Writing

Ottavio Jemma

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Malicious poster
7.3

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Malicious

1973

The Fifth Day of Peace poster
5.5

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".

The Fifth Day of Peace

1970

Lovers and Other Relatives poster
5.5

Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.

Lovers and Other Relatives

1974

The Libertine poster
5.3

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

The Libertine

1968

The Girl from Trieste poster
4.9

A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.

The Girl from Trieste

1982

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

Behind the camera

Malicious poster
7.3

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Malicious

1973

The Fifth Day of Peace poster
5.5

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".

The Fifth Day of Peace

1970

Lovers and Other Relatives poster
5.5

Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.

Lovers and Other Relatives

1974

The Libertine poster
5.3

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

The Libertine

1968

The Girl from Trieste poster
4.9

A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.

The Girl from Trieste

1982

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

When Women Lost Their Tails poster
3.8

Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.

When Women Lost Their Tails

1972

The Eroticist poster
5.7

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.

The Eroticist

1972

When Women Had Tails poster
4.3

Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live.

When Women Had Tails

1970

Submission poster
6.2

In wartime France, Pharmacist Eliane begins a torrid affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.

Submission

1976

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin poster
6.5

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

1971

Malizia 2000 poster
5.7

The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's client.

Malizia 2000

1991

Smell of Flesh poster
5.1

Domenico Modguno is a horn dog who loves looking up skirts and travels back to Italy to stay with his brother and wife. His brothers stepdaughter is hot and he spends most of the movie forcing himself on her, and for a change of pace her mother.

Smell of Flesh

1975

The Sex Machine poster
5.1

The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.

The Sex Machine

1975

Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God poster
6.3

Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.

Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

1963

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

Mortacci poster
6.8

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.

Mortacci

1989

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha poster
5.8

A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha

2005

Chaste and Pure poster
4.5

Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

Chaste and Pure

1981

Gegè Bellavita poster
6.4

Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.

Gegè Bellavita

1979

Give Me Five poster
5.8

Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.

Give Me Five

1980

The Invisible Woman poster
4.1

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.

The Invisible Woman

1969

Incompreso poster
7.9

Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quaratesi, an important producer of fine wines, while loving his wife Elisa and his two children, Francesco and Mino, is mainly dedicated to his work. To suffer the most from the absence of Edoardo is the firstborn, Francesco, who pours all his unsatisfied need for love on his mother and little brother. After Elisa's death due to a serious illness, the situation at the Quaratesi home gets complicated, until we reach a dramatic epilogue.

Incompreso

1998

La calandria poster
3.9

The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.

La calandria

1972

Fantabulous Inc. poster
6.7

An ordinary man is snatched off the streets and turned into a man with incredible powers by an insidious company hell bent on world domination.

Fantabulous Inc.

1968

Where Are You Going All Naked? poster
5.0

Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house completely naked.

Where Are You Going All Naked?

1969

Culo e camicia poster
5.1

The movie is basically two unrelated comedic features: the first one features the travails of a man who stutters and tries to woo a woman he wants to date. The second features the wonderful Renato Pozetto as a gay man who lives with a partner, but finds himself falling for a woman, and not knowing how to tell his partner, who is prone to melodrama.

Culo e camicia

1981

Il corpo della ragassa poster
4.2

Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.

Il corpo della ragassa

1979

The Big Fox poster
7.1

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

The Big Fox

1988

Quando la coppia scoppia poster
5.1

A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.

Quando la coppia scoppia

1981

Jus primae noctis poster
3.9

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

Jus primae noctis

1972

He and She poster
2.8

Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist interiors and abstract sports car-on-a-highway to nowhere exteriors.

He and She

1969

Luciano, una vita bruciata poster
9.0

Despite all his faults, Luciano cannot bear the idea that his own mother has left home to go and live with a man who is not her husband. As soon as he leaves the Roman prison where he served his time, the young man spends his first free nights wandering around in a tormented search for a reason for living.

Luciano, una vita bruciata

1962

With What Love, With How Much Love poster
7.0

After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andre discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andre decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and decides to play all his cards during his rival's absence.

With What Love, With How Much Love

1970

Manolesta poster
6.5

Gino Quirino aka Manolesta, a thief and a con man, lives on a barge anchored on the Tiber with Bruno, his young son. Gino ends up in the crosshairs of the social worker Dr. Angela De Maria, and he is forced to find an honest job.

Manolesta

1981

Latin Lovers poster
7.0

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Latin Lovers

1961

Più bello di così si muore poster
3.8

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.

Più bello di così si muore

1982

I piaceri proibiti poster
8.0

Mondo documentary.

I piaceri proibiti

1963

Saul and David poster
6.7

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.

Saul and David

1964

The Thieves poster
5.7

An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.

The Thieves

1959