Roberto Rossellini Movies

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian...

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

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

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

Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the...

Illibatezza ("Chastity") by Roberto Rossellini is a story of a beautiful stewardess who attracts unwanted attention from one of the air travelers...

A mermaid emerges from the sea, dances with a faun, and leaves behind a veil for the faun's masturbatory fantasies. Possibly unfinished.

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

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

On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling...

The tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film...

An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death.

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

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

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in...

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

In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New...