Antonio Avati

Based on the life and times of the poet Dante Alighieri.

Nino and Caterina have been married for sixty-five years. On the death of Caterina , his daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an editor to write a book on their love story.

Italy, 1952. A government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a shocking crime: the murder of a child by a young boy who claimed to have killed the Devil himself.

Italy, 1952. A government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a shocking crime: the murder of a child by a young boy who claimed to have killed the Devil himself.

Italy, 1952. A government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a shocking crime: the murder of a child by a young boy who claimed to have killed the Devil himself.

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."

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.

Davide Bias es un creativo publicitario con el sueño de escribir algo grande, real. La ansiedad y las insatisfacciones le obligan a tomar pastillas. Cuando su padre, un guionista de películas de serie B, fallece, Davide se traslada a Roma donde conoce a Ludovica, una atractiva editora interesada en publicar un libro autobiográfico que el padre de Davide tenía intención de escribir. Ahora el libro lo escribirá él, como si fuera su padre: esto lo ayudará a reconciliarse con la figura paterna, pero no a resolver sus inquietudes...

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 ...

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...

Lino y Chicca son dos profesionales bien valorados y felizmente casados. Lino es un periodista deportivo que comienza a sufrir los primeros síntomas de un Alzheimer que avanza, sin piedad, arrasando su mente.

Unscrupulous 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 holding company.

Bolonia, 1938. Durante la Italia fascista, el profesor Michele Casali vivirá una situación desesperada cuando Giovanna, su única hija todavía adolescente, sea acusada de haber asesinado a su mejor amiga. En el ambiente burgués en el que vive la familia, ello causará un gran revuelo.

La película abre con un largo flashback sobre unos sucesos que ocurren en un asilo de la ciudad de Davenport en Iowa regentado por monjas. Allí son brutalmente asesinadas la madre superiora y dos mujeres y dos novicias desaparecen y nunca se vuelve a saber de ellas. En la actualidad, Lei (Laura Morante) es una mujer de origen italiano que ha pasado 15 años recuperándose en un sanatorio mental tras el suicido de su marido. Lee llega a Davenport donde prepara abrir un restaurante de comida italiana en la vieja mansión de Snakes Hall, el viejo asilo, que ahora está abandonado. Cuando entran en él, comienzan a pasar cosas extrañas…

Apulia, inicios de la posguerra: Giordano Ricci (Antonio Albanese) es un hombretón con barba hirsuta que se dedica a levantar campos de minas en Torre Canne. Giordano está considerado por todos como un enfermo mental. Las únicas que se preocupan por él son las viejas tías (Angela Luce y Marisa Merlini) que regentan la fábrica de peladillas de la familia. La vida de Giordano cambia de repente con la llegada de una carta desde Bolonia. El remitente es su cuñada Liliana (Katia Ricciarelli), viuda de su hermano desde hace pocos meses, y a la que él amó en secreto durante la adolescencia. Giordano, feliz, no evita invitarla a la gran masería de Torre Canne suscitando las iras de sus tías. Nino (Neri Marcorè), el joven y espabilado hijo de Liliana, y ella misma salen así hacia Apulia con un coche robado. El cariño de Liliana por Giordano, por ese hombre tan bueno, crece con el tiempo... (FILMAFFINITY)

Nello Balocchi, un profesor de latín y griego de treinta y cinco años, es invitado a Bolonia por su padre, propietario de la sastrería papal en Roma. Su padre espera que Nello encuentre a su alma gemela en Bolonia, para que de este modo le dé un heredero para su negocio. Nello se hospeda en una pensión regentada por Arabella, una sabia mujer que conoce ya su situación, y comparte habitación con Domenico, un diestro barbero de Nápoles. Tras varios intentos infructuosos, Nello conoce a Ángela, una guapa y exuberante joven ciega de la que se enamora perdidamente. El padre de la chica y los padres de Nello no aprueban la relación, aunque el verdadero problema es el temperamento de Ángela.

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro.

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

A group of former friends meets again after a very long time, in a Christmas night, with the intent of ripping off a rich industrialist in a game of Poker. Old hatreds and mistrusts conflict with the nostalgia for the lost friendships.

