Movies: Anna Magnani

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria....

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before t...

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens....

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family....

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army....

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life....

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her....

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she aba...

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 apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the c...

A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping ...

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

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

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....

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

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy....

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

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

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen else...

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 Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position....

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade....