Edwige Fenech

Acting

Edwige Fenech

Born

1948-12-24 (77)

Place of birth

Annaba, Algeria

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Fenech was born in Bône (now Annaba), in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known for her erotic comedies, and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel. Fenech also achieved fame with giallo and sex films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Sex with a Smile, many of which were directed by Sergio Martino. In the 1980s, she became a television personality, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television. In the mid-1990s, she was engaged to the well-k…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

1980s · 14 titles

Ace poster
6.2

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Ace

1981

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town poster
5.5

Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town

1980

The Paramedic poster
4.5

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

The Paramedic

1982

Sugar, Honey and Pepper poster
5.9

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

1980

Shut Up When You Speak! poster
6.3

Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle. In reality he is unemployed, overwhelmed by an obsessive mother who continually called to see if he wore his woolen tank top and is treated by a doctor who thinks he is Einstein. Finally Giacomo is followed by bizarre characters, kidnapped and taken to Tunisia to live a wonderful adventure of her dreams, from the dangers of any kind ... and he met Beatrice

Shut Up When You Speak!

1981

An Ideal Adventure poster
5.0

Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.

An Ideal Adventure

1982

I'm Photogenic poster
5.4

Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.

I'm Photogenic

1980

Catherine and I poster
5.3

Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.

Catherine and I

1980

A Policewoman in New York poster
4.5

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

A Policewoman in New York

1981

Don't Play with Tigers poster
5.7

A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.

Don't Play with Tigers

1982

Phantom of Death poster
5.6

Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...

Phantom of Death

1988

Vacanze in America poster
5.8

A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.

Vacanze in America

1984

The Good Thief poster
6.4

Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.

The Good Thief

1980

Cream Horn poster
5.7

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.

Cream Horn

1981

1970s · 33 titles

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers poster
4.9

Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers

1978

The Lady Medic poster
4.2

A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.

The Lady Medic

1976

Naughty Nun poster
5.2

To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.

Naughty Nun

1972

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony poster
4.6

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

1973

Giovannona Long-Thigh poster
5.9

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Giovannona Long-Thigh

1973

All the Colours of the Dark poster
6.6

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.

All the Colours of the Dark

1972

School Teacher in the House poster
5.8

Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.

School Teacher in the House

1978

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh poster
6.8

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

1971

The School Teacher poster
5.5

A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.

The School Teacher

1975

Strip Nude for Your Killer poster
5.5

After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.

Strip Nude for Your Killer

1975

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad poster
5.2

The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad

1979

My Sister in Law poster
5.5

Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who set her twin sister Rosa — a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star — up to impersonate Viola and demolish her reputation. To complicate things even further, Viola is torn between enforcing the law or giving up her seat on the bench to marry her childhood friend.

My Sister in Law

1976

Confessions of a Lady Cop poster
6.0

Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.

Confessions of a Lady Cop

1976

The Family Vice poster
5.3

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.

The Family Vice

1975

Five Dolls for an August Moon poster
5.8

A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.

Five Dolls for an August Moon

1970

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm poster
5.3

During the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight’s portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other’s wife — leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm

1972

The Winsome Widow poster
4.6

After the death of Salvatore in a car accident, his beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but, because the deceased did not make a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife’s legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, she will give birth to a son.

The Winsome Widow

1973

Taxi Girl poster
5.4

Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.

Taxi Girl

1977

Innocence and Desire poster
4.8

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

Innocence and Desire

1974

Saturday, Sunday and Friday poster
5.3

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

1979

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment poster
5.0

A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.

Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

1973

The Case of the Bloody Iris poster
6.4

A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.

The Case of the Bloody Iris

1972

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key poster
6.5

Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

1972

School Teacher in College poster
4.7

Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in an all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only one student gets the opportunity.

School Teacher in College

1978

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn poster
4.9

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn

1977

The Biggest Battle poster
4.7

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

The Biggest Battle

1978

Poker in Bed poster
4.4

A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.

Poker in Bed

1974

When Women Were Called Virgins poster
5.7

When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.

When Women Were Called Virgins

1972

Valentina... The Virgin Wife poster
5.1

Valentina and Giovannino have just got married, but the Honeymoon has gone by and nothing happened between the two. Tension grows and they are about to break up the marriage, until a French tourist satisfies Valentina, while Giovannino regains his virility with his mother in law.

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

1975

The Nurse on a Military Tour poster
5.0

Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up.

