Anna Magnani

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

Dir. Roberto Rossellini · With Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Harry Feist

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.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

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.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses

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.

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward