Italian films of 1955
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Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 in 1955 (see 1955 in film
1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1955
1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....

The Art of Getting Along
The Art of Getting Along
The Art of Getting Along is a 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. -Cast:* Alberto Sordi – Rosario Scimoni* Marco Guglielmi – Avv...

(L'Arte di arrangiarsi)
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

 
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

, Marco Guglielmi, Luisa Della Noce 
Comedy
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
The Miller's Beautiful Wife is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Don Teofilo* Sophia Loren - Carmela* Marcello Mastroianni - Luca* Paolo Stoppa - Gardunia* Yvonne Sanson - Donna Dolores* Mario Passante...

Mario Camerini  Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

, Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...

 
Comedy
The River Girl
The River Girl
The River Girl is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin and Rik Battaglia. After discovering that she is pregnant, a peasant girl is deserted by her lover. In revenge she reports him to the police and customs officers for smuggling....

(La Donna del fiume)
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...

 
Rik Battaglia
Rik Battaglia
Rik Battaglia is a retired Italian film actor. He was born at Corbola, near Rovigo, Veneto....

, Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...

 
Drama
Amici per la pelle
Amici per la pelle
Amici per la pelle also known as Amis pour la vie in France is a 1955 BAFTA nominated Italian and French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Rossi.-Cast:*Geronimo Meynier ... Mario*Andrea Sciré ... Franco*Vera Carmi ... La madre di Mario...

(The Woman in the Painting)
Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six hour long Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985....

 
Geronimo Meynier
Geronimo Meynier
Geronimo Meynier is a retired Italian teen film actor who starred in Italian cinema of the 1950s and early 1960s. He debuted in Amici per la pelle in 1955 aged 14...

, Andrea Sciré, Luigi Tosi, Vera Carmi
Vera Carmi
Vera Carmi was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 51 films between 1940 and 1956.She was born in Turin, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Amici per la pelle...

, Carlo Tamberlani
Carlo Tamberlani
Carlo Tamberlani was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1976.He was born in Salice Salentino, Italy and died in Subiaco, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La Damigella di Bard...

 
Childhood
The Girl Friends (Le amiche) Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...

 
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy....

, Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s....

, Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux
Yvonne Furneaux
Yvonne Furneaux is a French film actress.-Personal life:Yvonne Furneax started her acting career in England in 1952. At first she started with a few minor productions...

 
Drama Venice Silver Lion. 2 Nastro d'Argento
Nastro d'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...

The Sign of Venus
The Sign of Venus
The Sign of Venus is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Sophia Loren. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franca Valeri - Cesira* Sophia Loren - Agnese Tirabassi* Vittorio De Sica - Alessio Spano...

(Il segno di Venere)
Dino Risi  Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, Franca Valeri
Franca Valeri
Franca Valeri is an Italian actress.Valeri was born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa. She adopted her surname in the 1950s as an homage to the French critic and poet, Paul Valéry....

, Raf Vallone
Raf Vallone
Raffaele "Raf" Vallone was an Italian footballer, actor and an international film star.Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm...

, Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

, Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

 
Pink neorrealism  Entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival
1955 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Marcel Pagnol *Marcel Achard *Juan Antonio Bardem *A. Dignimont *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Leopold Lindtberg *Anatole Litvak *Isa Miranda *Leonard Mosley...

Gli sbandati Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949...

 
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosè, born Lucia Borloni , is an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1940s and 1950s. She is the mother of famous Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.-Life and career:...

, Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda was an Italian actress with an international film career.A native of Bergamo, Isa Miranda worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome...

 
Drama About Italian resistance movement
Italian resistance movement
The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...

Il bidone
Il bidone
Il bidone is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others....

(The Swindlers)
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

 
Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford was an Academy Award-winning American stage, film, radio and TV actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his starring role in the television series "Highway Patrol."-Early life:...

, Giulietta Masina
Giulietta Masina
Giulietta Masina was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively...

, Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart
John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.-Career:...

, Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

 
Drama Cutten in USA
Scandal in Sorrento
Pane, amore e...
Scandal in Sorrento or Pane, amore e... is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. This is the third film of the trilogy, formed by Bread, Love and Dreams in 1953, Bread, Love and Jealousy in 1954. First and only one directed by Dino Risi, and starring Sophia Loren rather than Gina...

(Pane, amore e...)
Dino Risi  Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

, Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, Lea Padovani
Lea Padovani
Lea Padovani was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. She starred in the film Black Dossier which was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival...

