Anna Magnani Movies

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

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

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

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

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...

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

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

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

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