Renzo Rossellini Movies

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

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