Movies: Pupi Avati

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 w...

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

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

The documentary film consists previously unpublished testimonies from friends and relatives of the actor, including director Pupi Avati, announcer and TV presenter Rosanna Vaudetti, Totò's niece Elena de Curtis,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, Patrizi...

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

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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...

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 F...

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

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

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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 ch...

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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....

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 gl...

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