Mamma Roma (1962)
Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
- Released: 1962-09-22
- Genres: Drama
- Runtime: 1h 50m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 7.9/10 from 446 votes
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Top cast
- Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma
- Ettore Garofolo as Ettore
- Franco Citti as Carmine
- Silvana Corsini as Bruna
- Luisa Loiano as Biancofiore
- Paolo Volponi as Priest
- Luciano Gonini as Zacaria
- Vittorio La Paglia as Il Signor Pellissier
- Piero Morgia as Piero
- Franco Ceccarelli as Carletto
Where to watch Mamma Roma
- United States: stream on Criterion Channel
- Canada: stream on Criterion Channel
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