Luca Sportelli

L'insegnante di violoncello (1989)

Leo is a street vendor who, always accompanied by his dog Cagliostro, he entertains shoppers on the beach telling stories more or less agreeable to a group of guys who are really too busy to look for adventures chasing the tourists. Meanwhile Mario, a boy ...

Lady Chatterley's Passions (1989)

A widowed English heroine recalls her life, from marriage to an affair with the gamekeeper. ...

Il Bi e il Ba (1986)

Despite being penniless, Antonino Scannapieco possesses a convincing eloquence. Having obtained money from friends to travel to Rome to consult a luminary about his dandruff problem, he sets off for the capital, where various misadventures await him. ...

Sue Me (1985)

Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems. ...

Zero in condotta (1983)

Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not reciprocate her feelings. One day Renato, on the occasion of his parents' departure, decides to hold a party at ...

The Devil and Holy Water (1983)

Bruno Marangoni, former center-forward of Rome, has fallen into disgrace due to a series of injuries, and now lives with gimmicks and small scams. ...

Gian Burrasca (1982)

Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother. ...

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich (1982)

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who ...

The Odd Squad (1982)

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad Amer ...

The Doctor Prefers Sailors (1981)

A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more... ...

Uomini di parola (1981)

Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1981 ...

Prickly Pears (1980)

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survi ...

Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)

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, ...

White Pop Jesus (1980)

Disco Jesus comes back to Earth and takes on the Mafia. ...

Deep Thoughts (1980)

An inventive Euro sex film, set in Paris and Rome. ...

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective (1979)

After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi. ...

Hot Potato (1979)

A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man. ...

Scusi, lei è normale? (1979)

A moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress. ...

Assassination on the Tiber (1979)

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder. ...

Alessia... A Volcano Under the Skin (1979)

Alessia returns from the convent where she was educated to the farm where she spent her childhood. As she arrives, she starts to remember the crime that made her an orphan. The animosity she feels towards her aunt starts to get explained. Aunt Agnes was re ...

Messalina, Messalina! (1977)

Adventure comedy directed by Bruno Corbucci. ...

The Red Nights of the Gestapo (1977)

An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and sto ...

My Sister in Law (1976)

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 ...

Il compromesso... erotico (Menage a quattro) (1976)

Di che segno sei? (1975)

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. ...

La bolognese (1975)

Softcore melodrama about a young woman who becomes a prostitute with the hopes of raising enough money to start a career as a model for romantic fumetti books ...

La commessa (1975)

A masseur for ladies wins the reputation of seducer and many customers try to verify. Classic of Italian sexy comedy. ...

Trouble in Istamboel (1974)

Italian singer and actor Don Backy and b-movie icon George Eastman unite together for a comedy full of action, witty and - punches. ...

Littlefoot the Policeman (1974)

Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone. ...

Farfallon (1974)

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in kill ...

Emergency Squad (1974)

A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it ...

Paolo the Cool (1974)

A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble. ...

The Profiteer (1974)

In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Barones ...

Il sergente Rompiglioni (1973)

A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band. ...

Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia (1973)

Put Your Devil Into My Hell (1973)

Ricciardetto is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds, but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is ...

Decameron 4 (1972)

A comedy based on fourth novel out of "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. ...

The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam (1972)

Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble. ...

The Terror with Cross-Eyes (1972)

To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment. Unfortunately, a real murder takes place in Mirella's apartment when a young woman ...

The Union (1972)

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company. ...

Knife of Ice (1972)

A mute woman, traumatized by her parents' death, faces new horrors when her cousin is murdered by a suspected killer. As danger looms, the truth proves far more complex. ...

Sexy Sinners (1972)

During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love. ...

The Hassled Hooker (1972)

Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison, she kills her. ...

Without Family (1972)

Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother. ...

Don Camillo and the Contestants (1972)

Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son. ...

Nights of Boccaccio (1972)

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success ...

I due assi del guantone (1971)

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another pa ...

Why (1971)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why? ...

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! (1971)

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist. ...

Touch and Go (1971)

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat. ...

Ma che musica maestro (1971)

The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants. ...

...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes? (1971)

The Mad Butcher (1971)

After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her ...

The Clan of the Two Borsalini (1971)

Italian comedy ...

Mafia Things (1971)

A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce! ...

The Two Wizards of the Ball (1970)

The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same? ...

Two Whites in Dark Africa (1970)

To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan". ...

I due maggiolini più matti del mondo (1970)

Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is a ...

Who Gave You the License? (1970)

Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control. ...

On Asphalt at Full Speed! (1970)

Italian racing film ...

Midnight of Love (1970)

Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest (1970)

Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef wi ...

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. ...

Lisa with the Blue Eyes (1969)

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard ...

Slap Happy (1969)

A child runs away from a orphanage and meets a man, who takes him with him: the adult also dedicates himself to courting tourists to get food. However, his love for a girl leads the boy to boycott this bond, getting his protector into trouble and ending up ...

Pensiero d'amore (1969)

You Are Always In My Mind (1969)

Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered ...

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza (1969)

A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released ...

Zum Zum Zum 2 (1969)

While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that's just the beginning of his problems. ...

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (1969)

An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge. ...

Gli infermieri della mutua (1969)

A comedy about the Italian National Health System based on a doctor who owns a private clinic and manages it more like a con man than a follower of the Hippocratic oath. ...

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. ...

Coup D'Etat (1969)

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. ...

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum) (1969)

The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music. ...

I 2 deputati (1969)

Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between th ...

Two Firefighters (1968)

The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives. ...

Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968)

When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after ...

Ciccio Forgives, I Don't (1968)

Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue. ...

Shoot, Gringo... Shoot! (1968)

Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez . This son, Fidel, teams up with an outlaw band lead by a former military man going by the name The Major. When Stark finds ...

Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza (1968)

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza. ...

I due vigili (1967)

Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot. ...

Con rispetto parlando (1965)

Oh! Those Most Secret Agents (1964)

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments. ...

Two Escape from Sing Sing (1964)

Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of th ...

She Said (2022)

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. ...

Alessia... A Volcano Under the Skin (1979)

Alessia returns from the convent where she was educated to the farm where she spent her childhood. As she arrives, she starts to remember the crime that made her an orphan. The animosity she feels towards her aunt starts to get explained. Aunt Agnes was re ...

Blazing Flowers (1978)

Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs ...