Maria Denis

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magn ...

The Anatomy of Love (1954)

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom. ...

The Flame that Never Dies (1949)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. ...

Private Angelo (1949)

Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting. ...

La Danse de mort (1948)

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. ...

Maria Denis e le sue prigioni (1948)

A movie actress gets arrested and has a hard time finding sleep at the police station. Then her director appears and saves her. ...

Four Women (1947)

The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love experiences. ...

Nothing (1947)

When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments. ...

Cronaca nera (1947)

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family. ...

Malìa (1946)

In regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself... ...

The Bohemian Life (1945)

Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love ...

No One Comes Back (1945)

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s. ...

La maestrina (1942)

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her. ...

Le due orfanelle (1942)

Yes, Ma'am (1942)

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli. ...

La compagnia della teppa (1941)

L'amore canta (1941)

Italian film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli. ...

Pazza di gioia (1940)

A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, ...

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated. ...

Abandonment (1940)

In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain. ...

The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. ...

Le due madri (1938)

Hanno rapito un uomo (1938)

A Russian grand duchess, in order to avoid a marriage imposed on her by her family, pretends to have fallen in love with a movie actor and tells her relatives that she has married him. When they arrive, they are able to meet the grand duchess's supposed hu ...

Napoli d'altri tempi (1938)

Ballerine (1937)

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment. ...

Lasciate ogni speranza (1937)

Joe il Rosso (1936)

A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery. ...

Re di danari (1936)

Fiat voluntas dei (1936)

Everyone burdens their troubles in a little Italian village on the local pastor. ...

Lorenzino de' Medici (1935)

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca. ...

Seconda B (1934)

A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship. ...

1860 (1934)

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encoun ...

Creature della notte (1934)

Piccola mia (1933)

A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver. ...

Tourist Train (1933)

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota. ...

What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932)

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver's daughter working as a perfumery's shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer's car to took her on a trip to the l ...

The Operator (1932)

Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet. ...