Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani

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​

  • Title: Anna Magnani
  • Popularity: 7.975
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1908-03-07
  • Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
  • Homepage: https://www.archivioannamagnani.it/
  • Also Known As: 안나 마냐니
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Anna Magnani Movies

  • 1945
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    Rome, Open City

    Rome, Open City

    8.007 1945 HD

    During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

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  • 1998
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    Rossellini Under the Volcano

    Rossellini Under the Volcano

    1 1998 HD

    A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

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  • 1993
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    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

    1 1993 HD

    Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various...

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  • 1970
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    The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    6.8 1970 HD

    During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

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  • 1967
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    Cinéma et Réalité

    Cinéma et Réalité

    1 1967 HD

    In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and...

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  • 1941
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    Teresa Venerdì

    Teresa Venerdì

    6.6 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Bellissima

    Bellissima

    7.778 1952 HD

    Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

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  • 1948
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    Love

    Love

    6.761 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    The Fugitive Kind

    The Fugitive Kind

    6.8 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Made in Italy

    Made in Italy

    6 1965 HD

    A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

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  • 1955
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    The Rose Tattoo

    The Rose Tattoo

    6.9 1955 HD

    A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

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  • 1962
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    Mamma Roma

    Mamma Roma

    7.9 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    We, the Women

    We, the Women

    5.9 1953 HD

    Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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  • 1960
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    The Passionate Thief

    The Passionate Thief

    6.9 1960 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    Peddlin' in Society

    Peddlin' in Society

    5.5 1946 HD

    Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which...

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  • 1952
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    The Golden Coach

    The Golden Coach

    7.2 1952 HD

    A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

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  • 1957
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    Wild Is the Wind

    Wild Is the Wind

    6.8 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Angelina

    Angelina

    6.5 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Volcano

    Volcano

    5.7 1950 HD

    An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.

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  • 1943
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    The Peddler and the Lady

    The Peddler and the Lady

    7.3 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Assunta Spina

    Assunta Spina

    6.8 1948 HD

    Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.

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  • 2012
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    Girlfriend in a Coma

    Girlfriend in a Coma

    6.8 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    Full Speed

    Full Speed

    5 1934 HD

    A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.

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  • 1963
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    Josefa's Loot

    Josefa's Loot

    5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    The Blind Woman of Sorrento

    The Blind Woman of Sorrento

    6 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Tre donne - La sciantosa

    Tre donne - La sciantosa

    7.3 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    The Last Wagon

    The Last Wagon

    6.6 1943 HD

    Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want...

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  • 1948
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    Woman Trouble

    Woman Trouble

    6.5 1948 HD

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

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  • 1956
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    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    6 1956 HD

    Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening....

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  • 1959
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    Hell in the City

    Hell in the City

    7.4 1959 HD

    A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller...

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  • 1936
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    Cavalleria

    Cavalleria

    4.7 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

    Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

    1 1944 HD

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  • 1945
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    Down with Misery!

    Down with Misery!

    6.8 1945 HD

    The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

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  • 1943
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    L'avventura di Annabella

    L'avventura di Annabella

    1 1943 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Automobile

    The Automobile

    5.7 1971 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

    Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

    1 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

    Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

    7 2006 HD

    Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

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  • 2008
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    Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

    Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1938
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    Princess Tarakanova

    Princess Tarakanova

    1 1938 HD

    A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

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  • 1940
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    Una lampada alla finestra

    Una lampada alla finestra

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1972
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    1870

    1870

    6.4 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

    The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

    7 2021 HD

    The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent...

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  • 1928
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    Das Mädchen der Strasse

    Das Mädchen der Strasse

    1 1928 HD

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

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  • 1952
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    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    6 1952 HD

    The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

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  • 1941
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    La fuggitiva

    La fuggitiva

    4 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

    1 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

    7 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    We Are Cinema

    We Are Cinema

    9.5 2021 HD

    An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

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  • 1980
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    My Name Is Anna Magnani

    My Name Is Anna Magnani

    8 1980 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    Luck Comes from Heaven

    Luck Comes from Heaven

    1 1942 HD

    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,...

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  • 1943
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    La vita è bella

    La vita è bella

    8 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Quei due

    Quei due

    6.8 1935 HD

    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,...

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  • 1948
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    Unkown Men of San Marino

    Unkown Men of San Marino

    4.8 1948 HD

    A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

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  • 1945
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    Quartetto pazzo

    Quartetto pazzo

    1 1945 HD

    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.

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  • 1955
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    Variety carousel

    Variety carousel

    6 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Vittorio D.

    Vittorio D.

    6.3 2009 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Roma

    Roma

    7.248 1972 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Bellissime

    Bellissime

    1 2004 HD

    Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.

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  • 1946
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    Before Him All Rome Trembled

    Before Him All Rome Trembled

    6 1946 HD

    An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

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  • 1985
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    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    Revenge

    Revenge

    1 1946 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

    Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

    6 2003 HD

    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",...

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  • 2012
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    The War of the Volcanoes

    The War of the Volcanoes

    5 2012 HD

    In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New...

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  • 2019
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    The Passion of Anna Magnani

    The Passion of Anna Magnani

    7.2 2019 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    The Bandit

    The Bandit

    6.7 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Quand Jean devint Renoir

    Quand Jean devint Renoir

    10 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    My Dad Is 100 Years Old

    My Dad Is 100 Years Old

    6.9 2006 HD

    A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father

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  • 1936
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    30 Seconds of Love

    30 Seconds of Love

    1 1936 HD

    A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

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  • 1950
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    The Ways of Love

    The Ways of Love

    1 1950 HD

    Anthology film by three directors, "A Day in the Country", "Jofroi" and "The Miracle".

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  • 1942
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    Finalmente soli

    Finalmente soli

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1953
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    Anna Magnani

    Anna Magnani

    1 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    6 1952 HD

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  • 2003
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    Un film et son époque

    Un film et son époque

    10 2003 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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