 
Pink neorealism Sequel of Bread, Love and Dreams. Entered at Berlin
6th Berlin International Film Festival
-Jury:* Marcel Carné* Bill Luckwell* Giuseppe Vittorio Sampieri* Koichi Kawakita* Leo J. Horster* Ilse Urbach* Ludwig Berger-Films in competition:* ...erwachsen sein dagegen sehr by Wolf Hart* Autumn Leaves by Robert Aldrich...

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Ulysses
Ulysses (1955 film)
Ulysses is a 1955 adventure film based on Homer's poem Odyssey. The movie was made by director Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati, aided by Mario Bava ....

Mario Camerini  Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...

, Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress.Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a "Miss Rome" beauty pageant in 1946...

, Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

 
Sword and sandal
Sword and sandal
The Peplum , also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western"...

Huge success. Based on Odyssey
Odyssey
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...

 by Homer
Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

Continente perduto
Lost Continent (1954 film)
Lost Continent is an Italian documentary film about the Malay Archipelago and Borneo.-Awards:* 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize* 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal...

Received the Special Jury Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival
1955 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Marcel Pagnol *Marcel Achard *Juan Antonio Bardem *A. Dignimont *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Leopold Lindtberg *Anatole Litvak *Isa Miranda *Leonard Mosley...

Accadde al penitenziario 
Accadde tra le sbarre 
Addio Napoli! 
Addio sogni di gloria 
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé...

 
Agguato sul mare 
Amalfi Way 
America pagana 
Amici per la pelle
Amici per la pelle
Amici per la pelle also known as Amis pour la vie in France is a 1955 BAFTA nominated Italian and French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Rossi.-Cast:*Geronimo Meynier ... Mario*Andrea Sciré ... Franco*Vera Carmi ... La madre di Mario...

 
Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier , who was executed during the French Revolution....

 
Bella non piangere! 
Bravissimo
Bravissimo (film)
Bravissimo is a 1955 Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico....

 
Buonanotte... avvocato! 
Buongiorno natura 
Cani dietro le sbarre 
Cantami: Buongiorno Tristezza! 
Cantate con noi 
Cantiere d'inverno 
Canzoni di tutta Italia 
Carosello del varietà 
Cassa di Mezzogiorno: alcune bonifiche 
Chiens perdus sans collier 
Chéri-Bibi 
Cortile 
Cristo non si è fermato a Eboli 
Da qui all'eredità 
Destinazione Piovarolo 
Disperato addio 
Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone 
Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian language libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio ....

 
Donne sole 
Dove Dio cerca casa 
Dramma nel porto 
Faccia da mascalzone 
Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia 
Fortune carrée 
Frou-Frou
Frou-Frou
Frou-Frou, is a French comedy film from 1955, directed by Augusto Genina, written by A.E. Carr, starring Dany Robin and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles: "The Toy Wife", "Frou-Frou, die Pariserin" .- Cast :...

 
Giovanna
Giovanna
Giovanna is an Italian feminine first name, the equivalent of Joanna, Jane, etc. in English.Diminutive forms include Gianna, Vanna, Giovannina, Nina. People known by this name name include:...

 
Giuramento d'amore 
Gli innamorati 
Gli sbandati 
Gli ultimi cinque minuti 
I bambini ci amano 
I due compari 
I pappagalli 
I pinguini ci guardano 
I quattro del getto tonante 
I tesori della Pilotta 
Il bidone
Il bidone
Il bidone is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others....

 
Il Campanile d'oro 
Il cantante misterioso 
Il conte Aquila 
Il coraggio 
Il falco d'oro 
Il fiume dei faraoni 
Il mantello rosso 
Il nostro campione 
Il padrone sono me... 
Il pensionato 
Il piccolo vetraio 
Il pittore di borgo 
Il prezzo della gloria
Il prezzo della gloria
Il prezzo della gloria is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

 
Il principe dalla maschera rossa 
Il racconto della stura 
Il segno di Venere 
Il tesoro di Rommel 
Incatenata dal destino 
Ingresso centesimi 10 
Io piaccio 
Io sono la primula rossa 
Italia K2 
Je suis un sentimental 
L'affaire des poisons 
L'alba, il giorno e la notte 
L'angelo bianco 
L'energia elettrica nell'agricoltura 
L'impero del sole 
L'onda 
L'ultimo amante
L'ultimo amante
L'ultimo amante is a 1955 drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Amedeo Nazzari. It was a remake of Mattoli's 1942 film Stasera niente di nuovo.-Cast:* Amedeo Nazzari - Cesare Monti* May Britt - Maria Spanisch* Nino Besozzi - Dr...

