A list of films produced in Italy in 1951 (see 1951 in film):
List of films (in alphabetical order)
A
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| 1951 |
| Abbiamo vinto! | Robert A. Stemmle | Paolo Stoppa, Walter Chiari | Comedy | |
| Accidenti alle tasse!! | Mario Mattoli | Riccardo Billi, Mario Riva, Dorian Gray | Comedy | |
| Achtung! Banditi! | Carlo Lizzani | Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Lamberto Maggiorani | War | |
| Amo un assassino | Baccio Bandini | Umberto Spadaro, Delia Scala, Andrea Bosic, Marco Vicario | Crime drama | |
| Amor non ho... però... però | Giorgio Bianchi | Renato Rascel, Gina Lollobrigida | Comedy | |
| Un Animale utile | Antonio Marchi | | | |
| Anna | Alberto Lattuada | Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman | Pink neorrealism | Major success. Director Nanni Moretti made a tribute to Mangano's dance in Caro diario |
| Appunti su un fatto di cronaca | Luchino Visconti | | Documentary | |
| Arrivano i nostri | Mario Mattoli | Mario Riva, Riccardo Billi | Comedy | |
| Atoll K | Leo Joannon | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair | Comedy | French/Italian co-production |
| Atto d'accusa | Giacomo Gentilomo | Lea Padovani, Marcello Mastroianni | Melodrama | |
| Auguri e figli maschi! | Giorgio Simonelli | Delia Scala, Maria Grazia Francia | | |
B–D
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Bambini | Francesco Maselli | | | |
| Beauties in Capri | Adelchi Bianchi | Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi | Comedy | |
| Behind Closed Shutters | Luigi Comencini | Massimo Girotti, Eleonora Rossi Drago | Drama | |
| Bellissima | Luchino Visconti | Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Tecla Scarano, Alessandro Blasetti | Italian neorealism | Dreams with Cinecittà and film stardom |
| The Black Captain | Alberto Pozzetti, Giorgio Ansoldi | Steve Barclay, Marina Berti, Marisa Merlini | Adventure | [1] |
| Il Blues della domenica sera | Valerio Zurlini | | Documentary | |
| Brief Rapture | Enzo Trapani | Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell, Umberto Spadaro | Drama | |
| Briscola | | | | |
| Una Bruna indiavolata | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Silvana Pampanini, Ugo Tognazzi | Comedy | |
| Buon viaggio pover'uomo | Giorgio Pastina | Umberto Spadaro, Vera Carmi | Drama | |
| Il Caimano del Piave | Giorgio Bianchi | Gino Cervi, Milly Vitale | War drama | |
| Cameriera bella presenza offresi... | Giorgio Pastina | Elsa Merlini, Gino Cervi, Alberto Sordi | | |
| Il Cammino di una grande amica | Lino Lionello Ghirardini | | Documentary | |
| The Cape of Hope | Raymond Bernard | Edwige Feuillère, Frank Villard | Crime | Co-production with France |
| The Captain of Venice | Gianni Puccini | Leonardo Cortese, Mariella Lotti | Adventure | |
| Carcerato | Armando Grottini | Otello Toso, Franca Marzi | Melodrama | |
| I Castelli dell'Emilia | | | Documentary | |
| Comacchio piange | | | | |
| Cops and Robbers | Steno, Mario Monicelli | Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Ave Ninchi, Rossana Podestà | Comedy | Close to Italian neorealism. Troubles with censorship. Great success |
| Core 'ngrato [it] | | | | |
| The Counterfeiters | Franco Rossi | Fosco Giachetti, Doris Duranti, Lianella Carell | Crime | |
| The Crossroads | Fernando Cerchio | Raf Vallone, Claudine Dupuis | Crime | |
| Delta Padano | | | | |
| Destiny | Enzo Di Gianni | Eva Nova, Renato Valente | Drama | |
| I Due derelitti | Flavio Calzavara | Massimo Serato, Yves Deniaud | Melodrama | |
| Le Due verità | Antonio Leonviola | Anna Maria Ferrero, Michel Auclair | Drama | French/Italian co-production |
E–L
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Colpa del sole | Alberto Moravia | Strelsa Brown | | |
| Era lui... sì! sì! | Marino Girolami, Vittorio Metz
