Aldo Puglisi

Actor

April 12, 1935 (89 years)

† July 19, 2024

Catania, Sicily, Italy

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

7.4

Swept Away

un collega di Gennarino

A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand get swept up in an especially hot Italian summer.

5.6

The Eroticist

Carmelino l'autista

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 for spiritual and psychological help.

7.7

Marriage Italian Style

Alfredo

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.

9.0

L'ombra nera del Vesuvio

O Squalo

Two families of the Neapolitan Camorra fight for power.

6.9

The Girl with a Pistol

Un emigrante siciliano

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

7.6

Seduced and Abandoned

Peppino Califano

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, only to be discovered by her mother and father.

6.1

Secret Fantasy

Chemist

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 he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...

7.1

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

Carabiniere Mancuso

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 to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.

5.3

Love and Anger

Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)

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 bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

3.8

When Women Lost Their Tails

Zog

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 Ham.

4.5

Wrong Beds

Maurizio (Segment "Quel porco di Maurizio")

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.

6.5

All Screwed Up

Cook

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.

5.0

Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast

Tiberio, Gianna's fiancé

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.

5.9

Three Nights of Love

calzolaio

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.

6.1

Latin Lovers

Rosario Sciacca di Scordia

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

N/A

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

Self

No description available

4.6

Arrivano i gatti

tenente La Pezza

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

7.0

The Noon Vigilante

Fernando

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 back.

6.2

Un caso di coscienza

ragionier Nicasio

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.

7.5

The Sequence of the Paper Flower

Dio (voice)

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.