90 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1940s
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Captain America
Ohio District of Columbia California Alaska ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990s The 1940s The 1930sFrozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull. โ During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.
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The Last Aristocrats
Massachusetts ๐ฎ๐น Italy Jiangsu Province Shanghai The 1940sIn 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.
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Cinema Paradiso
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1950s The 1940s The 1980sA celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies. โ A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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The Key
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sAfter twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancรฉ, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications, as Nino and his unpredictable fascist daughter find that they both enjoy being jealous.
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The Night of the Shooting Stars
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.
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Lion of the Desert
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1930s The 1920s The 1940sHe was a man of honor in a war without any. โ 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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The Skin
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sAfter the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
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The Big Red One
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sOnly chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart. โ A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Padre Padrone
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
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Nenรจ
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sIn the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
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1900
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sFrom the cradle to the grave - victims of history and change! โ 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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A Matter of Time
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1950s The 1940sThe adventure of discovering the joy of being a woman. โ During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
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The Career of a Chambermaid
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1930sItalian comedy โ This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italyโs โWhite Telephoneโ films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role โ an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of โIl Duceโ! โ for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
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The Godfather: Part II
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ฎ๐น 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. โ 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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We All Loved Each Other So Much
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA many splendored thing. โ Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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Massacre in Rome
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sIn the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
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Stardust
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
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The Godfather
California Nevada New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1950sAn offer you can't refuse. โ Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Roma
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sThe fall of the Roman Empire 1931-1972. โ A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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Sunflower
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sAt the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
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The Conformist
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1910sA dazzling movie โ A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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Catch-22
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sA bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
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Patton
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe Rebel Warrior โ "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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