The best Marcella Rovena’s drama movies

Marcella Rovena

Marcella Rovena

21/01/1908- 09/08/1998
Today we present the best Marcella Rovena’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Marcella Rovena’s movies.

The Leopard

The Leopard
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/03/1963
  • Character: Contadina
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Le Notti Bianche

Le Notti Bianche
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/07/1957
  • Character: La padrona della pensione
A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl, haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

The Sign of Venus

The Sign of Venus
6.5/10
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Europe '51

Europe '51
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/1952
  • Character: Mrs. Puglisi
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is tacked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

The Visit

The Visit
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/05/1964
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

Young Husbands

Young Husbands
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/03/1958
  • Character: Franco's mother
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one last time in an attempt to revive their younger days, but this comes to a dismal conclusion. Gradually it dawns on the group that childhood is over and the next stage in human growth must be faced.

The Empty Canvas

The Empty Canvas
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/12/1963
  • Character: Tenant
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship

Pia de' Tolomei

Pia de' Tolomei
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/12/1958

A Man for Burning

A Man for Burning
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1962
  • Character: Madre di Francesca
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.

Hell in the City

Hell in the City
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1959
  • Character: Signora Luisa
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

The Ship of Condemned Women

The Ship of Condemned Women
7.1/10
After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva (Ettore Manni), Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.

Guai ai vinti

Guai ai vinti
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1954

The Boarder

The Boarder
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/06/1954
  • Character: Luigina, moglie di Roberto
A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.

Day by Day, Desperately

Day by Day, Desperately
7.4/10

Three Forbidden Stories

Three Forbidden Stories
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1952
  • Character: Gianna's mother
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.

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