Italian films of 1953
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s produced in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 in 1953 (see 1953 in film
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1953
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

Addio, figlio mio!
Africa sotto i mari
Agenzia matrimoniale
Aida
Aida (1953 film)
Aida is a 1953 Italian film version of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. It was directed by Clemente Fracassi and produced by Gregor Rabinovitch and Federico Teti. The screenplay was adapted by Fracassi, Carlo Castelli, Anna Gobbi and Giorgio Salviucci from the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni...

Clemente Fracassi
Clemente Fracassi
Clemente Fracassi was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. His career spanned from 1939 to 1967.-Selected filmography:* To Live in Peace * Senza pietà...

 
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress.Maxwell began her film career in the late 1940s, and won a Golden Globe Award for the New Actress of the Year for her performance in That Hagen Girl...

, Luciano Della Marra 
Opera Adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

's Aida
Aida
Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...

. 1st starring role for Sophia Loren. All actors are dubbed by Opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 singers.
Alerte au sud
Amanti del passato
Les Amants de Tolède
Amarti è il mio peccato
L'Amore in Città
L'Amore in Città
L'Amore in Città is a 1953 anthology film composed of six different segments, each with a different writer or director...

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

, Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

, Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949...

, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.-Brief biography:...

 
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...

, Marco Ferreri 
Drama Six episodes, close to Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors...

Anna perdonami
Anni facili
Attanasio cavallo Vanesio

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Il Bacio dell'Aurora
Balocchi e profumi
Beat the Devil
Le Boulanger de Valorgue
Bufere
C'era una volta Angelo Musco
Café chantant
Canto per te
Canzone appassionata
Canzoni a due voci
Canzoni, canzoni, canzoni
Capitan Fantasma
Carne de horca
La Carovana del peccato
Le Carrosse d'or
Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge
Cavalleria rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana (1953 film)
Cavalleria rusticana is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone. It is based on the opera Cavalleria rusticana...

La Cavallina storna
Christ Among the Primitives
Ci troviamo in galleria
Cinema d'altri tempi
Città che dorme
Condannata senza colpa
Condannatelo!
La Corda d'acciaio
La corda d'acciaio
La corda d'acciaio is a 1953 film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Brigitte Fossey and Virna Lisi....

Core furastiero
Crepuscolo di un mondo
Cristo è passato sull'aia
Cuore di spia
La Dame aux camélias
Di qua di là del piave
Dieci anni della nostra vita
Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare
La Diga sul ghiaccio
Disonorata senza colpa
La Domenica della buona gente
Dramma nella Kasbah
Due notti con Cleopatra
E Napoli canta
E Napoli canta
E Napoli canta is a 1953 Italian musical film. It was directed by Armando Grottini, starring Virna Lisi....

El Frayle
L' Ennemi public no 1
Gli Eroi dell'Artide
Gli Eroi della domenica
L' Esclave
L' Età dell'amore
Eva nera
Fanciulle di lusso
Febbre di vivere
Femmina senza cuore
Fermi tutti arrivo io!
Festa dei morti in Sicilia
La Figlia del forzato
Finalmente libero!
I Fiori
Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente
Gelosia
La
Gioconda
Gioielli di Madame de...
The Earrings of Madame de...
The Earrings of Madame de... is a 1953 drama film directed by Max Ophüls. It was adapted from Louise Leveque de Vilmorin's period novel.This film is considered as a masterpiece of the 1950s French cinema....

Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany , France , the United States , and France again...

 
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...

, Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....

 
Drama
Giuseppe Verdi
Gran comora
Ieri, oggi, domani
L' Incantevole nemica
Le Infedeli
Le infedeli
Le infedeli is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno and starring Gina Lollobrigida.-Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida as Lulla Possenti* May Britt as Liliana Rogers* Pierre Cressoy as Osvaldo Dal Prà* Tina Lattanzi as Carla Bellaris...

L' Italia e il mondo
Ivan (il figlio del diavolo bianco)
I vitelloni
I Vitelloni
I vitelloni is an Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy....

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

 
Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi is an Italian actor.He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film Sciuscià....

, Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

, Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

, Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria...

, Riccardo Fellini 
Drama 3 Nastro d'Argento
Nastro d'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...

. Venice Award. Academy Award nominee best script
Jeunes mariés
Koenigsmark
Il Lago dei poeti
Lasciateci in pace
Legione straniera
Lettere di condannati a morte della resistenza
Lucrèce Borgia
Lucrèce Borgia
Lucrèce Borgia is a 1953 French drama film starring Martine Carol and Pedro Armendáriz. The film was directed by Christian-Jaque, who co-wrote screenplay with Cécil Saint-Laurent and Jacques Sigurd, based on novel by Alfred Schirokauer...

Lulù
Lulu
-Companies:* Lulu , an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer* LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer* Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a British Columbia-based athletic apparel company-Places:...

La Lupa
La lupa
La lupa means:* La lupa mannara , an Italian movie* a nickname of Anna Magnani* La Lupa, a novel by Giovanni Verga* La Lupa, a movie by Luis Lucia* La Lupa, an early fascist newspaper founded by Paolo Orano...

Ma femme, ma vache et moi
Madame de
Una Madre ritorna
Magia verde
Green Magic (film)
Green Magic is a 1953 Italian documentary film directed by Gian Gaspare Napolitano.-Cast:* Carlos Montalbán - Narrator, US version * Bret Morrison - Narrator, US version * Leonardo Bonzi - Himself...

