Pupi Avati

Italy, 1952. The young official Furio Momenté is sent to Veneto region, near Polesine, to investigate a shocking and mysterious case: a minor has in fact killed one of his peers claiming to have killed the devil himself.

After a heavy divorce, a lawyer finds new meaning in life after she starts working at a center for refugees, as she meets a child that changes her life completely.

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.

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

On Christmas night, a group of former friends reunites after a very long time with the intent of ripping off a rich industrialist in a game of poker. Old hatreds and mistrusts conflict with nostalgia for the lost friendships.

Young W. A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.

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

In 1943, during the war, widow Francesca moves with her three daughters to her country house to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her.

Friendship and competition among the clerks of a bank.

17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players for a new challange. Who can trust who?

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 feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

In pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Italy, 1914. Two teachers (Delle Piane and Pini) take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.

Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who in the 1950's discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them. Stefano's investigations bring him in contact with a group of renegade scientists that are still making experiments to prove Zeder's theories.

A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked.

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.

A fig tree located on the property of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. One day the baron, a crippled atheist, sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. The aristocrat immediately converts and decides to give up his belongings to a religious institution. In fact, he was the victim of a scam, and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.

Dante must sell books on the legends related to the noble families of Emilia-Romagna to the descendants of the families themselves. When he arrives at the castle Zanotti, he learns that the head of the family, the Marquis Ignazio, has just died that morning.

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.