Aldo Puglisi

Quell'estate felice (2007)

Sicily, 1951. A young literature teacher secretly falls in love with Maria Venera, the most beautiful girl in town who lives in the decrepit palace of her grandfather, an old aristocrat who squandered his fortune. ...

Secrets of the State (2003)

On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourt ...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth (1997)

Documentary about Italian film director Pietro Germi ...

Arrivano i gatti (1980)

Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV. ...

The Noon Vigilante (1975)

Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect bac ...

Swept Away (1974)

A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise. ...

All Screwed Up (1974)

A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974. ...

The Eroticist (1972)

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy ...

When Women Lost Their Tails (1972)

Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with ...

Secret Fantasy (1971)

Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and h ...

Un caso di coscienza (1970)

Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her. ...

Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)

A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness. ...

Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast (1968)

A hotel owner, in competition with a rival owner, finds a cache of lost treasure on the bottom of the bay after trying to drown himself which turns his life upside down. ...

The Girl with a Pistol (1968)

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him. ...

Peggio per me... meglio per te (1967)

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)

An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite ...

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. ...

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings. ...

Three Nights of Love (1964)

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 urba ...

Seduced and Abandoned (1964)

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent ...