6 Best Silvana Mangano Movies

By Vlad Zakh · February 6, 2026

Silvana Mangano became an international sensation with her breakout role, then spent decades proving real range across neorealism, melodrama and arthouse provocation. Bitter Rice is the breakout, Teorema unravels a bourgeois family with a mysterious guest, Death in Venice follows a composer’s obsession, Conversation Piece disrupts a reclusive professor’s life with a wealthy family, and Mambo complicates a factory worker’s dancing dreams. Anna rounds out the list.

Conversation Piece (1974)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A reclusive professor's solitary life is disrupted when a wealthy, chaotic family moves into his building.

Directed by Luchino Visconti · 2h 01m · Rated R

Where to watch

Rent: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, MovieMe · Buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Death in Venice (1971)

TMDB ★ 7.5

An ageing composer's obsession with a beautiful young boy consumes him during a cholera outbreak.

Directed by Luchino Visconti · 2h 11m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Teorema (1968)

TMDB ★ 7.4

Silvana Mangano stars as part of a bourgeois family whose members each come undone after a mysterious stranger visits.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1h 35m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Mambo (1954)

TMDB ★ 6.3

A factory worker's dream of becoming a professional dancer is complicated by two very different men.

Directed by Robert Rossen · 1h 50m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Artiflix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video

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Anna (1951)

TMDB ★ 6.7

A nun secretly remembers the passionate, tumultuous romance she left behind before entering the convent.

Directed by Alberto Lattuada · 1h 40m

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Bitter Rice (1949)

TMDB ★ 7.3

Rival women working the rice paddies of northern Italy clash over romance and a stolen fortune.

Directed by Giuseppe De Santis · 1h 49m

Where to watch

Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Silvana Mangano Movies

Conversation Piece (1974)

Death in Venice (1971)

Teorema (1968)

Mambo (1954)

Anna (1951)

Bitter Rice (1949)

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