Maria Denis Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer,...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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