Anna Magnani

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow...

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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...

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

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

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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...

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Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

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

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

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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...

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A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller...

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

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

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Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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