Maurizio Ponzi

Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

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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 barricades of Italy's immigration laws.

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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 inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers.

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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.

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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 number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.

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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 gardener for the villa of the Alga Croce family.

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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. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.

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The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.

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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 Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

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

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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, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.

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

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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, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.

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A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco.

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

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

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A 1971 film by Maurizio Ponzi.

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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.

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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 her new relationship. Inspired by the writings by Robert Musil.

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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, and an interview with Visconti, as well as an analysis of some of the director's films.

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A short film about Roberto Rossellini's films.

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

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Officially landed on the Isle of Elba to make a documentary for Rai 1, a crew is actually there to shoot a porn film. The film has to be starred by the diva Edith Costello and by the young actor Salvatore, who is unaware that he had been hired to shoot hardcore scenes. When Salvatore will discover the truth, problems will begin.

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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, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.

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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 most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.

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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 " La sequenza del fiore di carta," by Pier Paolo Pasolini), and Roberto Perpignani (editor of the segment "Agonia," by Bernardo Bertolucci).

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Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

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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 barricades of Italy's immigration laws.

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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.

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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.

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