Pupi Avati

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

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina

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.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Carlo Delle Piane, Diego Abatantuono, Gianni Cavina

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.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Diego Abatantuono, Alessandro Haber, Gianni Cavina

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.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Gabriel Lo Giudice, Filippo Franchini, Riccardo Claut

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.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle

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.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Diego Abatantuono, Pierpaolo Zizzi, Neri Marcorè