Anna Magnani Movies

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

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

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

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

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

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...

Mark Shiel is the author of “Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.” In this 2009 video essay, he discusses Roberto...

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

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

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...

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...

On the way to a singing engagement, Anna Magnani and a taxi driver have an argument over whether her dog is a lap dog, since it costs one lira more...

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

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

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