Directing

Daniele D'Anza

Born April 20, 1922 · Milano, Italy

Died April 12, 1984 · aged 61

Daniele D'Anza was an Italian director, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career in theater, notably directing the antimilitarist play Venticinque metri di fango in 1946, which garnered critical acclaim. Transitioning to television, D'Anza became known for his work on Italian TV dramas and series, contributing significantly to the medium's development in Italy. His innovative storytellin…

Known For

Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair · 1950

Story of a Love Affair

MovieDramaRomance

A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.

I piaceri del sabato notte

I piaceri del sabato notte · 1960

I piaceri del sabato notte

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare · 1967

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

Fists, Girls and Sailors

Fists, Girls and Sailors · 1961

Fists, Girls and Sailors

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino · 1967

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

Barnabas, said Don Giovannino, is a true lover of beautiful women. One day he chases a beautiful American in his apartment, taking advantage of the fact that her husband is in Rome for a process.

Tutto Totò - La scommessa

Tutto Totò - La scommessa · 1967

Tutto Totò - La scommessa

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak · 1967

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's shooting a spy movie, then in a western scenario, where he has to play a cruel and uncouth bandit who must challenge him to a duel a cowboy.

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye · 1967

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

Filmography

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Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair · 1950

Story of a Love Affair

MovieDramaRomance

A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.

Screenplay

I piaceri del sabato notte

I piaceri del sabato notte · 1960

I piaceri del sabato notte

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

Director

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare · 1967

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

Director

Fists, Girls and Sailors

Fists, Girls and Sailors · 1961

Fists, Girls and Sailors

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.

Director

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino · 1967

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

Barnabas, said Don Giovannino, is a true lover of beautiful women. One day he chases a beautiful American in his apartment, taking advantage of the fact that her husband is in Rome for a process.

Director

Tutto Totò - La scommessa

Tutto Totò - La scommessa · 1967

Tutto Totò - La scommessa

Director

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak · 1967

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's shooting a spy movie, then in a western scenario, where he has to play a cruel and uncouth bandit who must challenge him to a duel a cowboy.

Director

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye · 1967

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

Director

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia · 1977

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia

MovieCrimeTV Movie

Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life.

Director

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli · 1967

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

Director

Giove in doppiopetto

Giove in doppiopetto · 1955

Giove in doppiopetto

MovieComedyMusic

Jupiter decides to spend his 3,000th birthday on earth amongst the humans. Mercury suggests he take the place of a newly married politician so he can have some fun with the man's new wife - but nothing goes to plan!

Director

Illa - Punto d'osservazione

Illa - Punto d'osservazione · 1981

Illa - Punto d'osservazione

MovieCrimeTV Movie

Illa, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout during a bank robbery. This fact places her at the center of an intrigue in which private life, journalism and investigations are dangerously intertwined.

Director

Il latitante

Il latitante · 1967

Director

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel · 1967

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

Director

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro · 1967

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

Director

La sconosciuta

La sconosciuta · 1982

MovieCrimeTV Movie

The story begins with the mysterious death of a foreigner in Rome. The man, who has just found traces of his wife disappeared four years earlier, is killed. His wife reappears and she is involved in an espionage affair.

Director

Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde

Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde · 1958

Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde

MovieDramaMystery

This is an Italian made-for-TV movie starring Terence Hill

Director

The Wanderers

The Wanderers · 1956

Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate.

Writer

Scaramouche

Scaramouche · 1965

SeriesFamilyDrama

Director

Il segno del comando

Il segno del comando · 1971

Il segno del comando

An English writer interested in the occult searches Rome for George Byron's lost diaries, convinced that they hide a terrible secret. During his search, mysterious events occur around him, including a murder and the enigmatic appearances of a beautiful woman...

Director

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary · 1978

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

Director

The bitter case of the Baroness of Carini

The bitter case of the Baroness of Carini · 1975

The bitter case of the Baroness of Carini

Sicily 1812: the first liberal constitution shall put an end to the privileges of the feudal lords. Luca Corbara, sent by the Minister of Finance to control the landed properties, begins to suspect that the current Carini feud is made up of lands usurped more than two centuries before by the lover of the killed Baroness.

Writer

Orient Express

Orient Express · 1979

A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

Director

Racconti fantastici

Racconti fantastici · 1979

Racconti fantastici

Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Director

Zeno’s Conscience

Zeno’s Conscience · 1966

Zeno’s Conscience

Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zeno Cosini, a wealthy Trieste merchant, neurotic and smoker, is marked by a conflictual relationship with his father and a chronic sense of inadequacy that drives him to seek help from psychoanalyst Dr. S.

Director

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio · 1957

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

The English countryside provides the backdrop for the story of the Bennet family, who are of modest social standing, and in particular for the second daughter, Elizabeth. Italian adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice".

Director

Joe Petrosino

Joe Petrosino · 1972

Director

Melissa

Melissa · 1966

Always on the hunt for news, journalist Guy Foster has no idea that he will soon be the subject of the city's crime pages: when his wife Melissa is found strangled in Regent's Park, he will be the first on the list of suspects. His innocence remains to be proven, as does the phone call the journalist claims to have received from his wife shortly before her body was discovered. A second murder and an attempted murder will further complicate matters...

Director

I Have Met a Shadow

I Have Met a Shadow · 1974

I Have Met a Shadow

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

The male protagonist falls in love with a very beautiful blonde woman and with a mysterious past who seems to be almost a ghost, a shadow.

Director

Il mattatore

Il mattatore · 1959

Director

Il giudice e il suo boia

Il giudice e il suo boia · 1972

Il giudice e il suo boia

Director

Illa - Punto di osservazione

Illa - Punto di osservazione · 1981

Illa - Punto di osservazione

Director

Aprite: polizia!

Aprite: polizia! · 1958

Aprite: polizia!

Director