99 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During The Middle Ages
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The Portuguese Woman
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyNorth of Italy, the von Ketten dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreign' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
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The Little Hours
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyObedientia. Paupertas. — Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
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Wondrous Boccaccio
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyIt's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
New York Texas 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient History The 18th Century The 16th CenturyHe's Leaving His Mark On History — A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.
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The Tragedy of Man
England 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient History The Middle AgesJankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
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Saint Philip Neri I Prefer Heaven
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyAn epic feature film on the famous "Apostle of Rome" and great friend of youth in the 16th century. One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.
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Agora
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 4th Century The 5th Century The Middle AgesAlexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever. — A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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Barbarossa
🇮🇹 Italy The 12th CenturyYear 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and in the South so as to revive the Empire that was once of the one Charles Magno.But in the North a young man from Milan has formed an army of 900 young men coming from different cities: the "company of death". This young man's name is Alberto Da Giussano. His dream is to defeat the Emperor and to give back freedom to the Northern lands.
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The Last Legion
England 🇮🇹 Italy The Middle Ages The 5th CenturyThe end of an empire...the beginning of a legend. — As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
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Virgin Territory
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyAnything Can Happen When You're In ... Virgin Territory — The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
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El Greco
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyCan Darkness Win Light? — The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
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Crusade in Jeans
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000s The 13th CenturyDolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
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Kingdom of Heaven
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 12th CenturyBe without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong — After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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King Arthur
Wales England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy The Middle Ages The 5th CenturyRule Your Fate. — The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
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The Merchant of Venice
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyVenice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
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Secret Passage
🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyIsabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.
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Saint Rita
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyNo Cause is Ever Lost... — Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.
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Luther
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyRebel. Genius. Liberator. — During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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The Maori Merchant of Venice
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyRevenge is not so sweet — A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer.
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The Crusaders
🇮🇹 Italy The 11th CenturyTowards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.
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Dangerous Beauty
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyBorn without privilege. Bound by tradition. She found the courage to follow her heart. — Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyEnvy, greed, jealousy and love. — The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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Francesco
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyThe life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands of the family of Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253), who becomes St. Clare. Many join the order he has established and then rebel at his expectations. In near despair - and ill - he writes a Rule to take to the Pope; then, the Lord sends him a message. He dies smiling.
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