Pupi Avati

The Warmth of Dance (2026)

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan. ...

The American Backyard (2025)

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden. ...

Nato il sei ottobre (2024)

The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to this day. On that day, radio took its first tentative steps into our homes, broadcasting a brief official an ...

La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario (2023)

Samuele and Marzio, as teenagers, make a promise to be friends forever, but adulthood, women and everyday problems sneak into their lives. ...

Dante (2022)

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio's journey to rehabilitate his memory. ...

Lei mi parla ancora (2021)

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story. ...

Mr. Devil (2019)

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself. ...

Il fulgore di Dony (2018)

Dony and Marco, two high school students from Bologna, live an intense love story until he starts suffering serious neurological damage after a ski accident. ...

Laura's Wedding (2015)

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family's disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart. ...

Sun in My Eyes (2015)

After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life. ...

A Golden Boy (2014)

A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiography. ...

A Wedding (2013)

A love story unfolds between two people from different social classes in postwar Italy. Spanning from 1948 to their golden wedding anniversary in 2005, the narrative follows their journey through personal struggles, family life, and the historical challeng ...

The Bad Child (2013)

The Big Heart of Girls (2011)

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ... ...

Se sei così, ti dico sì (2011)

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero recei ...

A Second Childhood (2010)

Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ...

Il figlio più piccolo (2010)

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor. ...

The Friends At The Margherita Café (2009)

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for ...

Giovanna's Father (2008)

Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no ...

The Hideout (2007)

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she ...

A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)

Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, ...

The Second Wedding Night (2005)

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered acros ...

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005)

Christmas Rematch (2004)

15 years after that fateful card game on Christmas Eve, Franco gets his onetime friends back at the poker table for the rematch and a long-awaited payback. ...

Incantato (2003)

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who ind ...

Knights Of The Quest (2001)

In 1271, the Seventh Crusade has failed. During their retreat, the troops transport the remains of King Louis IX, the Holy King, across the peninsula. A world has ended, and five young people with nothing in common set out to find the location of the Holy ...

Midsummer Night Dance (1999)

The Best Man (1997)

Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to dissolve her ...

The Mayor (1997)

De Filippo 's tragedy of a politician presiding over criminal activities in Naples has been transferred to East Chicago. ...

Arcane Sorcerer (1996)

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic. ...

Declarations of Love (1994)

A young, introverted boy falls in love with a more mature and captivating classmate. As the story unfolds through flashbacks, he reflects on the events leading to her tragic death, while dealing with jealousy, obsession, and the lasting emotional consequen ...

The Room Next Door (1994)

Martin Yakobowsky is a brilliant lawyer whose family originally comes from Poland. He is assigned by his legal practice to resolve a contentious case in the prevalently agricultural town in the heart of Iowa, where he was born. After his initial reluctance ...

The Childhood Friend (1994)

40-year-old Arnold Gardner is put in charge of the talk show "The Twenty-fifth Hour" after the death of the former host Duncan Mackay. His role on screen creates immediate interest and the program becomes a great success with TV audiences. This proves to b ...

Magnificat (1993)

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent. ...

Brothers and Sisters (1992)

After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in s ...

Bix (1991)

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others. ...

Where the Night Begins (1991)

This film tells the story about a young man, Irving, who returns to the house where he grew up - just after the death of his father, whose reputation got destroyed by the suicide of a young woman he had an affair with. Irving left his small-town home a lon ...

The Story of Boys and Girls (1989)

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bol ...

Sposi (1988)

The Last Minute (1987)

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo. ...

Christmas Present (1986)

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite to rip off a wealthy businessman in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way. ...

Graduation Party (1985)

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman. ...

Impiegati (1985)

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy. ...

The Three of Us (1984)

1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius. ...

A School Trip (1983)

Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence. ...

Revenge of the Dead (1983)

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead. ...

Dancing Paradise (1982)

Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it. ...

Help Me Dream (1981)

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passi ...

Macabre (1980)

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover. ...

Cinema!!! (1979)

The Stars in the Ditch (1979)

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leadi ...

All The Souls... Except the Dead (1977)

Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure. ...

The Mistress is Served (1976)

A bankrupt Italian count commit suicide and one of his creditors takes over his family villa but he allows the widow, the mother, and the three adult sisters to stay on. The creditor is a wealthy businessman, but also basically an uncouth peasant (who fanc ...

The House with Laughing Windows (1976)

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village. ...

House of Pleasure for Women (1976)

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie open ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture. ...

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza (1975)

A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Ro ...

The Baron's Mazurka (1975)

A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tea ...

The Kiss (1974)

Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon. ...

Thomas (1970)

A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked. ...

Blood Relations (1970)

The story about a sinister magician-dwarf, physically unable to love a woman. His wife's betrayals and an obsessive isolation drive him to despair. ...

Satanik (1968)

A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil. ...

Biasanòt (2023)

Souvenir d'Italie (2022)

La voglia matta di vivere (2022)

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta (2021)

Vorrei sparire senza morire (2021)

About love and death: starting from the small cemetery in San Leo, where many of his loved ones are buried, Pupi Avati opens his heart. It's a heady mix of a little cinema, a little music, and a lot of living; a journey across time; and a backward glance a ...

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me (2020)

Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte. ...

Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani (2020)

Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs (2020)

Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis and more. ...

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019)

Bava Puzzle (2018)

Through the anecdotes and stories of actors, directors, critics and experts, this documentary traces the career of Lamberto Bava, from his first steps in cinema with his father Mario to his 1980 debut with "Macabro" to his collaborations with Dario Argento ...

The Day of the Two Holy Popes (2015)

"History is not just what you read in books, history often reveals itself with its extraordinary scope, already in the present. This is the case when on April 27 2014, the canonization of the greatest Popes of the 20th century was celebrated". With these ...

27 aprile Racconto di un evento (2014)

The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the scenes on the figures of the two saints and popes of Pope Francesco I, with a stock image of three Popes enriched with new images of Pope Frances ...

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione (2014)

C'era una volta il prossimamente (2014)

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions" ...

Welcome Mr. President! (2013)

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precar ...

Noi c'eravamo (2011)

Portrait Of My Father (2010)

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father. ...

Flaiano: il meglio è passato (2010)

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad (2009)

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. ...