Anna Magnani Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a...

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