Anna Magnani

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Anna Magnani - what members say

Rome, Open City review by from Reading, England

Essential 30 April 2005
...n-fact drama about war-time oppression in Rome it remains gripping and moving. Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi, comic actors (at the time) were cast against type, a bold dec... Read customer review

Bellissima review by dexterlee from Lewes

bellissima, but flawed 3 January 2008
...ti; the sort of film a more frivolous-minded De Sica might have made. It stars Anna Magnani as the mother of a child who gets involved in the casting of a movie looking fo... Read customer review

Mamma Roma review by parson from

A tart's travails 7 June 2011
...The film is built around the glorious Anna Magnani who gives a full-blooded, feisty, defiant and voluble account of Mamma Roma. She is wonderfully attractive as a good-time... Read customer review

The Secret of Santa Vittoria on DVD (1969)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give ..read more »

73% from 115 members

Mamma Roma (1962)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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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 the past keeps rearing its ugly head in the form of Mamma Rosa's previous 'johns'. She returns to her old profession, whereupon her son Ettore Garofalo becomes a thief and ..read more »

71% from 42 members
Due for release on 20th February 2012

The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Director: Daniel Mann
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A Sicilian widow, living in the American south, sustains herself on rosy memories of her deceased husband. Then she discovers that he had a mistress; with her world totally shattered, she's not sure how to go on... until a handsome truck driver comes riding into town and changes everything.

53% from 8 members
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The Golden Coach on DVD (1953)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
Director: Jean Renoir
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The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell'arte company. Master director Jean Renoir's sumptuous tribute to the theatre, presented here in ..read more »

59% from 113 members

Bellissima on DVD (1951)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Director: Luchino Visconti
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When casting children's roles, director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard; Death in Venice) is said to have been besieged by clamouring mothers, each trying to attract his attention to their child with cries of "Bellissima!". In his film of the same name, Visconti turned his experiences into art, in ..read more »

72% from 325 members

Rome, Open City on DVD (1945)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani/Aldo Fabrizi
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Roberto Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, ..read more »

71% from 1,871 member

The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
Mamma Roma - 3.5 stars
The Rose Tattoo - 2.5 stars
The Golden Coach - 3.0 stars
Bellissima - 3.5 stars

The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
Bellissima - 3.5 stars
Rome, Open City - 3.5 stars
The Golden Coach - 3.0 stars
Mamma Roma - 3.5 stars

The Rose Tattoo - 2.5 stars
Mamma Roma - 3.5 stars
The Golden Coach - 3.0 stars
Rome, Open City - 3.5 stars
Bellissima - 3.5 stars

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