| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Rapture | Goffredo Alessandrini | Glenn Langan, Elsie Albiin | Drama | |
| Red Seal | Flavio Calzavara | Gino Cervi, Carla Del Poggio, Adriano Rimoldi | Mystery | |
| Il Richiamo nella tempesta | Oreste Palella | Silvana Pampanini | Drama | produced by Ezio Lavoretti 1950 |
| Romanticismo | Clemente Fracassi | Clara Calamai, Nyta Dover | | |
| Romanzo d'amore | Duilio Coletti | Rossano Brazzi, Danielle Darrieux | Melodrama | |
| Sambo | | | | |
| Il Sentiero dell'odio | Sergio Grieco | Marina Berti, Andrea Checchi | Drama | |
| The Sky Is Red | Claudio Gora | Marina Berti, Jacques Sernas, Mischa Auer | Drama | |
| Songs in the Streets | Mario Landi | Luciano Taioli, Antonella Lualdi, Carlo Ninchi | Musical | |
| Story of a Love Affair | Michelangelo Antonioni | Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi | Drama | Antonioni's film debut. 2 Nastro d'Argento |
| La Strada finisce sul fiume | Luigi Capuano | Constance Dowling, Andrea Checchi | | |
| Strano appuntamento | Dezső Ákos Hamza | Umberto Spadaro, Leda Gloria | | |
| Stromboli | Roberto Rossellini | Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale | Drama | Co-production with the United States |
| Sunday in August | Luciano Emmer | Franco Interlenghi, Massimo Serato, Marcello Mastroianni | Comedy drama | Pink neorealism |
| La Taverna della libertà | Maurice Cam | Umberto Spadaro | | |
| Night Taxi | Carmine Gallone | Beniamino Gigli, Danielle Godet | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| Terra senza tempo | Silvetro Prestfilippo | Leonardo Cortese | | |
| That Ghost of My Husband | Camillo Mastrocinque | Walter Chiari, Enzo Biliotti, Jole Fierro | Comedy | |
| The Thief of Venice | John Brahm | Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, Faye Marlowe | Adventure | Co-production with the United States |
| Tomorrow Is Too Late | Léonide Moguy | Vittorio De Sica, Pier Angeli, Lois Maxwell | Pink neorealism | There's a sequel. Nastro d'Argento Best actress (Pier Angeli) |
| Toto Looks for a Wife | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Toto, Ave Ninchi, Marisa Merlini | Comedy | |
| Toto the Sheik | Mario Mattoli | Toto, Tamara Lees, Laura Gore | Comedy | |
| Totò Tarzan | Mario Mattoli | Toto, Marilyn Buferd, Alba Arnova | Comedy | |
| The Transporter | Giorgio Simonelli | Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Lida Baarova | SF comedy | |
| Turri il bandito | Enzo Trapani | Nino Crisman, Lilia Landi | Crime drama | |
| The Two Sisters | Mario Volpe | Vera Carmi, Enzo Fiermonte, Checco Durante | Drama | |
| La Valle dell'odio | Adriano Zancanella | Antonio Strobi | Drama | |
| Variety Lights | Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada | Peppino De Filippo, Giulietta Masina, Carla Del Poggio, Franca Valeri, John Kitzmiller | Drama | Fellini's debut |
| Vendetta di zingara | Aldo Molinari | Sergio Raimondi | | |
| Volcano | William Dieterle | Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks | Drama | Co-production with the United States |
| The Vow | Mario Bonnard | Doris Duranti, Giorgio De Lullo, Maria Grazia Francia | Drama | |
| Welcome, Reverend! | Aldo Fabrizi | Aldo Fabrizi, Lianella Carell, Massimo Girotti | Crime comedy | |
| The White Line | Luigi Zampa | Raf Vallone, Gina Lollobrigida, Erno Crisa | Drama | |
| Women and Brigands | Mario Soldati | Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier | Historical | Co-production with France |
| Women Without Names | Géza von Radványi | Simone Simon, Vivi Gioi, Irasema Dilian | Drama | |
| Lo Zappatore | Rate Furlan | Angelo Dessy | | |