
Orchidea De Santis
Acting
Biography
Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer in the Navy, she moved with her family, who ran a hotel in the capital of Puglia, first to Gallipoli and then to Rome, following her sister who was sixteen years older. At the beginning she was also a singer and, later, a theater actress. She has ranged from cinema to radio, from theater to music, until arriving on television. From 2006 to 2013 she managed a blog. She collaborates with various animal rights and environmental associations. Active especially in the Seventies, she was an interpreter of the Italian sexy comedy, initially mainly in costume and with a Boccaccian setting. Her presence in Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno is curious, a film in which, for script needs, she was made up to appear ugly. In 1979, her film career came to an abrupt end following a serious injury on the set of Carlo Vanzina's film Arrivano i gatti when, due to an accidental fall into a trap door, she broke her elbow (which was later completely surgically reconstructed), risking permanent damage to her entire arm.
Known For

Three medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthusiastic about creating pranks and targeting a thriving confidential, female doctor.
Under the Sheets

Nicola Salluzzi is the owner of an insecticide company and his teenage son Simone has the habit of sleeping with his female employees.
Una bella governante di colore

Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
Eurotika!

Five episodes :1) A husband has taken the place of the confessor to find out about his wife's betrayals and while he spends the night at the door of the house, the woman can freely receive her lover. 2) Judge Volfardo, to take revenge for the constant pranks of Lambertuccio, head of the guards, invites Leonetto, a young man whom women yearn for, to take advantage of his wife. But everything is resolved to their own damage 3) While Domitilla's husband sends the boy into his bed to be able to sleep with his lover. 4) Don Casimiro has Don Ciccillo treat his wife who will use a very intimate therapy. 5) Messer Ciccio and Messer Gerbino exchange confidences on how not to be betrayed by their wives, so that...
Decameroticus

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
How I Learned to Love Women

An anarchist grandfather has custody of his nephew Free, but three aunts, two of which still handsome, they get the help of a priest and the police. So take possession of the child and cover it with lust
The Sweet Aunts

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.
The Family Vice

"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Rene the Cane

The summer vacation of a young beautiful girl, at her uncle's country villa.
La nipote

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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Hector the Mighty

An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder.
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods

They're Italy's notorious "Ladies of the evening" catering to the strange cravings of their kinky, high-paying clients. But suddenly, the girls of the street find themselves being stalked by someone with desires even they can't satisfy. After a series of shocking crimes, the clues lead police to a pornographic film maker and his stable of lovely models and starlets. But can the authorities track down the "Hooker Maniac" before he strikes again?
Love Angels

Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
Love, Passion and Pleasure

Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Two Sons of Ringo

Four women of Gubbio – Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina – are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
Tales of Erotica

The Decameron forbidden is a 1972 Italian comedy, directed by Carlo Infascelli. The film, which counts among the starring actors such as Orchidea De Santis, Gabriella Giorgelli, nut Crostarosa and Carlo De Carvalho, is inspired by Boccaccio's fourteenth-century novels. In particular, it is the film adaptation of that novel starring frà Pepin, a young native of Florence, which was discovered and arrested for his relationship with Mona Fawaz, a married woman. Thanks to the help of his friends painters, manages to escape..
The Forbidden Decameron

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.
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard

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