Anna Carena

Con gli occhi dell'occidente (1979)

A Brief Vacation (1973)

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potenti ...

Sunflower (1970)

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover? ...

The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. ...

What a Woman! (1956)

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it. ...

L'ultimo amante (1955)

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help. ...

Singing Café (1953)

Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show. ...

Se vincessi cento milioni (1953)

The Lady Without Camelias (1953)

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama. ...

Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952)

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination. ...

The Overcoat (1952)

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat. ...

Times Gone By (1952)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. ...

The Mistress of Treves (1952)

Miracle in Milan (1951)

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends u ...

Ha fatto 13 (1951)

The Mill on the Po (1949)

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé's relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy. ...

Sempre più difficile (1943)

Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor. ...

Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned. ...

Signorinette (1942)

Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution. ...

La fuggitiva (1941)

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a pr ...

Piccolo mondo antico (1941)

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will. ...