Anna Magnani Movies

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

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

The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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.