The cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and the stylistic aspect of film has been the most important factor in the history of Italian film. As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film as well as 12 Palmes d'Or, one Academy Award for Best Picture and many Golden Lions and Golden Bears.
Rome-Paris-Rome is a 1951 French-Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Sophie Desmarets and Peppino De Filippo. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome and on location in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Enrico Ciampi.
Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Corrado Farina was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He directed two feature films in the 1970s, many documentaries and commercials, and he published nine novels and an autobiography.
The Trojan Horse is a 1961 film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and stars Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.
Il terrorista, internationally released as The Terrorist, is a 1963 Italian war drama film directed by Gianfranco De Bosio. It is inspired to real life events of the Italian partisan Otello Pighin. The film entered the 24th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Pasinetti Award.
Mavie Bardanzellu was a Sardinia-born Italian stage and film actress.
La cuccagna, internationally released as A Girl... and a Million, is a 1962 Italian drama film directed by Luciano Salce.
Naked Violence is a 1969 Italian giallo film directed by Fernando Di Leo and based on the novel I ragazzi del massacro written by Giorgio Scerbanenco.
Tragic Ceremony is a 1972 horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Camille Keaton, Tony Isbert, and Máximo Valverde. Its plot follows a group of young people who find themselves haunted in the hours after witnessing a black mass while lodging at a remote estate during a rainstorm.
100 Horsemen is a 1964 Italian-Spanish-German historical-adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.
W la foca is a 1982 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Nando Cicero.
New Moon is a 1955 Italian musical crime melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano.
The Ship of Condemned Women is a 1953 Italian historical adventure-melodrama film written and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Kerima, May Britt and Ettore Manni. It is loosely based on the novel Histoire de 130 femmes by Léon Gozlan.
The Pacifist is a 1970 Italian-French-German drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó.
Piero Vivarelli was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist.
Piero Zuffi was an Italian set designer and painter.
La tua donna is a 1954 Italian melodrama film co-written and directed by Giovanni Paolucci and starring Patricia Neal, Massimo Girotti and Lea Padovani. It grossed 63 million lire at the Italian box office.
Calligrafismo is an Italian style of filmmaking in the first half of the 1940s.
Gian Piero Brunetta is an Italian film critic, film historian, and academic.
