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 | ||
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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 |
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Giulio Gianini Emanuele Luzzati |
– | Short Animation |
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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[]
- ^ Curti 2017, p. 315.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Caltiki - Il Mostro Immortale (1959)". AllMovie. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ "La Bataille De Marathon/La Battaglia Di Maratona". jpbox-office.com.
- ^ Curti 2017, p. 296.
Bibliography[]
- Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.
External links[]
- "Italian feature films of 1959". Internet Movie Database.
Categories:
- Lists of Italian films by year
- 1959 in Italy
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