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...

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

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

Mark Shiel is the author of “Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.” In this 2009 video essay, he discusses Roberto...

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

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...

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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...

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...

Former prostitute Maddalena, exiled to the island of her birth by the police, suffers ostracism by the locals, as she tries to defend her younger...

An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.

This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The...

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want...

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person...

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

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.