Cast: Franco Citti

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Franco Citti. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Godfather

1972 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Marlon Brando · Al Pacino · James Caan · Robert Duvall

Synopsis The Godfather (1972) follows the powerful Corleone crime family, led by patriarch Vito Corleone. When an assassination attempt leaves Vito gravely wounded, his reluctant youngest son, Michael, is drawn into the family's violent underworld. As Michael takes charge, he transforms...

9.0

171K votes

9.0

171K votes

Mamma Roma

1962 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Anna Magnani · Franco Citti · Ettore Garofolo · Silvana Corsini

Synopsis In Pier Paolo Pasolini's beautiful drama, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is an ex-prostitute who tries to leave behind her past and make a life for her and her son but her evil pimp stands in her way. Dubbed obscene by...

7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

The Godfather: Part III

1990 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Al Pacino · Diane Keaton · Talia Shire · Andy García

Synopsis The Godfather: Part III (1990) follows an aging Michael Corleone as he attempts to legitimize his family's criminal empire and seek redemption for his past sins. As he navigates the complex world of business and politics, Michael faces new threats...

7.8

73K votes

7.8

73K votes

Accattone

1961 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Silvana Corsini · Franca Pasut · Paola Guidi

Synopsis Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living prostituting his female companion, Maddalena. But her arrest begins his...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Oedipus Rex

1967 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Synopsis In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

La luna

1979 · Movie · 142 min. · Italy

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Matthew Barry · Veronica Lazar · Renato Salvatori

Synopsis Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Decameron

1971 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Angela Luce

Synopsis Pasolini wrote, directed and stars in this richly textured epic based on eight tales by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini weaves the stories together into a bawdy tapestry of a medieval Italy populated by artists, priests and magicians. Appearing...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Arabian Nights

1974 · Movie · 129 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Ninetto Davoli · Franco Merli · Ines Pellegrini · Franco Citti

Synopsis In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of the Middle East, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

The Canterbury Tales

1972 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis Based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. The adaptation covers eight of the 24 tales and contains abundant nudity, sex, and slapstick humor. Many of...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Todo Modo

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Marcello Mastroianni · Mariangela Melato · Ciccio Ingrassia

Synopsis Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is supervising a group of Christian Democrats on a religious retreat. The objective is to help these politicians purify their past wrongdoings, no matter how large or small, and live closer to...

6.5

153 votes

6.5

153 votes

Porcile

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

6.3

913 votes

6.3

913 votes

Roguish Stories

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Silvano Gatti · Enzo Petriglia · Sebastiano Soldati · Santino Citti

Synopsis Rome, 1850. In prison, two young men, Bernardino and Mamonne, condemned for murder wait their own death penalty to be executed, and pass their last hours telling each other lust and castration stories (4 flash-blacks). The first story involves a...

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Ostia

1970 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Franco Citti · Laurent Terzieff · Anita Sanders · Ninetto Davoli

Synopsis Two brothers, Rabbino and Bandiera, soon familiarize with a young girl met in a park. Talking to each other about their sad and violent family experiences, the three become a group of inseparable friends. When the boys are arrested, she...

5.9

93 votes

5.9

93 votes

Beach House

1977 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Jodie Foster · Mariangela Melato · Michele Placido · Gigi Proietti

Synopsis A summer Sunday in a beach hut at Lido di Ostia (Rome). Many people and stories: a female basketball team; two fitness-mad soldiers; two petrol pump attendants with their girlfriends, and much more.

5.8

39 votes

5.8

39 votes

Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Enzo G. Castellari

Cast Chuck Connors · Frank Wolff · Franco Citti · Leo Anchóriz

Synopsis Clyde is hired by a Confederate General to carry out a raid on a Union stronghold and steal the million dollars worth of gold coins hidden there amongst an arsenal of dynamite. Clyde recruits a troop of five unsavoury characters...

5.8

77 votes

5.8

77 votes

5.6

27 votes

Let Them Rest

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Lou Castel · Mark Damon · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Barbara Frey

Synopsis The son of a Mexican bandit comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged former Confederate officer, who is--among other things--stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.

5.2

152 votes

5.2

152 votes

The Black Stallion Returns

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Dalva

Cast Kelly Reno · Vincent Spano · Allen Garfield · Woody Strode

Synopsis A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.

5.2

62 votes

5.2

62 votes

The Shortest Day

1963 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Ciccio Ingrassia · Franco Franchi · Virna Lisi · Gino Cervi

Synopsis Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

5.1

49 votes

5.1

49 votes

Il minestrone

1981 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Roberto Benigni · Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Daria Nicolodi

Synopsis The story centers around three characters who are brought together through the common human need to survive. Francesco (Franco Citti) and Giovanni (Ninetto Davoli) first meet at a garbage can, fending off a hungry dog for the scraps of food...

Not rated

Not rated