| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
| 1951
|
| Bellissima |
Luchino Visconti |
Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Tecla Scarano, Alessandro Blasetti |
Italian neorealism |
Dreams with Cinecittà and film stardom
|
| Domani è un altro giorno |
Léonide Moguy |
Pier Angeli, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Rossana Podestà |
Pink neorealism |
Sequel of Tomorrow Is Too Late
|
| Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) |
Vittorio De Sica |
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa |
Italian neorealism |
Palme d'Or winner
|
| The Forbidden Christ (Cristo proibito) |
Curzio Malaparte |
Raf Vallone, Anna-Maria Ferrero |
Drama |
The only film famous Italian writer Curzio Malaparte made. Berlin Award
|
| Achtung! Banditi! |
Carlo Lizzani |
Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Lamberto Maggiorani |
War |
|
| Guardia e ladri |
Steno, Mario Monicelli |
Totò , Aldo Fabrizi |
Comedy |
Close to Italian neorealism. Troubles with censorship. Great success
|
| 1952
|
| Three Girls from Rome (Le Ragazze di piazza di Spagna) |
Luciano Emmer |
Lucia Bosé, Cosetta Greco, Liliana Bonfatti, Renato Salvatori, Marcello Mastroianni |
Comedy |
|
| Umberto D. |
Vittorio De Sica |
Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari |
Italian neorealism |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards won. Academy Award nomiee best script
|
| The City Stands Trial (Processo alla città) |
Luigi Zampa |
Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa, Dante Maggio |
Drama |
Berlin Award. Nastro d'Argento best director
|
| Europa '51 |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina |
Italian neorealism |
|
| Machine to Kill Bad People (La macchina ammazzacattivi) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, Clara Bindi |
Drama |
|
| Don Camillo |
Julien Duvivier |
Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Franco Interlenghi, Saro Urzì |
Pink neorrealism |
Huge success. There're 4 sequels
|
| Totò a colori |
Steno |
Totò, Franca Valeri, Rocco D'Assunta, Rosita Pisano, Luigi Pavese |
Comedy |
1st Italian film in color
|
| Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) |
Renato Castellani |
Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo |
Pink neorealism |
Palme d'Or winner
|
| Rome 11 o'clock (Roma ore 11) |
Giuseppe De Santis |
Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosé, Raf Vallone |
Italian neorealism |
Augusto Genina made Tre storie proibite based on the real tragic accident the film is based
|
| The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco) |
Federico Fellini |
Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina |
Comedy-Drama |
Masina's character goes on in Nights of Cabiria
|
| The Vanquished (I vinti) |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
|
Drama |
Film with 3 episodes, set in Paris, Rome and London. Each local episode was banned in France, Italy and UK
|
| Anna |
Alberto Lattuada |
Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman |
Pink neorrealism |
Huge succes. Nani Moreti made a tribute to Mangano's dance in Caro diario
|
| The Wayward Wife (La provinciale) |
Mario Soldati |
Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Interlenghi, Gabriele Ferzetti |
Drama |
1 Nastro d'Argento
|
| The Overcoat (Il cappotto) |
Alberto Lattuada |
Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival, Giulio Calì |
Drama |
Close to Italian neorealism. Based on a Nikolai Gogol's tale
|
| The Golden Coach |
Jean Renoir |
Anna Magnani |
Comedy |
Masterpiece about Theatre and ilusion. There are 3 versions, filmed by Renoir, in French, Italian and English languages.
|
| 1953
|
| I vitelloni |
Federico Fellini |
Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini |
Drama |
3 Nastro d'Argento. Venice Award. Academy Award nominee best script
|
| Napoletani a Milano |
Eduardo De Filippo |
|
|
|
| Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia) |
Luigi Comencini |
Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica |
Pink neorrealism |
Huge sucsess. There are two sequels.
|
| L'Amore in Città |
Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini |
Ugo Tognazzi , Marco Ferreri |
Drama |
Six episodes, close to Italian neorealism
|
| Aida |
Clemente Fracassi |
Sophia Loren , Lois Maxwell , Luciano Della Marra |
Opera |
Adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. 1st starring role for Sophia Loren. All actors are dubbed by Opera singers.
