On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. Read More »
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Down with Misery AKA Abbasso la miseria! (1945) Gennaro Righelli, Anna Magnani, Nino Besozzi, Virgilio Riento
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni Read More »
Peddlin’ in Society AKA Abbasso la ricchezza! (1946) Gennaro Righelli, Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. Read More »
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria Read More »
Mamma Roma (1962) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) Read More »
The War of the Volcanoes AKA La guerra dei vulcani (2012) Francesco Patierno, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Roberto Rossellini
The story of how Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman fell in love whilst collaborating on a film in Stromboli. Read More »
Vulcano AKA Volcano (1950) William Dieterle, Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks
While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went Read More »
The Fugitive Kind (1960) Sidney Lumet, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Val) Read More »
Scarred AKA Assunta Spina (1948) Mario Mattoli, Anna Magnani, Antonio Centa, Maria Donini
Carnal passion, tender feelings, devotion, murder, blood, broken hearts, vicious gambling Read More »
We, the Women (1953) Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Isa Miranda
Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars. Read More »
Angelina (1947) Luigi Zampa, Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people Read More »
The Last Wagon (1943) Mario Mattoli, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Anita Durante
The roman coachman Totò doesn’t want his coach being replaced by cars and doesn’t want his daughter Nannarella to go out with the taxi driver Roberto. Read More »
The Bandit (1946) Alberto Lattuada, Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio
Ernesto returns from captivity in Germany, at the end of the Second World War. And ‘only, the house destroyed, his mother died, his sister disappeared. Read More »
The Golden Coach (1952) Jean Renoir, Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
In Peru in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. Read More »
Bellissima (1951) Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. Read More »