Anna Magnani

Directed by Jean Renoir and starring the iconic Anna Magnani, this Technicolor gem is set in 18th-century colonial Peru. Magnani plays Camilla, a passionate Italian actress torn between love, social status, and her devotion to the stage after receiving a luxurious golden coach from a local viceroy. A brilliant reflection on art and life, Renoir’s film is a visual and emotional triumph.

When Tennessee Williams wrote The Rose Tattoo, he had one actress in mind-Anna Magnani. William's sense of casting proved as sharp as his ear for dialogue. Magnani won the Best Actress Oscar. for her bravura portrayal in this drama that received eight Academy Award. nominations (including Best Picture) and won three.

Anthology film centered on the dramas of two separate women, both played by Anna Magnani.

Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Highlighting director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifelong fascination with the marginalized and dispossessed, MAMMA ROMA offers an unflinching, neorealistic look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy. Though initially banned in the country for obscenity, today the film remains a classic, featuring a powerhouse performance by one of cinema’s greatest actors and offering a glimpse at Pasolini in the process of finding his style.

The owner of an ironing shop is scarred by her lover in a fit of jealousy, but despite her attempts to save him, he is arrested and sentenced to two years.

In this Tennessee Williams masterpiece, a paradoxical drifter is drawn into the desperate lives of two passionate women in a small Mississippi town.

Roberto Rossellini's portrait of life under Nazi occupation remains remarkable for its sheer immediacy, tension and power. The film follows Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a partisan leader, as he attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina (Anna Magnani), fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi), the priest due to oversee her marriage. Shot on the ravaged streets of the city and in the studio, Rome, Open City remains extraordinarily powerful to this day.

Professor Banti, while fishing with his boat on the lake, is seen raining from the sky the pretty Dora who jumped with a parachute as a bet. The professor falls in love with her and is willing to do anything to conquer her despite the proverbial attachment to an old aunt. Between a ski descent, a bike ride and various disguises, he will try the challenge of taking her to the altar.