Maurizio Ponzi

Directing

Maurizio Ponzi

Born

1939-05-08 (87)

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Black as the Heart poster
9.0

Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance leads Valentino to investigate, discovering that Ray worked as a gardener for the villa of the Alga Croce family.

Black as the Heart

1994

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri poster
5.5

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

1986

The Pool Hustlers poster
6.9

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.

The Pool Hustlers

1983

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

1994

Ci vediamo a casa poster
5.2

Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

Ci vediamo a casa

2012

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words poster
9.2

A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

2021

Film credits

Behind the camera

Black as the Heart poster
9.0

Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance leads Valentino to investigate, discovering that Ray worked as a gardener for the villa of the Alga Croce family.

Black as the Heart

1994

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri poster
5.5

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

1986

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri poster
5.5

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

1986

The Pool Hustlers poster
6.9

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.

The Pool Hustlers

1983

The Pool Hustlers poster
6.9

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.

The Pool Hustlers

1983

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

1994

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

1994

Ci vediamo a casa poster
5.2

Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

Ci vediamo a casa

2012

Ci vediamo a casa poster
5.2

Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

Ci vediamo a casa

2012

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight poster
6.8

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco.

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight

1982

The Big Fox poster
7.1

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

The Big Fox

1988

The Big Fox poster
7.1

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

The Big Fox

1988

I Wanted Pants poster
5.5

Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.

I Wanted Pants

1990

I Wanted Pants poster
5.5

Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.

I Wanted Pants

1990

Us Real Men, We Hard Men poster
5.7

Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.

Us Real Men, We Hard Men

1987

Us Real Men, We Hard Men poster
5.7

Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.

Us Real Men, We Hard Men

1987

Italiani poster
5.9

1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.

Italiani

1996

Italiani poster
5.9

1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.

Italiani

1996

No artwork available
NR

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.

Rome, November 12, 1994

1995

Son contento poster
6.2

Francesco, a young comedian, is dumped by his girlfriend and falls into a creative crisis. After several years of anonymity, he finds success with a series of shows that draw on his private life.

Son contento

1983

Son contento poster
6.2

Francesco, a young comedian, is dumped by his girlfriend and falls into a creative crisis. After several years of anonymity, he finds success with a series of shows that draw on his private life.

Son contento

1983

Equinox poster
6.0

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.

Equinox

1971

Philadelphia Story poster
NR

Italian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry.

Philadelphia Story

1974

Aurora poster
7.1

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.

Aurora

1984

Aurora poster
7.1

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.

Aurora

1984

A luci spente poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A luci spente

2004

A luci spente poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A luci spente

2004

Notes from a Critofilm poster
NR

Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.

Notes from a Critofilm

1966

The Visionaries poster
7.0

A film about a love triangle between a theater director, an actress and an actor. Exchanges take place between fiction and reality, the stage and life. The actress one day leaves the theater director for the actor. But after a few days, she begins to doubt her new relationship. Inspired by the writings by Robert Musil.

The Visionaries

1968

Fratelli coltelli poster
5.5

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers.

Fratelli coltelli

1997

Besame mucho poster
9.0

Dilemmas of life, love and family are the subject of this multiple-narrative film from Italy. The adopted son of a well-known philanthropist, Don Tommaso, wants to travel to his native Morocco to attend his sister's wedding, but he must first hurdle the barricades of Italy's immigration laws.

Besame mucho

1999

Besame mucho poster
9.0

Dilemmas of life, love and family are the subject of this multiple-narrative film from Italy. The adopted son of a well-known philanthropist, Don Tommaso, wants to travel to his native Morocco to attend his sister's wedding, but he must first hurdle the barricades of Italy's immigration laws.

Besame mucho

1999

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il caso Raoul

1975

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il caso Raoul

1975

Sabatoventiquattromarzo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

1984

Vado e vengo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vado e vengo

2021

No artwork available
NR

A 1971 film by Maurizio Ponzi.

Interno giorno

1971

La tartaruga poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La tartaruga

2024

No artwork available
NR

A short film about Roberto Rossellini's films.

Lo splendore del vero

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fellini in città ovvero Frammenti di una conversazione su Federico Fellini

1968