# List of Italian films of 1953

A list of films produced in Italy in 1953 (see 1953 in film):

## A-C

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Addio, figlio mio! | Giuseppe Guarino | Marco Vicario, Rossana Podestà | Drama | |
| 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 |
| Anna perdonami | Amerigo Anton | Maria Frau, Aldo Fiorelli | | |
| At the Edge of the City | Carlo Lizzani | Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti, Giulietta Masina | Crime drama | |
| Attanasio cavallo Vanesio | Camillo Mastrocinque | Kiki Urbani, Renato Rascel | | |
| Il Bacio dell'Aurora | | | | |
| The Baker of Valorgue | Henri Verneuil | Fernandel, Georges Chamarat, Leda Gloria | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| Balocchi e profumi | Natale Montillo F.M. De Bernardi | Diana D'orsini, Cesare Danova | | |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida | Adventure | Co-production with the UK |
| Le Boulanger de Valorgue | Henri Verneuil | Fernandel | Comedy drama | |
| 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 | |
| Canto per te | Marino Girolami | Giuseppe Di Stefano, Hélène Rémy | Comedy | |
| Canzoni a due voci | Gianni Vernuccio | Tito Gobbi, Isa Barzizza | Musical comedy | |
| Captain Phantom | Primo Zeglio | Maxwell Reed, Frank Latimore, Anna Maria Sandri | Adventure | |
| 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 | | |
| Carmen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Ana Esmeralda, Mariella Lotti | Drama | Co-production with Spain |
| Cavalcade of Song | Domenico Paolella | Alberto Sordi, Silvana Pampanini | Musical | |
| Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge | Vittorio Cottafavi | Armando Francioli, Franca Marzi | Historical adventure | |
| Cavallina storna | Giulio Morelli | Carlo Danova, Carlo Ninchi | Drama | |
| Christ Among the Primitives | | | Short film | |
| Ci troviamo in galleria | Mauro Bolognini | Carlo Dapporto, Nilla Pizzi | | |
| Cinema d'altri tempi | Steno | Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari | | |
| Condannata senza colpa | | Piero Lulli | Drama | |
| Condannatelo! | Luigi Capuano | Virgilio Riento, Nerio Bernardi, Paola Borboni | Drama | |
| Core furastiero | Armando Fizzarotti | Piero Lulli, Aldo Nicodemi | | |
| Crepuscolo di un mondo | | | | |
| Cristo è passato sull'aia | | | Drama | |
| Cuore di spia | | | Drama | |

## D-G

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 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 | | |
| Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare | Flavio Calzavara | Jacques Sernas | | |
| Disonorata senza colpa | Giorgio Walter Chili | Franco Pesce, Milly Vitale | Drama | |
| Eager to Live | Claudio Gora | Massimo Serato, Marina Berti, Marcello Mastroianni | Drama | |
| The Earrings of Madame de... | Max Ophüls | Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Easy Years | Luigi Zampa | Nino Taranto, Clelia Matania, Giovanna Ralli | Drama | |
| Fatal Desire | Carmine Gallone | May Britt, Anthony Quinn, Ettore Manni | Comedy | |
| Finalmente libero! | Mario Amendola, Ruggero Maccari | Carlo Dapporto, Nadia Gray, Fulvia Franco | Comedy | |
| Francis the Smuggler | Gianfranco Parolini | Roberto Mauri, Doris Duranti | Drama | |
| El Frayle | Ermanno Olmi | | Short film | |
| Empty Eyes | Antonio Pietrangeli | Gabriele Ferzetti, Irène Galter | Drama | |
| The Enchanting Enemy | Claudio Gora | Robert Lamoureux, Silvana Pampanini | Comedy | Co-production with Frasnce |
| L' Ennemi public no 1 | Henri Verneuil | Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor | Crime comedy | |
| L' Esclave | Yves Ciampi | | | Co-production with France |
| Too Young for Love | Lionello De Felice | Marina Vlady, Fernand Gravey | | |
| Eva nera (1953 film) | | | | |
| Femmina senza cuore | Renato Borraccetti | Renato Chiantoni, Maria Grazia Francia | Drama | |
| Fermi tutti arrivo io! | Sergio Grieco | Carlo Delle Piane, Carlo Romano | | |
| La Figlia del forzato | Gaetano Amata | Arnoldo Foà, Luisa Rossi | Opera | |
| 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 | |
| Frine, Courtesan of Orient | Mario Bonnard | Pierre Cressoy, Tamara Lees | Adventure | |
| Funniest Show on Earth | Mario Mattoli | May Britt, Totò | Comedy | |
| Gioconda | | | | |
| Gioventù alla sbarra | Ferruccio Cerio | Giorgio Albertazzi, Isa Barzizza | | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Raffaello Matarazzo | Pierre Cressoy, Gaby André | Biographical musical melodrama | |
| Good Folk's Sunday | Anton Giulio Majano | Maria Fiore, Sophia Loren | Comedy | |
| Gran comora | Antonio Nediani | | | |

