321 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 20th Century
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Castello Cavalcanti
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1950sTaking place in 1955 in Italy, โCastello Cavalcantiโ 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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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sA Deadly Serious Comedy โ 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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Red Tails
๐ฎ๐น Italy England The 1940sHigh-Octane Action and Daring Dogfights! โ The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sPiazza Fontana, December 12, 1969, 16:37. Truth exists. โ On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
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Berberian Sound Studio
๐ฎ๐น 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
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sGlamorous, infamous, scandalous โ 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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Il sogno del maratoneta
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1900sThe feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
New York New Jersey England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ฌ๐ฑ Greenland ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 2010sWhen patriots become heroes โ During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull โ Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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Kryptonite!
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sEvery family has its own secrets, but some are funnier than the others. โ 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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My Own Private River
Washington Oregon ๐ฎ๐น 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
๐ฎ๐น 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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Once Upon a Time the City of Fools
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 20th CenturyA biopic of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist.
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Nine
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThis Holiday Season, Be Italian. โ Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
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Vincere
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920s The 1900sThe story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino. โ The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a classical Italian opera. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Athlete
๐ช๐น Ethiopia Tokyo Prefecture ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sRunning the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal, and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด 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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Il Divo
๐ฎ๐น 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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Miracle at St. Anna
New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980s The 1940sWorld War II had its heroes and its miracles. โ Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
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Giovanna's Father
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930s The 1940sBologna 1938 - Michele Casali is living a desperate situation: Giovanna, his only child, a teenager, has killed out of jealousy his classmate and best friend. Within the middle-class environment in which the crime has ocurred, the story provokes strong emotion and disbelief. Avoiding jail, she is determined to be mentally disturbed and therefore locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Reggio Emilia where she remains until the age of 24 years (1945). During this period of almost total isolation, the only person who takes care of her is the father who moves from Bologna specifically, where he taught art in high school Galvani, to Reggio.
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Brideshead Revisited
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930s The 1920sEvery temptation has its price. โ Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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We Can Do That
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sFrom a close range nobody is normal โ The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.
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The Sicilian Girl
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sWhat would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia? โ 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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Wild Blood
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sThe story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the regime until the very end. Accused of collaborationism and torture, they were summarily executed by Partisans during the Liberation.
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Signorinaeffe
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sA white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.
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Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 20th CenturyThe service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also in the spiritual life of The Church. Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet people where they are. To trust in God as he was asking The Church to do and he is given the opportunity to love that trust in its fullness.
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