Movies: Anna Magnani

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress take...

Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo....

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."...

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 life with how much money he wants and then be a guinea pig for a new drug (and maybe die)....

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

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War....

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century....

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

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

On the way to a singing engagement, Anna Magnani and a taxi driver have an argument over whether her dog is a lap dog, since it costs one lira more to carry a non-lap dog in a taxi....