List of Italian films of 1959

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A list of films produced in Italy in 1959 (see 1959 in film):

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1959
Francesco Maselli Short film
Agi Murad il diavolo bianco Riccardo Freda Steve Reeves
Giorgia Moll
Adventure Based on Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
Guido Malatesta Lorella De Luca
Raffaele Pisu
Comedy
Annibale Edgar G. Ulmer
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Victor Mature
Gabriele Ferzetti
Historical drama
Arrangiatevi! Mauro Bolognini Peppino De Filippo
Totò
Laura Adani
Comedy One of 100 Italian films to be saved
Tanio Boccia Maria Fiore
Matteo Spinola
Comedy
Giuseppe Lipartiti Maurizio Arena
Alessandra Panaro
Nino Taranto
Comedy
Roberto Savarese Luisella Boni
Daniela Calvino
Nick Pagano
Romance
Angio Zane Dario Cipani
Alessandro Zane
Ignazio Colnaghi
Adventure
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster Riccardo Freda
Mario Bava
John Merivale
Didi Perego
Daniela Rocca
Science fiction
horror
Italian-French co-production[1][2]
Gian Rocco Documentary
Giorgio Walter Chili Virna Lisi
Carlo Giuffrè
Sergio Fantoni
Historical drama
Cerasella Raffaello Matarazzo Claudia Mori
Mario Girotti
Luigi De Filippo
Teen comedy
Ciao, ciao bambina! Sergio Grieco Elsa Martinelli
Antonio Cifariello
Comedy
Costa Azzurra
(Wild Cats on the Beach)
Vittorio Sala Alberto Sordi
Giovanna Ralli
Elsa Martinelli
Comedy Co-production with France
Domenico Paolella Yvonne Monlaur
Gabriele Tinti
Musicarello
Ferdinando Baldi Leonora Ruffo
Fiorella Mari
Erno Crisa
Adventure
Ercole e la regina di Lidia
(Hercules Unchained)
Pietro Francisci Steve Reeves
Sylva Koscina
Sylvia Lopez
Sword-and-sandal Co-production with France
Erode il grande
(Herod the Great)
Victor Tourjansky Edmund Purdom
Sylvia Lopez
Historical drama Co-production with France
Estate violenta Valerio Zurlini Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jacqueline Sassard
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Drama Winner of two Nastro d'Argento
Esterina Carlo Lizzani Carla Gravina
Geoffrey Horne
Domenico Modugno
Drama
Severino Casara Documentary
Alessandro Blasetti Documentary
Giorgio Simonelli Tina Pica
Mario Riva
Comedy
Ferdinando I, re di Napoli Gianni Franciolini Peppino De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo
Nino Taranto
Comedy
Gianfranco Mingozzi Documentary
Giuditta e Oloferne
(Head of a Tyrant)
Fernando Cerchio Massimo Girotti
Isabelle Corey
Historical drama Co-production with France
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei Mario Bonnard
Sergio Leone
Steve Reeves
Christine Kaufmann
Sword-and-sandal Co-production with Spain and West Germany
Gillo Pontecorvo Short documentary
Gianfranco Mingozzi Short documentary
Guardatele ma non toccatele Mario Mattoli Ugo Tognazzi
Caprice Chantal
Johnny Dorelli
Comedy
Lorenza Mazzetti
Dionisio Horne
Piero Lulli
Claudio Liberatore
Walter Moresi
Drama
I cavalieri del diavolo Siro Marcellini Frank Latimore
Anthony Steffen
Emma Danieli
Adventure
Vittorio De Seta Short documentary
Alberto Ancilotto Short
I ladri Lucio Fulci Totò
Armando Calvo
Giovanna Ralli
Comedy Co-production with Spain
Roberto Mauri Erno Crisa
Wandisa Guida
Philippe Hersent
Drama
I magliari Francesco Rosi Alberto Sordi
Renato Salvatori
Belinda Lee
Drama One of 100 Italian films to be saved
Giacomo Vaccari Evi Maltagliati
Alberto Lupo
Paolo Carlini
TV movie
Sergio Corbucci Raf Mattioli
Alessandra Panaro
Ennio Girolami
Drama
I Reali di Francia
(Attack of the Moors)
Mario Costa Chelo Alonso
Rik Battaglia
Gérard Landry
Adventure
I tartassati
(The Overtaxed)
Stefano Vanzina Totò
Aldo Fabrizi
Louis de Funès
Comedy
Il cavaliere del castello maledetto
(Cavalier in Devil's Castle)
Mario Costa Massimo Serato
Irène Tunc
Luisella Boni
Swashbuckler film
Il figlio del corsaro rosso
(The Son of the Red Corsair)
Primo Zeglio Lex Barker
Sylvia Lopez
Vira Silenti
Adventure
Il generale della Rovere Roberto Rossellini Vittorio De Sica
Sandra Milo
Drama Golden Lion winner. Academy Award nominee for best script.
Il magistrato Luigi Zampa José Suárez
Jacqueline Sassard
Claudia Cardinale
Drama Co-production with Spain and France
Il mondo dei miracoli Luigi Capuano Virna Lisi
Jacques Sernas
Marisa Merlini
Drama
Il moralista Giorgio Bianchi Alberto Sordi
Vittorio De Sica
Franca Valeri
Comedy
Il nemico di mia moglie Gianni Puccini Marcello Mastroianni
Giovanna Ralli
Comedy
Il padrone delle ferriere Anton Giulio Majano António Vilar
Virna Lisi
Drama Co-production with Spain
Mario Landi Gabriele Antonini
Mario Feliciani
Lydia Alfonsi
TV movie
Il raccomandato di ferro Marcello Baldi Mario Riva
Franca Marzi
Alessandra Panaro
Comedy
Ermanno Olmi Natale Rossi
Roberto Seveso
Paolo Quadrubbi
Drama
Il terrore dei barbari
(Goliath and the Barbarians)
Steve Reeves
Chelo Alonso
Bruce Cabot
Sword-and-sandal
Mario Amendola Maurizio Arena
Delia Scala
Alberto Bonucci
Western comedy
Il vedovo Dino Risi Alberto Sordi
Franca Valeri
Commedia all'italiana
Il vendicatore William Dieterle John Forsythe
Rosanna Schiaffino
Paul Dahlke
Historical drama Co-production with Yugoslavia. Based on Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin
India: Matri Bhumi Roberto Rossellini Documentary Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival
Juke box urli d'amore Mauro Morassi Mario Carotenuto
Marisa Merlini
Karin Baal
Musicarello
Kapò Gillo Pontecorvo Susan Strasberg
