Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Addio, figlio mio! | Giuseppe Guarino | Marco Vicario, Rossana Podestà | Drama | [1] |
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. |
Alarm in Morocco | Jean-Devaivre | Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim | Adventure | Co-production with France[2] |
Anna perdonami | Amerigo Anton | Maria Frau, Aldo Fiorelli | | [3] |
At the Edge of the City | Carlo Lizzani | | Crime drama | |
Attanasio cavallo Vanesio | Camillo Mastrocinque | Kiki Urbani, Renato Rascel | | [4] |
Il Bacio dell'Aurora | | | | [5] |
The Baker of Valorgue | | | Comedy | Co-production with France |
Balocchi e profumi | Natale Montillo F.M. De Bernardi | Diana D'orsini, Cesare Danova | | [6] |
Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida | Adventure | Co-production with the UK[7] |
Le Boulanger de Valorgue | Henri Verneuil | Fernandel | Comedy drama | [8] |
Bread, Love and Dreams | Luigi Comencini | Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini | Pink neorrealism | Huge success. There are two sequels. |
C'era una volta Angelo Musco | Giorgio Walter Chili | Rossano Brazzi, Angelo Musco | Biopic | [9] |
Canto per te | Marino Girolami | Giuseppe Di Stefano, Hélène Rémy | Comedy | [10] |
Canzoni a due voci | Gianni Vernuccio | Tito Gobbi, Isa Barzizza | Musical comedy | [11] |
Captain Phantom | Primo Zeglio | Maxwell Reed, Frank Latimore, Anna Maria Sandri | Adventure | [12] |
Condemned to Hang | Ladislao Vajda | Rossano Brazzi, Fosco Giachetti, Emma Penella | Historical | Co-production with Spain |
La Carovana del peccato | Pino Mercanti | Franca Marzi, Luisa Poselli | | [13] |
Carmen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Ana Esmeralda, Mariella Lotti | Drama | Co-production with Spain[14] |
Cavalcade of Song | Domenico Paolella | Alberto Sordi, Silvana Pampanini | Musical | [15] |
Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge | Vittorio Cottafavi | Armando Francioli, Franca Marzi | Historical adventure | [16] |
Cavallina storna | Giulio Morelli | Carlo Danova, Carlo Ninchi | Drama | [17] |
Christ Among the Primitives | | | Short film | [18] |
Ci troviamo in galleria | Mauro Bolognini | Carlo Dapporto, Nilla Pizzi | | [19] |
Cinema d'altri tempi | Steno | Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari | | [20] |
Condannata senza colpa | | Piero Lulli | Drama | [21] |
Condannatelo! | Luigi Capuano | Virgilio Riento, Nerio Bernardi, Paola Borboni | Drama | [22] |
Core furastiero | Armando Fizzarotti | Piero Lulli, Aldo Nicodemi | | [23] |
Crepuscolo di un mondo | | | | |
Cristo è passato sull'aia | | | Drama | [24] |
Cuore di spia | | | Drama | [25] |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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The Daughter of the Regiment | Géza von Bolváry, Goffredo Alessandrini, Tullio Covaz | Antonella Lualdi, Theo Lingen, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | Co-production with France and Germany. Separate Austrian film released the same year |
Di qua di là del piave | Sergio Grieco, Guido Leoni | Piero Lulli, Pietro Tordi | | [26] |
Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare | Flavio Calzavara | Jacques Sernas | | |
Disonorata senza colpa | Giorgio Walter Chili | Franco Pesce, Milly Vitale | Drama | [27] |
Eager to Live | Claudio Gora | Massimo Serato, Marina Berti, Marcello Mastroianni | Drama | [28] |
The Earrings of Madame de... | Max Ophüls | Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica | Drama | Co-production with France[29] |
Easy Years | Luigi Zampa | Nino Taranto, Clelia Matania, Giovanna Ralli | Drama | [30] |
Fatal Desire | Carmine Gallone | May Britt, Anthony Quinn, Ettore Manni | Comedy | [31] |
Finalmente libero! | | | Comedy | |
Francis the Smuggler | Gianfranco Parolini | Roberto Mauri, Doris Duranti | Drama | |
