Italian films of 1957
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A list of film
s produced in Italy
in 1957 (see 1957 in film
):
Film
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s produced in Italy
Italy
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in 1957 (see 1957 in film
1957 in film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...
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| Guendalina Guendalina Guendalina is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jacqueline Sassard - Guendalina* Raffaele Mattioli - Oberdan* Sylva Koscina - Francesca, Guendalina's mother... |
Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada... |
Jacqueline Sassard Jacqueline Sassard Jacqueline Sassard is an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and economical troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer , in which her character was left by Jean Louis... , Sylva Koscina Sylva Koscina Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress.-Biography:... , 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... , Raffaele Mattioli |
Comedy | 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... best script at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival 1957 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:*André Maurois *Jean Cocteau *Maurice Genevoix *Georges Huisman *Maurice Lehmann *Marcel Pagnol *Michael Powell *Jules Romains... |
| Nights of Cabiria Nights of Cabiria Nights of Cabiria is a 1957 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia, then a seedy section of Rome... (Le notti di Cabiria) |
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... |
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... , François Périer François Périer François Périer, , born François Pillu in Paris, was one of France's most distinguished actors.He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains... , 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... |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences... . Remade as Sweet Charity Sweet Charity Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria... by Bob Fosse Bob Fosse Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction... . 4 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... . Cannes and San Sebastian Awards for best actress |
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| Il grido Il grido Il grido is a 1957 Italian black-and-white drama film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Its title means "The Outcry", but it was originally released in the English-speaking world as The Cry. The DVD release uses the Italian title. The film stars American actor Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy... (The Outcry) |
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 :... |
Steve Cochran Steve Cochran Steve Cochran was an American film, television, and stage actor, the son of a California lumberman. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1939... , Alida Valli Alida Valli Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo... , Betsy Blair Betsy Blair Betsy Blair was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1940... , Dorian Gray Dorian Gray (actress) Maria Luisa Mangini , better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress.She committed suicide by shooting herself on 16 February 2011, at the age of 83. Some media, however, reported her age as 75, since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.-Filmography:*Amo un assassino *Il mago per... |
Drama | 2 awards |
| Le notti bianche Le notti bianche Le Notti Bianche is a 1957 Italian film directed by Italian neorealist Luchino Visconti. The movie takes its title and basic plot from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story, White Nights.-Plot:... |
Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:... |
Maria Schell Maria Schell Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise.... , 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 :... , Jean Marais Jean Marais -Biography:A native of Cherbourg, France, Marais starred in several movies directed by Jean Cocteau, for a time his lover, most famously Beauty and the Beast and Orphée .... |
Drama | Based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky's White Nights (short story) White Nights (short story) "White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Film adaptations have been made by Russian director Ivan Pyryev , by Italian director Luchino Visconti , by French director Robert Bresson , by Iranian director Farzad Motamen... |
| I Vampiri I Vampiri I Vampiri is a 1956 Italian horror film loosely based on the story of Elizabeth Báthory. Directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, the film stars Gianna Maria Canale as Giselle du Grand, Carlo D'Angelo as Inspector Chantal and Dario Michaelis as Pierre Lantin.I Vampiri was the first sound era... |
Riccardo Freda Riccardo Freda Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures... |
Gianna Maria Canale Gianna Maria Canale Gianna Maria Canale was an Italian actress.- Biography :Canale was born in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, at the Miss Italia beauty contest, won by Lucia Bosè, she placed second. Canale received publicity in many Italian magazines after this. Her looks were compared to those of Ava Gardner... , Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Paul Muller Paul Müller (actor) Paul Konrad Muller is a Swiss character actor. Notice: In fact his real name is "Muller" not "Müller". It seems that it is not possible to change the false written name in the headline of this article.- Theatre :... |
Horror | |
| The Wide Blue Road (La grande strada azzurra) | Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri was released... |
Yves Montand Yves Montand -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in... , Alida Valli Alida Valli Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo... , Francisco Rabal Francisco Rabal Francisco Rabal , perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain.... |
Drama | 1st Pontecorvo's long film |
| Marisa (Marisa la civetta) | Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany.... |
Marisa Allasio Marisa Allasio Marisa Allasio , is a retired Italian actress of the 1950s. She appeared in nearly twenty pictures between 1952 and 1959.... , Renato Salvatori Renato Salvatori Renato Salvatori was an Italian multi-purpose character actor.-Biography:Salvatori was born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca.... , Francisco Rabal Francisco Rabal Francisco Rabal , perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain.... |
Pink neorrealism | |
| The Window to Luna Park The Window to Luna Park The Window to Luna Park is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Giulia Rubini - Ada, Aldo's wife* Gastone Renzelli - Aldo* Pierre Trabaud - Righetto... |
Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre.... |
Entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival 7th Berlin International Film Festival The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1957.-Jury:* Jay Carmody * Jean de Baroncelli* John Sutro* Dalpathal Kothari* Fernaldo Di Giammatteo* Bunzaburo Hayashi* Miguel Alemán hijo... |
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| Fathers and Sons Fathers and Sons (1957 film) Fathers and Sons is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. At the 7th Berlin International Film Festival Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director award.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Vincenzo Corallo... |
Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:... |
Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director Silver Bear for Best Director The Silver Bear for Best Director is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for best achievement in direction.-Awards:-Repeated winners:*Mario Monicelli *Satyajit Ray *Carlos Saura -External links:*... at Berlin 7th Berlin International Film Festival The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1957.-Jury:* Jay Carmody * Jean de Baroncelli* John Sutro* Dalpathal Kothari* Fernaldo Di Giammatteo* Bunzaburo Hayashi* Miguel Alemán hijo... |
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| A sud niente di nuovo | ||||
| A vent'anni è sempre festa | ||||
| Agguato a Tangeri | ||||
| All'insegna delle sorelle Kadar | ||||
| Amanecer en Puerta Oscura | ||||
| Amanti senza peccato | ||||
| Amarti è il mio destino | ||||
| Archipelago di fuoco | ||||
| Arrivano i dollari! | ||||
| Ascoltami Ascoltami "Ascoltami" is the debut single by Melody Fall, an Italian pop punk band, taken from their eponymous second album.-Tracklist:# "Ascoltami" - 3:23# "Sadness Between Roses" - 3:28# "Ascoltami" - 3:21-Music video:... |
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| Belle ma povere | ||||
| Buongiorno primo amore! | ||||
| C'è un sentiero nel cielo | ||||
| Campi sperimentali | ||||
| Camping Camping Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of a tent, caravan, motorhome, cabin, a primitive structure, or no... |
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| Casino de Paris Casino de Paris The Casino de Paris, located at 16, rue de Clichy, in the 9th arrondissement is one of the well known music halls of Paris, with a history dating back to the 18th century. Contrary to what the name might suggest, it is a performance venue, not a gambling house... |
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| Celui qui doit mourir | ||||
| Ces dames préfèrent le mambo | ||||
| Classe di ferro Classe di ferro Classe di ferro is an Italian television series.... |
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| Dimentica il mio passato | ||||
| Dinanzi a noi il cielo | ||||
| El maestro | ||||
| Femmine tre volte | ||||
| Fibre en civiltà | ||||
| Gente felice | ||||
| Gente lontana | ||||
| Giocare | ||||
| Guaglione Guaglione Guaglione is a Neapolitan song with music by Giuseppe Fanciulli and words by Nicola "Nisa" Salerno. It was the winning song at the IV Napoli Song Festival broadcast by radio in 1956. The song's title is Neapolitan language slang which translates to "street bum", "urchin", "back street boy", "corner... |
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| Guendalina Guendalina Guendalina is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jacqueline Sassard - Guendalina* Raffaele Mattioli - Oberdan* Sylva Koscina - Francesca, Guendalina's mother... |
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| Ho amato una diva | ||||
| Hänsel e Gretel | ||||
| I colpevoli | ||||
| I dritti | ||||
| I fidanzati della morte | ||||
| I gioiellieri del chiaro di luna | ||||
| I misteri di Parigi | ||||
| I sogni nel cassetto | ||||
| Il cielo brucia | ||||
| Il cocco di mamma | ||||
| Il conte di Matera | ||||
| Il conte Max | ||||
| Il corsaro della mezzaluna | ||||
| Il diavolo nero | ||||
| Il grido Il grido Il grido is a 1957 Italian black-and-white drama film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Its title means "The Outcry", but it was originally released in the English-speaking world as The Cry. The DVD release uses the Italian title. The film stars American actor Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy... |
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| Il medico e lo stregone | ||||
| Il momento più bello | ||||
| Il pupo dal k.o. | ||||
| Il ricatto di un padre | ||||
| Il segreto della Sierra Dorada | ||||
| Il sole tornerà | ||||
| Il tiranno del Garda | ||||
| Italia piccola | ||||
| Jusqu'au dernier | ||||
| L'amore più bello | ||||
| L'amore è in gioco | ||||
| L'angelo custode | ||||
| L'angelo delle Alpi | ||||
| L'avaro | ||||
| L'ex alunno | ||||
| L'homme à l'imperméable L'Homme à l'imperméable The Man in the Raincoat is a French-Italian comedy-thriller film directed by Julien Duvivier, scripted by the director and René Barjavel, from the novel Tiger by the Tail by James Hadley Chase. It was released in 1957 and shown at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival in competition for the... |
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| L'isola di smeraldo | ||||
| L'oceano ci chiama | ||||
| L'ultima violenza | ||||
| La canzone del destino | ||||
| La canzone più bella | ||||
| La cenicienta y Ernesto | ||||
| La chiamavan Capinera... | ||||
| La donna che venne dal mare | ||||
| La finestra sul Luna Park | ||||
| La grande caccia | ||||
| La grande ombra | ||||
