Pupi Avati

A dazzling comedy with a poignant streak set in the Rome and Bologna of the 1920s. (Northern Arts Entertainment)

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)

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family. (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)

Italian director Pupi Avati contrasts his 2007 English-language thriller The Hideout with this sentimental, distinctively Italian comedy concerning a failed actor who can't help but obsess over his lackluster career. After the depressive thespian makes a half-hearted suicide attempt, his three daughters flock to be by his side and organize a surprise dinner party designed to set him up with a potential mate. Later, as dinner gets underway, the situation takes an unexpected turn.

Grotesque 'Bordello' of Nightmares! (tagline)

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)

A seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they'd never met. (imdb)

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)

A romantic musical directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

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...

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

"The Hideout" is a mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends 15 years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there 50 years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot. (imdb)

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

A comedy film directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

The relationships between five men who play cards far into the night on Christmas Eve are the focus of this psychological drama by Pupi Avati. Four of the players are out to skin the fifth, industrial tycoon Santelia (Carlo Delle Piane), but the four are not exactly a united front. Theater-owner Franco (Diego Abatantuono) is nearly bankrupt and harbors a deep and well-founded resentment against Ugo (Gianni Cavina), a wacko television host... (allmovie.com)

17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players meet for a new challenge. Who can trust who? (imdb)

Set in Tuscany, A.D. 926, a collection of vignettes form a patchwork portrait of 10th century faith and manners. (yahoo)

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 marriage, because she has never consummated it, the best man leaves... only to return to her many months later. (imdb)

An amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.

The film recounts the last years of the American cornet player, Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, before his death in New York, during the summer of 1931, at the early age of 28. The story is told to a mysterious girl during a train journey, by Joe Venuti, the Italian-American violonist who shared both the excitement and the crushing disappointments of Bix's meteoric and tragic career. (festival-cannes.fr)

Five stories, five lives which run into one another: a declining TV star, a fragile young girl, a mistress, a macho kinda guy, a cinema usher, fiances... all of them tell each other stories, looking for happiness and true love. (imdb)

A respectable girl decides to marry an irresponsible man. (imdb)

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)

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.

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)

Lino Settembre and his wife Chicca lead a tranquil married life without any serious problems. They are satisfied with their careers. He's the sports editor at the Messenger and she's a professor of medieval languages at the Universita' Gregoriana. (imdb)

The film, inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's book Trattatello in laude di Dante, narrates the life of the poet Dante Alighieri as told by Boccaccio himself (wikipedia.org)

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary’s elderly mother’s house, separated by a grim garden.