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Giancarlo Giannini

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
Secret of Santa Vittoria, TheSecret of Santa Vittoria, The (1969)
Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Hardy Kruger
Bombastic war comedy with Quinn as a wine sodden local buffoon who through a number of contrivances becomes town mayor. When the townsfolk learn of a…
Seduction of Mimi, TheSeduction of Mimi, The (1972)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
Love and Anarchy (1973)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni
Cult director Lina Wertmuller's political parable about the would–be assassin of Mussolini who falls in love with a prostitute at his…
Seven BeautiesSeven Beauties (1975) Recommended
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler
Wimpish Casanova Giancarlo Giannini is cast wherever the winds of WWII fling him: eventually into a German concentration camp run by Shirley Stoler…
L'InnocenteL'Innocente (1976) Recommended
Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill
Visconti's swan–song is an exquisite noble period drama in which a faithless husband in driven to extremes when his wife bears a child to…
Blood FeudBlood Feud (Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova - si sospettano moventi politici) (1978)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini
Convoluted romantic drama set against the rise of Mussolini has recently widowed Loren torn between an attorney and petty thief. Overheated (and…
Lili MarleenLili Marleen (1980)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
Fassbinder's fact–based account of the recording of the Nazi anthem, sung by a jaded cabaret singer with a Jewish love interest.
American DreamerAmerican Dreamer (1984)
Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti
Comedy adventure in which a fed–up housewife pens a story about a spy and wins a trip to Paris where she starts to believe she is the spy in…
Like Two CrocodilesLike Two Crocodiles (1994)
Dir. Giacomo Campiotti
Feat. Angela Baraldi, Fabrizzio Bentivoglio, Sandrine Dumas
Various step–brothers feud like crocodiles when their bigamist father is forced by circumstances to reconcile his unknowing progeny. Attractive…
Dune (TV Series)Dune (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. John Harrison
Feat. William Hurt, Alec Newman, Giancarlo Giannini
Frank Herbert’s sci–fi classic, a mixture of New Testament, pulp fantasy and T.E. Lawrence, where the galaxy is enslaved to a…
DarknessDarkness (2002)
Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen
The dir. of THE NAMELESS proffers a largely familiar tale of a family relocating to a remote Spanish farm, and becoming entrapped in a supernatural…
A Heart ElsewhereA Heart Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) (2003)
Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Neri Marcore, Vanessa Incontrada
Seemingly a soft–centred drama set in 1930s Italy, this curious tale of blind love carries its own insinuating mood of melancholy. Marcore…
My House in UmbriaMy House in Umbria (2003) Recommended
Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini
Maggie Smith centres this superior telemovie, playing an ex–pat romance novelist whose life in Italy is disturbed when she is caught up in a…
Man on FireMan on Fire (2004)
Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell
A hard–eyed revenge thriller which sees an alcoholic bodyguard (Washington) losing a 11–yr old girl he's assigned to protect in Mexico…
Shadows in the SunShadows in the Sun (The Shadow Dancer) (2005)
Dir. Brad Mirman
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Claire Forlani, Joshua Jackson
A youthful literary editor from London (Jackson) is sent to Italy to track down a legendary reclusive writer (Keitel), esconced somewhere in the…
Catch-22 (TV Mini-series)Catch-22 (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Dir. Grant Heslov, George Clooney
Feat. Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart
Updated six–part adaptation of the difficult–to–adapt classic Joseph Heller novel, a WWII satire which was formerly adapted as a…

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