
Directing
Luciano Salce
Born — Died
1922-09-25 — 1989-12-17
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
87 titles
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.
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Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
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
6.2The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not slow to profit from the powerful characters whom he gets to know. Mario will have to serve the paradoxical consequences.
The Black Sheep
1968
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
7.8A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
1975
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
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
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Quasi quasi mi sposo
1982
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A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
1980
1970s · 28 titles
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
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
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
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
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
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
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
5.2Michele 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
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
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
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
6.7A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
City Under Siege
1974
7.2Rome 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
4.0David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy.
I prosseneti
1976
5.8The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975
6.1A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
The Household
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
5.8Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the ambitious plan to buy the respect of the villagers ...
Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
1976
4.0"L'amore e' cieco "Discovered by the usher Capocchia in intimacy with an employee, Ernesto Rossi is fired by Mr. Bani. Pretending to be blind, Rossi retaliates by seducing Mrs. Bani in the sleeping car; but in the morning, he surprised to have been robbed of the 9 million from the liquidation. "Pane sicuro" The industrialist Santucci, attracted by the graces of the servant Margherita, takes her to his villa where, blackmailed by her and her husband Carlo, he will have to promise a job to them and to the Margherita's brother. "Un bisogno urgente" Franco Pennacchi, because of his wife who forced him to gulp down a yogurt, is in urgent need to satisfy needs that put him in serious embarrassment at the airport. in the house of the lover and in the inside of the immobilized elevator of his own house. "L'erede" Having died Adolfo III of the Bisi counts, the notary Guidi communicates the will of the deceased to the widow Countess Ada and the parish priest Don Enzo.
Belli e brutti ridono tutti
1979
7.01936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
My Dear Nephews
1974
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
5.1Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation.
Amore mio non farmi male
1974
5.8Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
5.8Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.
The Lady Has Been Raped
1973
4.1A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.
Latin Male Wanted
1977
5.6Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. ..
La Presidentessa
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
7.0Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Italian actors as Walter Chiari and Luciano Salce act in this beautiful movie.
Ridendo e scherzando
1978
1960s · 8 titles
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
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.91944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
The Fascist
1961
4.6In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
Anyone Can Play
1967
5.5A 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
6.1A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
The Policeman on Horseback
1961
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
7.8Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
Coup D'Etat
1969
1950s · 5 titles
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
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
7.8Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
Maid, Thief and Guard
1958
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
6.7Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Piccola posta
1955
1940s · 1 titles
Series credits
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Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
8.0The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called “La Bella Otéro”. The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema.
La bella Otero
1984
Behind the camera
6.2The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not slow to profit from the powerful characters whom he gets to know. Mario will have to serve the paradoxical consequences.
The Black Sheep
1968
6.2The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not slow to profit from the powerful characters whom he gets to know. Mario will have to serve the paradoxical consequences.
The Black Sheep
1968
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
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
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.4Italian comedy film in three segments
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
6.6A 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
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
4.8An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
How I Learned to Love Women
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
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
6.91944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
The Fascist
1961
6.91944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
The Fascist
1961
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
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
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
6.8Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
The Little Nuns
1963
5.2Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
His Women
1961
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
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
5.0In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
The Hours of Love
1963
5.0In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
The Hours of Love
1963
5.2The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot.
Professor Kranz german in Germany
1978
4.9A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
The Union
1972
6.2Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
El Greco
1966
6.2Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
El Greco
1966
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
4.4The young manager of a small television station loses his sight following an accident. When he buys her back, thanks to a new accident, he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, that his best friend has sold the television and that the girl he was falling in love with is only an investigator of the insurance company.
Let's Make It Clear
1984
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
6.6Rossella, 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
4.4Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
Riavanti… Marsch!
1979
4.4Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
Riavanti… Marsch!
1979
6.5Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little unscrewed, and met at a party of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
I Married You for Fun
1967

