Mamma Roma

1h 50m · 1962 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 4.0 / 5 on Letterboxd

Mamma Roma (1962) runs 1h 50m, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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

No US streaming listed when we last checked (9 July 2026). Availability changes often.