Several key words emerge from Hugo Pratt's work, inseparable from his life: travel, adventure, erudition, esotericism, mystery, poetry, melancholy... and of course, Corto Maltese, his hero and alter ego, who established him as one of the greatest names in comic books. Born in Italy in 1927 and dying in Switzerland sixty-eight years later, Hugo Pratt, born without an H and with only one T, grew up in the shadow of a fascist father who took him at a very young age to Ethiopia, which was occupied by Mussolini's forces. The teenager developed a fascination for the wide-open spaces of Africa, soon followed by an irresistible attraction to the Indian world. This was the starting point for a life of travel, success, conquests, rare failures, and marked by his veneration for the American cartoonist Milton Caniff, his absolute master.

City Slickers
1991
6.4/10

Titanic
1997
7.9/10

Oppenheimer
2023
8.0/10

Back to the Future
1985
8.3/10

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
7.4/10

Shutter Island
2010
8.2/10

Eden Lake
2008
6.8/10

PK
2014
7.7/10

Joker
2019
8.1/10

Ex Machina
2015
7.6/10

8 Mile
2002
7.1/10

Tolkien
2019
6.9/10

Batman Begins
2005
7.7/10

Raya and the Last Dragon
2021
7.8/10

All Quiet on the Western Front
2022
7.7/10

The Bucket List
2007
7.2/10

Inside Out
2015
7.9/10

The Collector
2009
6.6/10

Rush
2013
7.7/10

Hocus Pocus
1993
7.0/10
Puberty: Sexual Education For Boys and Girls
1991
6.1/10