Antonio Avati Movies

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...

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

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

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed...

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...

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

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

Documentary about Pupi Avati's film.

Home from boarding school after years abroad, a precocious teenager, Mimmina, becomes obsessed with seducing her journalist father.

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.

In 1271, the Seventh Crusade has failed. During their retreat, the troops transport the remains of King Louis IX, the Holy King, across the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful...

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...

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...

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...

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to...