A list of films produced in Italy in 1961:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | ||||||
| A cavallo della tigre | Luigi Comencini | Nino Manfredi, Gian Maria Volontè , Serge Reggiani | Comedy | |||
| Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) |
Pietro Germi | Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste | Commedia all'italiana | Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay winner. The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered the medium when Pope Leo XIII was filmed A list of some notable films produced in the Cinema of Italy ordered by year and decade of release For an alphabetical list of articles on Italian films see:CategoryItalian Films produced in Italy in the 1910s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1910 Italian films of 1910 1911 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1910: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1911: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1912: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1913: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1914: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1915: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1916: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1917: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1918: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1919: Films produced in Italy in the 1920s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1920 Italian films of 1920 1921 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1920: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1921: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1922: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1923: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1924: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1925: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1926: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1927: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1928: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1929: Films produced in Italy in the 1930s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1930 Italian films of 1930 1931 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1930: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1931: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1932: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1933: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1934: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1935: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1936: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1937: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1938: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1939: Films produced in Italy in the 1940s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1940 Italian films of 1940 1941 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1940: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1941: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1942: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1943: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1944: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1945: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1946: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1947: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1948: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1949: Films produced in Italy in the 1950s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1950 Italian films of 1950 1951 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1950: A-B C-I L-P Q-Z A list of Films produced in Italy in 1951: A B-D E-L M-Q S-Z A list of Films produced in Italy in 1952: A-B C-Z A list of Films produced in Italy in 1953: A B-Z A list of Films produced in Italy in 1954: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1955: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1956: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1957: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1958: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1959: Films produced in Italy in the 1960s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1960 Italian films of 1960 1961 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1960: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1962: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1963: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1964: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1965: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1966: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1967: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1968: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1969: Films produced in Italy in the 1970s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1970 Italian films of 1970 1971 A list of Films produced in Italy in 1970: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1971: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1972: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1973: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1974: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1975: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1976: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1977: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1978: A list of Films produced in Italy in 1979: Films produced in Italy in the 1980s ordered by year of release on separate pages 1980 Italian films of 1980 This is a list of Italian films that premiered or were originally released in 1980. 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Luigi Comencini ( June 8, 1916 - April 6 2007) was an Italian Film director. Nino Manfredi (true name Saturnino Manfredi; March 22, 1921 - June 4, 2004) was an Italian actor one of the most Gian Maria Volontè ( April 9 1933 – December 6 1994) was an Italian actor Serge Reggiani ( May 2 1922 - July 23 2004) was an Italian -born French Singer, painter and Actor Divorce Italian Style (Italian Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian Comedy Film directed by Pietro Pietro Germi ( September 14, 1914 - December 5, 1974) was an Italian Actor, Screenwriter, and Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28 1924 &ndash December 19 1996 was an Italian film actor Daniela Rocca ( September 12 1937 in Catania, Italy – May 28 1995 in Milo Sicily) was an Italian Stefania Sandrelli (born June 5, 1946) is an Italian actress famous for her many roles in the Commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s Leopold Trieste ( May 3, 1917 &ndash January 25, 2003) was an Italian actor film director and script writer Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian Film genre. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material 2 Oscar nominations | ||
| Banditi a Orgosolo | Vittorio De Seta | Vittorina Pisano | Venice Award for debut feature | |||
| Accattone | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini | Drama | Pasolini's directorial debut | ||
| Hercules in the Haunted World (Ercole al centro della terra) | Mario Bava | Reg Park, Christopher Lee | Peplum | |||
| La notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | Berlin International Film Festival winner | ||
| Battle of the Worlds (Il pianeta degli uomini spenti) | Antonio Margheriti | Claude Rains, Umberto Orsini | Science Fiction | |||
| Il posto | Ermanno Olmi | Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich, Sandro Panseri | Drama | Venice Award. Banditi a Orgosolo ( Bandits of Orgosolo) is a 1960 Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Seta. Vittorio De Seta (born October 15, 1923) is an Italian cinema director. Accattone is a 1961 Italian Film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pier Paolo Pasolini ( March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian Poet, Intellectual, Film director Franco Citti (born 23 April 1935) is an Italian actor He came to fame at the age of 26 playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini 's film Hercules in The Haunted World ( Italian title Ercole Al Centro Della Terra) is a 1961 Italian Sword and sandal Mario Bava ( July 31 1914 – April 25 1980) was an Italian director, Screenwriter, and Cinematographer Roy "Reg" Park ( 7 June, 1928 &ndash 22 November, 2007) from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922 is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated Saturn Award-winning English Actor Sword and sandal films or pepla (singular= peplum) are a Genre of adventure or Fantasy films that have subjects set in Biblical La Notte ( The Night) is a 1961 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( September 29 1912 &ndash July 30 2007) was an Italian Modernist Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28 1924 &ndash December 19 1996 was an Italian film actor Jeanne Moreau (French ʒan mɔˈʁo born 23 January, 1928) is a BAFTA Awards -winning French Actress, Screenwriter Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni Bernhard Wicki ( 28 October 1919 in St Pölten, Austria - 5 January 2000 in Munich) was an Austrian The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading Film festivals and most reputable media events held in Berlin Pianeta degli uomini spenti Il (Battle of the Worlds: Astronomers on a futuristic remote island outpost discover a stray planet on a collision course with Earth Antonio Margheriti (born in Rome, September 19, 1930 - died in Monterosi, Viterbo, November 4, 2002) better William Claude Rains (10 November &ndash30 May) was an English award-winning Actor and Film star whose career spanned 47 years Il Posto ( 1961) is an Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. Ermanno Olmi (born July 24, 1931) is a renowned Italian Film director. Tullio Kezich ( Trieste 1928) is a distinguished Italian Film critic, Screenwriter and Playwright. Close to Italian neorealism | ||
| Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff | Drama | Based on the life of Salvatore Giuliano 4 Awards | ||
| Girl with a Suitcase (La ragazza con la valiglia) | Valerio Zurlini | Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin | Drama | |||
| A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile) | Dino Risi | Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Claudio Gora | Commedia all'italiana | |||
| The Last Judgement (Il Giudizio universale) | Vittorio De Sica | Anouk Aimee, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Lino Ventura, Alberto Sordi, Fernandel, Silvana Mangano, Melina Mercouri, Jack Palance | Commedia all'italiana | Negatively reviewed by contemporary critics | ||
| The Ladykiller of Rome (L'assassino) | Elio Petri | Marcello Mastroianni, Salvo Randone | Kafkaesque Drama | Petri's debut | ||
| The Lovemakers (La viaccia) | Mauro Bolognini | Claudia Cardinale, Jean Paul Belmondo, Pietro Germi, Romolo Valli | Drama | |||
| The Fascist (Il federale) | Luciano Salce | Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Stefania Sandrelli, Mireille Granelli | Commedia all'italiana | About WWII | ||
| Vanina Vanini | Roberto Rossellini | Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa | Drama | Based on Stendhal's novel Vanina Vanini | ||