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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesMicheál MacLiammóirRobert CooteThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmma GramaticaFrancesco GolisanoPaolo StoppaAn open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAnna MagnaniWalter ChiariTina ApicellaA woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsMaría FélixGeorges MarchalMemo BenassiA story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSilvana ManganoGaby MorlayRaf ValloneAnna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiMarcello MarchesiVittorio MetzStarsWalter ChiariIsa BarzizzaCarlo CampaniniFernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. One day a young graduate, Walter, turns up in search of work, and since he is almost identical to Fernando's dream rival, the latter thinks to send him packing but after persuasion hires him.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziTotòAve NinchiEsposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsKieron MooreGriffith JonesLea PadovaniAfter World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where he fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
- DirectorRomolo MarcelliniEmil E. ReinertWolfgang StaudteStarsBonar ColleanoLana MorrisBarbara Kelly1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGina LollobrigidaAndrea ChecchiVittorio DuseAbout a group of Italian resistance fighters from Genoa and led by Commander Vento. They must seize a shipment of weapons destined for the German occupation.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsAldo FabriziHenri GuisolAve NinchiA group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
- DirectorCurzio MalaparteStarsRaf ValloneRina MorelliAlain CunyBack in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long last, Antonio, a joiner, reveals the informer but this comes at a cost.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsGina LollobrigidaRenato BaldiniCosetta GrecoFour criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsAlida ValliJean MaraisMarcelle Arnold1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsBourvilJoan GreenwoodGérard OuryA mild-mannered government bureaucrat discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsErmanno RandiGina LollobrigidaCiro ScafaThis music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.
- DirectorGian Carlo MenottiStarsMarie PowersLeopoldo SavonaBelva KiblerMadame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances. Menotti's first international success, "The Medium" is a tragedy in two acts for five singers, a dance-mime role, and a chamber opera for thirteen instruments and fourteen players: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, piano (4 hands), and string quintet. The music is dissonant, eerie, and morbid and includes melodies such as 'O, black swan.'
- DirectorW. Lee WilderStarsLloyd BridgesLea PadovaniAldo FabriziAfter a prison sentence an American GI stationed in Italy discovers that his hidden loot has disappeared and goes searching for it.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsCarlo CampaniniWalter ChiariSilvana PampaniniTwo American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. They embark on a series of mis-adventures that include a pocket billiard contest with Nero, the establishment of an amusement park, a football (American football, not Soccer) game with a Grecian urn as the pigskin and a 1950's jam session with Roman musicians. They become favorites of Nero and his adviser Tigellius becomes jealous and goes to Sophonisbo the Sorceress for a potion which will turn Nero's favor to hatred; Jimmy and Fiorella also visit her seeking a love potion which will make Marcus fall in love with their handmaiden friend Licia. The potions are switched which leads to a series of confusions climaxed when Nero surprises Jimmy making love to Empress Poppea. They are soon in a chariot fleeing for their lives, followed by a second chariot driven by Nero.
- DirectorLéonide MoguyStarsPier AngeliAldo SilvaniAnna Maria FerreroAfter an ambulance doctor saves a woman from committing suicide, he takes her to a hospital where she learns the stories of three other women who tried to kill themselves as well.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsYvonne SansonAmedeo NazzariFrançoise RosayThe tragic love story between marble-quarry owner Mario and Luisa, daughter of one of his employees.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsMassimo GirottiEleonora Rossi DragoGiulietta MasinaSandra searches for her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsRenato RascelSilvana PampaniniVirgilio RientoThe young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
- DirectorRoberto SavareseStarsAlberto SordiGiovanna PalaCarlo GiustiniShy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
- DirectorAldo FabriziStarsAldo FabriziPeppino De FilippoAve NinchiA Sunday at the beach for the Passaguai family is a succession of more or less pleasant adventures.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAldo FabriziSophie DesmaretsVera NandiVincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsElsa MerliniGino CerviGiulietta MasinaHousemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife, then for an actor and his wife on the verge of divorce, and last for Rafael, who wants to marry her. At last Uncle Matteo dies.
