Antonio Avati Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his...

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...

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

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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