 
L'ultimo paradiso 
La bella di Roma 
La bella mugnaia 
La canzone del cuore 
La catena dell'odio 
La città del cinema 
La grande savana 
La ladra 
La meilleure part 
La mia valle 
La moglie è uguale per tutti 
La porta dei sogni 
La rivale 
La rossa 
La tour de Nesle 
La vena d'oro 
Lacrime di sposa 
Le amiche
Le amiche
Le Amiche is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella Tra donne sole and centers on Roman couturier Clelia , who leaves Rome to work at a boutique in Torino.-Production:The script for Le Amiche is adapted from a...

 
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet and Irène Galter.-Cast:*Gabriele Ferzetti ... Giacomo Casanova*Corinne Calvet ... Louse de Châtillon...

 
Le diciottenni 
Le Dossier noir 
Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour 
Le ragazze di San Frediano
Le ragazze di San Frediano
Le ragazze di San Frediano is a 1949 novel by Italian author Vasco Pratolini.-Plot:The novel is set in Florence at the end of the second World War. The story follows the escapades of a Florentine mechanic, a local "Don Giovanni," who romances several women simultaneously and secretly...

 
Le signorine dello 04 
Le zitelle di Via Hydar 
Les Grandes manoeuvres 
Lo scapolo
Lo scapolo
The Bachelor is a 1955 film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli, starring Alberto Sordi and Nino Manfredi. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Alberto Sordi - Paolo Anselmi...

 
Luna nuova 
Marcelino pan y vino
Marcelino Pan y Vino
Marcelino Pan Y Vino is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José María Sánchez Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda...

 
Marguerite de la nuit
Marguerite de la nuit
Marguerite de la nuit is a 1955 French language motion picture fantasy drama directed by Claude Autant-Lara, and written by Ghislaine Autant-Lara and Gabriel Arout , based on novel by Pierre Dumarchais...

 
Motivo in maschera 
Muerte de un ciclista
Muerte de un ciclista
Death of a Cyclist is a 1955 social realist Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and starring Italian actress Lucia Bosè, who was dubbed into Spanish by Elsa Fábregas...

 
Nagana
Nagana
Nagana, also known as nagana pest or animal African trypanosomiasis, is a disease of vertebrate animals. The disease is caused by trypanosomes of several species in the genus Trypanosoma. The trypanosomes infect the blood of the vertebrate host, causing fever, weakness, and lethargy, which lead to...

 
Nana
Nana (1955 film)
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Nana....

 
Napoléon 
Non c'è amore più grande 
Non scherzare con le donne 
Nozze fassane 
Okiba, non vendermi! 
Olanda 
Ore dieci lezione di canto 
Pane, amore e...
Pane, amore e...
Scandal in Sorrento or Pane, amore e... is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. This is the third film of the trilogy, formed by Bread, Love and Dreams in 1953, Bread, Love and Jealousy in 1954. First and only one directed by Dino Risi, and starring Sophia Loren rather than Gina...

 
Parabola d'oro 
Piccola posta 
Prigionieri del male 
Prigioniero della montagna 
Processo all'amore 
Quando il Po è dolce 
Quando tramonta il sole 
Racconti romani 
Ragazza di Via Veneto 
Ragazze d'oggi 
Ricordami 
Rosso e nero 
Sbandato! 
Scapricciatiello 
Siamo uomini o caporali 
Sin la sonrisa de Dios 
Società Ovesticino - Dinamo 
Stern von Rio 
Sulfatera 
Suonno d'ammore 
Suor Maria 
Tam tam mayumbe 
Tempo di tonni 
Terroristi a Madrid 
Torna piccina mia! 
Totò e Carolina 
Trocadero
Trocadero
The stylish connotations of the name "Trocadero" derive from the Battle of Trocadero in southern Spain, a citadel held by liberal Spanish forces that was taken by the French troops sent by Charles X, in 1823...

 
Un eroe dei nostri tempi 
Un palco all'opera 
Un po' di cielo
Un po' di cielo
Un po' di cielo is a 1955 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

 
Una sera di maggio 
Uomini del marmo 
Vendicata! 
Village magique 
Yalis, la vergine del roncador 
Ça va barder 

External links

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