A Pilot Returns (Italian: Un pilota ritorna) is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Massimo Girotti, Michela Belmonte and Piero Lulli.

The film forms part of Rossellini's "Fascist trilogy" along with The White Ship (1941) and The Man with a Cross (1943).

While there he meets and falls in love with a young Italian woman who has volunteered to care for the prisoners.

After escaping from the Greeks, he manages to steal a plane and return to Italy for further duty.

On his arrival he learns that Greece has been successfully conquered by the Axis Powers.