Anna Magnani
Biography: Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955. After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: March 07, 1908
Deathday: September 26, 1973
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Known For
Rome, Open City
1945-10-08
Rome, Open City
Overview: In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998-01-01
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Overview: A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993-05-01
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Overview: Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various behind-the-scene bits and archival footage) the director recalls his early life, how he got into film, his political beliefs and how they were formed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970-01-02
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Overview: During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Cinéma et Réalité
1967-01-01
Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Teresa Venerdì
1941-11-24
Teresa Venerdì
Overview: A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-24
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Bellissima
1952-01-04
Bellissima
Overview: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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L'amore
1948-11-02
L'amore
Overview: L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 play of the same title, and The Miracle (Il miracolo), based on Ramón del Valle-Inclán's 1904 novel Flor de santidad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-02
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The Fugitive Kind
1960-04-14
The Fugitive Kind
Overview: Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Made in Italy
1965-12-22
Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Rose Tattoo
1955-12-12
The Rose Tattoo
Overview: A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-12
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Mamma Roma
1962-09-22
Mamma Roma
Overview: After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-22
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We, the Women
1953-10-27
We, the Women
Overview: Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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The Passionate Thief
1960-10-12
The Passionate Thief
Overview: On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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Peddlin' in Society
1946-12-21
Peddlin' in Society
Overview: 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 also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-21
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The Golden Coach
1952-12-05
The Golden Coach
Overview: A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Wild Is the Wind
1957-12-11
Wild Is the Wind
Overview: 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 and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Angelina
1947-11-12
Angelina
Overview: 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 WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-12
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Volcano
1950-02-02
Volcano
Overview: An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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The Peddler and the Lady
1943-06-24
The Peddler and the Lady
Overview: Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Assunta Spina
1948-03-10
Assunta Spina
Overview: Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Girlfriend in a Coma
2012-11-26
Girlfriend in a Coma
Overview: Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-26
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Full Speed
1934-12-31
Full Speed
Overview: A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-12-31
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Josefa's Loot
1963-08-22
Josefa's Loot
Overview: Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two friends do everything they can to extort the son's missing three million centimes from his ashamed and repentant father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934-04-30
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Overview: Drama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A young woman named Beatrice loses her sight after witnessing the death of her mother. Unable to see Beatrice is unable to identify her mothers’ killer. The police arrest a man who they believe is the murderer. Did they get the right man or is the killer still lurking in the shadows? Years later a family friend introduces Beatrice to a renowned Doctor who specializes in restoring sight. Will Beatrice regain her sight and identify her mothers’ killer or will someone make sure that she never sees again?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-04-30
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Tre donne - La sciantosa
1971-09-26
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Overview: La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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The Last Wagon
1943-12-01
The Last Wagon
Overview: Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Woman Trouble
1948-10-17
Woman Trouble
Overview: Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-17
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The Awakening
1956-10-17
The Awakening
Overview: Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Hell in the City
1959-01-29
Hell in the City
Overview: A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-29
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Cavalleria
1936-10-23
Cavalleria
Overview: Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-10-23
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Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
1944-11-28
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Down with Misery!
1945-12-27
Down with Misery!
Overview: The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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L'avventura di Annabella
1943-03-31
L'avventura di Annabella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-31
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The Automobile
1971-10-10
The Automobile
Overview: An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-10
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Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971-10-03
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Overview: This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-03
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006-05-27
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Overview: Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008-03-07
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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Princess Tarakanova
1938-03-23
Princess Tarakanova
Overview: A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-23
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Una lampada alla finestra
1940-02-10
Una lampada alla finestra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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1870
1972-01-07
1870
Overview: Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021-10-23
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Overview: The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928-02-02
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Overview: A homeless girl is taken in by an engineer. They fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-02
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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952-08-15
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Overview: The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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La fuggitiva
1941-11-02
La fuggitiva
Overview: 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. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-02
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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016-11-15
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Overview: Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021-05-16
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Overview: Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-16
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We Are Cinema
2021-12-16
We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980-09-30
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Overview: Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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Luck Comes from Heaven
1942-03-26
Luck Comes from Heaven
Overview: The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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La vita è bella
1943-05-26
La vita è bella
Overview: 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).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-26
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Quei due
1935-01-01
Quei due
Overview: Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Unknown Men of San Marino
1948-01-16
Unknown Men of San Marino
Overview: A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-16
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Quartetto pazzo
1945-08-22
Quartetto pazzo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-08-22
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Variety carousel
1955-02-08
Variety carousel
Overview: A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a series of variety shows taken from the sets of theatrical performances and various films recited by the famous Totò,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-08
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Vittorio D.
2009-09-17
Vittorio D.
Overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Roma
1972-03-16
Roma
Overview: A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Bellissime
2004-01-08
Bellissime
Overview: Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-08
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946-10-02
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Overview: An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-02
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985-01-01
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Overview: A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Revenge
1946-04-21
Revenge
Overview: A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-04-21
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Overview: A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-19
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003-10-14
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Overview: Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra performing "Wild Is The Wind" & "I'm In The Mood For Love", with excepts from the films they originate from playing in the background. The Movie Album is the thirtieth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on October 14, 2003, by Columbia Records. Overall her sixtieth release with her record label, it was executively produced by Streisand and her manager, Jay Landers. A concept album, it contains twelve songs from the singer's favorite films ranging in release from 1935 to 1988.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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The War of the Volcanoes
2012-09-02
The War of the Volcanoes
Overview: In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New York, Rossellini invited Bergman to Italy to work on a project. Meanwhile, Anna Magnani, one of Italy’s biggest stars and Rossellini’s longtime lover, was furious. When the Rossellini/Bergman project was announced as a tale set on Stromboli, one of the volcanic Aeolian Islands, Magnani quickly set up her own Aeolian project, financed by Hollywood, to be called Volcano. Italy’s tabloids simply went wild: the prospect of these two great divas battling it out with rival productions was breathlessly followed, especially as it became clear that the Rossellini/Bergman relationship was more than professional. Francesco Patierno has created an engrossing, revealing and highly entertaining chronicle of this cinematic battle royal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-02
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The Passion of Anna Magnani
2019-05-20
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Overview: The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-20
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The Bandit
1946-10-05
The Bandit
Overview: Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-05
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017-04-30
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-30
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006-12-06
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Overview: A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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30 Seconds of Love
1936-10-24
30 Seconds of Love
Overview: A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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The Ways of Love
1950-12-13
The Ways of Love
Overview: Anthology film by three directors, "A Day in the Country", "Jofroi" and "The Miracle".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-13
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Finalmente soli
1942-03-17
Finalmente soli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-17
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Anna Magnani
1953-10-31
Anna Magnani
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-31
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