Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1945 • Italy
Starring Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero

This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films t...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1946 • Italy
Starring Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots M. Johnson

Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout ROME OPEN CITY was the ambitious, enormously moving PAISAN, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World ...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • France, Italy, West Germany
Starring Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. L...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • Italy

Roberto Rosselini directs Anna Magnani in two short films about love and loneliness. In the first, a woman makes a last-ditch attempt to save her relationship over the phone. In the second, a peasant woman believes she is pregnant with the son of God.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1950 • Italy
Starring Brother Nazario Gerardi, Brother Severino Pisacane, Esposito Bonaventura

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: hu...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1950 • Italy, United States
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale

The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic isla...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1952 • Italy
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox

In the English-language version of this film, Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and findin...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1952 • Italy
Starring Sergio Amidei, Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd

Roberto Rossellini blends neorealism with fantasy in this offbeat comic fable, one of the titan director’s most unique and overlooked works. In a small fishing village on the Amalfi Coast, a stra...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1954 • Italy, West Germany
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt

Tinged with brooding noir atmosphere, the last of the celebrated collaborations between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a tense portrait of the psychology of an extramar...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1954 • Italy
Starring Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders

Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY (VIAGGIO IN ITALIA) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a tri...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1959 • Italy

Documentary and narrative merge in Roberto Rossellini’s miraculous, poetic portrait of India. Commissioned by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, INDIA: MATRI BHUMI takes us beyond the bustling streets of the cities and into the country’s...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1966 • France
Starring Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan

Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France’s “Sun King,” and in the process reinvents th...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1971 • Italy

Roberto Rossellini may have made SOCRATES (1971) for television, but he didn't let the small screen's budget and production limitations -- drawing on the few presumed facts known about the philosopher, and with fine central performances by Jean Sylve...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1972 • Italy

In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

“The Exile of Cosimo”
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1973 • Italy

Roberto Rossellini's three-part THE AGE OF THE MEDICI is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Manuel de Sica...

“The Power of Cosimo”
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1973 • Italy

Roberto Rossellini's three-part THE AGE OF THE MEDICI is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Manuel de Sica...

“Leon Battista Alberti: Humanism”
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1973 • Italy

Roberto Rossellini's three-part THE AGE OF THE MEDICI is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Ma...

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1974 • Italy

As profoundly simple as its hero's famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini's CARTESIUS is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1974 • Italy

As profoundly simple as its hero's famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini's CARTESIUS is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.