52 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 16th Century
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The Portuguese Woman
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyNorth of Italy, the von Ketten dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreign' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
New York Texas 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient History The 18th Century The 16th CenturyHe's Leaving His Mark On History — A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.
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Saint Philip Neri I Prefer Heaven
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyAn epic feature film on the famous "Apostle of Rome" and great friend of youth in the 16th century. One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.
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El Greco
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyCan Darkness Win Light? — The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
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The Merchant of Venice
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyVenice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
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Luther
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyRebel. Genius. Liberator. — During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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The Maori Merchant of Venice
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyRevenge is not so sweet — A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer.
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Dangerous Beauty
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBorn without privilege. Bound by tradition. She found the courage to follow her heart. — Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyEnvy, greed, jealousy and love. — The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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Caravaggio
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th Century The 16th CenturyHis passion came with a price — As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with a dashing gambler.
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The Venetian Woman
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyVenice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
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Otello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBased on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
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Flesh + Blood
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBetrayed by power. Corrupted by love. Bound by honor. — A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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Nothing Left to Do but Cry
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 15th CenturyA teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to play cards, they try to stop Columbus, they sing beatles's song etc...
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Giordano Bruno
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th Century The 16th CenturyFlying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
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The Nun and the Devil
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyIn the convent of St. Archangel, there is a struggle for lust & love. — It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
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The Conspiracy of Torture
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyIn 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexually abuses her as well. Beatrice then plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano, to plan Francesco’s murder.
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Galileo
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturySomewhat overshadowed by Joseph Losey's 1975 film on the same subject, the 1968 Italian/Bulgarian biopic Galileo is a worthwhile picture in its own right. Irish stage and screen actor Cyril Cusack is well-cast as Galileo Galilei, famed astronomer and unintentional icon-buster. Stirring up controversy with his theory that the Earth is not the center of the Universe, Galileo is given a going-over by the Vatican legal system.
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The Taming of the Shrew
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyThe motion picture they were made for! — Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
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The Man Who Laughs
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyA 1966 French-Italian film version made in Italy, titled L'uomo che ride, directed by Sergio Corbucci. This version features elaborate colour photography but a very low production budget. The main action is shifted to Italy and moved yesterwards in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. In this version, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (which is attributed, in the movie credits, to the director, producer and others involved in making the film, but not to Victor Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias. At the end, Dea (actress Lina Sini) miraculously acquires her eyesight and Angelo undergoes surgery that completely reverses his disfigurement and renders him perfectly handsome.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyFrom the age of magnificence comes a new magnificence in motion pictures. — Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel directed by Carol Reed. While the novel covers Michelangelo's life from birth to death, the film focuses on the battle of wills between the perfectionist artist and the impatient Pope who commissions (and eventually commands) him to paint the famed chapel.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyThe greatest Othello ever by the greatest actor of our time — The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
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The Mandrake
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyA young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
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The Scapegoat
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyIl Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.
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The Magnificent Adventurer
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBenvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.
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