34 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1920s
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The King of Laughter
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sBeloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success with timeless works such as "Miseria e nobiltà." However, everything he worked for seems lost in 1904, when he's drawn into a nasty legal battle that could compromise his freedom of expression.
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Fullmetal Alchemist
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sTwo alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.
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Vincere
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 1900sThe story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino. — The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a classical Italian opera. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Brideshead Revisited
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1920sEvery temptation has its price. — Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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The Painted Veil
England 🇮🇹 Italy Shanghai The 1920sSometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people. — A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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De-Lovely
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy California New York The 1950s The 1930s The 1920sA love that would never die and music that would live forever. — From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest sons of the twentieth century.
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Carrington
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA Love so Unusual it has to be True — Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
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Mario and the Magician
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThe Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
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Porco Rosso
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA Pig's Got to Fly — In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
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Lion of the Desert
🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇾 Libya The 1930s The 1920s The 1940sHe was a man of honor in a war without any. — This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Blood Feud
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sTitina Paterno, a widow in a small coastal town in Sicily, goes insane after the death of her husband. She cannot stop telling whoever wants to hear her that Vito Acicatena, the fascist bigwig of the region was the one responsible of the crime. Justice, alas, will not do anything to punish this criminal, but Titina, in her own way, will be Vito's worst nightmare.
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1900
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sFrom the cradle to the grave - victims of history and change! — Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half of the 20th century.
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The Divine Nymph
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
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The Godfather: Part II
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇮🇹 Italy Nevada New York The 1900s The 1950s The 1940s The 1920s The 1910sI don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. — In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Blood for Dracula
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sHe couldn't live without a virgin's blood..... ...So a virgin had to die! — Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 1910sThe Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
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Amarcord
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1920sThe Fantastic World of Fellini! — In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
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The Assassination of Matteotti
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sHow the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sEverything Happens in the Yellow Rolls Royce! — One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. Another owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Later, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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March on Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sMarch on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
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Tender Is the Night
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1920sAgainst the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
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Careless
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThe place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and coquettish. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
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The Joy of Living
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sUlisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
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