Renzo Rossellini Movies

A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father...

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor,...

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a...

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and...

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968...

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the...

King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally...

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

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....

Rossellini's interpretation of Descartes' life.

A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François...

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's...

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man...

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

Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.