Anna Magnani Movies

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

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

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer,...

An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.

Drama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken...

A homeless girl is taken in by an engineer. They fall in love.

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

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...