
Directing
Luciano Salce
Born 1922-09-25 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil.
Acting credits
6.8A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973
5.4During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971
5.5A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
The Girl of a Thousand Months
1961
6.4Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
The Shortest Day
1963
3.7An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.
Fancy a Woman
1978
4.6In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
Anyone Can Play
1967
5.2Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
Homo Eroticus
1971
6.9Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
Vieni avanti cretino
1982
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
5.4Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
The Landlord
1976
7.0A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.
Angela
1951
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.0A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Hector the Mighty
1972
4.6Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa studying Latin and starts giving her some lessons. Soon they fall in love.
Do Not Commit Adultery
1971
5.1Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
Three Tough Guys
1974
4.0A bourgeois family man falls in love with an uninhibited hippie girl who just wants to have fun and enjoy a libertine lifestyle. She makes him suffer and gives herself to everybody but him. He is so madly in love with her that he even gets in trouble with the police.
Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
1970
5.4Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
What's Your Sign?
1975
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
5.7Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.
I baccanali di Tiberio
1960
5.7Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Totò in the Moon
1958
5.1Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
4.0A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
The Married Priest
1970
7.3Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
Night Police Station
1974
6.4In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972
Behind the camera
5.4Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
The Queens
1966
5.4Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
The Queens
1966
6.5Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Medicine Italian Style
1969
4.8An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
How I Learned to Love Women
1966
5.3Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love. Segment 1: Scandaloso / The Scandal (Franco Rossi) Segment 2: Peccato nel poeriggio / Sin in the Afternoon (Elio Petri) Segment 3: La sospirosa / The Victim (Luciano Salce) Segment 4: Gente moderna / Modern People (Mario Monicelli)
High Infidelity
1964
7.5The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
The Second Tragic Fantozzi
1976
5.8In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
1978
7.8A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975
7.8A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975
6.6A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Crazy Desire
1962
6.6A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Crazy Desire
1962
5.4The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
The Precarious Bank Teller
1980
5.4The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
The Precarious Bank Teller
1980
6.9Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
Vieni avanti cretino
1982
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.6Rossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the "greasy pole", which is the economic miracle, is only an illusion, and the world is far more ruthless than she could believe. But fate brings together Giuliano, the only man who did not ask for anything and who - like her - is not inclined to compromise.
La cuccagna
1962
6.6Rossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the "greasy pole", which is the economic miracle, is only an illusion, and the world is far more ruthless than she could believe. But fate brings together Giuliano, the only man who did not ask for anything and who - like her - is not inclined to compromise.
La cuccagna
1962
4.0A bourgeois family man falls in love with an uninhibited hippie girl who just wants to have fun and enjoy a libertine lifestyle. She makes him suffer and gives herself to everybody but him. He is so madly in love with her that he even gets in trouble with the police.
Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
1970
6.2Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974
6.2Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974
6.1When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
Duck in Orange Sauce
1975
6.3Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
Snow Job
1965
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970