The best Enrico Maria Salerno’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Enrico Maria Salerno’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Enrico Maria Salerno.
For Love and Gold
7.7/10
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Casanova '70
6.4/10
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
School of Thieves 2
4.9/10
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.
An Ideal Adventure
5.1/10
Patrizia, journalist of a weekly Roman, tired of not being given just consideration by its director Eugenio Zafferi, just to be able to get a job worthy of his talent, decides to launch a challenge to his boss: if he can write an article worthy the first page will be promoted, otherwise it will have to give him a night for its inviting thanks. Zafferi accepts the challenge and, on the advice of the editor sailed Orietta Fallani, assigns Patrizia investigation into the sexual fantasies of the Italian. Complicating everything we think Duccio, a taxi driver in the rural south, who has set his sights on the beautiful journalist.
Tesoromio
6.1/10
School of Thieves
5.8/10
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 teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.
The Maniacs
5.7/10
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Backfire
6.1/10
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
Three Nights of Love
6.3/10
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 urban setting, respectively.
The Oldest Profession
5.4/10
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
The Big Fox
6.5/10
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 Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?
I See Naked
6.2/10
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
Sex Can Be Difficult
6.1/10
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 wrong target, yet find love.
Six Days a Week
6.3/10
A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard. From the comedy by Diego Fabbri
Train for Durango
5.9/10
2 buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
Let's Have a Riot
6.4/10
The Conspirators
7.3/10
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
My Loves
6.1/10
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. Until she gets pregnant. David di Donatello 1979 for Monica Vitti.
Smog
7.5/10
An Italian spends a day in Los Angeles while waiting for his visa.
Le signore
6.2/10
