Pupi Avati

Pupi (Giuseppe) Avati was born in Bologna in 1938. After attending school and studying Political Science at the University of Florence, he started working at a frozen food company. At the same time, he developed a passion for jazz, becoming a proficient clarinetist. In the second half of the 1950s, he formed and played in the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, of which Lucio Dalla was also a member.[3] Although he initially intended to be a professional musician, Avati felt he lacked the necessary talent. In the mid-1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema after seeing Federico Fellini's 8½ and its portrait of the role of a director.[4] Avati's passion for music, as well as his love for his hometown, which was the setting of many of his films, were to become recurrent themes found in his productions.

Works

Bava Puzzle

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 to the big TV series successes of "Fantaghirò," "Desideria" and "Sorellina."

Release Date2018-10-04

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Painted Screams

A feature length documentary on the 1976 film 'The House with Laughing Windows' by Pupi Avati.

Release Date2025-10-11

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Welcome Mr. President!

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 precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

Release Date2013-03-21

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Vote Count697

Vorrei sparire senza morire

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 at a master Italian filmmaker's closest ties, his ghosts and memories snatches of an autobiography interwoven with our collective memory.

Release Date2021-09-07

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Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs

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

Release Date2020-03-30

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Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me

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

Release Date2020-09-28

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Vote Count13

Domenica In

Release Date1976-10-03

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Episode Count1

L'incanto

Enchantment explores the magic of cinema through the lens of Pupi Avati, a master of Italian cinema, and the history of Milan's Odeon, a now-closed Art Deco masterpiece. A personal and visual journey through memory, belonging, and the imagination, where animations, archival footage, and intimate conversations intertwine to tell the story not only of an auteur, but of cinema's very power to enchant and transform.

Release Date2025-09-04

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Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione

Release Date2014-09-02

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Noi c'eravamo

Release Date2011-10-26

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Vote Count1

Portrait Of My Father

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.

Release Date2010-10-27

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Vote Count3

La voglia matta di vivere

Release Date2022-03-17

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Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

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. His favorite actresses such as Clau

Release Date2009-12-06

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Vote Count1

La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema

Release Date2022-07-11

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

Release Date2019-09-05

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Vote Count2

27 aprile Racconto di un evento

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 Francesco I at the time of his election before it is presented to the whole world. A journey through exclusive places and partly unpublished Vatican.

Release Date2014-10-16

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C'era una volta il prossimamente

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Release Date2014-04-22

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Dancing Paradise

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.

Release Date1982-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Three of Us

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.

Release Date1984-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

A Wedding

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 challenges of the time.

Release Date2013-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Bix

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

Release Date1991-05-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

The Hideout

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 discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

Release Date2007-11-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

The Mayor

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

Release Date1997-01-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Last Minute

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

Release Date1987-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Knights Of The Quest

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 Shroud, stolen by traitors at the French court. Their journey will take them from the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to Thebes, where the sacred relic is hidden.

Release Date2001-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Macabre

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.

Release Date1980-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count90

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

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

Release Date1976-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2215

Cinema!!!

Release Date1979-11-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Impiegati

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

Release Date1985-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Declarations of Love

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 consequences of their complicated relationship.

Release Date1994-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Dante

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

Release Date2022-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count92

Satanik

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.

Release Date1968-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count15

Sposi

Release Date1988-04-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

The American Backyard

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.

Release Date2025-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count41

The Bad Child

Release Date2013-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Il figlio più piccolo

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.

Release Date2010-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count76

Zeder

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.

Release Date1983-08-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count94

A Second Childhood

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

Release Date2010-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

House of Pleasure for Women

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. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.

Release Date1976-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Arcane Sorcerer

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

Release Date1996-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Lei mi parla ancora

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.

Release Date2021-04-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count63

Brothers and Sisters

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 settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.

Release Date1992-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Blood Relations

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.

Release Date1970-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count5

Incantato

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 indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

Release Date2003-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count53

A Dinner for Them to Meet

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, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.

Release Date2007-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Help Me Dream

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 passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.

Release Date1981-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Sun in My Eyes

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.

Release Date2015-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?

Release Date2005-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

The Room Next Door

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, due largely to his having cut off all ties with the community of his birthplace, Martin decides to return to the town.

Release Date1994-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Where the Night Begins

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 long time ago, after breaking off relations with his father, who was capable of all kinds of wrongdoing. In particular, Irving's old man got a girl pregnant and didn't even begin to do the right thing by her. Now that the old coot is dead and he is the sole heir, Irving has come back to town determined to right past wrongs, and see to it that the girl's family benefits from his legacy. The young man soon gets obsessed by the house and the past of his dad...

