Movies

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...

The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person...

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

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,...

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...

Former prostitute Maddalena, exiled to the island of her birth by the police, suffers ostracism by the locals, as she tries to defend her younger...

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...

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...

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...

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity...

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,...

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.

An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.

Mark Shiel is the author of “Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.” In this 2009 video essay, he discusses Roberto...

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.