## H-N

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 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 | Mario Zampi | Renato Rascel, Tina Lattanzi, Marisa Pavan | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| Ieri, oggi, domani | Silvio Laurenti Rosa | Mario Carotenuto, Aldo Ronconi | Drama | |
| If You Won a Hundred Million | Carlo Campogalliani | Tino Scotti, Nerio Bernardi | Comedy | |
| Infame accusa | Giuseppe Vari | Piero Lulli, Folco Lulli, Marisa Merlini | Melodrama | |
| L' Italia e il mondo | | | | |
| It Happened in the Park | Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Franciolini | Micheline Presle, Anna Maria Ferrero | Drama | |
| It's Never Too Late | Filippo Walter Ratti | Paolo Stoppa, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| It Was She Who Wanted It! | Marino Girolami | Walter Chiari, Lucia Bosè, Carlo Campanini | 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 | | |
| Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair | Mario Soldati | May Britt, Marc Lawrence | | |
| Koenigsmark | Solange Térac | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Silvana Pampanini | Drama | |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Raymond Bernard | Micheline Presle, Gino Cervi, Roland Alexandre | Historical | Co-production with France |
| The Lady Without Camelias | Michelangelo Antonioni | Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Il Lago dei poeti | | | | |
| Lasciateci in pace | Marino Girolami | Nando Bruno, Virgilio Riento | Comedy | |
| Legione straniera | Basilio Franchina | Emma Baron, Giulio Cali | Adventure | |
| 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 | Jean Grémillon | Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Lovers of Toledo | Henri Decoin, Fernando Palacios | Alida Valli, Pedro Armendáriz | Historical | Co-production with France and Spain |
| 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 | |
| La Lupa | Alberto Lattuada | Kerima, Ettore Manni | Drama | |
| Una Madre ritorna | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Gianni Rizzo, Linda Sini | Drama | |
| Man, Beast and Virtue | Steno | Totò, Orson Welles | Comedy | |
| The Man from Cairo | Ray Enright | George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale | Thriller | Co-production with the UK |
| Martin Toccaferro | Leonardo De Mitri | Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo | Comedy | |
| Matrimonial Agency | Giorgio Pastina | Delia Scala, Aroldo Tieri | Comedy | |
| The Merchant of Venice | Pierre Billon | Michel Simon, Andrée Debar | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Musoduro | Giuseppe Bennati | Fausto Tozzi, Marina Vlady | Drama | Co-production with France |
| My Life Is Yours | Giuseppe Masini | Armando Francioli, Patricia Roc | Drama | |
| Naples Sings | Armando Grottini | Giacomo Rondinella, Virna Lisi | Musical | |
| Neapolitans in Milan | Eduardo De Filippo | Eduardo De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero | Comedy | |
| Neapolitan Turk | Mario Mattoli | Totò, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Gino Cervi, Paola Barbara, Yvonne Sanson | Historical | |
| Noi cannibali | Antonio Leonviola | Silvana Pampanini, Folco Lulli | Comedy | |
| Noi peccatori | Guido Brignone | Yvonne Sanson, Steve Barclay | Drama | |
| Non vogliamo morire | Oreste Palella, Ocen Tworkow | John Kitzmiller, Umberto Spadaro | Drama | |