Marcello Marchesi | Walter Chiari, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| Feathers in the Wind | Ugo Amadoro | Leonardo Cortese, Mario Ferrari | Comedy | |
| Fiamme sulla laguna | | Leonardo Cortese, Lea Padovani | | |
| I Figli di nessuno | Raffaello Matarazzo | Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson | Drama | |
| Filumena Marturano | Eduardo De Filippo | Eduardo De Filippo, Titina De Filippo | | |
| Fiorenzo, il terzo uomo | Stefano Canzio | Aldo Fabrizi, Renato Rascel | | |
| La Folla | Silvio Laurenti Rosa | Marie Glory, Tino Buazzelli | | |
| The Forbidden Christ | Curzio Malaparte | Raf Vallone, Anna Maria Ferrero | Drama | The only film famous Italian writer Curzio Malaparte made. Berlin Award |
| Four Red Roses | Nunzio Malasomma | Olga Villi, Jean-Claude Pascal, Fosco Giachetti | Melodrama | |
| Four Ways Out | Pietro Germi | Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini | Crime | |
| Fugitive in Trieste | Guido Salvini | Doris Duranti, Jacques Sernas | Drama | |
| Fuoco nero | Silvio Siano | Otello Toso, Franca Marzi | | |
| Goya | | | | |
| La Grande rinuncia | Aldo Vergano | Lea Padovani, Luigi Tosi | Drama | |
| Ha fatto tredici | Carlo Manzoni | Carlo Croccolo, Riccardo Billi | Comedy | |
| Honeymoon Deferred | Mario Camerini | Sally Ann Howes, Lea Padovani | Comedy | Co-production with Britain |
| I'm the Capataz | Giorgio Simonelli | Renato Rascel, Silvana Pampanini, Marilyn Buferd | Comedy western | |
| It's Love That's Ruining Me | Mario Soldati | Walter Chiari, Lucia Bosè, Aroldo Tieri | Comedy | |
| Last Meeting | Gianni Franciolini | Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari | Drama | |
| The Last Sentence | Mario Bonnard | Charles Vanel, Antonella Lualdi | Melodrama | |
| Una Lettera dall'Africa | Leonardo Bonzi | | Documentary | |
| Libera uscita | Duilio Coletti | Nino Taranto, Ludmilla Dudarova | Comedy | |
| Licenza premio | Max Neufeld | Nino Taranto, Carlo Croccolo | Comedy | |
| Lorenzaccio | Raffaello Pacini | Giorgio Albertazzi, Anna Maria Ferrero | Historical | |
| Love and Blood | Marino Girolami | Maria Montez, Massimo Serato | Crime | Italian/German co-production |
| The Lovers of Ravello | Luigi Capuano | Lída Baarová, Ivana Ferri, Gabriele Ferzetti | Melodrama | |
M–Q
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Malavita | Rate Furlan | Jacqueline Pierreux, Aldo Nicodemi, Franco Silva | Drama | |
| Mamma Mia, What an Impression! | Roberto Savarese | Alberto Sordi, Giovanna Pala, Carlo Giustini | Comedy | |
| Matrimonio alla moda | Luciano Emmer | | | Short film |
| The Medium | Gian Carlo Menotti | Marie Powers, Leopoldo Savona | Drama | Entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and also screened at the 1987 Festival |
| Messalina | Carmine Gallone | María Félix, Georges Marchal | Historical | |
| Metano | | | | |
| Il Microfono è vostro | Giuseppe Bennati | Aroldo Tieri, Gisella Sofio | Comedy | |
| Milano miliardaria | Marino Girolami, Vittorio Metz
Marcello Marchesi | Tino Scotti, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois | Yves Allégret | Alida Valli, Jean Marais | | French/Italian co-production |
| Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) | Vittorio De Sica | Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa | Italian neorealism | Palme d'Or winner |
| Miracle in Viggiù | Luigi Giachino | Teddy Reno, Silvana Pampanini, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | |
| Il Monello della strada | Carlo Borghesio | Erminio Macario | Comedy | |
| Mr. Peek-a-Boo | Jean Boyer | Bourvil, Joan Greenwood | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| My Heart Sings | Mario Mattoli | Ferruccio Tagliavini, Franca Marzi | Comedy | |
| The Mysteries of Venice | Ignazio Ferronetti | Virginia Belmont, Renato Valente, Tito Schipa | Drama | |