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

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

Friendship and competion among the clerks of a bank.

Friendship and competion among the clerks of a bank.

The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a prodigy who aspires to a normal life. He is studying music in Bologna when he falls in love with a local girl and makes friends with a boy his own age. Mozart is so elated that he fails a music exam on purpose so he can stay a little longer. Unfortunately, a priest rigs his test and the young composer is forced to move on.

The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a prodigy who aspires to a normal life. He is studying music in Bologna when he falls in love with a local girl and makes friends with a boy his own age. Mozart is so elated that he fails a music exam on purpose so he can stay a little longer. Unfortunately, a priest rigs his test and the young composer is forced to move on.

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

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.

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.

A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.

Un ama de casa de Nueva Orleans tiene una aventura amorosa con otro hombre. La tragedia se ceba sobre ella cuando encuentra a su hijo ahogado y debe marchar rápidamente al hospital -junto al amante-. En el camino tiene un accidente, en el que el hombre muere decapitado. Un año después ella sale de un asilo para enfermos mentales, separada ya del marido, y se va a vivir a la casa del anterior amante. Pero el casero ciego escucha gemidos y conversaciones, sospechando que la mujer está teniendo algún tipo de relación con un hombre...

Un ama de casa de Nueva Orleans tiene una aventura amorosa con otro hombre. La tragedia se ceba sobre ella cuando encuentra a su hijo ahogado y debe marchar rápidamente al hospital -junto al amante-. En el camino tiene un accidente, en el que el hombre muere decapitado. Un año después ella sale de un asilo para enfermos mentales, separada ya del marido, y se va a vivir a la casa del anterior amante. Pero el casero ciego escucha gemidos y conversaciones, sospechando que la mujer está teniendo algún tipo de relación con un hombre...

Mimmina abandona el internado de Ginebra para hacer compañía a su padre, un escritor paralizado por el reumatismo. Cuando él se recupera, ella se ha enamorado de él e intenta seducirle. La llegada de su compañera de habitación, ocho años mayor que ella, desencadenará la tragedia.

En el siglo XVIII, en una desolada casa del valle del Comacchio, habitada por un hombre y sus cuatro hijos, llega la bella Olimpia. Todos se enamoran de ella, y deciden desposarla colectivamente, pero en la noche de bodas, la mujer se da a la fuga.

A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win her with poetry — and a bit of help from his mum.

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.

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

Stefano, un joven restaurador, es encomendado a restaurar el martirio de San Sebastián, el último trabajo de Legnani. Al parecer, Legnani sufría desórdenes mentales, solía pintar a gente cerca de la muerte o de la agonía. Estos hechos junto con la extraña atmósfera que rodea al pueblo donde ha llegado Stefano, hacen de su realidad una pesadilla.

Stefano, un joven restaurador, es encomendado a restaurar el martirio de San Sebastián, el último trabajo de Legnani. Al parecer, Legnani sufría desórdenes mentales, solía pintar a gente cerca de la muerte o de la agonía. Estos hechos junto con la extraña atmósfera que rodea al pueblo donde ha llegado Stefano, hacen de su realidad una pesadilla.

Stefano, un joven restaurador, es encomendado a restaurar el martirio de San Sebastián, el último trabajo de Legnani. Al parecer, Legnani sufría desórdenes mentales, solía pintar a gente cerca de la muerte o de la agonía. Estos hechos junto con la extraña atmósfera que rodea al pueblo donde ha llegado Stefano, hacen de su realidad una pesadilla.

Una multinacional norteamericana del sexo abre en Italia una sucursal de su negocio más rentable: burdeles para mujeres ansiosas de experiencias eróticas poco comunes.

Una multinacional norteamericana del sexo abre en Italia una sucursal de su negocio más rentable: burdeles para mujeres ansiosas de experiencias eróticas poco comunes.

A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. The baron, crippled and atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.

Una modesta compañía teatral, de inminente debut, organiza una sesión de espiritismo, durante la cual se manifiesta el espíritu del pequeño Thomas, protagonista de la obra. De él se ocuparán por turno los distintos actores.

Italian horror movie written and directed by Pupi Avati.