Luciana Turina

The Cosmos on the Commode (2008)

Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples. ...

Family Flaw (2002)

A runaway coffin, a conservative wedding, an eccentric older man, two transsexuals, the police and an adorable puppy, collide on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the picturesque South of Italy. The "unexpected" death of 103 year-old Rosa creates ...

NightClub (1989)

The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome. ...

FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' (1983)

Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager. ...

Same Sea, Same Beach (1983)

I camionisti (1982)

Ofelia, the sexy operator of a service station, attracts the attentions of several admirers, including her former lover Rocky, a truck driver, and the noble Sir Archibald. ...

Vieni avanti cretino (1982)

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. Pasq ...

There is a Ghost in My Bed (1981)

A couple (Carati and Cricotti) have to rent a hotel room which is really a haunted house. Well haunted is overstating it. Just old Renzo as a horny ghost who wants to get it on with Carati. Sexual frolics abound, Carati takes baths and has sex and hubby fu ...

City of Women (1980)

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he's entered a phantas ...

Ciao marziano (1980)

The inhabitants of the distant planet Gemini send to Rome the extraterrestrial Bix. His task is to transport twelve Earths to the planet so that we can find out if they are suitable for living there. Bix, who's distinguishable from humans only because he h ...

L'imbranato (1979)

Yerma (1978)

Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him. ...

Magnum Cop (1978)

A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence. ...

Scherzi da prete (1978)

Carioca Tigre (1976)

Scandal In the Family (1976)

A rich older man dies during a massage (you see, uh--never mind). His young widow (Lucrezia Love) decides she needs some male help in managing her deceased husband's estate (for some reason she doesn't ask the family lawyer who she spends all her time roll ...

Black Maid (1976)

Major Galeazzo, Chancellor Enea, the goalkeeper Placido, journalist Antenor and others living in a building of the city. All are drawn to the morbid fascination of Mariolina, exuberant waitress Venetian. But soon Aminta, maid of color, dispossess irreparab ...

Peccatori di provincia (1976)

Rich and respected Emanuele Lo Curcio dies leaving all his possessions to his natural daughter Domitilla, actually a nun, whose relatives, including his brother and Mayor Angelo Lo Curcio, ignored the existence of hers. The disappointment and anger of his ...

One Man Against the Organization (1975)

An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail. ...

Africa Express (1975)

John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. ...

Riot in a Women's Prison (1974)

This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabi ...

The Castro's Abbess (1974)

A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church. ...

Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone (1973)

The thief Bruno Camillone would like to escape abroad, but he needs a false passport and identity, which are obtained by a friend. Unfortunately, under his real name, Salvatore Bruschetta, he receives the postcard for military service, which he will have t ...

Teresa the Thief (1973)

Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns ...

Mamma... li turchi! (1973)

Racconti romani di una ex-novizia (1973)

A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan. ...

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro (1973)

Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task. ...

Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973)

Tazio Brother from Velletri has a reputation as a miracle worker. Messer Nuccio de 'Tornabuoni bets that will win Lisa, the wife of the standard-bearer of Justice Lapo de' Pazzi. To realize the dream spread the news that Brother Tazio has the power to driv ...

Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (1972)

Naughty Nun (1972)

To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back. ...

Il Terribile Ispettore (1969)

The ambition of a simple porter to become a real doctor, even though he has no diploma or degree, pushes him to enter the environment he likes so much. ...

Serafino (1968)

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family. ...