| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 1954 |
| Attila (Attila, il flagello di Dio) |
Pietro Francisci |
Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni, Christian Marquand |
Sword and sandal |
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| Bread, Love and Jealousy (Pane, amore e gelosia) |
Luigi Comencini |
Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini |
Pink neorealism |
Sequel of Bread, Love and Dreams. AKA Frisky in US |
| Senso |
Luchino Visconti |
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti |
Historical drama |
About the Italian unification. Based on Senso (book) by Camillo Boito. Italian government forced to cut its original ending |
| La strada |
Federico Fellini |
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart |
Drama |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards won. Venice Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento. Academy Award nominee for best script |
| Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders |
Italian neorealism |
Filmed in Naples and Pompeii. Spoken in English |
| La Paura (Fear) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Kurt Kreuger |
Drama |
Based on a Stefan Zweig'snovel. Filmed in Munich, spoken in German. Cut by producers. There are alternate endings |
| Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (Joan of Arc at the Stake) |
Roberto Rossellini |
Ingrid Bergman,Tullio Carminati |
Historical, Drama, Opera |
Based on Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher by Paul Claudel. |
| An American in Rome (Un americano a Roma) |
Steno |
Alberto Sordi, Maria-Pia Casilio, Giulio Calì, Ilse Peterson, Leopoldo Trieste |
Comedy |
|
| Miseria e nobilità |
Mario Mattòli |
Totò, Sophia Loren |
Comedy |
|
| Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) |
Ettore Giannini |
Léonide Massine, Sophia Loren, Paolo Stoppa, Tina Pica |
Comedy, Musical |
Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival |
| Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) |
Carlo Lizzani |
Anna-Maria Ferrero, Marcello Mastroianni |
|
Cannes Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento |
| Woman of Rome (La romana) |
Luigi Zampa |
Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Franco Fabrizi |
Drama |
Based on the Alberto Moravia's novel |
| L'Oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples) |
Vittorio De Sica |
Totò, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano |
Comedy-Drama |
2 Nastro d'Argento .Film with 6 episodes. Close to Italian neorealism. Cut in USA |
| Too Bad She's Bad (Peccato che sia una canaglia) |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio De Sica |
[Comedy |
|
| Theodora, Slave Empress (Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio) |
Riccardo Freda |
Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal, Irene Papas |
Sword and sandal |
About Justinian I and Theodora (6th century) and the Byzantine Empire |
| Maddalena |
Augusto Genina |
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Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival |
| Schiava del peccato |
Raffaello Matarazzo |
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