Acting

Enrico Maria Salerno

Born — Died

1926-09-18 — 1994-02-28

Place of birth

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 18 titles

Dog Lay Afternoon poster
4.5

A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her.

Dog Lay Afternoon

1976

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage poster
7.1

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

1970

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

Late Night Trains poster
6.1

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

Late Night Trains

1975

The Assassination of Trotsky poster
5.3

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

The Assassination of Trotsky

1972

Execution Squad poster
6.9

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

Execution Squad

1972

That's How We Women Are poster
6.3

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

That's How We Women Are

1971

A Second Hand Lady poster
4.7

The young Luca grew up with his uncle Augusto, owner of a shoe store. The latter, determined to "start" the clumsy nephew sexually, takes him to a brothel in Florence and throws him into the arms of the stupendous prostitute Nerina, of whom Luca falls hopelessly in love.

A Second Hand Lady

1977

Calling All Police Cars poster
6.0

Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.

Calling All Police Cars

1975

The Police Serve the Citizens? poster
6.7

In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.

The Police Serve the Citizens?

1973

The Body poster
4.8

A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.

The Body

1974

Tesoromio poster
4.4

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

Tesoromio

1979

Let's Have a Riot poster
7.1

Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.

Let's Have a Riot

1970

The Great Kidnapping poster
7.2

In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..

The Great Kidnapping

1973

Gros câlin poster
6.0

Monsieur Cousin, a lonely Parisian statistician, shares his small apartment with a python named Gros-Câlin, seeking warmth and companionship. Infatuated with his coworker, Mlle Dreyfus, he awkwardly tries to win her affection, misinterpreting social cues and struggling with human connection. His eccentric attachment to the snake alienates him further, as his longing for intimacy blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Despite seeking advice and making misguided attempts at love, he remains isolated. The film follows his tragicomic struggle, ending ambiguously as he grapples with his unfulfilled need for human warmth.

Gros câlin

1979

My Loves poster
5.9

Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant.

My Loves

1978

The Sicilian Checkmate poster
5.2

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.

The Sicilian Checkmate

1972

The Left Hand of the Law poster
6.8

After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...

The Left Hand of the Law

1975

1960s · 37 titles

Candy poster
5.1

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Candy

1968

A Train for Durango poster
5.2

Two buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.

A Train for Durango

1968

Siege of Syracuse poster
6.0

Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.

Siege of Syracuse

1960

I Knew Her Well poster
7.5

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

I Knew Her Well

1965

The Angel Wore Red poster
5.0

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

The Angel Wore Red

1960

Seven Golden Men Strike Again poster
6.1

Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

1966

The Oldest Profession poster
5.0

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

The Oldest Profession

1967

Six Days a Week poster
7.2

Maria, a young belle, expertly juggles three suitors at once by posing as her airline-hostess roommate, Silvana. Using fake flight schedules and carefully crafted lies, she keeps each man convinced he has her to himself. But when unexpected news about the real Silvana surfaces, Maria's carefully balanced double life spirals into a whirlwind of increasingly outrageous schemes to keep the truth from coming out.

Six Days a Week

1965

The Assassin poster
6.9

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?

The Assassin

1961

For Love and Gold poster
7.7

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.

For Love and Gold

1966

The Battle of El Alamein poster
5.2

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!

The Battle of El Alamein

1969

Eva poster
6.0

Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.

Eva

1962

Death Sentence poster
6.3

Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.

Death Sentence

1968

The Maniacs poster
5.2

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

The Maniacs

1964

Casanova '70 poster
6.4

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Casanova '70

1965

Bandidos poster
6.8

Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.

Bandidos

1967

Long Night in '43 poster
7.1

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Franco's father – Pino sees it all from his window, but will he tell anyone?

Long Night in '43

1960

Death Walks in Laredo poster
7.2

Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.

Death Walks in Laredo

1967

Sex Can Be Difficult poster
6.3

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.

Sex Can Be Difficult

1962

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

Backfire poster
6.3

A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.

