Movies: Anna Magnani

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to 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 she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she aba...

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

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....

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru....

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....

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

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

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

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 play of the same title, and The Miracle (Il miracolo), based on Ramón del Valle-Inclán's 1904 novel Flo...

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 tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father...

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

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

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 living....

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....

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him wh...

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 girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, a...

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