opera in which Count Almaviva wins the heart of beautiful Rosina with the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville.