Tag Archives: Anna Magnani

Carnal passion, tender feelings, devotion, murder, blood, broken hearts, vicious gambling Read More »

Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars. Read More »

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people Read More »

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 »

In Peru in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. Read More »

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 »

An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her, she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. Read More »

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »

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 takes a prominent role.
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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 draws more and more into herself, trying to force her lovely teenaged daughter Rosa to do likewise. On one eventful day, Rose finally breaks away; Serafina learns of Rosario’s affair with another woman; and a new carefree, handsome Italian truck driver enters her life…
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