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1950s Italian-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 538 movies or TV shows/series

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Don Camillo(1952)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 123 votes)

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Saro Urzì, Leda Gloria, ...

A Night to Remember(1958)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, Action, History
3.8/5 (with 103 votes)

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, ...
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La Strada(1954)

NR
| 1h 55min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 480 votes)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Lidia Venturini, Mario Passante, ...

L'Avventura(1960)

NR
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 297 votes)

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Lelio Luttazzi, Renzo Ricci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, ...
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Hercules(1958)

1h 44min | Fantasy, Adventure
2.5/5 (with 26 votes)

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.

Directed by Pietro Francisci - With Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Gianna Maria Canale, Mimmo Palmara, ...

Ulysses(1954)

1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 66 votes)

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Directed by Mario Camerini, Mario Bava - With Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà, Sylvie, Franco Interlenghi, ...
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Nights of Cabiria(1957)

1h 50min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 347 votes)

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray, ...
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I Vitelloni(1953)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 288 votes)

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste, Leonora Ruffo, Claude Farell, ...
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Le Notti Bianche(1957)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 85 votes)

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.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, ...

Scandal in Sorrento(1955)

NR
| 1h 46min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 78 votes)

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Directed by Dino Risi - With Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Lea Padovani, Tina Pica, Antonio Cifariello, Mario Carotenuto, ...

Don Camillo's Last Round(1955)

1h 37min | Comedy, History
3.6/5 (with 74 votes)

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Umberto Spadaro, Memmo Carotenuto, Guido Celano, ...

General Della Rovere(1959)

2h 12min | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Giovanna Ralli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon, ...
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The Return of Don Camillo(1953)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia, Leda Gloria, Pina Gallini, ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street(1958)

1h 46min | Comedy, Crime
4.1/5 (with 299 votes)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Memmo Carotenuto, ...

Indiscretion of an American Wife(1953)

1h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Richard Beymer, Nando Bruno, ...
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Umberto D.(1952)

1h 31min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 288 votes)

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Memmo Carotenuto, Lamberto Maggiorani, Riccardo Ferri, ...
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Journey to Italy(1954)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 116 votes)

This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Anna Proclemer, Lyla Rocco, Paul Müller, Maria Mauban, ...
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Miracle in Milan(1951)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, ...

The Great War(1959)

2h 17min | Drama, Comedy, War
4.1/5 (with 153 votes)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, ...

Variety Lights(1950)

1h 33min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Directed by Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada - With Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli, Franca Valeri, Carlo Romano, ...

Europe '51(1952)

1h 53min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 52 votes)

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.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina, Antonio Pietrangeli, Maria Zanoli, ...

The Band of Honest Men(1956)

1h 46min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 99 votes)

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giacomo Furia, Gabriele Tinti, Giulia Rubini, Nando Bruno, ...

Senso(1954)

NR
| 2h 3min | Romance / Love, Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 95 votes)

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand, Marcella Mariani, ...

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy(1956)

1h 46min | Comedy, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 149 votes)

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Teddy Reno, Vittoria Crispo, Mario Castellani, ...

Stromboli(1950)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 75 votes)

After the end of World War II Karen, a young displaced woman from Lithuania, marries Italian fisherman Antonio to get away from her internment camp. But the life on Antonio's island, Stromboli, threatened by its volcano, is a tough one and Karen cannot get used to it.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
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Hannibal(1959)

NR
| 1h 43min | History, Adventure, Drama
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia - With Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Franco Silva, ...

The Swindle(1955)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Lorella De Luca, Riccardo Garrone, ...

Poverty and Nobility(1954)

1h 35min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 129 votes)

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

Directed by Mario Mattoli - With Totò, Dolores Palumbo, Enzo Turco, Valeria Moriconi, Franca Faldini, Franco Sportelli, ...

Story of a Love Affair(1950)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 37 votes)

Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosé, Rubi Dalma, Franco Fabrizi, Anita Farra, Gino Cervi, ...

Bellissima(1951)

1h 55min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 95 votes)

Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli, Tecla Scarano, Arturo Bragaglia, ...
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