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Mr. Devil

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.

Release Date2019-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count292

The Childhood Friend

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 be a period of great satisfaction for Arnold, but his childhood friend, Eddie Greenberg, suddenly comes on the scene. Eddie is ill and frustrated by lack of success, and is so resentful and envious of Arnold's fame that he wants him to make a full public confession of a "sin" he committed in his young days.

Release Date1994-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

The Friends At The Margherita Café

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 Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

Release Date2009-04-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count98

The House with Laughing Windows

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

Release Date1976-08-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count380

The Stars in the Ditch

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.

Release Date1979-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Che fai... ridi?

Release Date1982-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count15

Un matrimonio

The story, based on the lives of the director's parents, is set in Bologna and begins on the banks of the Reno River. The protagonists are Francesca Osti, daughter of a socialist worker, and Carlo Dagnini, son of a middle-class merchant. Within a few years, Francesca and Carlo leave their respective partners and begin a relationship despite their social and political differences. However, Carlo and Francesca are forced to return to Bologna to their families, partly due to the attack on Togliatti.

Release Date2013-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Christmas Present

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.

Release Date1986-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count169

The Mistress is Served

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 fancies himself an opera singer). Still, the dimwitted, sex-crazed sisters try to seduce both him and his shy, virginal son who accompanies him.

Release Date1976-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Night Voices

A group of young people get in touch with an occultist sect which has been active since before W.W.II.

Release Date1995-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count5

Vote Count6

Midsummer Night Dance

Release Date1999-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Laura's Wedding

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.

Release Date2015-12-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

The Big Heart of Girls

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 ...

Release Date2011-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count63

Giovanna's Father

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 return.

Release Date2008-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count120

The Best Man

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.

Release Date1997-10-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

The Kiss

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

Release Date1974-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Un Natale a casa Croce

Release Date2024-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Christmas Rematch

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.

Release Date2004-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count111

A Golden Boy

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.

Release Date2014-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

The Baron's Mazurka

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 tear it down—until he mistakes a beautiful prostitute momentarily lying on the tree for the Saint herself, falling in love with her. Her pimp, his relatives and the clergy try to take advantage of his newfound faith.

Release Date1975-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

Thomas

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

Release Date1970-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count5

A School Trip

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

Release Date1983-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Magnificat

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.

Release Date1993-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Graduation Party

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

Release Date1985-09-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

The Second Wedding Night

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 across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.

Release Date2005-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

Festival

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.

Release Date1996-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

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 Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.

Release Date1975-08-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Il fulgore di Dony

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.

Release Date2018-05-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

All The Souls... Except the Dead

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.

Release Date1977-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count36

The Story of Boys and Girls

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 Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

Release Date1989-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Nel tepore del ballo

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Se sei così, ti dico sì

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 receives the proposal to conduct a broadcast in Rome. Accepted the offer, he goes to the capital, where he will meet the famous Tatia Cortès, an irrepressible showgirl...

Release Date2011-04-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count44

La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario

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

Release Date2023-05-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Jazz band

Release Date1978-04-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Nato il sei ottobre

Release Date2024-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta

Release Date2021-10-15

Vote Count1

Flaiano: il meglio è passato

Release Date2010-04-01

Biasanòt

Release Date2023-07-12

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

Release Date2025-09-11

Vote Count1

Souvenir d'Italie

Release Date2022-10-21

Alberto Sordi Secret

The documentary film consists previously unpublished testimonies from friends and relatives of the actor, including director Pupi Avati, announcer and TV presenter Rosanna Vaudetti, Totò's niece Elena de Curtis, paparazzi king Rino Barillari, Patrizia and Giada de Blanck, Sabrina Sammarini, director of photography Sergio D'Offizi, Tiziana Appetito and Alessandro Canestrelli,. It also features family photos, and original videos and audio.

Release Date2024-06-28

The Day of the Two Holy Popes

"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 words, the unmistakable voice of Giancarlo Giannini introduces us to an intimate and emotional story of what was, in all respects, a historical event: the Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, director of the Vatican Television Center, holds the reins of the narrative which, among historical and exclusive images, leads to a closer understanding of the two Holy Popes and Pope Francis, and to discover places in the Vatican never seen before. Alongside him are the authoritative opinions of Pupi Avati, Aldo Grasso and Gianni Canova and a moving and emotional Dario Fo. A Vatican Television Center and Sky 3D production.

Release Date2015-04-01

Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani

Release Date2020-06-01