Enrico Maria Salerno

The Big Fox (1988)

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 Volpon ...

School of Thieves 2 (1987)

In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them. ...

I padroni dell'estate (1987)

School of Thieves (1986)

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to ...

Bonded by Tender Friendship (1983)

A once famous actor, whose career was ruined after he was forced to undergo an operation on his vocal cords, is constantly pursued by creditors and his faithful servant Dorino where the two endure an 'impossible' friendship. ...

An Ideal Adventure (1982)

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. ...

A Gun for a Cop (1981)

A family of farmers wage war against a group of unscrupulous, corrupt speculators who are trying to get their hands on their land. ...

L'ultima volta insieme (1981)

Paul, the son of a senior magistrate Neapolitan, was hired at the law firm of a friend's parent. The young man thinks he lost his mother, but the woman, who has long left the family, is now the mistress of the boss racket shops. Fleeing from prison, blackm ...

Tesoro mio (1979)

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. ...

Gros câlin (1979)

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 ...

Il corpo della ragassa (1979)

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 Ul ...

My Loves (1978)

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. U ...

Una donna di seconda mano (1977)

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 hope ...

Che notte quella notte! (1977)

Dog Lay Afternoon (1976)

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, ...

A Sold Life (1976)

Two members of the fascist legion GOD WANTS IT, Michele and Luigi, both from Sicily, met in Malaga and became friends in the course of the 1936-39 counter revolution. Based upon the short story by Leonardo Sciascia. ...

Brogliaccio d'amore (1976)

Savage Three (1975)

By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The pol ...

The Left Hand of the Law (1975)

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 ...

Calling All Police Cars (1975)

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. ...

Late Night Trains (1975)

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. ...

Gambling City (1975)

Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for ...

Salvo D'Acquisto (1974)

In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect. ...

City Under Siege (1974)

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. ...

Hold Up (1974)

Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber who survived the shooting is convinced the agent is faking his amnesia, just to then get rid of him and enjoy ...

The Body (1974)

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

Virginity (1974)

Two episodes on the theme of love and death. In the first, set in nineteenth-century Russia, we have a vehement passion that a family feud turns into tragedy. The second is a Boccaccio comedy in contemporary Sicily. ...

The Great Kidnapping (1973)

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 Police Serve the Citizens? (1973)

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 African Deal (1973)

An inter-racial affair against a background of corrupt businessmen attempting to manipulate the national resources of an emerging nation that bears a distinct resemblance to Ghana. ...

Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)

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 dramat ...

No, the Case Is Happily Resolved (1973)

When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself. ...

Ingrid on the Road (1973)

After being raped by her father, Ingrid moves to Rome and ends up becoming a prostitute. She finds a friend in Claudia, but Claudia's protector is a sadistic thug by the name of Renato who will show her the worst of the what life in the city has to offer. ...

The Night of the Last Day (1973)

A film director wants to make a politically charged movie, but is hampered by his producer. At the same time, a friend of his commits suicide, and he goes insane. ...

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

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

Execution Squad (1972)

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. ...

The Sicilian Checkmate (1972)

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. ...

A cuore freddo (1971)

Unhappily married with an affluent banker, former hippie Silvana awaits her chance to get rid of her husband without giving up his wealth. ...

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro (1971)

This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed ...

That's How We Women Are (1971)

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

So Long Gulliver (1970)

Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swi ...

The Married Priest (1970)

A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention. ...

The Particular Love (1970)

Quell'amore particolare is an Italian Fiction Film featuring Enrico Maria Salerno, Pier Angeli, Jean Guy Ruff. ...

Let's Have a Riot (1970)

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

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

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 he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer. ...

The Conspirators (1969)

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. ...

I See Naked (1969)

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

The Battle of El Alamein (1969)

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! ...

Candy (1968)

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

Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)

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

A Train for Durango (1968)

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

Death Sentence (1968)

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. ...

Bandidos (1967)

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. Marti ...

The Strange Night (1967)

Aldo, a middle class family man decides to enjoy his last night alone while his family is away on vacation. He meets a pretty girl and takes her to his home. While he is in the kitchen preparing drinks, a shot goes off. ...

The Oldest Profession (1967)

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

Death Walks in Laredo (1967)

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 himsel ...

The Trojan Women (1967)

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the anci ...

L'Estate (1966)

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 ...

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. ...

For Love and Gold (1966)

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 w ...

Seasons of Our Love (1966)

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. ...

Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966)

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

Weekend, Italian Style (1965)

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. ...

I Knew Her Well (1965)

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

Money (1965)

On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this film presents a series of episodes. ...

Casanova '70 (1965)

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

Su e giù (1965)

A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished ...

Six Days a Week (1965)

Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the ...

Antonio e Cleopatra (1965)

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV. ...

La Fuga (1965)

A young married woman who is desperately unhappy is tempted into a lesbian relationship with an interior decorator. ...

Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta (1964)

The Constancy of Reason (1964)

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beaut ...

Three Nights of Love (1964)

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 urba ...

Backfire (1964)

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

These Mad, Mad Women (1964)

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

The Maniacs (1964)

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

The Scapegoat (1963)

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 worke ...

Secret Violence (1963)

An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior colonialist dogma. Based on a novel by Enrico Emmanuele. ...

Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)

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 wron ...

The Iron Mask (1962)

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. ...

Smog (1962)

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. ...

Eva (1962)

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 p ...

La bellezza di Ippolita (1962)

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 w ...

Violent Life (1962)

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. ...

Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)

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, shap ...

Odissea nuda (1961)

A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salerno. ...

The Assassin (1961)

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 jus ...

Italy Is Not a Poor Country (1960)

A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art oil infrastructure are mixed with others of the traditional way of living of poorer Italian regions. ...

Long Night in '43 (1960)

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 Fran ...

The Warrior Empress (1960)

The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos. ...

Escape by Night (1960)

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. ...

Le signore (1960)

The Angel Wore Red (1960)

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

Siege of Syracuse (1960)

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 ...

Violent Summer (1959)

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Robe ...

The Sons of Medea (1959)

The sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National Program. ...

Antigone (1958)

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy. ...

Human Torpedoes (1954)

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda. ...

Girls Marked Danger (1952)

In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where. One of these women is Alda, who has evaded the ring once, but when her boyfriend is arrested, fi ...

Break Up (1978)

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. ...

Dear Parents (1973)

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 ins ...

The Anonymous Venetian (1970)

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 Particular Love (1970)

Quell'amore particolare is an Italian Fiction Film featuring Enrico Maria Salerno, Pier Angeli, Jean Guy Ruff. ...