El Frayle | Ermanno Olmi | | Short film | [32] |
Empty Eyes | Antonio Pietrangeli | Gabriele Ferzetti, Irène Galter | Drama | |
The Enchanting Enemy | Claudio Gora | Robert Lamoureux, Silvana Pampanini | Comedy | Co-production with Frasnce[33] |
L' Ennemi public no 1 | Henri Verneuil | Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor | Crime comedy | [34] |
L' Esclave | Yves Ciampi | | | Co-production with France[35] |
Too Young for Love | Lionello De Felice | Marina Vlady, Fernand Gravey | | [36] |
Eva nera (1953 film) | | | | |
Femmina senza cuore | Renato Borraccetti | Renato Chiantoni, Maria Grazia Francia | Drama | [37] |
Fermi tutti arrivo io! | Sergio Grieco | Carlo Delle Piane, Carlo Romano | | [38] |
La Figlia del forzato | Gaetano Amata | Arnoldo Foà, Luisa Rossi | Opera | [39] |
Finishing School | Bernard Vorhaus | Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jacques Sernas | Comedy | Co-production with France |
For You I Have Sinned | Mario Costa | Pierre Cressoy, Milly Vitale | Drama | [40] |
Frine, Courtesan of Orient | Mario Bonnard | Pierre Cressoy, Tamara Lees | Adventure | [41] |
Funniest Show on Earth | Mario Mattoli | May Britt, Totò | Comedy | |
Gioconda | | | | |
Gioventù alla sbarra | | | | |
Giuseppe Verdi | Raffaello Matarazzo | Pierre Cressoy, Gaby André | Biographical musical melodrama | [42] |
Good Folk's Sunday | Anton Giulio Majano | Maria Fiore, Sophia Loren | Comedy | [43] |
Gran comora | Antonio Nediani | | | [44] |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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A Husband for Anna | Giuseppe De Santis | Silvana Pampanini, Amedeo Nazzari, Massimo Girotti | Drama | |
I Always Loved You | Mario Costa | Amedeo Nazzari, Myriam Bru, Jacques Sernas | Drama | |
I Chose Love | | | Comedy | Co-production with France |
Ieri, oggi, domani | Silvio Laurenti Rosa | Mario Carotenuto, Aldo Ronconi | Drama | [45] |
If You Won a Hundred Million | Carlo Campogalliani | Tino Scotti, Nerio Bernardi | Comedy | |
Infame accusa | | | Melodrama | |
L' Italia e il mondo | | | | |
It Happened in the Park | Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Franciolini | Micheline Presle, Anna Maria Ferrero | Drama | [46] |
It's Never Too Late | Filippo Walter Ratti | Paolo Stoppa, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | [47] |
It Was She Who Wanted It! | | | Comedy | |
Ivan, Son of the White Devil | Guido Brignone | Paul Campbell, Nadia Gray | Adventure | |
Jealousy | Pietro Germi | Erno Crisa, Marisa Belli | Drama | |
Jeunes Mariés | Gilles Grangier | Anne Vernon, François Périer | | [48] |
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair | Mario Soldati | May Britt, Marc Lawrence | | [49] |
Koenigsmark | Solange Térac | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Silvana Pampanini | Drama | |
The Lady of the Camellias | | | Historical | Co-production with France |
The Lady Without Camelias | Michelangelo Antonioni | | Drama | Co-production with France |
Il Lago dei poeti | | | | |
Lasciateci in pace | Marino Girolami | Nando Bruno, Virgilio Riento | Comedy | [50] |
Legione straniera | Basilio Franchina | Emma Baron, Giulio Cali | Adventure | [51] |
Lettere di condannati a morte della resistenza | | | | |
Love in the City | 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 |
The Love of a Woman | | | Drama | Co-production with France |
Lovers of Toledo | Henri Decoin, Fernando Palacios | Alida Valli, Pedro Armendáriz | Historical | Co-production with France and Spain[52] |
Loving You Is My Sin | Sergio Grieco | Jacques Sernas, Luisa Rossi | Drama | |
Lucrèce Borgia | Christian-Jaque | Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz | Historical | Co-production with France |
Lulu | Fernando Cerchio | Valentina Cortese, Jacques Sernas | Drama | [53] |
La Lupa | Alberto Lattuada | Kerima, Ettore Manni | Drama | [54] |
