Antonio Avati

Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who in the 1950's discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them (imdb)

Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

A bizarre but heavy-handed giallo spoof which features a plethora of eccentric characters: inept detective, diminutive hero, a cross-eyed psycho and a dwarf (actually a man in drag!) for servants - plus a mad combo of relatives including a matriarch suffering from dementia, her cowboy of a second husband, her sex-crazed retarded son who has to be frequently restrained via electro-shock therapy, another son who's also a 'little man' (played by Bob Tonelli, one of the film's own financiers!), etc. (imdb Comment)

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 leading to an almost mythic ending. (Yahoo!)

World War II Bologna-set drama chronicling a father's love for his troubled daughter. When young Giovanna (Neri) kills one of her friends in a fit of rage she is committed to a mental hospital. At the cost of his wife, Giovanna's father promises to remain as close to her as possible. (list.co.uk)

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 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 opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Italy, 1911, two teachers (Delle Piane and Pini) take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence. (imdb)

The 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a summer with his father on Count Pallavicini's estate preparing for an important examination at the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. However, in between his studies he falls in with the local boys of his own age, and also feels the first stirrings of love for Antonia, a girl from a nearby villa. Tasting for the first time the life of a normal 14-year-old, Mozart decides to fail the examination...

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With Laughing Windows" in 1976.

Festa di Laurea (graduation party) is a film about times of change. The story is set at the end of World War II. A middle aged working class man who has just started his own bakery trying to mass produce pastry for the expected influx of mass tourism on the Adriatic has agreed to prepare a completely run down beach house with an overgrown garden for a graduation party. (imdb)

Instead of offering the rousing attacks and counterattacks of soccer, Pupi Avati's movie focuses on the routine downs and ups of a team manager (Ugo Tognazzi) whose troubles begin when his faltering club is taken over by a younger man with a high-priced hairdo. (mubi)

Luigi Stanzani arrives in Bologna to take up a job at an important bank. Luigi is unable to integrate himself with his colleagues, who appear to him as offenders.

Italy, 1952. The young official Furio Momenté is sent to Veneto region, near Polesine, to investigate a shocking and mysterious case: a minor has in fact killed one of his peers claiming to have killed the devil himself. (imdb)

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth. (imdb)