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  • Journey To Italy
  • Journey To Italy review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A genuine original 25 November 2006
    ...Roberto Rossellini had long been dissatisfied with conventional methods of cinema story-telling and had, in his films with his then-wife, Ingrid Bergman, (and those around them) ...   Read customer review
  • Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
  • Francesco, Giullare Di Dio review by from Croydon, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Simple but effective 30 January 2006
    ...h pleasure, then, that I can recommend this Italian film from 1950, directed by Roberto Rossellini just a few years after his contrasting masterpiece, Rome, Open City. It compris...   Read customer review
  • Era Notte A Roma
  • Era Notte A Roma review by A customer from Gateshead
    Rated - 3.0 stars era notte a roma 10 June 2008
    ...I found this disappointing for a Roberto Rossellini film. It is not in the same league as his other films. A very ordinary film from a director of many extra-ordinary films. ...   Read customer review

Roberto Rossellini - filmography


  • Night In Rome (2000)
    Starring: London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The London Philharmonic perform live in Rome. The programme includes excerpts from Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons', Rossini's 'Sonata No. 5' and Mascagni's 'Cavalleria Rusticana'.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Anima Nera (1961)
    Starring: Yvonne Sanson,  Annette Vadim,  Nadja Tiller
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A man with a secret past gets married and he looks forward to his new life, only to have unexpected inheritance raise issues from his past and threatens to ruin the relationship with his wife.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Era Notte A Roma on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Giovanna Ralli,  Renato Salvatori,  Leo Genn
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When three Allied POWs, one is Russian, one English and one American, escape their camp, they are provided shelter by a beautiful young woman. With something tangible to fight over, the three prisoners' national chauvinism reaches boiling point.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 151 members
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  • Il Generale della Rovere on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Vittorio De Sica,  Hannes Messemer,  Vittorio Caprioli
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Late 1950s war drama in which a thief becomes entangled in a Nazi plot to expose Italian Resistance fighters. As punishment for a crime he committed, con artist Grimaldi (Vittorio De Sica) is forced to infiltrate a Milan prison by German Army officer Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer). Posing as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 75 members
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  • Journey to Italy - Blu-ray (1953)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  George Sanders,  Maria Mauban
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A film that was hugely influential on the new wave of French cinema as well as being widely regarded as one of Roberto Rossellini's finest. Katherine Joyce (Ingrid Bergman, and wife of Rossellini at the time) and her husband Alex (George Sanders) are travelling around Italy on their way to a villa ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 19th August 2013
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  • Journey To Italy on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Natalia Ray,  Ingrid Bergman,  George Sanders
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A film that was hugely influential on the new wave of French cinema as well as being widely regarded as one of Roberto Rossellini's finest. Katherine Joyce (Ingrid Bergman, and wife of Rossellini at the time) and her husband Alex (George Sanders) are travelling around Italy on their way to a villa ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,102 member
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  • Europa '51 (1952)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When her son dies Irene's life is turned around, and she suddenly has her eyes opened to the suffering and inequality all around her.
    2.5 stars out of 5 57% from 12 members
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  • Stromboli - Blu-ray (1949)
    Starring: Mario Sponzo,  Ingrid Bergman,  Mario Vitale
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ingrid Bergman stars as Karin, a Second World War refugee who marries an Italian fisherman to escape from a displaced person's camp. She is filled with romantic notions as her husband takes her to his home - the island of Stromboli - but her dreams of an idyllic paradise are shattered by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 19th August 2013
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  • Stromboli (1949)
    Starring: Mario Sponzo,  Ingrid Bergman,  Mario Vitale
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A poor, homeless woman marries a Sicilian fisherman in order to find a new life for herself after the end of World War II. To her dismay, she finds that she has given up one form of imprisonment for another.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 35 members
    Due for release on 19th August 2013
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  • Paisan (1946)
    Starring: Carmela Sazio,  Robert Van Loon,  Benjamin Emanuel
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26 members
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Roberto Rossellini facts

5 most recent films

Night In Rome - 2.0 stars
RoGoPaG - Let's Wash Our Brains - 3.0 stars
Anima Nera - 2.0 stars
Era Notte A Roma - 3.5 stars
Il Generale della Rovere - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Il Generale della Rovere - 3.5 stars
Rome, Open City - 3.5 stars
Germany Year Zero - 3.5 stars
Era Notte A Roma - 3.5 stars
Francesco, Giullare Di Dio - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Stromboli - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Journey to Italy - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Anima Nera - 2.0 stars
Night In Rome - 2.0 stars
Joan of Arc at the Stake - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ingrid Bergman - 16 times - show films
Mario Vitale - 8 times - show films
Renzo Cesana - 8 times - show films
Mario Sponzo - 8 times - show films
Mario Sponza - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Pier Paol - 2 times - show films
Jean-Luc Godard - 2 times - show films