Anna Magnani Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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 comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...