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.

Genres: Drama

What to watch after Mamma Roma

• Bellissima (1951) — Same subject: rome, italy, single mother
• Accattone (1961) — Same subject: prostitute, rome, italy
• Two Women (1960) — Same subject: rome, italy, parent child relationship
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) — Pier Paolo Pasolini directed both
• I Vitelloni (1953) — Same subject: friendship
• Marriage Italian Style (1964)