Francesco Maselli Movies

A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective...

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly...

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and...

Early Antonioni documentary short on the making of Fumetti (Italian photo comics) and their role in Italian society.

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million people protest march on November 12,...

A young woman struggles to overcome the dehumanization of poverty.

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this...

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper...

Francesco Maselli takes us by the hand through the events, and his own involvement with them, that have marked the culture and arts of the past...

Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of...

A short documentary.