Aldo Giuffrè

Il mare, non c'è paragone (2006)

La repubblica di San Gennaro (2003)

Rosa Funzeca (2002)

Rosa Funzeca, after twenty years as a prostitute, decides to make a change in her life and to look for an honest job that'll allow her to be reunited with her son Fernando. But things are not easy. ...

Scugnizzi (1989)

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the re ...

Mortacci (1989)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arr ...

L'ultima scena (1988)

A che servono questi quattrini? (1988)

Where's Picone? (1984)

During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council. ...

La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola (1983)

In a miserable, freezing two-room apartment on the first floor of a building, the Ruòppolo family lives in complete poverty. Giovanni, a clerk, struggles against a thousand difficulties to make ends meet, while his wife, Cristina, takes care of the housew ...

Inmate (1981)

Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppin ...

Per favore, occupati di Amelia (1981)

Zappatore (1980)

Francesco Esposito and his wife Maddalena are two farmers who raised Mario, their only son, with loving devotion. To help him study, they also incurred debts to the city's loan shark. The boy has since become a brilliant lawyer and in Naples, where he move ...

SuperTotò (1980)

After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian actor, collected in chapters. ...

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 ...

Francesca da Rimini - Tragedia a vapore (1980)

Three Under the Sheets (1979)

Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see as protagonists Andrea, Giorgio and Mr. Sgarbozzi, married men who cheat on their respective wives for escapades and one-night stands. ...

La prima notte di nozze (1976)

Sweet Teen (1976)

A middle-age businessman marries a much younger woman, but is still carrying on with his sexy secretary. He somehow has the energy, however, to lust after his wife's visiting young niece. ...

Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976)

Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant. ...

Oh, Serafina! (1976)

Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and ...

The Flower in His Mouth (1975)

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets. ...

Loaded Guns (1975)

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs. ...

Love Angels (1974)

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 s ...

Italian Sex (1974)

A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to ...

Silence the Witness (1974)

De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the ...

Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata (1974)

Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite incapable as an officer. ...

Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully (1973)

A comedy about two friends attempting a heist. ...

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

My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure (1973)

In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the ...

The Heroes (1973)

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma. ...

The Sicilian Checkmate (1972)

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily. ...

Hector the Mighty (1972)

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. ...

You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife (1971)

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)

In this prehistoric adaptation of Aristophanes ' 'Lysistrata' and 'Women at the Themophoria,' a frustrated wife convinces the women of warring tribes to abstain from sex with their male partners in an attempt to end the fighting. ...

When Women Had Tails (1970)

Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. ...

With What Love, With How Much Love (1970)

After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andre discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andre decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and ...

Check to the Queen (1969)

Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as a secretary for Margaret, a famous film star. Margaret appears to have no problems giving her what she wants and turns her into a sex slave- little by litt ...

Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)

Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband. ...

La più bella coppia del mondo (1968)

Walter and Paola, presenter and godmother of the sixth Cantagiro, are involved in a misunderstanding: to dismiss a suitor, the presenter pretends to be married to Quattrini. ...

Canzoni d'autunno (1968)

On glimpses of Naples and surrounding areas a sonorous commentary of the autumn has now arrived. The Neapolitan song is greatly influenced by the seasons and nature. ...

L'idolo delle scene (1967)

A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office. ...

Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. ...

No Diamonds for Ursula (1967)

A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex web of blackmail around her to steal a stash of diamonds. ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold. ...

Les Combinards (1966)

Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him. ...

Spiaggia libera (1966)

Made in Italy (1965)

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. ...

Latin Lovers (1965)

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s. ...

Wrong Beds (1965)

Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years. ...

Love and Marriage (1964)

An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage. ...

Two Gangsters in the Wild West (1964)

In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to ...

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964)

Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita". ...

Totò versus the Black Pirate (1964)

José is a Neapolitan petty thief who escapes from the guards and hides himself in a barrel of Jamaican rum on the quay of the port of Naples. ...

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want. ...

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive. ...

I cuori infranti (1963)

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes. ...

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the inv ...

Those Two in the Legion (1962)

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring. ...

Operazione Vega (1962)

In a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System. The penal colony of Venus becomes the missile base of one of the two superpowers, but the deportees oppose the project. ...

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! (1962)

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey. ...

La trincea (1961)

On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their lives while the war rages on. ...

The Best of Enemies (1961)

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue. ...

Black City (1961)

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector. ...

The Policeman on Horseback (1961)

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it. ...

I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution. ...

Juke Box - Screams of Love (1959)

After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her... ...

The Swindlers (1959)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to f ...

Lui, lei e il nonno (1959)

Rascel Marine (1958)

During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives with his two daughters. The two opposing armies soon forget about war and concentrate on winning the girls' he ...

Malafemmena (1957)

Drama directed by Armando Fizzarotti. ...

Peccato di castità (1956)

Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip. ...

Roman Tales (1955)

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get ...

Totò all'inferno (1955)

After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell. ...

The Young Ladies of 04 (1955)

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower ac ...

Il medico dei pazzi (1954)

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor. ...

Neapolitan Carousel (1954)

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family. ...

It Happened in the Park (1953)

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there. ...

I Always Loved You (1953)

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realize ...

Ghost Captain (1953)

A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French. ...

Neapolitan Turk (1953)

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime. ...

The Devil's Daughter (1952)

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to ...

The Lucky Five (1952)

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others ...

The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952)

In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous ability. ...

Cops and Robbers (1951)

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito. ...

Il padrone del vapore (1951)

A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters. ...

Filumena Marturano (1951)

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead. ...

I cadetti di Guascogna (1950)

Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks. ...

Side Street Story (1950)

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among t ...

The Emperor of Capri (1949)

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky ser ...

Assunta Spina (1948)

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy. ...

Canzoni d'autunno (1968)

On glimpses of Naples and surrounding areas a sonorous commentary of the autumn has now arrived. The Neapolitan song is greatly influenced by the seasons and nature. ...