Pupi Avati

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Pupi Avati

Born November 3, 1938 · Bologna, Italy (age 87)

Pupi (Giuseppe) Avati was born in Bologna in 1938. After attending school and studying Political Science at the University of Florence, he started working at a frozen food company. At the same time, he developed a passion for jazz, becoming a proficient clarinetist. In the second half of the 1950s, he formed and played in the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, of which Lucio Dalla was also a member.[3] Alth…

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Salò, or the 120 Days of SodomSalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom · 1976
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
★ 6.31976
MovieHorrorDrama
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
The House with Laughing WindowsThe House with Laughing Windows · 1976
The House with Laughing Windows
★ 7.21976
MovieMysteryThriller
Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
Lei mi parla ancoraLei mi parla ancora · 2021
Lei mi parla ancora
★ 6.22021
MovieDrama
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.
DanteDante · 2022
Dante
★ 5.12022
MovieDramaHistory
The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.
Knights of the QuestKnights of the Quest · 2001
Knights of the Quest
★ 4.92001
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Where the Night BeginsWhere the Night Begins · 1991
Where the Night Begins
★ 6.91991
MovieHorror
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 got destroyed by the suicide of a young woman he had an affair with. Irving left his small-town home a long time ago, after breaking off relations with his father, who was capable of all kinds of wrongdoing. In particular, Irving's old man got a girl pregnant and didn't even begin to do the right thing by her. Now that the old coot is dead and he is the sole heir, Irving has come back to town determined to right past wrongs, and see to it that the girl's family benefits from his legacy. The young man soon gets obsessed by the house and the past of his dad...
A Golden BoyA Golden Boy · 2014
A Golden Boy
★ 5.32014
MovieRomanceComedy
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.
MacabreMacabre · 1980
Macabre
★ 5.71980
MovieHorror
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 becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.

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Welcome Mr. President!Welcome Mr. President! · 2013
Welcome Mr. President!
★ 6.22013
MovieComedy
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

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