Cast: Anna Magnani

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Anna Magnani · Marcello Pagliero · Maria Michi

Plot Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a prominent...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Anna Magnani · Franco Citti · Ettore Garofolo · Silvana Corsini

Plot In Pier Paolo Pasolini's beautiful drama, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is an ex-prostitute who tries to leave behind her past and make a life for her and her son but...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Anna Magnani · Walter Chiari · Tina Apicella · Gastone Renzelli

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Anna Magnani · Nando Bruno · Ave Ninchi · Armando Migliari

Plot 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 apartments, built after...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Anna Magnani · Massimo Girotti · Checco Rissone · Dante Maggio

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Totò · Ben Gazzara · Fred Clark

Plot On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Anna Magnani · Odoardo Spadaro · Nada Fiorelli · Dance

Plot A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach....

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi

Plot Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has...

Direction Nanni Loy

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Sylva Koscina · Virna Lisi · Anna Magnani

Plot A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden - but among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Anna Magnani · Federico Fellini

Plot Two-part episodes: Il miracolo (The Miracle) & La voce umana (The Human Voice). A diptych of stories deliberating on the nature of human love and emotional attachment, both starring Magnani...

Direction Renato Castellani

Cast Anna Magnani · Giulietta Masina · Myriam Bru · Ada Passeri

Direction George Cukor

Cast Anna Magnani · Anthony Quinn · Anthony Franciosa · Joseph Calleia

Plot 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...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Marlon Brando · Anna Magnani · Joanne Woodward · Maureen Stapleton

Plot Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one...

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Anna Magnani · Burt Lancaster · Marisa Pavan · Ben Cooper

Plot An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period of years...

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Isabella Rossellini · Martin Scorsese · Marcella De Marchis · Silvia D'Amico Bendico

Plot Documentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and childhood and visits the places where he has lived and shot some of his most famous movies.

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

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

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Anna Magnani · Amedeo Nazzari · Carla del Poggio · Carlo Campanini

Plot Ernesto ritorna dalla prigionia in Germania, alla fine della Seconda Guerra mondiale. E' solo, la casa distrutta, la mamma morta, la sorella scomparsa. La ritrova in un bordello, durante la...

Direction Alfredo Guarini · Gianni Franciolini · Roberto Rossellini · Luigi Zampa

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anna Magnani · Isa Miranda · Alida Valli

Plot Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. The first episode (of Alfredo Guarini) is the chronicle of a contest for aspirant actresses:...

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Maria Callas · Giuseppe Di Stefano · Carlo Maria Giulini · Tito Gobbi

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Anna Magnani · Antonio Centa · Maria Donini · Aldo Bufi Landi