Maurizio Ponzi

La tartaruga (2024)

Vado e vengo (2021)

Ci vediamo a casa (2012)

Three different couples are looking for a house to live. ...

Behind Love and Anger (2005)

Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani (director of the segment "L'indifferenza"), Marco Bellocchio (director of the segment "Discutiamo, discussamo"), Maurizio Ponzi (assistant director of the segment ...

A luci spente (2004)

Besame mucho (1999)

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 ba ...

Fratelli coltelli (1997)

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 inheri ...

Italiani (1996)

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. ...

Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995)

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 nu ...

Poliziotti (1995)

When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster. ...

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima (1994)

Black as the Heart (1994)

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 gar ...

I Wanted Pants (1990)

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. Aft ...

The Big Fox (1988)

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 Volpon ...

Us Real Men, We Hard Men (1987)

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

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri (1986)

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, Co ...

Aurora (1984)

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

Son contento (1983)

The Pool Hustlers (1983)

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, b ...

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight (1982)

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco. ...

Il caso Raoul (1975)

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Philadelphia Story (1974)

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

December 12th (1972)

On December 12th, 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, along with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held ...

Equinox (1971)

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

Interno giorno (1971)

A 1971 film by Maurizio Ponzi. ...

Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)

A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness. ...

Stefano Junior (1969)

Short film by Maurizio Ponzi. Stefano is the younger son in a family who lives in the outskirts of Rome. He's been expelled at school, and is starting to work at a newsstand. A poetic look at the life and responsibilities of a poor kid in late-60s Italy. ...

The Visionaries (1968)

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 ...

Fellini in città ovvero Frammenti di una conversazione su Federico Fellini (1968)

Lo splendore del vero (1967)

A short film about Roberto Rossellini's films. ...

Visconti (1967)

Italian film, theater and opera director Luchino Visconti is shown in rehearsal for a revival of Goethe's 1788 drama "Egmont," staged at Florence's Teatro Goldoni by the "Compagnia dei giovani." The documentary includes scenes of the company in rehearsal, ...

Notes from a Critofilm (1966)

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

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)

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, pho ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (2018)

In 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 ...

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano (2010)

Behind Love and Anger (2005)

Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani (director of the segment "L'indifferenza"), Marco Bellocchio (director of the segment "Discutiamo, discussamo"), Maurizio Ponzi (assistant director of the segment ...