42 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1960s
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The Games
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThe spectacle behind the spectacle โ From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
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Love and Anger
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sFive short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
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House of Cards
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThe Blood-Hot Diary of the People Who Fight the War of Intrigue Across the Face of the Globe! โ In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
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The Day of the Owl
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sWhat are 'friends' for...? Why, for murder, terror, extortion, violence and other profitable enterprises! โ Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
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Bandits in Milan
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThe Bank Bandits... Gunning a City to it's Knees โ A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
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Modesty Blaise
England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sNothing can faze Modesty Blaise, the world's deadliest and most dazzlingly female agent! โ Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
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Fantomas Unleashed
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sIn the second episode of the trilogy Fantรดmas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantรดmas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
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Before the Revolution
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sItaly is the place where they've made an art of everything - especially love! โ The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
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La Commare Secca
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sRoman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino, pickpocket Canticchia, a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.
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Light in the Piazza
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sWere they too young for the love they dared? โ A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
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Boccaccio '70
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThe first 3-act motion picture ever presented! โ An anthology of four adult tales: a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wifeโs supposed pregnancy from their place of employment; a billboard photo of a scantily clad woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night with a beautiful woman; an aristocratic couple comes to terms with life and marriage after the domineering husband is caught visiting sex workers by the press.
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Una storia milanese
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sLuchino Visconti's nephew's debut, also awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Detailing the title and translating: 'A (n upper middle-class love) story set in the italian town if Milan (at the beginning of the '60s)'
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La Notte
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sA new genre of motion picture... to make you think and feel. โ A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
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The Grand Olympics
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sEvents and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first white to win the 200 meters, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who won the marathon racing barefoot.
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Blood and Roses
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sGhoul or Girl? โ The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.
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The Band of Honest Men
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sItaly, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.