Roberto Rossellini Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort...

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a...

A documentary about Sicily and its peculiar customs, with an emphasis on religious rites and the clash of modernity versus traditional values.

An exploration of the Centre Georges Pompidou and its surroundings on its opening day in 1977.

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

It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris,...

Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a documentary (probably not completed or even edited) shot in...

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

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

According to Ferrara, Rossellini told him it was a satire in which “Perfidious Albion,” a big turkey representing England, goes around...

Ingrid Bergman notices that her roses have been destroyed. At first she suspects it is her dogs or her children, but later on notices a chicken...

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

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater.

Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish actress is a kind of ‘at home with Ingrid...

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

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

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a...