35 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1950s
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Luca
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sLuca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
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Private Fiction
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sOver several days and nights, an actor and an actress read the correspondence between Torcuato and Kamala, the film director's parents, he from Argentina, and she from India. The letters, encompassing the decades from the 50s to the 70s, refer to love and idealism, record world travels, talk about socialism and psychoanalysis, about pain and broken dreams. Their reading reveals a relationship between the actors, with similarities and differences. Meanwhile, with his own daughter, the director sets about solving the puzzle of the family memory, an intimate twentieth-century tale.
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Ford v Ferrari
Michigan California Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThey took the American dream for a ride — American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
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Voice from the Stone
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sSilence is calling — Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
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All the Money in the World
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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The Music of Silence
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBorn with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
California 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries.
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇮🇹 Italy Victoria The 1960s The 1950sNow you will see his Real Story. — The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
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Castello Cavalcanti
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sTaking place in 1955 in Italy, “Castello Cavalcanti” follows Jason Schwartzman as race car driver Jed Cavalcanti who suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.
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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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I Am David
🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1950sBelieve in the power to change your destiny — Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
🇮🇹 Italy New York The 1950sHow far would you go to become someone else? — Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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Frivolous Lola
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sA determined young virgin is on the loose... — The story takes place in northern Italy in the 1950's. Lola and Masetto are about to get married. Masetto wants to keep Lola as a virgin until they are married. But Lola is impatient to remain in chastity until the wedding night. She wants to be sure that Masetto is a good lover, before she commits herself into marriage. She does everything to trick Masetto into breaking the moral tradition.
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Human Remains
🇨🇳 China 🇩🇪 Germany 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sHuman Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
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The Star Maker
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sIn the golden age of cinema, everyone dreams of becoming a star. One man promises to make all their dreams come true... — The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
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The Postman
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sDreams do come true. — Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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Cinema Paradiso
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1940s The 1980sA celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies. — 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 Corruption
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sThe film takes place in Vicenza in 1956. Anna (Guerin), a beautiful lawyer's wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela (Michelsen). The maid convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games.
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The Devil's Advocate
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sWas he a saint or was he a sinner? — A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
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Obsession
Louisiana 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1950sA bizarre story of love. — New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
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A Matter of Time
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1940sThe adventure of discovering the joy of being a woman. — 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 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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We All Loved Each Other So Much
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA many splendored thing. — 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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Lucky Luciano
New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThe real story behind Lucky Luciano, the high priest of crime — Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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The Godfather
California Nevada New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950sAn offer you can't refuse. — 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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