Una Madre ritorna | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Gianni Rizzo, Linda Sini | Drama | [55] |
Man, Beast and Virtue | Steno | Totò, Orson Welles | Comedy | [56] |
The Man from Cairo | Ray Enright | George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale | Thriller | Co-production with the UK[57] |
Martin Toccaferro | Leonardo De Mitri | Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo | Comedy | [58] |
Matrimonial Agency | Giorgio Pastina | Delia Scala, Aroldo Tieri | Comedy | |
The Merchant of Venice | Pierre Billon | Michel Simon, Andrée Debar | Drama | Co-production with France[59] |
Musoduro | Giuseppe Bennati | Fausto Tozzi, Marina Vlady | Drama | Co-production with France[60] |
My Life Is Yours | Giuseppe Masini | Armando Francioli, Patricia Roc | Drama | [61] |
Naples Sings | Armando Grottini | Giacomo Rondinella, Virna Lisi | Musical | |
Neapolitans in Milan | Eduardo De Filippo | Eduardo De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero | Comedy | [62] |
Neapolitan Turk | Mario Mattoli | Totò, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | [63] |
Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Gino Cervi, Paola Barbara, Yvonne Sanson | Historical | [64] |
Noi cannibali | Antonio Leonviola | Silvana Pampanini, Folco Lulli | Comedy | [65] |
Noi peccatori | Guido Brignone | Yvonne Sanson, Steve Barclay | Drama | [66] |
Non vogliamo morire | Oreste Palella, Ocen Tworkow | John Kitzmiller, Umberto Spadaro | Drama | [67] |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Il Paese dei campanelli | Jean Boyer | Sophia Loren, Alda Mangini | Musical comedy | [68] |
Il Peccato di Anna | | Anna Vita, Ben Johnson | Drama | |
One of Those | Aldo Fabrizi | Lea Padovani, Peppino De Filippo, Totò | Comedy drama | |
Passionate Song | Giorgio Simonelli | Nilla Pizzi, Gérard Landry | Musical | [69] |
Passione | | | | |
Past Lovers | Adelchi Bianchi | Lia Amanda, Vittorio Sanipoli | Romance | |
La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi | Flavio Calzavara | Carla Calò, Dante Maggio | Drama | [70] |
Perdonami! | Mario Costa | Raf Vallone, Antonella Lualdi | Melodrama | [71] |
La Piccola fiammiferaia | Romano Scarpa | | Sort film | [72] |
I Piombi di Venezia | Gian Maria Callegari | Armando Francioli, Giorgio Albertazzi | Historical | [73] |
Piovuto dal cielo | | | | [74] |
Le Porte del Duomo di Milano | | | | |
Il Prezzo dell'onore | | | Melodrama | |
La Prigioniera di Amalfi | | | | [75] |
Prima di sera | Piero Tellini | Gaby Andre, Gianni Cavalieri | | [76] |
Prisoner in the Tower of Fire | Giorgio W. Chili | Elisa Cegani, Milly Vitale | Historical | [77] |
La Provinciale | Mario Soldati | Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti | | [78] |
Puccini | Carmine Gallone | Gabriele Ferzetti, Märta Torén, Nadia Gray | Historical | [79] |
Quand tu liras cette lettre | Jean-Pierre Melville | Robert Dalban, Yvonne de Bray | Drama | [80] |
The Return of Don Camillo | Julien Duvivier | Fernandel, Gino Cervi | Comedy | Co-production with France[81] |
Riscatto | Marino Girolami | Folco Lulli, Franca Marzi | Drama | [82] |
Rivalry | Giuliano Biagetti | Marco Vicario, Franca Marzi | Drama | [83] |
The Sack of Rome | Ferruccio Cerio | Pierre Cressoy, Hélène Remy | Historical | |
Saluti e baci | Maurice Labro Giorgio Simonelli | Georges Guetary, Luis Mariano | Musical | [84] |
Scampolo 53 | Giorgio Bianchi | Maria Fiore, Henri Vidal | Drama | [85] |
I sette dell'Orsa maggiore | Duilio Coletti | Paul Cressoy, Tino Carraro | War | [86] |
The Ship of Condemned Women | | | Historical | |
Siamo ricchi e poveri | | | Romantic comedy | [87] |
Siamo tutti inquilini | Mario Mattoli | Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Maria Ferrero | Comedy | [88] |
Siamo tutti Milanesi | Mario Landi | Carlo Campanini, Liliana Bonfatti | | [89] |
