Anna Magnani Movies

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

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.

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

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

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...

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

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 married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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