Luciano Salce

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.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 28 titles

Hospitals: The White Mafia poster
6.8

A 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

Basta guardarla poster
4.9

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.

Basta guardarla

1970

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do? poster
6.4

In 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

Hector the Mighty poster
6.0

A 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

The Landlord poster
5.4

Giorgia 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

Three Tough Guys poster
5.1

Isaac 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

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? poster
5.4

During 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

Homo Eroticus poster
5.2

Michele 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

What's Your Sign? poster
5.4

Four 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

Fancy a Woman poster
3.7

An 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

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo poster
5.1

Misadventures 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

City Under Siege poster
6.7

A 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

Night Police Station poster
7.2

Rome 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

I prosseneti poster
4.0

David 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

Son tornate a fiorire le rose poster
5.8

The 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

The Household poster
6.1

A 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

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses poster
4.0

A 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

Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe poster
5.8

Son 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

Belli e brutti ridono tutti poster
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

My Dear Nephews poster
7.0

1936. 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

Do Not Commit Adultery poster
4.6

Pino 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

Amore mio non farmi male poster
5.1

Anna 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

Tanto va la gatta al lardo... poster
5.8

Film 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

The Lady Has Been Raped poster
5.8

Good 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

Latin Male Wanted poster
4.1

A 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

La Presidentessa poster
5.6

Gobette, 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

The Married Priest poster
4.0

A 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

Ridendo e scherzando poster
7.0

Four 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

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two 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

Kiss the Other Sheik poster
6.3

Italian comedy film in three segments

Kiss the Other Sheik

1965

The Fascist poster
6.9

1944. 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

Anyone Can Play poster
4.6

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Anyone Can Play

1967

The Girl of a Thousand Months poster
5.5

A 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

The Policeman on Horseback poster
6.1

A 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

I baccanali di Tiberio poster
5.7

Cassio, 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

Coup D'Etat poster
7.8

Italy, 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

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Black Sheep poster
6.2

The 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

The Black Sheep poster
6.2

The 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

Medicine Italian Style poster
6.5

Story 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

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues poster
7.8

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues poster
7.8

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975

Basta guardarla poster
4.9

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.

Basta guardarla

1970

Basta guardarla poster
4.9

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.

Basta guardarla

1970

Kiss the Other Sheik poster
6.3

Italian comedy film in three segments

Kiss the Other Sheik

1965

Kiss the Other Sheik poster
6.3

Italian comedy film in three segments

Kiss the Other Sheik

1965

Crazy Desire poster
6.6

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

Crazy Desire

1962

Crazy Desire poster
6.6

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

Crazy Desire

1962

The Second Tragic Fantozzi poster
7.5

The 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

How I Learned to Love Women poster
4.8

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.

How I Learned to Love Women

1966

The Queens poster
5.4

Four 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

The Queens poster
5.4

Four 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

The Fascist poster
6.9

1944. 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

The Fascist poster
6.9

1944. 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

High Infidelity poster
5.3

Four 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

Where Are You Going on Holiday? poster
5.8

In 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

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday poster
6.2

Count 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

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday poster
6.2

Count 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

The Little Nuns poster
6.8

Two 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

His Women poster
5.2

Stefano 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

Duck in Orange Sauce poster
6.1

When 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

The Precarious Bank Teller poster
5.4

The 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

The Precarious Bank Teller poster
5.4

The 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

The Hours of Love poster
5.0

In "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

The Hours of Love poster
5.0

In "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

Professor Kranz german in Germany poster
5.2

The 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

The Union poster
4.9

A 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

El Greco poster
6.2

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.

El Greco

1966

El Greco poster
6.2

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.

El Greco

1966

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses poster
4.0

A 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

Let's Make It Clear poster
4.4

The 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

Vieni avanti cretino poster
6.9

Pasquale 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

La cuccagna poster
6.6

Rossella, 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

La cuccagna poster
6.6

Rossella, 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

Riavanti… Marsch! poster
4.4

Five 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

Riavanti… Marsch! poster
4.4

Five 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

I Married You for Fun poster
6.5

Pietro 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