The Nurse on a Military Tour

1977

Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! poster
4.2

Stefano Pelloni is an Italian highwaymen known as Il Passatore, loved by women but despised by lawmen. Together with his two man band he always manages to escape the law and head back to his woman, Mora, who would just as soon see him hanging up his pistols and going straight. But the police commissioner has had enough and begins to conceive of every possible means to catch Il Passatore red handed.

Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore!

1973

Lover Boy poster
4.8

A young man gets a pleasant surprise when a comely "relative" agrees to teach him the rudiments of sex.

Lover Boy

1975

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

1960s · 7 titles

The Seducers poster
5.0

Ulla, a prostitute is hired by the despicable Mudy, mother of the shy and mentally disturbed 20-year-old Tony with a tendency toward pyromania. She is invited on a sea cruise where she is meant to "take" his virginity. Also invited on the cruise are the provocative Paula and her husband Aldo, who are constantly striving to win the favor of a wealthy woman in hope of obtaining an oil concession. Despite her efforts, Ulla has no effect on the young man until the yacht stops on a Mediterranean island inhabited only by a goat herder and his wife, Beba. Tony is attracted to her, but little by little his mental disorders arise, and the story ends in tragedy.

The Seducers

1969

House of Pleasure poster
4.6

Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty court intrigues and finds, with much skill and ability, the man of her choice.

House of Pleasure

1969

Sexy Susan Sins Again poster
3.5

The German innkeeper Susan, now leading an acting troupe, travels to Italy and uses feminine wiles to undo an assassination plot against Napoleon, and rescue a local count (a great romancer) from his own enemies.

Sexy Susan Sins Again

1968

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle poster
4.5

Adventurer Clint travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa. Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with the natives begins when the diamonds are found because diamonds are holy stones to them.

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle

1968

Madame and Her Niece poster
4.7

Michelle De Winter lives the good life, wining and dining with only the richest men who are fortunate to cross her path. Her daughter Yvette, whom Michelle insists on introducing as her 'niece', is a fashion model. She is saving herself for the right man, despite the fact that she is part of the free love generation and lives with a group of promiscuous creative types. While Michelle is searching for a new millionaire playboy, Yvette falls for the handsome Peter Von Hallstein. She asks the fatherly Dr. Fink to help her come up with a scheme to get Peter to propose to he

Madame and Her Niece

1969

The Brazen Women of Balzac poster
4.5

A Count and Countess, their lovelife losing luster, invite some people over ...

The Brazen Women of Balzac

1969

The Sweet Pussycats poster
4.4

An officer and a count who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new 'virgin' maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the officer ignores his lusty fiancee but she soon finds a luitenant to turn her attention to. Eventually a whole stable of local prostitutes gets in on the act.

The Sweet Pussycats

1969

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ferdinando and Carolina poster
6.4

1820s Naples: On his death bed, King Ferdinando I tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by recounting his youth, when he was allowed a life of frivolity. However, then he was obliged to marry Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary Theresa, in a political convention: unexpectedly, they became happy lovers, until court power games divide them, and a life-changing historical season arrived.

Ferdinando and Carolina

1999

Gorbaciof poster
6.0

Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

Gorbaciof

2010

La stella dei re poster
6.0

A celestial map, made of precious stones and hidden in an ancient temple, predicts an extraordinary event when the planets align according to an old scroll. This audiovisual adaptation, based on the work of novelist Emmanuel Exitu, offers a new perspective on the story of the Three Wise Men.

La stella dei re

2007

Lucia poster
7.0

Italian made-for-TV drama.

Lucia

2005

Un amore di strega poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Un amore di strega

2009

La notte di Pasquino poster
6.2

Rome, 1870. On the eve of the breach of Porta Pia a kidnapping shakes the Jewish Ghetto: a child disappears.

La notte di Pasquino

2003

Vite a perdere poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vite a perdere

2004

No artwork available
10.0

Michele Moretti is an aspiring director who lives with his brother Niccolò with whom he manages mattresses sales; he spends his free time with his friends Francone and Giovanni and with Anna, a girl he has met and who sells paintings at traffic lights. One day he gets an interview with the director of a television network and, to make a good impression, he declares that he is Nanni Moretti 's younger brother.

My Younger Brother

2000

Sign of the Ape poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sign of the Ape

1997

L'attentatuni poster
6.3

The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.

L'attentatuni

2001