Backfire

1964

The Conspirators poster
7.6

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

The Conspirators

1969

Escape by Night poster
7.0

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.

Escape by Night

1960

Hercules and the Captive Women poster
4.3

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.

Hercules and the Captive Women

1961

Smog poster
6.3

An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.

Smog

1962

The Scapegoat poster
6.4

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.

The Scapegoat

1963

L'Estate poster
7.0

A young student joins her rich lawyer stepfather and then her mother who the selfish man does not love, for a summer vacation in Sardinia with the man's posh friends

L'Estate

1966

Weekend, Italian Style poster
6.5

Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.

Weekend, Italian Style

1965

Seasons of Our Love poster
5.4

Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress dumps him, Vittorio returns to the town where he spent his childhood to reflect on the state of his life. Flashbacks are used to tell of Vittorio’s relationship with his parents as a child and the effects World War II had on his development.

Seasons of Our Love

1966

The Iron Mask poster
5.9

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.

The Iron Mask

1962

Sweden: Heaven and Hell poster
5.7

Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

1968

These Mad, Mad Women poster
5.0

Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.

These Mad, Mad Women

1964

I See Naked poster
6.2

Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

I See Naked

1969

Violent Life poster
7.2

Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.

Violent Life

1962

La bellezza di Ippolita poster
6.0

Luca, a petrol dealer, marries a magazine dancer, Ippolita, a girl who likes to be courted by the many passing motorists. One day, the woman discovers that her husband has betrayed her with Adriana. Ippolita decides her revenge: she assures Luke that she will keep her duties as a wife only when she too has allowed herself similar distractions. Through a series of animated events, the two resume married life: but Luca will not be able to know if Ippolita was really unfaithful to him.

La bellezza di Ippolita

1962

Three Nights of Love poster
5.9

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

Three Nights of Love

1964

Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta

1964

Series credits

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

La Famiglia Benvenuti poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Famiglia Benvenuti

1968

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio poster
8.3

The English countryside provides the backdrop for the story of the Bennet family, who are of modest social standing, and in particular for the second daughter, Elizabeth. Italian adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice".

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

1957

Julia Forever poster
7.0

Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the end of the war, their daughter Giulia is born, but Carmen returns to her husband. Two decades later, Giulia falls in love with university student Ermes Corsini. Nevertheless, he decides to marry the egocentric, but rich heiress Marta Montini. After some years and a disastrous marriage, Giulia meets the love of her life again. Ermes is annoyed by Marta, so he starts an affair with Giulia, but one day she gets a horrible diagnosis...

Julia Forever

1989

No artwork available
7.0

Italian miniseries.

Piazza di Spagna

1992

Mastro Don Gesualdo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mastro Don Gesualdo

1964

Umiliati e offesi poster
NR

The young writer Vanya is in love with Natasha, the beautiful daughter of Ikmenev, the man who raised him like a father. But the girl is infatuated with Alyosha, the son of Prince Valkovsky, an evil and unscrupulous individual who hinders the relationship by ruining Ikmenev, his administrator, and ensuring that his son chooses the rich and noble Katia. The arrival of Nelly, a fragile and restless orphan, will bring to light a distant secret and allow Vanya and Natasha to find themselves and begin their love affair. Vittorio Cottafavi expertly delves into a world full of intrigue, twists and turns, and deep emotions.

Umiliati e offesi

1958

Behind the camera

The Anonymous Venetian poster
7.4

Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.

The Anonymous Venetian

1970

The Anonymous Venetian poster
7.4

Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.

The Anonymous Venetian

1970

Break Up poster
4.5

Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason.

Break Up

1978

Break Up poster
4.5

Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason.

Break Up

1978

Dear Parents poster
7.0

An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.

Dear Parents

1973

Dear Parents poster
7.0

An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.

Dear Parents

1973

The Particular Love poster
8.0

The plot follows Manlio, an established, sophisticated architect, and his much younger wife, Cecilia. Feeling constantly neglected due to her husband's disinterest and age gap, Cecilia takes a lover out of spite to provoke a reaction.

The Particular Love

1970