Anna Magnani Movies

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

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 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...

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

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

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