Anna Magnani Movies

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

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

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

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...

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest...

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

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...

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

An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.

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

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

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,...

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

In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in 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.

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

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

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

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