Directing

Luciano Salce

Born September 25, 1922 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died December 17, 1989 · aged 67

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 wor…

Known For

Hospitals: The White Mafia

Hospitals: The White Mafia · 1973

Hospitals: The White Mafia

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.

The Queens

The Queens · 1966

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.

How I Learned to Love Women

How I Learned to Love Women · 1966

How I Learned to Love Women

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

Medicine Italian Style

Medicine Italian Style · 1969

Medicine Italian Style

MovieComedyDrama

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.

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day · 1963

The Shortest Day

MovieComedyHistory

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Fancy a Woman

Fancy a Woman · 1978

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.

High Infidelity

High Infidelity · 1964

High Infidelity

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)

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? · 1971

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

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Hospitals: The White Mafia

Hospitals: The White Mafia · 1973

Hospitals: The White Mafia

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.

Enrico

The Queens

The Queens · 1966

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.

Director

How I Learned to Love Women

How I Learned to Love Women · 1966

How I Learned to Love Women

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

Director

Medicine Italian Style

Medicine Italian Style · 1969

Medicine Italian Style

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day · 1963

The Shortest Day

MovieComedyHistory

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Ufficiale tedesco (uncredited)

Fancy a Woman

Fancy a Woman · 1978

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.

Il matto

High Infidelity

High Infidelity · 1964

High Infidelity

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)

Director

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? · 1971

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

Il critico d'arte

Where Are You Going on Holiday?

Where Are You Going on Holiday? · 1978

Where Are You Going on Holiday?

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.

Director

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses · 1970

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses

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.

Screenplay

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday · 1974

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

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.

Screenplay

The Precarious Bank Teller

The Precarious Bank Teller · 1980

The Precarious Bank Teller

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.

Director

Crazy Desire

Crazy Desire · 1962

MovieRomanceComedy

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

Director

Hector the Mighty

Hector the Mighty · 1972

Hector the Mighty

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.

Mercurio

Kiss the Other Sheik

Kiss the Other Sheik · 1965

Kiss the Other Sheik

Italian comedy film in three segments

Director

The Second Tragic Fantozzi

The Second Tragic Fantozzi · 1976

The Second Tragic Fantozzi

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

Director

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues · 1975

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

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

Director

Totò in the Moon

Totò in the Moon · 1958

Totò in the Moon

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

Von Braut

The Dolls

The Dolls · 1965

MovieComedyRomance

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

Story

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo · 1977

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo

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.

maresciallo dei carabinieri/Bepi Pastorino

Three Tough Guys

Three Tough Guys · 1974

Three Tough Guys

MovieCrimeAction

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.

The Bishop

Homo Eroticus

Homo Eroticus · 1971

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.

Achille Lampugnani

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep · 1968

The Black Sheep

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.

Director

Duck in Orange Sauce

Duck in Orange Sauce · 1975

Duck in Orange Sauce

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.

Director

Cinecittà Cinecittà

Cinecittà Cinecittà · 1985

Cinecittà Cinecittà

Erotic Film Director

La bella Otero

La bella Otero · 1984

The 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.

Marchand