Open City (1945) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Aldo Fabrizi, Harry Feist, Anna Magnani

Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Cittą Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several levels. Aesthetically, it was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style. Historically, it was among the first postwar European films to gain a ...

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Paisan (1946) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Carmela Sazio, Dotts Johnson, Maria Michi, Haniet White

Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist films; certainly it has one of the finest pedigrees, representing the combined talents of two of Italy's most prestigious filmmakers. The second of Rossellini's "war trilogy" (bracketed by Open City and Germany Year Zero), ...

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Germany, Year Zero (1948) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraude Hinze, Franz Otto Krueger

In the third and final film of Rossellini's WWII trilogy, the director shifts his focus from his native Italy to the bombed-out ruins of Berlin, where 12-year-old Edmund Koehler struggles for survival. Among the nine people he lives with are: a father, who is suffering from malnutrition and a fatal illness; a brother, who is a former Nazi soldier ...

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RoGoPaG (1963) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Ugo Gregoretti
featuring Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Marc Bory, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Orson Welles, Michel Delahaye, Ugo Tognazzi

RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the tale of Anna-Maria Rosanna Schiaffino, a beautiful, ...

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Il Messia (1976) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Carlos de Carvalho, Toni Ucci, Flora Carabella

Virtually unknown outside of Italy, Messiah (Il Messia) is historically important as the last directorial effort of Roberto Rossellini. In retelling the life of Christ, Rosselini harks back to the humanistic style he'd utilized on his many Italian TV projects of the 1960s. The director has no intention of depicting Jesus as being the vessel of ...

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Il Miracolo (1948) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Anna Magnani

Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

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La Prise du Pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Katharina Renn, Silvagni, Pierre Barrat

Given the opportunity to turn out a Sacha Guitry-style spectacle, director Roberto Rossellini charts his own neorealist course for The Rise of Louis XIV. It's as if a documentary cameraman was let loose in the royal court of the 17th Century Sun King, here played by Jean-Marie Patte. The use of unfamiliar actors in the major roles adds to the film ...

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The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini

Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) is an early example of the "commercial" side of Roberto Rossellini. The film traces the life of St. Francis, from his embracing of religion to his efforts to establish a harmonious middle ground between life and spirituality. Rosselini has given us a "chamber" film, deliberately avoiding the ...

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Il Generale Della Rovere (1959) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon

With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Milan prison. They choose a petty thief from the ...

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Viaggio in Italia (1954) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalie Ray, Anna Proclemer, Paul Muller

Roberto Rossellini directs this drama starring his then-wife Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce, a wealthy British woman who accompanies her husband, Alex (George Sanders), on a trip across the Italian countryside to close on an inherited villa in Naples. Far from their London home, the couple becomes frustrated with each other and seem to be ...

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Vanina Vanini (1961) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Rossellini
featuring Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa

Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set in Italy during the turbulent years of the mid-19th century. Princess Vanini (Sandra Milo) confronts a strange looking woman in her palace. The woman turns out to be a man (Laurent Terzieff), an Italian revolutionary on the ...

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