44 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1970s
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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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Our Father
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sTwo young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.
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Glauber, Claro
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sHis Italian years — A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.
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5 Is the Perfect Number
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sPeppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
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The Ruthless
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sIn Milan, the thirstiest wins. — Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.
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Something in the Air
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sSomething in the Air is a one hour documentary that shows new risks in the most essential element for survival – air – that affect our brains, our DNA, and how new technology is changing the equation for the better.
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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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Sweet Dreams
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1990sTurin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
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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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Rush
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇪 Germany 🇯🇵 Japan 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sEveryone's driven by something. — A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sA Deadly Serious Comedy — While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
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Berberian Sound Studio
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sIn the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
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Liz & Dick
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sGlamorous, infamous, scandalous — On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
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Kryptonite!
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sEvery family has its own secrets, but some are funnier than the others. — Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇯🇴 Jordan The 1970s The 1960s'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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Munich
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. — During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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The Best of Youth
🇳🇴 Norway 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe Possibilities Were Endless... — Spanning nearly four decades, from 1966 to 2003, this generational epic follows the different life paths of two Italian brothers from a middle-class family through some of the most significant events of recent Italian history.
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Good Morning, Night
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sThe 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
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I'm Not Scared
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sWho can you trust when everyone's a suspect? — While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw
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The Master of Disguise
Pennsylvania District of Columbia 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 2000sHe can get into any disguise... getting out is another story. — A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped Fabbrizio's former arch-enemy, Devlin Bowman, a criminal mastermind in an attempt to steal the world's most precious treasures from around the world. And it's up to Pistachio to track down Bowman and save his family before Bowman kills them!
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The Scent of the Night
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sA former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
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Year of the Gun
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sIn this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive.
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The Godfather: Part III
🇮🇹 Italy New Jersey New York 🇻🇦 Holy See The 1970s The 1980sAll the power on earth can't change destiny. — In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
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Towards Evening
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sProfessor Ludovico Bruschi is an elderly Communist whose desire is that of living in an orderly and socially just State. But disorder is just about to break into his life, first of all in the shape of his granddaughter Papere and then in that of Papere's mother Stella, his son's companion. The relationship between Oliviero, Bruschi's son, and Stella has come to an end perhaps because of the extreme youth of the two lovers. Now Professor Bruschi is obliged to come to terms with the gloomy, ignorant, offended Stella whose head is full of false and destructive ideals and who disturbs his way of living out daily life. The professor loses his patience and Stella leaves. He looks for her and finds her in hospital with a broken leg. The two of them begin to grow close and then, without realizing it, they come to love each other immensely. Stella's leg gets better and she goes off to look for new relationships...
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