Italian Films 1950-1951


1. 1950 Cuori senza frontiere

Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian.
Director: Luigi Zampa
Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Raf Vallone

2. 1950 Luci del varietà

A beautiful but ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio

3. 1950 Mater dei

Italian drama film directed by Emilio Cordero.
Director: Emilio Cordero
Stars: Giorgio Costantini, Myriam De Mayo

4. 1950 Il Mulatto

Released from prison, Matteo goes in search of the child, care of the Sisters, but the baby is a little negro with curly hair. Very shaken, Matteo would repudiate the child, but there is nothing to do as the little mulatto is legally his son.
Director: Francesco De Robertis
Stars: Angelo Maggio, Renato Baldini

5. 1951 Achtung! Banditi!

Attention! Bandits! is a 1951 Italian World War II film drama.
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi

6. 1951 Atto d'accusa

Passionate story of jealousy and violence. A young woman frames a murder charge against her lover who is only saved by the persistence of a sceptical detective.
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Padovani

7. 1951 Bellissima

A woman from the low class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari

8. 1951 Il Caimano del Piave

It 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.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi
Stars: Gino Cervi, Milly Vitale

9. 1951 Le Cap de l'espérance

Lyria, 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.
Director: Raymond Bernard
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Frank Villard

10. 1951 Il Cristo proibito

Back 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.
Director: Curzio Malaparte
Stars: Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli

11. 1951 Domani è un altro giorno

Domani è un altro giorno (Tomorrow is another day) is a 1951 Italian drama.
Director: Léonide Moguy
Stars: Pier Angeli, Aldo Silvani

12. 1951 Era lui... sì! sì!

It's Him!... Yes! Yes! (Italian: Era lui... sì! sì!) is a 1951 Italian comedy film
Director: Marino Girolami
Stars: Walter Chiari, Isa Barzizza

13. 1951 La Famiglia Passaguai

Quando il cavaliere Peppe Valenzi detto Passaguai decide di approfittare di uno sconto aziendale per portare la moglie ed i figli a trascorrere una domenica al mare di Fiumicino, inizia per tutti una serie di guai, sotto forma di incubo comico.
Director: Aldo Fabrizi
Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo

14. 1951 I Figli di nessuno

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo
Stars: Yvonne Sanson, Amedeo Nazzari

15. 1951 Guardie e ladri

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. A lengthy persecution by police Bottoni, who manages to catch it starts. In an oversight Esposito manages to flee again. Bottoni superiors inform him that if no catches him will lose his job.
Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Totò

16. 1951 Messalina

The film portrays the story of the Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Director: Carmine Gallone
Stars: María Félix, Georges Marchal

17. 1951 Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois

For Claudia and Jerôme, 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.
Director: Yves Allégret
Stars: Alida Valli, Jean Marais

18. 1951 Le Passe muraille

A mild-mannered government bureaucrat discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls.
Director: Jean Boyer
Stars: Bourvil, Joan Greenwood

19. 1951 Porca miseria

Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi
Stars: Isa Barzizza, Riccardo Billi

20. 1951 Three Steps North

After a prison sentence an American GI stationed in Italy discovers that his hidden loot has disappeared and goes searching for it.
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani