Anna Magnani Movies

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...

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of...

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

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

Former prostitute Maddalena, exiled to the island of her birth by the police, suffers ostracism by the locals, as she tries to defend her younger...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

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...

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

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

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

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

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

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

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...

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...

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 short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

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

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