Anna Magnani Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new...

Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo.