# List of Italian films of 1952

A list of films produced in Italy in 1952 (see 1952 in film):

## A-F

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Abracadabra | Max Neufeld | Mario Riva, Riccardo Billi, Lilia Landi | Comedy | |
| Adorable Creatures | Christian-Jaque | Daniel Gélin, Antonella Lualdi, Danielle Darrieux | Romantic comedy | Co-production with France |
| The Adventures of Mandrin | Mario Soldati | Raf Vallone, Silvana Pampanini, Jacques Castelot | Adventure | Co-production with France |
| The Angel of Sin | Leonardo De Mitri | Roldano Lupi, Gaby André, Luigi Tosi | Drama | |
| The Angels of the District | Carlo Borghesio | Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Marisa Merlini | Drama | |
| Article 519, Penal Code | Leonardo Cortese | Henri Vidal, Cosetta Greco, Paolo Stoppa | Drama | Co-production with France |
| At Sword's Edge | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Frank Latimore, Milly Vitale, Doris Duranti | Adventure | |
| The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo | Pietro Germi | Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Fausto Tozzi | Historical | |
| Beauties of the Night | René Clair | Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida | Fantasy | Co-production with France |
| Beauties on Motor Scooters | Carlo Campogalliani | Isa Barzizza, Virginia Belmont, Fulvia Franco | Comedy | |
| Black Feathers | Oreste Biancoli | Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Vlady, Camillo Pilotto | War | |
| The Black Mask | Filippo Walter Ratti | Cesare Danova, Franca Marzi, Nino Pavese | Adventure | |
| The Blind Woman of Sorrento | Giacomo Gentilomo | Antonella Lualdi, Paul Campbell, Marilyn Buferd | Drama | |
| Brothers of Italy | Fausto Saraceni | Ettore Manni, Paul Muller, Olga Solbelli | War | |
| Carne inquieta | Silvestro Prestifilippo | Raf Vallone, Marina Berti, Clara Calamai | Drama | |
| Cats and Dogs | Leonardo De Mitri | Titina De Filippo, Umberto Spadaro, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | |
| The City Stands Trial | Luigi Zampa | Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa, | Drama | Entered into the Berlin Film Festival, Nastro d'Argento best director. |
| La Colpa di una madre | Carlo Duse | Marina Berti, Folco Lulli, Marcella Rovena | Drama | |
| Deceit | Guido Brignone | Gabriele Ferzetti, Nadia Gray, Tina Lattanzi | Melodrama | |
| Delitto al luna park | Renato Polselli | Franca Marzi, Renato Baldini, Nico Pepe | Drama | |
| Don Lorenzo | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Rossana Podestà, Luciano Taioli, Franco Interlenghi | Musical | |
| Drama on the Tiber | Tanio Boccia | Renato Baldini, Aldo Fiorelli, Bianca Doria | Drama | |
| The Dream of Zorro | Mario Soldati | Walter Chiari, Delia Scala, Vittorio Gassman | Comedy adventure | |
| The Enemy | Giorgio Bianchi | Elisa Cegani, Frank Latimore, Vira Silenti | Melodrama | |
| Er fattaccio | Riccardo Moschino | Marisa Merlini, Luisa Rossi, Otello Toso | Drama | |
| Ergastolo | Luigi Capuano | Franco Interlenghi, Sandro Ruffini, Marisa Merlini | Prison drama | |
| The Eternal Chain | Anton Giulio Majano | Marcello Mastroianni, Gianna Maria Canale, Leda Gloria | Melodrama | |
| Europa '51 | Roberto Rossellini | Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina | Italian neorealism | |
| The Eyes Leave a Trace | José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Emma Penella | Thriller | Co-production with Spain |
| Falsehood | Ubaldo Maria Del Colle | Yvonne Sanson, Irène Galter, Alberto Farnese | Melodrama | |
| Fanfan la Tulipe | Christian-Jaque | Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand | Swashbuckler | Co-production with France |
| La Favorita | Cesare Barlacchi | Gino Sinimberghi, Sophia Loren, Franca Tamantini | Drama | |
| I Figli non si vendono | Mario Bonnard | Lea Padovani, Jacques Sernas, Paola Barbara | Melodrama | |
| La Figlia del diavolo | Primo Zeglio | Massimo Serato, Paola Barbara, Marina Vlady | Historical | Co-production with France |
| Final Pardon | Renato Polselli | John Kitzmiller, Franca Marzi, Adriano Rimoldi | Drama | |
| The Firebird | Hasse Ekman | Tito Gobbi, Eva Henning, Georg Rydeberg | Musical drama | Co-production with Sweden |
| Five Paupers in an Automobile | Mario Mattoli | Eduardo De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| The Flame | Alessandro Blasetti | Amedeo Nazzari, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Elisa Cegani | Historical | |
| Frontier Wolf | Edoardo Anton | Piero Lulli, Maria Frau, Tamara Lees | Adventure | |

