Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini

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 Roberto Rossellini

Cast Edmund Moeschke · Ernst Pittschau · Barbara Hintz · Franz-Otto Krüger

Plot Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Alexander Knox · Ettore Giannini · Teresa Pellati

Plot An American woman (Ingrid Bergman) relocates to post-war Rome to deal with her misgivings after the death of her son.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Mario Vitale · Renzo Cesana · Mario Sponzo

Plot Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · George Sanders · Maria Mauban · Paul Muller

Plot When a quarrelsome married couple travels to Italy to explore a posh estate they've inherited, temptations and trials await them. Eventually, both experience a profound physical and psychological transformation amid...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Maria Michi · Gar Moore · Carmela Sazio · Harriet Medin

Plot Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Roberto Rossellini's episodic, neorealist tale of life in Italy during World War II...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Leo Genn · Giovanna Ralli · Sergei Bondarchuk · Hannes Messemer

Plot In the tumult of Nazi-occupied Rome, a sympathetic bootlegger, already accustomed to living outside the law, opens her home to a trio of escaped Allied prisoners of war--an American, a...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ugo Cardea · Anne Pouchie · Claude Berthy · Gabriele Banchero

Plot As profoundly simple as its hero’s famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini’s Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Pierre Arditi · Rita Forzano · Giuseppe Addobbati · Christian De Sica

Plot In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Nazario Gerardi · Aldo Fabrizi · Aribella Lomaitre · Roberto Sorrentino

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Marcello Di Falco · Virgilio Gazzolo · Tom Felleghy · Mario Erpichini

Plot The lives of artists Cosimo de Medici and Leon Alberti are catalogued in an effort to portray the Renaissance art of Italy from the 1400s. The four hours are an...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Jean Sylvère · Anne Caprile · Giuseppe Mannajuolo · Ricardo Palacios

Plot This is one of several biographical films by the famed Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, one of whose better-known films is Stromboli. The script is based on Platonic dialogues and...

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 Roberto Rossellini

Cast Totò · Franca Faldini · Vera Molnar · Ines Florentini

Plot A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Albert Juross · Marino Masé · Catherine Ribeiro · Geneviève Galéa

Plot Godard's powerful anti-war and anti-imperialist film, Les Carabiniers, centers on two peasants who join the King's army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave their wives and embark...

Direction Roberto Rossellini · Marcello Pagliero

Cast Massimo Girotti · Carlo Ninchi · Elli Parvo · Roswita Schmidt

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Roberto Rossellini · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ugo Gregoretti

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Bruce Balaban · Maria Pia Schiaffino · Jean-Marc Bory

Plot This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Gennaro Pisano · Marilyn Buferd · William Tubbs · Helen Tubbs

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Nadja Tiller · Annette Vadim · Yvonne Sanson

Plot A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates...