Anna Magnani Movies

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

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...

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929...

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...

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...

Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week 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...

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.