
Directing
Maurizio Ponzi
Born
1939-05-08 (87)
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
44 titles
Known for
9.0Lawyer 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
5.5Carabinieri'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
6.9Francesco, 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
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima
1994
5.2Three different couples are looking for a house to live.
Ci vediamo a casa
2012
9.2A 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became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.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
2010s · 2 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
2010
7.0In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
2018
Behind the camera
9.0Lawyer 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
5.5Carabinieri'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
5.5Carabinieri'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
6.9Francesco, 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
6.9Francesco, 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
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima
1994
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima
1994
5.2Three different couples are looking for a house to live.
Ci vediamo a casa
2012
5.2Three different couples are looking for a house to live.
Ci vediamo a casa
2012
6.8A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco.
What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight
1982
7.1Ugo 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
7.1Ugo 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
5.5Annetta, 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
5.5Annetta, 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
5.7Mario, 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
5.7Mario, 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
5.91965, 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
5.91965, 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
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
6.2Francesco, 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
6.2Francesco, 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
6.0Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.
Equinox
1971
NRItalian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry.
Philadelphia Story
1974
7.1A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.
Aurora
1984
7.1A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.
Aurora
1984
8.0No synopsis available yet.
A luci spente
2004
8.0No synopsis available yet.
A luci spente
2004
NRReflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.
Notes from a Critofilm
1966
7.0A 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
5.5Guelfo 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
9.0Dilemmas 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
9.0Dilemmas 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 synopsis available yet.
Il caso Raoul
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Il caso Raoul
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Vado e vengo
2021
A 1971 film by Maurizio Ponzi.
Interno giorno
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La tartaruga
2024
A short film about Roberto Rossellini's films.
Lo splendore del vero
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Fellini in città ovvero Frammenti di una conversazione su Federico Fellini
1968