## P-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Il Paese dei campanelli | Jean Boyer | Sophia Loren, Alda Mangini | Musical comedy | |
| Il Peccato di Anna | Camillo Mastrocinque | 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 | |
| Passione | | | | |
| Past Lovers | Adelchi Bianchi | Lia Amanda, Vittorio Sanipoli | Romance | |
| La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi | Flavio Calzavara | Carla Calò, Dante Maggio | Drama | |
| Perdonami! | Mario Costa | Raf Vallone, Antonella Lualdi | Melodrama | |
| La Piccola fiammiferaia | Romano Scarpa | | Sort film | |
| I Piombi di Venezia | Gian Maria Callegari | Armando Francioli, Giorgio Albertazzi | Historical | |
| Piovuto dal cielo | | | | |
| Le Porte del Duomo di Milano | | | | |
| Il Prezzo dell'onore | Ferdinando Baldi | Maria Frau, Mario Vitale, Vincenzo Musolino | Melodrama | |
| La Prigioniera di Amalfi | | | | |
| Prima di sera | Piero Tellini | Gaby Andre, Gianni Cavalieri | | |
| Prisoner in the Tower of Fire | Giorgio W. Chili | Elisa Cegani, Milly Vitale | Historical | |
| La Provinciale | Mario Soldati | Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti | | |
| Puccini | Carmine Gallone | Gabriele Ferzetti, Märta Torén, Nadia Gray | Historical | |
| Quand tu liras cette lettre | Jean-Pierre Melville | Robert Dalban, Yvonne de Bray | Drama | |
| The Return of Don Camillo | Julien Duvivier | Fernandel, Gino Cervi | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| Riscatto | Marino Girolami | Folco Lulli, Franca Marzi | Drama | |
| Rivalry | Giuliano Biagetti | Marco Vicario, Franca Marzi | Drama | |
| The Sack of Rome | Ferruccio Cerio | Pierre Cressoy, Hélène Remy | Historical | |
| Saluti e baci | Maurice Labro Giorgio Simonelli | Georges Guetary, Luis Mariano | Musical | |
| Scampolo 53 | Giorgio Bianchi | Maria Fiore, Henri Vidal | Drama | |
| I sette dell'Orsa maggiore | Duilio Coletti | Paul Cressoy, Tino Carraro | War | |
| The Ship of Condemned Women | Raffaello Matarazzo | Kerima, May Britt, Ettore Manni, Tania Weber | Historical | |
| Siamo ricchi e poveri | | | Romantic comedy | |
| Siamo tutti inquilini | Mario Mattoli | Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Maria Ferrero | Comedy | |
| Siamo tutti Milanesi | Mario Landi | Carlo Campanini, Liliana Bonfatti | | |
| Il Sogno de Giovanni Bassain | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | | Short film | |
| Soli per le strade | Silvio Siano | Marco Vicario, Rita Livesi | Melodrama | |
| Spartaco | Riccardo Freda | Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina | Historical | |
| The Steel Rope | Carlo Borghesio | Brigitte Fossey, Virna Lisi | Drama | |
| Storms | Guido Brignone | Jean Gabin, Silvana Pampanini, Carla Del Poggio | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Sua altezza ha detto no! | Mario Basaglia | Luigi Pavese, Elena Giusti | Musical comedy | |
| La Sultana Safiyè | | | Adventure | |
| Tam tam nell'oltre Giuba | | | Adventure | |
| Tarantella napoletana | Camillo Mastrocinque | Clara Bindi, Clara Crispo | Musicasl comedy | |
| 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 | |
| Thérèse Raquin | Marcel Carné | Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Too Young for Love | Lionello De Felice | Aldo Fabrizi, Marina Vlady | Comedy drama | Co-production with France |
| Tormento d'anime | | | | |
| Torna! | Raffaello Matarazzo | Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson | Melodrama | |
| Traviata '53 | Vittorio Cottafavi | Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli | Drama | |
| The Treasure of Bengal | Gianni Vernuccio | Sabu, Luisella Boni | 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 | |
| Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! | Glauco Pellegrini | Antonella Lualdi, Walter Chiari | Comedy | |
| La Valigia dei sogni | Luigi Comencini | Umberto Melnati, Maria Pia Casilia | Comedy | |
| Vestire gli ignudi | Marcello Pagliero | Gabriele Ferzetti, Eleonora Rossi Drago | Drama | |
| La Via del sud | | | | |
| Viaggio in oriente | | | | |
| Il Viale della speranza | Dino Risi | Silvio Bagolini, Nerio Bernardi | Drama | |
| I Vinti | Michelangelo Antonioni | Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero | Drama | Co-production with France |
| 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 | |
| Voice of Silence | G.W. Pabst | Aldo Fabrizi, Cosetta Greco | | Co-production with France and UK |
| Vortice | Raffaello Matarazzo | Massimo Girotti, Silvana Pampanini | Drama | |
| Voto di marinaio | Ernesto de Rosa | Roberto Bruni, Ugo D'Alessio | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| The Wayward Wife | Mario Soldati | Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Interlenghi, Gabriele Ferzetti | Drama | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival |
| 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 |
| What Scoundrels Men Are! | Glauco Pellegrini | Walter Chiari, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | |
| When You Read This Letter | Jean-Pierre Melville | Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco, Yvonne Sanson | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Woman of the Red Sea | Giovanni Roccardi | Sophia Loren, Steve Barclay, Umberto Melnati | Comedy | |
| The World Condemns Them | Gianni Franciolini | Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari | Drama | Co-production with France |

## Documentaries

| Title | Director | Genre | Notes |
| Dieci anni della nostra vita | Romolo Marcellini | Documentary | |
| La Diga sul ghiaccio | Ermanno Olmi | Documentary, short film | |
| Gli Eroi dell'Artide | Luciano Emmer | Documentary | |
| Festa dei morti in Sicilia | Francesco Maselli | Documentary | |
| Green Magic | Gian Gaspare Napolitano | Documentary | Entered into the Cannes and Berlin film festivals |
| Piccole case di grandi uomini | Lino Lionello Ghirardini | Documentary | |
| Uno Spettacolo di pupi | Francesco Maselli | Documentary | |