| Napoleon | Carlo Borghesio | Renato Rascel, Marisa Merlini | Comedy | |
| O.K. Nerone | Mario Soldati | Gino Cervi, Silvana Pampanini | Comedy | |
| Operation Mitra | Giorgio Cristallini | Steve Barclay, Marina Berti | Thriller | |
| Othello | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote | Tragedy | |
| Paris Is Always Paris | Luciano Emmer | Aldo Fabrizi, Jeannette Batti | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| The Passaguai Family | Aldo Fabrizi | Aldo Fabrizi, Ave Ninchi, Peppino De Filippo | Comedy | |
| Patto d'amicizia | | | | |
| La Paura fa 90 | Giorgio Simonelli | Silvana Pampanini, Ugo Tognazzi | Comedy | |
| Perdizione | | | | |
| Porca miseria | Giorgio Bianchi | Carlo Croccolo, Francesco Golisano | Comedy | |
| Quelli che soffrono per voi | Alessandro Blasetti | | Documentary | |
| Red Moon | Armando Fizzarotti | Renato Baldini, Maria Frau | Melodrama | |
| The Reluctant Magician | Marino Girolami | Tino Scotti, Isa Barzizza | Comedy | |
| Revenge of Black Eagle | Riccardo Freda | Rossano Brazzi, Gianna Maria Canale | Adventure | |
| Revenge of the Pirates | Primo Zeglio | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont | Adventure | |
| The Rival of the Empress | Jacopo Comin, Sidney Salkow | Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese | Adventure | |
| Rome-Paris-Rome | Luigi Zampa | Aldo Fabrizi, Sophie Desmarets | Comedy | |
S–Z
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Salvate mia figlia | | Bianca Doria, Juan de Landa | Melodrama | |
| Sangue al sole | Henri Colpi | Nelly Borgeaud, Françoise Brion | Drama | [2] |
| Santa Lucia Luntana (film) | | | | |
| The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue | Paolo W. Tamburella | Rossana Podestà, Georges Marchal | Comedy | |
| Seven Hours of Trouble | Vittorio Metz, Marcello Marchesi | Totò, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| Shadows on the Grand Canal | Glauco Pellegrini | Isa Pola, Antonio Centa, Elena Zareschi | Crime | |
| Song of Spring | Mario Costa | Leonardo Cortese, Delia Scala, Tamara Lees | Drama | |
| Sport minore | Francesco Maselli | | Documentary | |
| Stasera sciopero | Mario Bonnard | Virgilio Riento, Marisa Merlini | Comedy | |
| The Steamship Owner | Mario Mattoli | Walter Chiari, Delia Scala, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | |
| Stracciaroli | | | | |
| Three Forbidden Stories | Augusto Genina | Lia Amanda, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | |
| Three Steps North | W. Lee Wilder | Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani | Crime | Co-production with the US |
| Tizio, Caio, Sempronio | | | | |
| Tomorrow Is Another Day | Léonide Moguy | Pier Angeli, Anna Maria Ferrero, Rossana Podestà | Pink neorealism | Sequel of Tomorrow Is Too Late |
| Toto and the King of Rome | Mario Monicelli, Steno | Totò, Alberto Sordi | Comedy | |
| Toto the Third Man | Mario Mattoli | Totò, Franca Marzi | Comedy | |
| Tragic Serenade | Carlo Giusitini | Ignazio Balsamo, Carlo Giustini | Comedy | |
| Tragic Spell | Mario Sequi | María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Emma Gramatica | Drama | |
| Trieste mia! | Mario Costa | Milly Vitale, Ermanno Randi | Drama | |
| The Two Sergeants | Carlo Alberto Chiesa | Mario Carotenuto, Antonella Lualdi | Comedy | |
| Gli Uomini non guardano il cielo | Umberto Scarpelli | Tullio Carminati, Isa Miranda | Drama | |
| Vacation with a Gangster | Dino Risi | Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala | Comedy | |
| Viaggio sentimentale a Roma | | | | |
| Without a Flag | Lionello De Felice | Massimo Serato, Umberto Spadaro | Spy drama | |
| The Young Caruso | Giacomo Gentilomo | Ermanno Randi, Gina Lollobrigida | Biopic | |
| Zona pericolosa | Francesco Maselli | | Documentary | |
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