- DirectorPaolo William TamburellaStarsRossana PodestàRoberto RissoGeorges MarchalHaving been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.
- DirectorMario SequiStarsMaría FélixRossano BrazziMassimo SeratoSome peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a young woman, but they are unaware of his ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.
- DirectorEnzo TrapaniStarsErmanno RandiLois MaxwellAmedeo NazzariA police inspector teams with an ex serviceman in order to break a ring of drug pushers after WW2. The veteran has had his sister killed by the drug traffickers and he himself is in serious danger.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsEdwige FeuillèreFrank VillardJean DebucourtLyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap...
- DirectorMaurice ClocheRalph SmartStarsVittorio ManuntaDenis O'DeaGuido CelanoSince the local church is not willing to bless Peppino's donkey for a successful recovery, Peppino went to Rome to see the Holy Father, in spite of the numerous difficulties of actually getting in to see him.
- DirectorGiorgio CristalliniStarsSteve BarclayMarina BertiPiero LulliYoung man from a good background turns to crime to keep night club girlfriend showered with gifts.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAlida ValliAmedeo NazzariJean-Pierre AumontThe wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsAmedeo NazzariGianna Maria CanaleArmando FrancioliPietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years he is released from prison, he seeks revenge.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziGianna Maria CanaleVittorio SanipoliWhen a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsTitina De FilippoEduardo De FilippoTamara LeesFilumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
- DirectorBaccio BandiniStarsUmberto SpadaroDelia ScalaAndrea BosicA woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. She had been extorting money from him and had threatened to kill herself if he didn't pay. The detective's daughter is in love with the husband and tries to provide an alibi for him. But when a genuine alibi is proved, circumstances point to the (innocent) daughter as the killer.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiStarsMaria MontezMassimo SeratoHans SöhnkerPeriod crime drama: The King in Rome sends an official to Naples to break up the Camorra, the powerful group running things behind the scenes, currently they are hunting the man who killed one of their members.
- DirectorHans WolffStarsMaria MontezMassimo SeratoHans SöhnkerPeriod crime drama: The King in Rome sends an official to Naples to break up the Camorra, the powerful group running things behind the scenes, currently they are hunting the man who killed one of their members.
- DirectorPrimo ZeglioStarsJean-Pierre AumontMaria MontezMilly VitaleRevenge of the Pirates (Italian: La vendetta del corsaro) is a 1951 Italian adventure film directed by Primo Zeglio. It was the last movie of Maria Montez. It is also known as The Pirates Revenge.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsCarla Del PoggioFrank LatimoreGabriele FerzettiUsing actors' names since they differ in the dubbed versions: Carla Del Poggio is the wistful companion of opera star Madam Stefania Monti. Carla soon learns that Madam's accompanist, Gabriele Ferzetti, is fond of bedroom romps with Madam's wistful companion, and is also a thief who absconds with Madam's jewelry. Carla is accused of the theft but her attorney, Frank Latimore, who is also something of a mama's boy, wins her an acquittal. Latimore plans to marry Carla but his mother, Tina Lattanzi, steps in and tells Carla that marriage to her son will ruin his budding career, and she moves on. Carla, after giving birth to Latimore's baby, becomes a famous nightclub singer. Time passes and Ferzetti, the jewel thief, returns and attempts to rape Carla, but she shoots him dead. At her murder trial, Latimore defends her again, and also learns he is the father of her child, and she only left him because of his mother's interference. She is once again acquitted, and Carla and Latimore move on, sans his mother.
- DirectorGiuseppe BennatiStarsGisella SofioAroldo TieriEnrico Luzi
- DirectorMarino GirolamiMarcello MarchesiVittorio MetzStarsTino ScottiIsa BarzizzaAroldo TieriIn the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòUghetto BertucciLiana BilliIn a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsCiccio BarbiUghetto BertucciRiccardo BilliA rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.