| La grande strada azzurra La grande strada azzurra La grande strada azzurra is a 1957 Italian romance drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and Maleno Malenotti.-Plot:... |
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| La lunga raccolta | ||||
| La nonna Sabella | ||||
| La puerta abierta | ||||
| La ragazza della salina | ||||
| La regina della povera gente | ||||
| La regina Vittoria | ||||
| La spada imbattibile | ||||
| La strega | ||||
| La trovatella di Pompei | ||||
| La verde età | ||||
| La zia d'America va a sciare | ||||
| Las manos sucias | ||||
| Lazzarella | ||||
| Le avventure dei tre moschettieri | ||||
| Le avventure di Robi e Buck | ||||
| Le belle dell'aria | ||||
| Le feu aux poudres | ||||
| Le meraviglie delle Alpi | ||||
| Le notti bianche Le notti bianche Le Notti Bianche is a 1957 Italian film directed by Italian neorealist Luchino Visconti. The movie takes its title and basic plot from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story, White Nights.-Plot:... |
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| Le notti di Cabiria | ||||
| Le schiave di Cartagine | ||||
| Legend of the Lost Legend of the Lost Legend of the Lost is a 1957 Italy/U.S. adventure film starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, and Rossano Brazzi. The location shooting for the film took place near Tripoli, Libya.-Plot:... |
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| Les aventures d'Arsène Lupin | ||||
| Les espions Les Espions Les Espions is a 1957 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and written by Clouzot with Jerôme Géronim and Egon Hostovsky. The cast includes Gérard Sety, Peter Ustinov, Curd Jürgens, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Martita Hunt and the director's wife, Véra Clouzot... |
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| Les fanatiques | ||||
| Liane, die weiße Sklavin | ||||
| Los amantes del desierto | ||||
| Los jueves, milagro Los jueves, milagro Los jueves, milagro is a 1959 Spanish film directed by Luis García Berlanga.- External links :... |
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| Malafemmena Malafemmena Malafemmena is a song written by the Neapolitan actor Antonio de Curtis in 1951. It has become one of the most popular Italian songs and has been recorded by many artists.-Background:... |
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| Marisa la civetta | ||||
| Mariti in città | ||||
| Mattino di primavera | ||||
| Montecarlo | ||||
| Nathalie Nathalie Nathalie is a female given name. It is one popular variant of the name Natalie, found in many languages but especially common in French and Russian speaking countries... |
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| Noi dell'oceano | ||||
| Non cantare, baciami | ||||
| Oeil pour oeil | ||||
| Onore e sangue | ||||
| Orizzonte infuocato | ||||
| Padri e figli | ||||
| Parola di ladro Parola di ladro Parola di ladro is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.... |
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| Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer... |
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| Peppino, le modelle e chella là Peppino, le modelle e chella là Peppino, le modelle e chella là is a 1957 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Gino Bramieri.-Cast:* Gino Bramieri* Peppino De Filippo* Franco Di Trocchio* Fulvia Franco* Giacomo Furia* Salvo Libassi* Guido Martufi* Ester Masing... |
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| Ponzio Pilato | ||||
| Porte des Lilas Porte des Lilas Porte des Lilas is a 1957 French-Italian dramatic film directed by René Clair, based on René Fallet's novel La Grande Ceinture... |
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| Pot-Bouille Pot-Bouille Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical Le Gaulois before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883.... |
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| Poveri ma belli Poveri ma belli Poveri ma belli is a successful 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.There are two sequels, all directed by Dino Risi and starred by Renato Salvatori and Maurizio Arena:... |
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| Presentimento | ||||
| Primo applauso | ||||
| Quand la femme s'en mêle | ||||
| Questo nostro mondo | ||||
| Ragazzi della marina | ||||
| Rascel-Fifì | ||||
| Retour de manivelle Retour de manivelle Retour de manivelle is a 1957 French-language motion picture crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellière who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on novel by James Hadley Chase... |
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| Ritmi di New York | ||||
| S.O.S. Noronha S.O.S. Noronha S.O.S. Noronha is a French adventure film from 1957, directed by Georges Rouquier, written by Pierre Boileau, starring Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of Pierre Viré.- Cast :* Jean Marais : Frédéric Coulibaud* Daniel Ivernel : Mastic... |
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| Sait-on jamais... | ||||
| Saranno uomini | ||||
| Segno della croce | ||||
| Serenata a Maria | ||||
| Sette piccole croci | ||||
| Sette pittori | ||||
| Sigfrido | ||||
| Solo Dio mi fermerà | ||||
| Sotto la croce del sud | ||||
| Souvenir d'Italie Souvenir d'Italie Souvenir d'Italie is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.... |
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| Suor Letizia | ||||
| Suprema confessione | ||||
| Susanna tutta panna | ||||
| Sénéchal le magnifique | ||||
| Te sto' aspettanno | ||||
| Terra mare cielo | ||||
| Totò, Vittorio e la dottoressa | ||||
| Tous peuvent me tuer | ||||
| Traguardi di gloria | ||||
| Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn | ||||
| Une parisienne | ||||
| Unter Palmen am blauen Meer | ||||
| Vacanze a Ischia | ||||
| Vecchio cinema... che passione! | ||||
| Via Belgarbo | ||||
| Viaggio nella valle del Po alla ricerca di cibi genuini | ||||
| Vivendo, cantando che male ti fo? | ||||
| À pied, à cheval et en voiture | ||||
| Ángeles sin cielo | ||||
External links
- Italian films of 1957 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...