Writing

Luigi Malerba

Born 1927-11-11 · Berceto, Emilia Romagna, Italy

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Gamecock poster
4.2

Elena and Carlo are a married couple facing sexual difficulties due to the husband's loss of virility. They explore various erotic schemes to rekindle their intimacy, but their efforts are unsuccessful. In a moment of despair, Elena attempts suicide, prompting Carlo to confront their issues and seek a resolution.

The Gamecock

1974

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover poster
5.3

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

1978

Dismissed on His Wedding Night poster
5.8

A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —

Dismissed on His Wedding Night

1968

The She-Wolf poster
6.4

A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.

The She-Wolf

1953

Jus primae noctis poster
3.9

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

Jus primae noctis

1972

The Boarder poster
6.3

A mysterious woman takes her daughter on vacation after they've been separated for several months. There, she meets some of the richest and most eccentric people, who are hiding just as much as she is.

The Boarder

1954

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Corrida!

1966

Love in the City poster
6.5

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Love in the City

1953

The Dogs of Jerusalem poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Dogs of Jerusalem

1984

Adultery Italian Style poster
6.2

A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.

Adultery Italian Style

1966

No artwork available
8.0

A beautiful witch is sent to Earth by the devil to capture the souls of a group of ambitious men.

Baciami Strega

1985

The Overcoat poster
7.0

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.

The Overcoat

1952

Invasion poster
5.0

A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.

Invasion

1970

Oh, Grandmother's Dead poster
5.7

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

1969

Di qua, di là del Piave poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Di qua, di là del Piave

1954

Catch As Catch Can poster
6.2

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!

Catch As Catch Can

1967

Where Are You Going All Naked? poster
5.0

Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house completely naked.

Where Are You Going All Naked?

1969

Women and Soldiers poster
7.0

Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.

Women and Soldiers

1955

Women and Soldiers poster
7.0

Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.

Women and Soldiers

1955

The Girl and the General poster
4.5

A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.

The Girl and the General

1967

Tre nel mille poster
7.5

A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal

Tre nel mille

1971

Body of Love poster
4.7

An estranged father and son on holiday bond over the beautiful foreign girl they find unconscious on the beach.

Body of Love

1972

The Peaceful Age poster
10.0

Simon (O.E. Hasse) fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), but now he is an old man, readying himself for death. His daily life is filled with memories, reveries, feelings, and small but meaningful encounters; these are the stuff the film is made up of. Some of the musings are of a hallucinatory nature, as when he meets with a tramp during imaginary walks. Others are more ordinary, as when he interacts with his son's family or enjoys looking at the pretty women in the building across the street.

The Peaceful Age

1975

Ai poeti non si spara poster
6.0

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

Ai poeti non si spara

1965