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Pupi Avati Filmography

Name: Pupi Avati Filmography
Creator: TMDB

Complete filmography of Pupi Avati: 35 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.

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Title↕	Year↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Overview↕
The American Backyard	2,025	Horror, Mystery	6.5	46	Italian	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.
La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario	2,023	Drama	5.5	47	Italian	Samuele and Marzio, as teenagers, make a promise to be friends forever, but adulthood, women and everyday problems sneak into their lives.
Dante	2,022	Drama, History	5.1	93	Italian	The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.
Lei mi parla ancora	2,021	Drama	6.2	63	Italian	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.
Mr. Devil	2,019	Horror, Mystery	6.1	295	Italian	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.
Il fulgore di Dony	2,018	Drama, TV Movie	7.4	17	Italian	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.
A Golden Boy	2,014	Romance, Comedy, Drama	5.3	48	Italian	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.
The Big Heart of Girls	2,011	Drama	5.8	63	Italian	Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Franc...
Il figlio più piccolo	2,010	Drama	5.6	76	Italian	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.
A Second Childhood	2,010	Drama	6.7	22	Italian	Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
The Friends At The Margherita Café	2,009	Drama, Comedy	5.6	99	Italian	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.
Giovanna's Father	2,008	Drama	6.9	120	Italian	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.
The Hideout	2,007	Horror, Mystery, Thriller	6.1	56	English	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.
A Dinner for Them to Meet	2,007	Drama, Comedy	5.9	55	Italian	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.
The Second Wedding Night	2,005	Drama	6.2	48	Italian	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.
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?	2,005	N/A	5.8	21	Italian
Christmas Rematch	2,004	Comedy, Drama	6.8	112	Italian	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.
Incantato	2,003	Drama, Romance	6.4	53	Italian	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.
Knights Of The Quest	2,001	Drama, History	4.7	25	Italian	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.
The Best Man	1,997	Comedy	7.3	16	Italian	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.
Arcane Sorcerer	1,996	Horror	6.9	47	Italian	Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.
Festival	1,996	Drama	6	19	Italian	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.
Magnificat	1,993	Drama, History	6.1	13	Italian	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.
Bix	1,991	Drama	6.3	15	Italian	Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
The Story of Boys and Girls	1,989	Drama, Comedy	6.5	12	Italian	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.
The Last Minute	1,987	Comedy	5.9	22	Italian	Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
Christmas Present	1,986	Drama	7.3	172	Italian	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.
Graduation Party	1,985	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.1	24	Italian	The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.
Impiegati	1,985	Drama	6.2	18	Italian	Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.
Revenge of the Dead	1,983	Horror, Mystery	6.4	95	Italian	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 School Trip	1,983	Drama, Comedy	7.2	20	Italian	Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
All The Souls... Except the Dead	1,977	Thriller, Comedy, Horror	6.2	36	Italian	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.
The House with Laughing Windows	1,976	Mystery, Thriller, Horror	7.2	385	Italian	Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
House of Pleasure for Women	1,976	Comedy, Music	5.5	13	Italian	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.
The Baron's Mazurka	1,975	Drama, Comedy, Romance	6.7	23	Italian	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.

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