Maria Denis Movies

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...

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

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.

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s...

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

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.

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...

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

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying...

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless...

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...

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

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...

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...

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