Anna Magnani Movies

The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.

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

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to...

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...

Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra performing "Wild Is The Wind" & "I'm In The Mood For Love",...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new...

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...

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

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