Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties,"...
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1986
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Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a...
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1972
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In this politically conscious Italian drama a woman's working-class husband becomes the prisoner of the Vatican after he...
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1971
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Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a...
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Rosa Bombolini
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1969
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Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about...
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Anna
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are...
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Josefa
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1963
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Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker trying to create a new life for herself. This proves impossible when...
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Mamma Roma
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1962
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Also known as The Passionate Thief, this fast-paced crime comedy stars Anna Magnani as the fly in the ointment for a pair of...
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1960
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Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years...
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Lady Torrance
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1960
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This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off...
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Egle
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1959
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Anna Magnani is a powerful actress who can rise above the sentimentality of this film and still give a heartwarming...
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1958
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo,...
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Giola
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1957
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This Italian drama is a four episode anthology based on the stories of Pirandello. The episodes were compiled from two...
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1957
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Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels...
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Suor Letizia
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1956
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Serafina Delle Rose
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1955
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1953
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Set in 18th-century South America, The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse D'Or) stars Anna Magnani as an earthy Commedia Del Arte...
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Camilla
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1952
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Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani....
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Anita Garibaldi
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1952
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Maddalena Cecconi
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1951
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Released in Italy in 1950, Volcano didn't receive widespread American distribution until it was picked up by United Artists...
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Maddalena Natoli
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1950
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Italian director Mario Camerini's most creative years were behind him when he helmed Woman Trouble in 1948. Camerini adheres...
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Linda
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1949
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Amore was the two-part Roberto Rossellini film which introduced his notorious vignette "The Miracle." This brief character...
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1948
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Anna Magnani provides the box-office luster for this pedestrian wartime melodrama. Filmed on location in Milan, the story...
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1948
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Assunta Spina, the popular stage drama by Salvatore Di Giacomo, was first filmed in 1913. This pioneering Italian feature...
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Assunta Spina
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1948
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Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a...
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Nanni
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1948
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Anna Magnani won Best Actress at the 1947 Venice Film Festival for her stirring comic performance in this charming film,...
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Screenwriter, Angelina
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1947
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The plot of the Italian Before Him All Rome Trembled bears traces of the Puccini opera Tosca. Let's go farther than that: it...
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Ada
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1947
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The Italian Peddlin' in Society was originally released as Da Bancarella a Bancarotta. Anna Magnani stars as Gioconda, a...
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Gioconda
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1947
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1946
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Filmed in 1946 as Il Bandido, The Bandit came to the U.S. in 1949 on the strength of the worldwide popularity of star...
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Lydia
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1946
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Un Uomo Ritorna (aka Man's Return and Revenge) tells the tale of an Italian power-plant engineer (Gino Cervi) who finds...
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1946
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1945
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Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Città Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several...
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Pina
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1945
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The postwar American popularity of Italian film stars Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi resulted in the belated U.S. release of...
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Elide
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1943
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Doctor Beware was the U.S.-released title of Vittorio DeSica's 1941 effort Teresa Venerdi. DeSica not only directed, but...
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Loletta Prima
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1941
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1938
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La Cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Girl of Sorrento) stars Dria Paola as the title character. The story is melodramatic to the...
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Anna Sordi
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1936
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