Anna Magnani Movies

Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like...

Italian version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

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

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

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

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

Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she...

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...

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.

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

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

The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.

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

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

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

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,...