Luciano Salce
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... Read full bio →
Fantozzi
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.
Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno
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.
Basta guardarla
Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Ti ho sposato per allegria
Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little unscrewed, and met at a party of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Italian comedy film in three segments
La voglia matta
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Il mantenuto
Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
Il federale
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.