- DirectorLeonardo De MitriStarsEleonora Rossi DragoLeonardo CorteseIrene GennaGina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman. When she loses out in the contest, she is approached by Giancarlo and Rene, pulp magazine publishers, to be an illustrations model. She is excited but Franco is suspicious and keeps a paternal eye on her. Gina shares a room with Mara, who is Giancarlo's mistress. Mara notices that Giancarlo's attentions to her are wandering, but she does not realize he has become attracted to Gina. However, the publishing occupation is just a cover for Giancarlo's real business, which is white slavery---a pimp---and his interest in girls is merely procurement. He begins to get rid of Mara by giving her a passport and a false contract for a theater in Brazil, telling her he will meet her there later. Mara catches on to Giancarlo's activities, and when Gina hears she is only a victim in the squalid scheme, she goes to Giancarlo's house seeking revenge.
- DirectorVittorio MetzGiorgio SimonelliStarsSilvana PampaniniUgo TognazziFranca MarziA ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaStarsAnna Maria FerreroMichel AuclairMichel SimonThe young Lut Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of the woman's body, however, there is no trace of a gunshot wound and, during the trial, the accused, who appears hypnotized, refuses to answer.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsSilvana PampaniniUgo TognazziNando BrunoCarlo wins some money in a card game and goes to Rome to celebrate. Unfortunately he gets his money stolen and asks a friend of his for a loan. The friend is however about to get married. The future wife however changes her mind and leaves in a taxi with Carlo. Since the two are broke they spend the rest of the day trying to raise the money for the taxi fare which keeps getting higher by the minute. This surrealistic situation helps them fall in love with each other.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsAldo SilvaniMilly VitaleLuciano TajoliTwo Italian soldiers are chased by the Germans and Yugoslav partisans in Trieste after the Italian armistice.
- DirectorCarlo BorghesioStarsRenato RascelMarisa MerliniLilia SilviA group of teachers argues about what text to choose to teach history in their school. When they leave the meeting room the two busts of Napoleon and Julius Caesar, which are in the room, come to life and begin debating too.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsCharles VanelAntonella LualdiEleonora Rossi DragoBeware of dangerous acquaintances .
- DirectorGlauco PellegriniStarsIsa PolaAntonio CentaElena Zareschi
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsSilvana PampaniniDelia ScalaFranca MarziTwo chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
- DirectorCarlo ManzoniStarsCarlo CroccoloRiccardo BilliMario Riva
- DirectorGuido SalviniStarsDoris DurantiJacques SernasEdda AlbertiniAn Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the bombing was not intentional but the result of being hit by enemy fire. A four-way romantic involvement is also part of the mix that includes an Allied officer and Viennse beauty Lida. The latter was once in love with the accused and has a child by him.
- DirectorFernando CerchioStarsRaf ValloneCharles VanelClaudine DupuisAfter the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsWalter ChiariMario RivaRiccardo BilliA ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiMarcello MarchesiVittorio MetzStarsTino ScottiIsa BarzizzaFranca MarziThe Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsDelia ScalaMaria Grazia FranciaGiovanna PalaThree friends, a mechanic a clockmaker and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father in law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
- DirectorCarlo Alberto ChiesaStarsMario CarotenutoAntonella LualdiBeniamino MaggioTwo small-time comedians playing in seaside town have run into trouble. Indeed, after stealing a motor-scooter, the police are after them. Taking refuge in a beach hut they take off their theatrical costumes and don instead the uniforms of two sergeants who are bathing in the sea. Bad luck makes them encounter a warrant officer on patrol. The latter mistakes them for real sergeants and takes them to the nearest barracks. A whole lot of tribulations ensue but the two associates finally contribute - unwittingly of course - to the capture of a gang of forgers.