|
| The Lady Without Camelias (La signora senza camelie) |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Lucia Bosé |
Drama |
The dreams and desilutions about Film stardom
|
| Terminal Station |
Vittorio De Sica |
Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift |
|
Italian neorealism produced by David O. Selznick. The Italian version is longer than the cutten American
|
| Siamo donne |
Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Gianni Franciolini, Luigi Zampa, Alfredo Guarini |
Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Isa Miranda, Alida Valli |
|
Film with 5 episodes. One episode is about a casting in Cinecittà
|
| 1954
|
| Attila (Attila, il flagello di Dio) |
Pietro Francisci |
Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni, Christian Marquand |
Peplum |
|
| Bread, Love and Jealousy (Pane, amore e gelosia) |
Luigi Comencini |
Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini |
Pink neorealism |
Sequel of Bread, Love and Dreams. AKA Frisky in US
|
| Senso |
Luchino Visconti |
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti |
Hitorical drama |
About the Italian unification. Based on Senso (book) by Camillo Boito.Italian gobverment forced to cut its original ending
|
| La Strada |
Federico Fellini |
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart |
Drama |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards won. Venice Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento. Academy Award nominee for best script
|
| Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders |
Italian neorealism |
Filmed in Naples and Pompeii. Spoken in English
|
| Fear (La paura) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Kurt Kreuger |
Drama |
Based on a Stefan Zweig'snovel. Filmed in Munich, spoken in German. Cutten by producers. There're alternate endings
|
| Joan of Arc at the Stake (Giovanna d'Arco al rogo) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman,Tullio Carminati |
Historical, Drama, Opera |
|
| An American in Rome (Un americano a Roma) |
Steno |
Alberto Sordi, Maria-Pia Casilio, Giulio Calì, Ilse Peterson, Leopoldo Trieste |
Comedy |
|
| Miseria e nobilità |
Mario Mattòli |
Totò, Sophia Loren |
Comedy |
|
| Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) |
Ettore Giannini |
Léonide Massine, Sophia Loren, Paolo Stoppa, Tina Pica |
Comedy, Musical |
Cannes Award
|
| Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) |
Carlo Lizzani |
Anna-Maria Ferrero, Marcello Mastroianni |
|
Cannes Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento
|
| Woman of Rome (La romana) |
Luigi Zampa |
Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Franco Fabrizi |
Drama |
Based on the Alberto Moravia's novel
|
| L'Oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples) |
Vittorio De Sica |
Totò, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano |
Comedy-Drama |
2 Nastro d'Argento .Film with 6 episodes. Close to Italian neorealism. Cutten in USA
|
| Too Bad She's Bad (Peccato che sia una canaglia) |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio De Sica |
[Comedy |
|
| Theodora, Slave Empress (Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio) |
Riccardo Freda |
Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal, Irene Papas |
Peplum |
About Justinian I and Theodora (6th century) and the Byzantine Empire
|
| 1955
|
| The Miller's Beautiful Wife |
Mario Camerini |
Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni |
Comedy |
|
| The River Girl (La Donna del fiume) |
Mario Soldati |
Rik Battaglia, Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury |
Drama |
|
| Amici per la pelle (The Woman in the Painting) |
Franco Rossi |
Geronimo Meynier, Andrea Sciré, Luigi Tosi, Vera Carmi, Carlo Tamberlani |
Childhood |
|
| The Girl Friends (Le amiche) |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux |
Drama |
Venice Silver Lion. 2 Nastro d'Argento
|
| The Sign of Venus (Il segno di Venere) |
Dino Risi |
Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Raf Vallone , Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi |
Pink neorrealism |
|
| Gli sbandati |
Francesco Maselli |
Lucia Bosé, Isa Miranda |
Drama |
About Italian resistance movement
|
| Il bidone (The Swindlers) |
Federico Fellini |
Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi |
Drama |
Cutten in USA
|
| Scandal in Sorrento (Pane, amore e...) |
Dino Risi |
Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani |
Pink neorealism |
Sequel of Bread, Love and Dreams. In color.
