30 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 1990s
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The Best Years
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sThe story of four friends Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, Riccardo, told over forty years, from 1980 to today, from adolescence to adulthood. Their hopes, their disappointments, their successes and failures are the intertwining of a great story of friendship and love through which Italy and the Italians are also told. A large fresco that tells who we are, where we come from and also where they will go and who our children will be. It is the great circle of life that repeats itself with the same dynamics despite the fact that years and even different periods pass in the background.
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Men in Black: International
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sThe universe is expanding — The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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The Traitor
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1990sThe true story about the man who brought down the Mafia — Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
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Aquaman
Atlantic Ocean 🇮🇹 Italy Maine Massachusetts 🇪🇭 Western Sahara The 2010s The 1980s The 1990sHome Is Calling — Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Arthur Curry, Orm's half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne.
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1991
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sDo you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United-States. I mean the first time you traveled alone!? The great adventure. In 1991, I was a 21 years old student. I went to Europe. Not because I wanted to visit all the great capitals, but because I wanted Marie-Eve Bernard.
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Magical Nights
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sItaly, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.
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Sicilian Ghost Story
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sIn a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
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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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Jason Bourne
Nevada California Virginia England 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy The 1990s The 2010sYou know his name — The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
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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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Don't Be Bad
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sA story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
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The Wonders
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sGelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the world, the outside, mustn’t know anything about their rules, and must be kept away from them. They must learn to disguise themselves.
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Darker Than Midnight
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sDavide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a world of the marginalized, to which the rest of the city turns a blind eye. But one day the past catches up and Davide has to face the most difficult choice, this time alone.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
New York England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1980s The 1990sEARN. SPEND. PARTY. — A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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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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My Own Private River
Washington Oregon 🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sUnused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sPrime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", both haunted by the tragedies that have marked them in childhood: a skiing accident for Alice which has caused a defect in her leg, and the loss of his twin sister for Matthew.
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Il Divo
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sItaly, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
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The Sicilian Girl
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sWhat would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia? — Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
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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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Just Married
California 🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sWelcome to the honeymoon from hell. — Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
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Gli angeli di Borsellino (Scorta QS21)
🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sThe last few days of Borsellino killed by mafia in Sicily.
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Behind Enemy Lines
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇮🇹 Italy The 1990sHis only weapon is his will to survive. — While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
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The Venice Project
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th Century The 1990sIn this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Viscount (John Wood), is near death, and he announces, to the disappointment of both his offspring, that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government.
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The Red Violin
Quebec England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Shanghai The 1990s The 1960s The 1890s The 18th Century The 17th CenturySpans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into the finish. With this legacy, the violin travels to Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
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