Anna Magnani Movies

The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.

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...

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

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is...

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

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

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,...

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

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

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent...

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

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

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person...

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...

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

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken...

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 documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.