|
| Ulysses |
Mario Camerini |
Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn |
Peplum |
Huge success. Based on Odyssey by Homer
|
| 1956
|
| Men and Wolves (Uomini e lupi) |
Giuseppe De Santis |
Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz |
Drama |
|
| The Railroad Man (Il Ferroviere) |
Pietro Germi |
Pietro Germi, Sylva Koscina, Luisa Della Noce |
Drama |
3 awards won at San Sebastián International Film Festival. Cannes Award
|
| Poveri ma belli |
Dino Risi |
Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori |
Pink neorrealism |
Huge success. There're two sequels by Risi
|
| Il Tetto (The Roof) |
Vittorio De Sica |
Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi |
Pink neorrealism |
Cannes Award. Nastro d'Argento best script
|
| What a woman! (La fortuna di essere donna) |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Charles Boyer |
Pink neorrealism |
|
| 1957
|
| Guendalina |
Alberto Lattuada |
Jacqueline Sassard, Sylva Koscina, Raf Vallone, Raffaele Mattioli |
Comedy |
Nastro d'Argento best script
|
| Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) |
Federico Fellini |
Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franco Fabrizi |
|
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Remade as Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse. 4 Nastro d'Argento. Cannes and San Sebastian Awards for best actress
|
| The Outcry (Il grido) |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Dorian Gray |
Drama |
2 awards
|
| Le notti bianche |
Luchino Visconti |
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais |
Drama |
Based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky's White Nights (short story)
|
| I Vampiri |
Riccardo Freda |
Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Paul Muller |
Horror |
|
| The Wide Blue Road (La grande strada azzurra) |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal |
Drama |
1st Pontecorvo's long film
|
| Marisa (Marisa la civetta) |
Mauro Bolognini |
Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori, Francisco Rabal |
Pink neorrealism |
|
| 1958
|
| Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti) |
Mario Monicelli |
|
Commedia all'italiana |
Huge success. It was remade by Louis Malle in Crackers (1984 film)
|
| Hercules |
Pietro Francisci |
Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale |
Peplum |
Huge success. Based on the Greek epic poem Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
|
| The Challenge (La sfidia) |
Francesco Rosi |
José Suárez, Rosanna Schiaffino |
Drama |
Rosi's ebut. Venice Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento
|
| India: Matri Bhumi |
Roberto Rossellini |
|
Documentary |
|
| 1959
|
| Caltiki - il mostro immortale |
Riccardo Freda |
John Merivale, Didi Perego, Daniela Rocca, Gerard Herter |
Horror |
|
| Hercules and the Queen of Lydia (Ercole e la regina di Lidia) |
Pietro Francisci |
Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez |
Peplum |
|
| The Magliari (I Magliari) |
Francesco Rosi |
Alberto Sordi, Renato Salvatori, Belinda Lee |
Drama |
|
| General della Rovere (Il generale della Rovere) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Vittorio De Sica, Sandra Milo |
Drama |
Golden Lion winner. [Academy Award]]nominee best script. It's about WWII
|
| Kapò |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva |
Holocaust |
Academy Award nominee
|
| The Grat War (La grande guerra) |
Mario Monicelli |
|
Commedia all'italiana |
Golden Lion winner. It's about the Italians in the World War I
|
| The Facts of Murder (Un maledetto imbroglio) |
Pietro Germi |
Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Saro Urzì, Nino Castelnuovo |
Crime drama |
|
| Violent Summer (Estate violenta) |
Valerio Zurlini |
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Eleonora Rossi Drago |
Drama |
Love affair set in the summer of 1943, very important changes in the Military history of Italy during World War II. 2 Nastro d'Argento
|
| Il Vedovo |
Dino Risi |
Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri |
Commedia all'italiana |
|
| Love and Larceny (Il Mattatore) |
Dino Risi |
Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna-Maria Ferrero |
Commedia all'italiana |
|
| Bad Girls Don't Cry (La Notte brava) |
Mauro Bolognini |
Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, Laurent Terzieff |
Drama |
Written and adapated from his own novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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