Anna Magnani Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

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,...

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

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

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...