Luciano Salce
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 25, 1922
Deathday: December 17, 1989
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Anyone Can Play
1967-09-21
Anyone Can Play
Overview: In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Tipi da spiaggia
1959-11-12
Tipi da spiaggia
Overview: Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Vieni avanti cretino
1982-04-07
Vieni avanti cretino
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-07
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The Fascist
1961-08-05
The Fascist
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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Totò nella Luna
1958-11-28
Totò nella Luna
Overview: Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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Three Tough Guys
1974-05-29
Three Tough Guys
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-29
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Kiss the Other Sheik
1965-12-28
Kiss the Other Sheik
Overview: Italian comedy film in three segments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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The Policeman on Horseback
1961-07-29
The Policeman on Horseback
Overview: A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-29
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Basta guardarla
1970-12-27
Basta guardarla
Overview: Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975-10-17
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
Overview: The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-17
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978-05-23
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Overview: 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 ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-23
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City Under Siege
1974-10-23
City Under Siege
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Amore mio non farmi male
1974-07-13
Amore mio non farmi male
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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The Household
1974-10-04
The Household
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Un americano in vacanza
1946-09-07
Un americano in vacanza
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-07
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Homo Eroticus
1971-09-14
Homo Eroticus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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Belli e brutti ridono tutti
1979-08-25
Belli e brutti ridono tutti
Overview: "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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-25
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The Lady Has Been Raped
1973-11-29
The Lady Has Been Raped
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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I prosseneti
1976-04-28
I prosseneti
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-28
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
1976-04-13
Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
Overview: 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 ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971-02-25
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Ridendo e scherzando
1978-09-13
Ridendo e scherzando
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972-04-28
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Piccola posta
1955-12-22
Piccola posta
Overview: Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Hector the Mighty
1972-01-06
Hector the Mighty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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My Dear Nephews
1974-01-01
My Dear Nephews
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Di che segno sei?
1975-10-23
Di che segno sei?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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The Landlords
1976-08-07
The Landlords
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Latin Male Wanted
1977-02-28
Latin Male Wanted
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Angela
1951-01-11
Angela
Overview: A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
1980-02-01
A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
1970-02-14
Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-14
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The Girl of a Thousand Months
1961-11-05
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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La Presidentessa
1977-11-17
La Presidentessa
Overview: 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. ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Do Not Commit Adultery
1971-09-13
Do Not Commit Adultery
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-13
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The Married Priest
1970-11-01
The Married Priest
Overview: A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977-08-25
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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Night Police Station
1974-08-01
Night Police Station
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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La bella Otero
1984-02-05
La bella Otero
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-05
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I baccanali di Tiberio
1960-01-15
I baccanali di Tiberio
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Hospitals: The White Mafia
1973-08-25
Hospitals: The White Mafia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-25
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Coup D'Etat
1969-03-15
Coup D'Etat
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Fancy a Woman
1978-07-22
Fancy a Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-22
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The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Maid, Thief and Guard
1958-03-14
Maid, Thief and Guard
Overview: Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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