Anna Magnani Movies

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which...

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country...

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and...

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number,...

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity...

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending...

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest...

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to...

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is...

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various...

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening....

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent...

Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the...

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of...

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a...