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsMilly VitaleFrank LatimoreFrancesco GolisanoIt is 1917, the period of the First World War when Italy is fighting Austria-Hungary. Lucilla di Torrebruna leaves high school and returns to her father, a colonel in the cavalry, who lives at San Donà di Piave. He tells her that his next wife is going to be Helène, a foreign lady. Lucilla takes the news calmly, pleased that her father has found happiness, although she receives a somewhat cold indifference from her new stepmother. Franco, a young man from Trieste and an old college friend of Lucilla with whom he shares a mutual affection, gets through the Austrian lines and enrols with crack Italian corps, the bersaglieri. After the Battle of Caporetto, San Donà is occupied by the enemy and the Torrebruna villa becomes the Austrian headquarters. Now Helène reveals her true colours - she is an Austrian spy. Franco and the colonel organize counter-espionage operations. The colonel, disguised as a peasant, goes to gather information while Franco swims across the River Piave with the famous caimani unit (named after the South American alligator) and reports back to Italian headquarters. In one of his reconnaissances the colonel is mortally wounded. Lucilla, helped by a young crippled peasant, carries on with the dangerous mission. In the end the young peasant is killed, and Lucilla is captured by the Austrians and sentenced to death. At the eleventh hour she is rescued by the Italian cavalry.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsWalter ChiariLucia BosèAroldo TieriThe young Walter, anything but sporty, falls in love with Clara, a ski instructor.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsFerruccio TagliaviniFranca MarziRiccardo BilliTwo two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer. The youth however gives the money to a dishonest girl he's in love with who gives it to her delinquent boy-friend. But when everybody seems to be in trouble because of his behaviour Marco repents and begins his career.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsRiccardo BilliMario RivaDorian GrayCount Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
- DirectorMarcello MarchesiVittorio MetzStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaCarlo CampaniniTotò is a tailor, just not a great one. He is married and his son is to be baptized, and Totò hopes that his grandmother will be moved by the baptism to help him financially. Unfortunately the wet-nurse Maria loses the baby in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart; he "borrows" Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are waiting for him.
- DirectorPino MercantiStarsLída BaarováMino DoroJacqueline Plessis
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsRoberto AdaminaNerio BernardiLuigi CascianoSince the local church is not willing to bless Peppino's donkey for a successful recovery, Peppino went to Rome to see the Holy Father, in spite of the numerous difficulties of actually getting in to see him.
- DirectorSilvio SianoStarsMarilyn BuferdOtello TosoRenato Valente
- DirectorEnzo Di GianniStarsEva NovaRenato ValenteLilia LandiBruno, a young navy cadet falls in love with Elena, a cabaret singer. He induces her to leave the stage. From their love a little girl is born. Bruno would like to marry his lover, but his father, a rich industrialist, is opposed.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJuan de LandaBianca DoriaVittorio DuseA farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.
- DirectorArmando FizzarottiStarsRenato BaldiniMaria FrauAldo Bufi LandiMaria is engaged to a young man of good looks and wide means, being the son of a well-known Naples merchant.
- DirectorAldo VerganoStarsLea PadovaniLuigi TosiLuigi Pavese
- DirectorFranco RossiStarsFosco GiachettiDoris DurantiErno Crisa
- DirectorRaffaello PaciniStarsGiorgio AlbertazziFolco LulliAnna Maria FerreroA film about the life of Lorenzino Medici, Italian politician, writer and dramatist, and a member of the Medici family.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsMassimo SeratoAnna Maria FerreroTino BuazzelliSet in Sicily in 1860, Massimo Serato, a patriot in disguise complete with tights, mask and trimmings and known as the Count of St. Elmo, is fighting an oppressive government. He holds up a stagecoach in order to obtain money to fund his quest and among his captives is Bianca, a famous opera singer, whom he releases after she sings for the bandits and she, naturally, loses her heart to him. Later, he attempts to rob the home of the Police Minister and is detected by a servant. He finds refuge in the room of the Minister's daughter, Anna Marie Ferrero, tells her of his mission and she also finds herself a victim of his charms. Like that.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsLeonardo CorteseDelia ScalaTamara Lees
- DirectorEdoardo AntonStarsPiero LulliMaria FrauTamara LeesWhen acts of sabotage erupt around the country, the government sends in a secret agent, with his extraordinarily well-trained dog, to determine if these are political motivations behind the incidents.