Entered into the Cannes
1953 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Cocteau *Louis Chauvet *Titina De Filippo *Guy Desson *Philippe Erlanger *Renée Faure *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Abel Gance *André Lang...

 and Berlin
3rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 3rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 18 to June 28, 1953.-Films in competition:* Sie fanden eine Heimat by Leopold Lindtberg* Entotsu no mieru basho by Heinosuke Gosho...

 film festivals
La Marchand de Venise
Un Marito per Anna Zaccheo
Martin Toccaferro
Melodie immortali - Mascagni
La Mia vita è tua
Miracolo a Ferrara
Missione Timiriazev
I Misteri del Mato Grosso
Il Mondo le condanna
La Montagna di Cenere
Musoduro
Napoletani a Milano Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.-Biography:...

 
Nerone e Messalina
Noi cannibali
Noi peccatori
Non vogliamo morire
Non è mai troppo tardi
Il Paese dei campanelli
Pane, amore e fantasia
Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia)
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....

 
Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...

, Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

 
Pink neorrealism  Huge success. There are two sequels.
La Passeggiata
Passione
La Pattuglia dell'amba alagi
Pellegrini d'amore
Per salvarti ho peccato
Perdonami!
La Piccola fiammiferaia
Piccole case di grandi uomini
Pietà per chi cade
I Piombi di Venezia
Piovuto dal cielo
Il più comico spettacolo del mondo
Le Porte del Duomo di Milano
La Prigioniera della torre di fuoco
La Prigioniera di Amalfi
Prima di sera
La
Provinciale
Puccini
Quand tu liras cette lettre
Le Quand tu liras cette lettre
Le Retour de Don Camillo
Riscatto
Rivalità
Il Sacco di Roma
Il Sacco di Roma
The Pagans is a 1953 Italian film directed by Ferruccio Cerio...

Le Salaire de la peur
Saluti e baci
Saluti e baci
Saluti e baci is a Franco-Italian comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Labro and Giorgio Simonelli and released in 1953.- Synopsis :In a village in Italy, a radio presenter, Carlo Mastelli, loses his hearing, and passes the microphone to Marina, the young teacher, who suggests launching an appeal...

Scampolo 53
Se vincessi cento milioni
Serenata da un soldo
I Sette dell'orsa maggiore
Siamo donne
Siamo donne
We, the Women is a 1953 Italian pormanteau film divided into five segments and directed by five different directors. Four of these segments focus upon alleged events in the private lives of the film actresses Alida Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda, and Anna Magnani...

Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

, Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

, Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.-Filmography:* Ferdinando I...

, Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

, Alfredo Guarini 
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

, Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....

, Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda was an Italian actress with an international film career.A native of Bergamo, Isa Miranda worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome...

, Alida Valli
Alida Valli
Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo...

 
Film with 5 episodes. One episode is about a casting in Cinecittà
Cinecittà
Cinecittà is a large film studio in Rome that is considered the hub of Italian cinema.-History:The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi for propaganda purposes, under the slogan "Il cinema è l'arma più forte"...

Siamo ricchi e poveri
Siamo tutti inquilini
Siamo tutti inquilini
Siamo tutti inquilini is a 1953 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi.-Cast:* Aldo Fabrizi - Augusto* Anna-Maria Ferrero - Anna Perrini* Enrico Viarisio - Sassi* Tania Weber - Lulù* Nino Pavese - Talloni...

Siamo tutti Milanesi
La signora senza camelie (The Lady Without Camelias) Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

 
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosè, born Lucia Borloni , is an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1940s and 1950s. She is the mother of famous Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.-Life and career:...

 
Drama The dreams and desilutions about Film stardom
Il Sogno de Giovanni Bassain
Il Sole negli occhi
Il sole negli occhi
Il sole negli occhi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

Soli per le strade
Spartaco
Uno Spettacolo di pupi
Stazione Termini
Terminal Station
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

 
Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men"....

 
Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors...

 produced by David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick was an American film producer. He is best known for having produced Gone with the Wind and Rebecca , both of which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture.-Early years:...

. The Italian version is longer than the American cut.
Sua altezza ha detto no!
La Sultana Safiyè
Tam tam nell'oltre Giuba
Tarantella napoletana
Terra straniera
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is the title of a novel and a play by the French writer Émile Zola. The novel was originally published in serial format in the journal L'Artiste and in book format in December of the same year.-Plot introduction:Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to...

Ti ho sempre amato!
Die Tochter der Kompanie
Tormento d'anime
Torna!
Traviata '53
Un Turco napoletano
Una di quelle
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
L' Uomo, la bestia e la virtù
La Valigia dei sogni
Vestire gli ignudi
Vestire gli ignudi
Vestire gli ignudi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

La Via del sud
Viaggio in oriente
Il Viale della speranza
Il viale della speranza
Il viale della speranza is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi.-Cast:* Silvio Bagolini* Arrigo Basevi* Nerio Bernardi - Franci* Liliana Bonfatti - Giuditta* Giulio Calì* Maria-Pia Casilio - Concettine* Pietro De Vico - Tonio...

Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese may refer to:*The Villa Borghese Pinciana , the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio , developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection.**The Galleria...

I Vinti
I Vinti
I vinti is a 1953 film by Michelangelo Antonioni composed of three episodes. The film was dubbed into Italian, the three episodes, although the Paris episode is spoken in French, and the London episode in English. Italian DVD by Medusa Film offers the restored uncut trilingual version...

I Vitelloni
I Vitelloni
I vitelloni is an Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy....

Viva la rivista!
La Voce del silenzio
Vortice
Voto di marinaio

External links

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