
Writing
Maurizio Costanzo
Born 1938-08-28 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Maurizio Costanzo (born 28 August 1938) is an Italian television host, journalist, screenwriter and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurizio Costanzo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
6.5When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
Caterina in the Big City
2003
9.0A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
5.1Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.
Body Guards
2000
NRThe history of a great school is the history of a great nation. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liceo Giulio Cesare - the historical school of Rome - the journalist and director Antonello Sarno reconstructs its history with a documentary.
Giulio Cesare: Class Mates
2014
5.3In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.
I cassamortari
2022
6.8No synopsis available yet.
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale
2022
5.4Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Nineties Part II
1993
6.6Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager.
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
1983
7.7The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
La voce di Fantozzi
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Carmelo Bene: Uno contro tutti
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Speciale Atlantide: Andrea Purgatori, Borsellino e le stragi
2024
Behind the camera
8.1Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
A Special Day
1977
6.5A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
Revenge of the Dead
1983
7.2Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
The House with Laughing Windows
1976
6.3The family of a wealthy nobleman tries to take away his land away after learning that he is having an affair with an imaginary woman.
Lunatics and Lovers
1976
9.0A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
6.2Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.
All The Souls... Except the Dead
1977
5.8Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
L'altra metà del cielo
1977
5.8The 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.
House of Pleasure for Women
1976
4.6Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal with their children, their jobs and social relationships alone. They even both start seeing someone else, until jealousy arises. Perhaps their love is not over yet...
Voce del verbo amore
2007
2.4Costantino and Daniele are two friends which have very success with girls. Their wish is to work in the show business and they can achieve their goal when meet Valeria, top model and actress, who offers both guys the chance they are looking for: meet Mr. Giampalmi, an important producer. But the producer is Valeria's father who wants the guys to be cheated...
Too Beautiful
2005
7.0Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local family linked to politics but also the church dealing in real estate business and welfare. Aldara may be pleased to see there Viviana again. Viviana is the widow of the dead man and used to be Aldara's girlfriend twenty years before
Pleased To See You Again
1976
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Cerca di capirmi
1970
6.0When three drifters come into the possession of stolen gold they are imprisoned then sprung by a friend and tracked by the outlaw Jackson brothers, who originally stole the gold.
In the Name of the Father
1969
4.1A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Vatican Affair
1968
5.8Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband is an older and worldly professor of archaeology while his wife is interested in exploring living things. The young hitchhiker is seduced by the beautiful wife, while her husband continues to gaze at ancient ruins.
Normal Young Man
1969
7.0Giovanni is a criminal lawyer who is successful both at work and with women, despite a happy marriage. One day, however, his life is turned upside down by the sudden intrusion of Sara, a beautiful professional used to conquering men to fight boredom. Seized by an increasingly pressing passion, Giovanni leaves his family but shortly after he is in turn left by Sara, afraid of establishing a stable relationship with him.
Forever
2003
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Melodrammore
1978
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Melodrammore
1978