321 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The 20th Century
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Golden Door
๐ฎ๐น Italy New York The 1900sThe story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
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Days of Glory
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1940sThe true story of World War II's forgotten heroes. โ During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
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The Painted Veil
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy Shanghai The 1920sSometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people. โ A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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The Night Before the Exams
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sRome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, Simon and Maximilian in his journey to find the girl he has fallen in love with.
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Munich
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง 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. โ 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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Tre giorni di anarchia
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A Good Woman
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930sSeduction. Sex. Scandal. โ Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."
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De-Lovely
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy California New York The 1950s The 1930s The 1920sA love that would never die and music that would live forever. โ 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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The Best of Youth
๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe Possibilities Were Endless... โ 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 ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sWelcome to the honeymoon from hell. โ 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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I Am David
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sBelieve in the power to change your destiny โ 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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Good Morning, Night
๐ฎ๐น 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
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sWho can you trust when everyone's a suspect? โ 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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Facing Windows
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sDesire knows no bounds. โ Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
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The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 20th CenturyAngelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as pope John XXIII
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Gli angeli di Borsellino (Scorta QS21)
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sThe last few days of Borsellino killed by mafia in Sicily.
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Amen.
๐ป๐ฆ Holy See ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1930sTwo Men Two Worlds One Cause โ Kurt Gersteinโa member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SSโis horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
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The Master of Disguise
Pennsylvania District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970s The 2000sHe can get into any disguise... getting out is another story. โ 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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Black Angel
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sMarch 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant, as beautiful and accursed as a pagan god, with whom she is having a burning love affair. During the trip she relives the high points of her devastating sexual abandonment gone adrift, one that has shattered her life and her destiny, swallowing her up in the ruinous vortex of a sybaritic and bituminous Venice. The city, in the throes of the final months of the war, is rife with traffickers, officials, nabobs, military brass, sharks and adventurers of every kind. Yet a surprise awaits Livia upon her arrival in Venice, a surprise in which the heroes' own personal defeats interweave with those public, as historical and political events now seek to settle accounts.
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Pope John XXIII
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 20th CenturyThis is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".
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Behind Enemy Lines
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sHis only weapon is his will to survive. โ 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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Sleepless
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980s The 2000sCreepier than Jack the Ripper โ An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
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Unfair Competition
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1930sTwo linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
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Malena
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940sShe was too young to be a widow, and too beautiful to be alone. Every man wanted to have her. One boy risked everything to protect her. โ On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malรจna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato grows toward manhood, he watches Malรจna suffer and prove her mettle. He sees her loneliness, then grief when Nico is reported dead, the effects of slander on her relationship with her father, her poverty and search for work, and final humiliations. Will Renato learn courage from Malรจna and stand up for her?
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