Il Sogno de Giovanni Bassain | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | | Short film | [90] |
Soli per le strade | Silvio Siano | Marco Vicario, Rita Livesi | Melodrama | [91] |
Spartaco | Riccardo Freda | Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina | Historical | [92] |
The Steel Rope | Carlo Borghesio | Brigitte Fossey, Virna Lisi | Drama | |
Storms | | | Drama | Co-production with France[93] |
Sua altezza ha detto no! | Mario Basaglia | Luigi Pavese, Elena Giusti | Musical comedy | [94] |
La Sultana Safiyè | | | Adventure | [95] |
Tam tam nell'oltre Giuba | | | Adventure | [96] |
Tarantella napoletana | Camillo Mastrocinque | Clara Bindi, Clara Crispo | Musicasl comedy | [97] |
Terminal Station | Vittorio De Sica | Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift | | Italian neorealism produced by David O. Selznick. The Italian version is longer than the American cut. |
Terra straniera | Sergio Corbucci | John Kitzmiller, Mario Vitale | Drama | [98] |
Thérèse Raquin | Marcel Carné | Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone | Drama | Co-production with France[99] |
Too Young for Love | Lionello De Felice | Aldo Fabrizi, Marina Vlady | Comedy drama | Co-production with France[100] |
Tormento d'anime | | | | [101] |
Torna! | Raffaello Matarazzo | Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson | Melodrama | [102] |
Traviata '53 | Vittorio Cottafavi | Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli | Drama | [103] |
The Treasure of Bengal | Gianni Vernuccio | | Adventure | Co-production with France |
Two Nights with Cleopatra | Mario Mattoli | Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi | Historical comedy | |
The Unfaithfuls | Mario Monicelli, Steno | Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt | Comedy | [104] |
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! | Glauco Pellegrini | Antonella Lualdi, Walter Chiari | Comedy | [105] |
La Valigia dei sogni | Luigi Comencini | Umberto Melnati, Maria Pia Casilia | Comedy | [106] |
Vestire gli ignudi | Marcello Pagliero | Gabriele Ferzetti, Eleonora Rossi Drago | Drama | [107] |
La Via del sud | | | | |
Viaggio in oriente | | | | |
Il Viale della speranza | Dino Risi | Silvio Bagolini, Nerio Bernardi | Drama | [108] |
I Vinti | Michelangelo Antonioni | Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero | Drama | Co-production with France[109] |
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 |
Viva la rivista! | Enzo Trapani | Piero Lulli, Gisella Sofio | Musical | [110] |
Voice of Silence | G.W. Pabst | Aldo Fabrizi, Cosetta Greco | | Co-production with France and UK[111] |
Vortice | Raffaello Matarazzo | Massimo Girotti, Silvana Pampanini | Drama | [112] |
Voto di marinaio | Ernesto de Rosa | Roberto Bruni, Ugo D'Alessio | Drama | [113] |
The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Yves Montand, Charles Vanel | Thriller | Co-production with France |
The Walk | Renato Rascel | Renato Rascel, Valentina Cortese | Comedy drama | [114] |
The Wayward Wife | Mario Soldati | Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Interlenghi, Gabriele Ferzetti | Drama | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival[115] |
We, the Women | 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[116] |
What Scoundrels Men Are! | Glauco Pellegrini | Walter Chiari, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | [117] |
When You Read This Letter | Jean-Pierre Melville | Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco, Yvonne Sanson | Drama | Co-production with France[118] |
Woman of the Red Sea | Giovanni Roccardi | Sophia Loren, Steve Barclay, Umberto Melnati | Comedy | [119] |
The World Condemns Them | Gianni Franciolini | Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari | Drama | Co-production with France[120] |
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