Antonio Avati Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

Documentary about Pupi Avati's film.

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...

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 fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there....

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...

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

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years...

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train...

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...