## G-N

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Genoese Dragnet | Guido Brignone | Lianella Carell, Cesare Danova, Marcello Giorda | Crime drama | |
| Giovinezza | Giorgio Pastina | Delia Scala, Franco Interlenghi, Hélène Rémy | Comedy | |
| Girls Marked Danger | Luigi Comencini | Eleonora Rossi Drago, Marc Lawrence, Silvana Pampanini | Crime | |
| The Golden Coach | Jean Renoir | Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Duncan Lamont | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| Guilt Is Not Mine | Giuseppe Masini | Rossano Brazzi, Gaby Andre, Elvy Lissiak | Melodrama | |
| Ha da venì... don Calogero! | Vittorio Vassarotti | Barry Fitzgerald, Lauro Gazzolo, Lois Maxwell | Comedy | |
| Half a Century of Song | Domenico Paolella | Marco Vicario, Cosetta Greco, Silvana Pampanini | Comedy | |
| Hello Elephant | Gianni Franciolini | Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Sabu | Comedy | |
| Heroic Charge | Francesco De Robertis | Tania Weber, Franco Fabrizi, Domenico Modugno | War | |
| Husband and Wife | Eduardo De Filippo | Eduardo De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Tina Pica | Comedy | |
| I, Hamlet | Giorgio Simonelli | Erminio Macario, Franca Marzi, Rossana Podestà | Comedy | |
| I'm the Hero | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Renato Rascel, Delia Scala, Andrea Checchi | Comedy | |
| Immortal Melodies | Giacomo Gentilomo | Pierre Cressoy, Carla Del Poggio, Vera Molnar | Musical | |
| In Olden Days | Alessandro Blasetti | Aldo Fabrizi, Amedeo Nazzari, Gina Lollobrigida | Comedy drama | |
| Leathernose | Yves Allégret | Jean Marais, Françoise Christophe, Mariella Lotti | Historical | Co-production with France |
| The Legend of the Piave | Riccardo Freda | Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo Giustini, Renato Baldini | War | |
| Lieutenant Giorgio | Raffaello Matarazzo | Massimo Girotti, Milly Vitale, Paul Muller | Romance | |
| Little World of Don Camillo | Julien Duvivier | Fernandel, Gino Cervi | Comedy | |
| The Machine to Kill Bad People | Roberto Rossellini | Marilyn Buferd, Clara Bindi, William Tubbs | Fantasy comedy | |
| The Mad Marechiaro | Roberto Roberti | Aldo Silvani, Diana Dei, Tatiana Farnese | Drama | |
| Mademoiselle Gobete | Pietro Germi | Silvana Pampanini, Aroldo Tieri, Luigi Pavese | Comedy | |
| The Man in My Life | Guy Lefranc | Madeleine Robinson, Jeanne Moreau, Walter Santesso | Drama | Co-Production with France |
| Melody of Love | Mario Costa | Nadia Gray, Maria Fiore, Giacomo Rondinella | Musical drama | |
| Milady and the Musketeers | Vittorio Cottafavi | Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Lebon, Massimo Serato | Adventure | Co-production with France |
| The Mistress of Treves | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Rossano Brazzi, Anne Vernon, Enzo Fiermonte | Historical | Co-production with France |
| The Moment of Truth | Jean Delannoy | Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Walter Chiari | Drama | Co-production with France |
| I Morti non pagano tasse | Sergio Grieco | Tino Scotti, Titina De Filippo, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| A Mother Returns | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Linda Sini, Gianni Rizzo, Ermanno Randi | Drama | |
| The Mute of Portici | Giorgio Ansoldi | Doris Duranti, Paolo Carlini, Umberto Sacripante | Drama | |
| Nessuno ha tradito | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Virginia Belmont, Aldo Silvani, Roberto Risso | Melodrama | |
| Non ho paura di vivere | Fabrizio Taglioni | Franca Marzi, Renato Baldini, Carlo Ninchi | Drama | |
| Non è vero... ma ci credo | Sergio Grieco | Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Guglielmo Inglese | Comedy | |

