Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
Joan of Arc at the Stake | Roberto Rossellini | Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli | Historical | Based on Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher by Paul Claudel. |
Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban | Italian neorealism | Filmed in Naples and Pompeii. Spoken in English |
The King's Prisoner | Giorgio Venturini | Pierre Cressoy, Xenia Valderi, Luigi Tosi | Historical | [24] |
The Last Race | Piero Costa | Vera Bergman, Enzo Fiermonte, Checco Durante | Drama | |
Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! | Edoardo Anton | Ugo Tognazzi, Carlo Dapporto, Tino Scotti | Comedy | [25] |
La campana di San Giusto | Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari | Andrea Checchi, Gaby André, Roldano Lupi | War | [26] |
La chair et le diable | Jean Josipovici | Viviane Romance, Rossano Brazzi, Peter van Eyck | Drama | Co-production with France[27] |
La grande avventura | Mario Pisu | Mara Lane, Gino Cervi, Carlo Ninchi | Historical | [28] |
La Luciana | Domenico Gambino | Elli Parvo, Gianni Musy, Luigi Tosi | Drama | [29] |
La pattuglia sperduta | Piero Nelli | Annibale Biglione, Óscar Navarro | War drama | [30] |
La prigioniera di Amalfi | Giorgio Cristallini | Luciana Vedovelli, Narciso Parigi | Adventure | [31] |
La strada | Federico Fellini | Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart | Drama | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards won. Venice Award. 2 Nastro d'Argento. Academy Award nominee for best script |
La tua donna | Giovanni Paolucci | Alan Furlan, Massimo Girotti, Lea Padovani, Patricia Neal | Drama | |
La vendetta dei Tughs | Gian Paolo Callegari Ralph Murphy | Lex Barker, Fiorella Mari | Crime thriller | [32] |
Le avventure di Cartouche | Steven Sekely Gianni Vernuccio | Richard Basehart, Patricia Roc, Massimo Serato | Adventure | [33] |
Les révoltés de Lomanach | Richard Pottier | Dany Robin, Amedeo Nazzari | Adventure | Co-production with France[34] |
Letter from Naples | Giorgio Pastina | Virna Lisi, Otello Toso, Lianella Carell | Musical | [35] |
Lost Continent | Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser | | Documentary | Entered into the 5th Berlin International Film Festival |
Love Song | Giorgio Simonelli | Claudio Villa, Maria Fiore, Walter Santesso | Musical | [36] |
The Lovers of Manon Lescaut | Mario Costa | Myriam Bru, Franco Interlenghi, Marisa Merlini | Historical | Co-production with France |
Loves of Three Queens | Marc Allégret, Edgar G. Ulmer | Hedy Lamarr, Massimo Serato, Elli Parvo | Anthology | |
Madame Butterfly | Carmine Gallone | Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi, Michiko Tanaka | Opera | Co-production with Japan |
Madame du Barry | Christian-Jaque | Martine Carol, Daniel Ivernel, Gianna Maria Canale | Historical | Co-production with France |
Maddalena | Augusto Genina | Märta Torén, Gino Cervi, Charles Vanel | Drama | Co-production with France. Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival |
Madonna delle rose | Enzo Di Gianni | Marco Vicario, Eva Nova, Ave Ninchi | Drama | |
Mam'zelle Nitouche | Yves Allégret | Fernandel, Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt | Comedy | Co-production with France |
Mambo | Robert Rossen | Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman | Drama | Co-production with the US |
Marriage | Antonio Petrucci | Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi | Comedy | |
Mata Hari's Daughter | Carmine Gallone | Ludmilla Tchérina, Erno Crisa, Milly Vitale | Adventure | Co-production with France[37] |
Mid-Century Loves | Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari Roberto Rossellini, Antonio Pietrangeli | Franco Interlenghi, Leonora Ruffo | Comedy drama | Anthology |
Milanese in Naples | Enzo Di Gianni | Eva Nova, Ugo Tognazzi, Carlo Campanini | Comedy | [38] |
Mizar | Francesco De Robertis | Silvana Jachino, Antonio Centa, Lia Di Leo | War drama | |
Modern Virgin | Gabriele Ferzetti | Vittorio De Sica, May Britt, Gabriele Ferzetti | Melodrama | |
My Seven Little Sins | Jean Boyer | Maurice Chevalier, Delia Scala, Colette Ripert | Comedy | Co-production with France |