Roberto Rossellini Movies

Rossellini's interpretation of Descartes' life.

A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates...

In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous...

A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.

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...

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

Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly...

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 laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined from within its most intimate...

A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

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

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

Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In...

In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious...

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the...

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

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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

Joan of Arc is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and begins to look back upon her life. She begins...

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