## O-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| One Hundred Little Mothers | Giulio Morelli | William Tubbs, Lia Amanda, Clelia Matania | Drama | |
| The Overcoat | Alberto Lattuada | Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Antonella Lualdi | Drama | Close to Italian neorealism. |
| Papà diventa mamma | Aldo Fabrizi | Aldo Fabrizi, Ave Ninchi, Giovanna Ralli | Comedy | |
| Papà ti ricordo | Mario Volpe | Paolo Carlini, Lea Padovani, Irene Genna | Melodrama | |
| The Passaguai Family Gets Rich | Aldo Fabrizi | Aldo Fabrizi, Erminio Macario, Ave Ninchi | Comedy | |
| La Peccatrice dell'isola | Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Grieco | Silvana Pampanini, Folco Lulli, Vittorio Duse | Melodrama | |
| The Phantom Musketeer | Max Calandri | Tamara Lees, Rossana Podestà, Clara Calamai | Adventure | |
| The Piano Tuner Has Arrived | Duilio Coletti | Nino Taranto, Alberto Sordi, Tamara Lees | Comedy | |
| Poppy | Vittorio Metz Marcello Marchesi | Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| Primo premio Mariarosa | Sergio Grieco | Carlo Croccolo, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| Prisoners of Darkness | Enrico Bomba | Milly Vitale, Folco Lulli, Eduardo Ciannelli | Melodrama | |
| The Queen of Sheba | Pietro Francisci | Leonora Ruffo, Gino Cervi, Marina Berti | Adventure | |
| Ragazze da marito | Eduardo De Filippo | Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Lianella Carell | Comedy | |
| Red Love | Aldo Vergano | Marina Berti, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano | Drama | |
| Red Shirts | Goffredo Alessandrini Francesco Rosi | Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Jacques Sernas | Historical | Co-production with France |
| Redemption | Piero Caserini | Luisa Rossi, Marco Vicario, Juan de Landa | Drama | |
| Repentance | Mario Costa | Cesare Danova, Paul Muller, Doris Duranti | Drama | Co-production with Spain |
| Rimorso | Armando Grottini | Maria Grazia Francia, Otello Toso, Linda Sini | Melodrama | |
| Il Romanzo della mia vita | Lionello De Felice | Luciano Tajoli, Antonella Lualdi, Fulvia Franco | Drama | |
| Rome 11 o'clock | 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 |
| Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei | Natale Montillo | Roberto Risso, Elli Parvo, Renato Baldini | Melodrama | |
| Sardinian Vendetta | Mario Mattoli | Walter Chiari, Mario Riva, Giovanna Pala | Comedy | |
| The Secret of Three Points | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Massimo Girotti, Tamara Lees, Umberto Spadaro | Adventure | |
| Sensuality | Clemente Fracassi | Marcello Mastroianni, Amedeo Nazzari, Eleonora Rossi Drago | Melodrama | |
| Serenata amara | Pino Mercanti | Claudio Villa, Giovanna Pala, Liliana Bonfatti | Melodrama | |
| Shadows Over Trieste | Nerino Florio Bianchi | Giulio Donnini, Livio Lorenzon, Adriana Innocenti | War | |
| Solo per te Lucia | Franco Rossi | Mariella Lotti, Luigi Tosi, Nerio Bernardi | Comedy | |
| Son of the Hunchback | Fernando Cerchio | Rossano Brazzi, Milly Vitale, Gabrielle Dorziat | Adventure | Co-production with France |
| La Storia del fornaretto di Venezia | Giacinto Solito | Doris Duranti, Mariella Lotti, Paolo Carlini | Historical | |
| Stranger on the Prowl | Joseph Losey | Paul Muni, Joan Lorring, Luisa Rossi | Drama | |
| Sul ponte dei sospiri | Antonio Leonviola | Frank Latimore, Maria Frau, Massimo Girotti | Adventure | |
| Sunday Heroes | Mario Camerini | Raf Vallone, Marcello Mastroianni, Cosetta Greco | Sports | |
| Il tallone di Achille | Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari | Tino Scotti, Tamara Lees, Paolo Stoppa | Comedy | |
| They Were Three Hundred | Gian Paolo Callegari | Rossano Brazzi, Franca Marzi, Myriam Bru | Historical | |
| A Thief in Paradise | Domenico Paolella | Nino Taranto, Francesco Golisano, Hélène Rémy | Comedy | |
| Three Forbidden Stories | Augusto Genina | Lia Amanda, Antonella Lualdi, Isa Pola | Drama | |
