Anna Magnani Filmes

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

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...

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...

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest...

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929...

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

Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo.

A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

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

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

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller...

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

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,...

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

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

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