Pupi Avati
Known for: Directing
Born: November 3, 1938
Place of birth: Bologna, Italy
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] Although he initially intended to be a professional musician, Avati felt he lacked the necessary talent. In the mid-1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema after seeing Federico Fellini's 8½ and its portrait of the role of a director.[4] Avati's passion for music, as well as his love for his hometown, which was the setting of many of his films, were to become recurrent themes found in his productions.
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Filmography
88 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
6.6
The Warmth Of Dance
2026NR
Quelli che il cinema
2025
NR
Painted Screams
2025
7.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
NR
L'incanto
2025
6.3
The American Backyard
2025
6.0
Un Natale a casa Croce
2024
5.0
Nato il sei ottobre
2024
NR
Alberto Sordi Secret
2024
NR
Biasanòt
2023
5.5
La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario
2023
NR
Souvenir d'Italie
2022
5.1
Dante
2022
NR
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
2022
9.0
La voglia matta di vivere
2022NR
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
NR
Vorrei sparire senza morire
2021
6.2
Lei mi parla ancora
2021
7.2
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020NR
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020
NR
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020
7.3
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
6.0
Mr. Devil
2019
NR
Bava Puzzle
2018
7.4
Il fulgore di Dony
2018
4.5
Laura's Wedding
2015
NR
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015
5.4
Sun in My Eyes
2015
NR
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
2014
5.3
A Golden Boy
2014
NR
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
NR
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
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Un matrimonio
2013
5.6
The Bad Child
2013
6.2
Welcome Mr. President!
2013
5.8
The Big Heart of Girls
2011
10.0
Noi c'eravamo
2011
4.7
Se sei così, ti dico sì
2011
7.3
Portrait Of My Father
2010
6.7
A Second Childhood
2010NR
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
5.6
Il figlio più piccolo
2010
7.0
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
5.6
The Friends at the Margherita Café
2009
6.8
Giovanna's Father
2008
6.1
The Hideout
2007
5.9
A Dinner for Them to Meet
2007
6.2
The Second Wedding Night
2005
5.9
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
2005
6.9
Christmas Rematch
2004
NR
Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema
2004
6.4
Incantato
2003
NR
Venticinque anni di culto
2002
4.9
Knights of the Quest
2001
6.4
Midsummer Night Dance
1999
7.4
The Best Man
1997
7.0
The Mayor
1997
6.1
Festival
1996
6.9
Arcane Sorcerer
1996
8.6
Night Voices
1995
7.2
Declarations of Love
1994
4.0
The Room Next Door
1994
6.1
The Childhood Friend
1994
6.3
Magnificat
1993
4.4
Brothers and Sisters
1992
6.3
Bix
1991
6.9
Where the Night Begins
199110.0
E' proibito ballare
1989
6.7
The Story of Boys and Girls
1989
6.0
Sposi
1988
6.1
The Last Minute
1987
7.3
Christmas Present
1986
7.1
Graduation Party
1985
6.3
Impiegati
1985
6.6
The Three of Us
1984
7.1
A School Trip
1983
6.5
Revenge of the Dead
1983
NR
Che fai... ridi?
1982
7.1
Help Me Dream
1981
5.7
Macabre
1980
7.8
Cinema!!!
1979
7.8
The Stars in the Ditch
197910.0
Jazz band
1978
6.2
All The Souls... Except the Dead
1977
4.2
The Mistress is Served
1976
NR
Domenica In
1976
7.2
The House with Laughing Windows
1976
5.8
House of Pleasure for Women
1976
6.3
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
6.2
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
6.8
The Baron's Mazurka
1975
3.5
The Kiss
1974
7.8
Thomas
1970
6.1
Blood Relations
1970
4.1
Satanik
1968