| Three Girls from Rome | Luciano Emmer | Lucia Bosé, Cosetta Greco, Marcello Mastroianni | Comedy | |
| The Three Pirates | Mario Soldati | Ettore Manni, Marc Lawrence, Barbara Florian | Adventure | |
| The Tired Outlaw | Fernando Cerchio | Renato Rascel, Lauretta Masiero, Lia Di Leo | Comedy | |
| Torment of the Past | Mario Bonnard | Helene Remy, Marc Lawrence, Carla Del Poggio | Melodrama | |
| Toto and the King of Rome | Mario Monicelli | Totò, Giovanna Pala, Alberto Sordi | Comedy | |
| Toto and the Women | Mario Monicelli, Stefano Vanzina | Totò, Lea Padovani, Franca Faldini | Comedy | |
| Toto in Color | Stefano Vanzina | Totò, Franca Valeri, Rosita Pisano | Comedy | 1st Italian film in color |
| Tragic Return | Pier Luigi Faraldo | Doris Duranti, Marcello Mastroianni, Franca Marzi | Drama | |
| Two Cents Worth of Hope | Renato Castellani | Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Gina Mascetti | Pink neorealism | Palme d'Or winner |
| Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari | Italian neorealism | New York Film Critics Circle Awards won. Academy Award nominee best script |
| Verginità | Leonardo De Mitri | Irene Genna, Leonardo Cortese, Franca Marzi | Melodrama | |
| Viva il cinema! | Enzo Trapani | Delia Scala, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Marilyn Buferd | Comedy | |
| La Voce del sangue | Pino Mercanti | Paul Muller, Franca Marzi, Evi Maltagliati | Melodrama | |
| Wanda the Sinner | Duilio Coletti | Yvonne Sanson, Frank Villard, Françoise Rosay | Melodrama | Co-production with France |
| We Are All Murderers | André Cayatte | Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Raymond Pellegrin | Crime | Co-Production with France |
| We Two Alone | Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz | Walter Chiari, Helene Remy, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| We're Dancing on the Rainbow | Carmine Gallone, Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Inge Egger, Isa Barzizza, Karl Schönböck | Musical | Co-production with West Germany |
| What Price Innocence? | Luigi Capuano | Lida Baarova, Otello Toso, Mariella Lotti | Melodrama | |
| The White Sheik | Federico Fellini | Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina | Comedy drama | |
| Who Is Without Sin | Raffaello Matarazzo | Yvonne Sanson, Amedeo Nazzari, Françoise Rosay | Melodrama | |
| Wife For a Night | Mario Camerini | Gina Lollobrigida, Gino Cervi, Nadia Gray | Comedy | |
| Wolves Hunt at Night | Bernard Borderie | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Carla Del Poggio, Fernand Ledoux | Spy | Co-production with France |
| A Woman Has Killed | Vittorio Cottafavi | Frank Latimore, Lianella Carell, Umberto Spadaro | Melodrama | |
| The Woman Who Invented Love | Ferruccio Cerio | Silvana Pampanini, Rossano Brazzi, Mariella Lotti | Drama | |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino | Pietro Francisci | Gino Leurini, Leonora Ruffo, Tamara Lees | Adventure | |

## Documentaries and Shorts

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Campane di Pompeii | Giuseppe Lombardi | | | |
| Cavalcata di mezzo secolo | Luciano Emmer | | Documentary | |
| Epeira Diadema | Alberto Ancilotto | | Documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award |
| Gamba di legno | | | | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Luciano Emmer, Lauro Venturi | | | |
| Meglio di ieri | Romolo Marcellini | | Documentary | |
| Il Mercato delle facce | Valerio Zurlini | Franco Zeffirelli, Giuseppe La Torre | | |
| Pinne e arpioni | Folco Quilici | | Documentary | |
| La Stazione | Valerio Zurlini | | Documentary | |
| Gli undici moschettieri | Ennio De Concini Fausto Saraceni | | Documentary | |
| Piccolo cabotaggio pittorico | | | | |
| Il Richiamo del ghiacciaio | | | | |
| Salviamo la montagna muore | | | | |
| La Trappola di fuoco | | | | |
| Tutto il mondo ride | Ignazio Ferronetti | | Comedy anthology | |
| Una Croce senza nome | Tullio Covaz | Carlo Ninchi | | |