Mamma Roma (1962)
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.Mamma Roma featuring Anna Magnani and Ettore Garofolo is streaming with subscription on The Criterion Channel, and streaming with subscription on Kanopy. It's a drama and LGBTQ movie with a high IMDb audience rating of 7.8 (9,226 votes).
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Available to stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel and Kanopy).
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Mamma Roma has a high IMDb audience rating of 7.8 (9,226 votes). The movie is somewhat popular with Reelgood users lately.
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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.