Laurent Terzieff
Emmanuelle Riva
WWII drama Co-production with France. Academy Award nominee
Enrico Colosimo Franco Volpi
Margherita Bagni
Gabriella Andreini
TV movie
L'amico del giaguaro
(The Friend of the Jaguar)
Giuseppe Bennati Walter Chiari
Isabelle Corey
Carlo Romano
Comedy
Piero Pierotti Gérard Landry
Federica Ranchi
Livio Lorenzon
Adventure
L'impiegato Gianni Puccini Nino Manfredi Comedy
Renzo Ragazzi Short
La battaglia di Maratona
(The Giant of Marathon)
Jacques Tourneur
Mario Bava
Steve Reeves
Mylène Demongeot
Sword-and-sandal Co-produced with France[3]
La cambiale Camillo Mastrocinque Totò
Ugo Tognazzi
Vittorio Gassman
Comedy
Giulio Petroni Massimo Girotti
Mario Carotenuto
Riccardo Garrone
Comedy
La congiura dei Borgia Antonio Racioppi Frank Latimore
Constance Smith
Gisèle Gallois
Historical drama
Fausto Saraceni Documentary
Roberto Bianchi Montero Tina Pica
Lorella De Luca
Raimondo Vianello
Comedy
La grande guerra
(The Great War)
Mario Monicelli Alberto Sordi
Vittorio Gassman
Silvana Mangano
WWI comedy-drama Golden Lion winner. One of 100 Italian films to be saved
La legge
(Where the Hot Wind Blows)
Jules Dassin Gina Lollobrigida
Pierre Brasseur
Marcello Mastroianni
Co-production with France
Mario Costa
Rinaldo Dal Fabbro
Documentary
La notte brava
(Bad Girls Don't Cry)
Mauro Bolognini Rosanna Schiaffino
Elsa Martinelli
Laurent Terzieff
Drama Written and adapted from his own novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini
La peccatrice del deserto
(Desert Desperadoes)
Steve Sekely Ruth Roman
Akim Tamiroff
Alan Furlan
Biblical drama Co-production with the USA
La pica sul Pacifico Roberto Bianchi Montero Tina Pica
Elke Sommer
Memmo Carotenuto
Comedy
La prima notte
(Venetian Honeymoon)
Alberto Cavalcanti Martine Carol
Vittorio De Sica
Philippe Nicaud
Romantic comedy Co-production with France
La sceriffa Roberto Bianchi Montero Tina Pica
Ugo Tognazzi
Western comedy
La scimitarra del Saraceno
(The Pirate and the Slave Girl)
Piero Pierotti Lex Barker
Chelo Alonso
Massimo Serato
Adventure
Bruno Bozzetto Short Documentary
Animation
Giulio Gianini
Emanuele Luzzati
Short
Animation
Gian Vittorio Baldi Short Documentary
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Giovanna Ralli
Andrea Checchi
Valeria Moriconi
Comedy
Antonio Amendola Pierre Cressoy
Mara Berni
Carlo Campanini
Comedy
Leopoldo Savona Alessandra Panaro
Ennio Girolami
Corrado Pani
Drama
Sergio Grieco Belinda Lee
Jacques Sernas
Arnoldo Foà
Historical drama
Le sorprese dell'amore Luigi Comencini Dorian Gray
Walter Chiari
Anna Maria Ferrero
Romantic comedy
Enrico Fulchignoni Short
Mario Monicelli Drama
Lupi nell'abisso
(Wolves of the Deep)
Silvio Amadio Massimo Girotti
Folco Lulli
Jean-Marc Bory
War film

Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival

Malinconico autunno Raffaello Matarazzo Amedeo Nazzari
Yvonne Sanson
Mercedes Monterrey
Drama Co-production with Spain
Nathan Juran
Frank McDonald
Jeffrey Stone
Paul Campbell
Sebastian Cabot
Drama Based on The Three Musketeers, edited from episodes of the TV series I tre moschettieri
Serge Arnoux
Bernard Gorki
Turi Vasile (narrator) Documentary
Claudio Fino Dario Fo
Nino Castelnuovo
TV movie
Morte di un amico Franco Rossi Spyros Focas
Gianni Garko
Didi Perego
Drama
Ignazio Ferronetti Dina De Santis
Paolo Sardisco
Elio Steiner
Musical drama
Ermanno Olmi Short documentary
Nel blu dipinto di blu Piero Tellini Domenico Modugno
Giovanna Ralli
Vittorio De Sica
Comedy
Nel Segno di Roma
(Sheba and the Gladiator)
Guido Brignone
Michelangelo Antonioni
Anita Ekberg
Georges Marchal
Folco Lulli
Historical drama Co-production with France, West Germany & Yugoslavia[4]
Nella città l'inferno Renato Castellani Anna Magnani
Giulietta Masina
Prison film
Neurose
(Labyrinth)
Rolf Thiele Nadja Tiller
Peter van Eyck
Amedeo Nazzari
Drama Co-production with West Germany
Non perdiamo la testa Mario Mattoli Ugo Tognazzi
Franca Valeri
Comedy
Gillo Pontecorvo Documentary
Vittorio Cottafavi Giuseppe Pagliarini
Carlo Alighiero
Giuseppe Caldani
TV movie
Giorgio Simonelli Claudio Villa
Susana Canales
Tecla Scarano
Musical comedy
Filippo Paolone Documentary
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura Mario Soldati Renato Rascel
Renato Salvatori
Carla Gravina
Comedy Entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
Poveri milionari Dino Risi Maurizio Arena
Renato Salvatori
Alessandra Panaro
Comedy
Prepotenti più di prima Mario Mattoli Aldo Fabrizi
Nino Taranto
Ave Ninchi
Comedy
Achille Rizzi Documentary
Vittorio Cottafavi Gianni Santuccio
Evi Maltagliati
Nando Gazzolo
TV movie
Quanto sei bella Roma Marino Girolami Claudio Villa
Ennio Girolami
Lorella De Luca
Romantic comedy Co-production with Spain
Marino Girolami Aurelio Fierro
Ennio Girolami
Yvonne Monlaur
Comedy
Ragazzi del Juke-Box Lucio Fulci Mario Carotenuto
Elke Sommer
Anthony Steffen
Musical comedy
Turi Vasile Abbe Lane
Antonio Cifariello
Irene Aloisi
Comedy
Alberto Gagliardelli Ernesto Calindri
Renato De Carmine
Delia Bartolucci
TV movie
Eros Macchi Wandisa Guida
Armando Francioli
Franco Volpi
TV movie
Aldo Bassan Letizia Stephan
Elio Guarino
Stefano Maggini
Drama
Mario Amendola Maurizio Arena
Carlo Campanini
Cathia Caro
Comedy
Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo
Pupella Maggio
Pietro De Vico
Comedy
Enrico Gras
Mario Craveri
Pilar Cansino
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Germán Cobos
Drama Spanish co-production
Giuseppe Vari Terence Hill
Ennio Girolami
Yvonne Monlaur
Drama
Vittorio Brignole Nerina Bianchi
Anna Bolens
Ugo Bologna
TV movie
Tempi duri per i vampiri
(Uncle Was a Vampire)
Stefano Vanzina Renato Rascel
Sylva Koscina
Christopher Lee
Comedy horror
Tipi da spiaggia Mario Mattoli Ugo Tognazzi
Christiane Martel
Lauretta Masiero
Comedy
Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito Stefano Vanzina Totò
Louis de Funès
Abbe Lane
Comedy
Tunisi top secret Bruno Paolinelli Elsa Martinelli
Giorgia Moll
Raf Mattioli
Adventure
Comedy
Co-production with West Germany
Tutti innamorati Giuseppe Orlandini
Franco Rossi
Marcello Mastroianni
Jacqueline Sassard
Marisa Merlini
Comedy
Un ettaro di cielo Aglauco Casadio Marcello Mastroianni
Rosanna Schiaffino
Silvio Bagolini
Comedy
Dino B. Partesano Documentary
Emilio Marsili Documentary
Un maledetto imbroglio
(The Facts of Murder)
Pietro Germi Pietro Germi
Claudia Cardinale
Franco Fabrizi
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Saro Urzì
Nino Castelnuovo
Crime drama
Uomini e nobiluomini Giorgio Bianchi Vittorio De Sica
Silvia Pinal
Antonio Cifariello
Comedy
Vacanze d'inverno Camillo Mastrocinque
Giuliano Carnimeo
Michèle Morgan
Georges Marchal
Vittorio De Sica
Comedy
Venezia, la luna e tu Dino Risi Alberto Sordi
Marisa Allasio
Vento del sud Enzo Provenzale Renato Salvatori
Claudia Cardinale
Romolo Valli
Mafia drama
Gian Vittorio Baldi Short documentary
Adelchi Bianchi
Roberto Mauri
Virna Lisi
Jacques Sernas
Sandra Milo
Drama

References[]

  1. ^ Curti 2017, p. 315.
  2. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Caltiki - Il Mostro Immortale (1959)". AllMovie. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  3. ^ "La Bataille De Marathon/La Battaglia Di Maratona". jpbox-office.com.
  4. ^ Curti 2017, p. 296.

Bibliography[]

  • Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.

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