Maria Denis
Actor · 1916 – 2004
Movies23
Movie6.4ComedyMusicNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Movie6.5ComedyThe 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.
Movie6.5DocumentaryHistoryThe 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, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · 4 votes
Movie6.4DramaHistoryThe 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 encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
MovieComedyA rich Sicilian farmer has to move from Sicily to Rome to help his grandson, University student, who has been put in jail.
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceBruno, 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 lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
Movie6.2WarDramaInspired 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.
Movie8.0ComedyA 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, who of course, leaves with her...
Pazza di gioia
1940 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaA mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
Cronaca nera
1947 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyNapoli d'altri tempi
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceIn 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...
Malìa
1946 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaIn 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.
Movie5.9WarDramaSet during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Movie6.3DramaA sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
La Danse de mort
1948 · 9 votes
MovieComedyI sette peccati
1942
Movie7.5DramaFour 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 with Rodolphe.
Movie5.4DramaA 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.
Ballerine
1937 · 5 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyA 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 husband, as she has forced the actor to play the thankless role. But from the pretense and the often awkward incidents it causes, a lively and genuine affection develops between the two protagonists. And the grotesque episode ends with a real wedding.
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaEveryone burdens their troubles in a little Italian village on the local pastor.
Movie9.0DramaIn 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.
La maestrina
1942 · 1 votes
Movie8.0HistoryLorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
Lorenzino de' Medici
1935 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWarAngelo 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.
Private Angelo
1949 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTwo different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.