1,797 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy
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Don Bosco
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyFollows the life of Catholic Priest John Bosco (1815โ1888).
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The Phantom Gondola
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Top Hat
England ๐ฎ๐น ItalyThey're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again! โ Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Lucrezia Borgia
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 16th CenturyFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
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Buddy's Theatre
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ SwitzerlandBuddy is a projectionist in a movie theatre where the 'coming attractions' trailer promises '15 features for 15 cents."
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Escape Me Never
England ๐ฎ๐น ItalyThe World's Greatest Actress! โ Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.
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Three Cornered Hat
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 17th CenturyA comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
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Midshipman Easy
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ท France The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Leichte Kavallerie
๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐ฎ๐น ItalyRosika, a girl from Genoa, fled her innkeeper stepfather after he tried to abuse her. She finds refuge - and a job as well - in a traveling circus. Cherubini, the owner of the big top, falls in love with the lovely young woman and makes her the star of the show 'Light Cavalry'. But unfortunately for him Rosika's heart beats for Geza, the stable boy.
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Stradivari
๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1910s The 17th Century -
Kรผnstlerliebe
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1880s -
Vintage Wine
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น ItalyThe members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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Invitation To The Waltz
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1800sAs the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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The Divine Spark
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1830sBritish musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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Dora Nelson
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น ItalyDora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.
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The Singer of Naples
๐ฎ๐น ItalyA blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.
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Gesuzza, La Sposa Garibaldina
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1860sThe story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
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The Affairs of Cellini
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 16th CenturyHanging is too good for Cellini...declared the Duchess, so she smothered him...in her arms! โ The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Blind Woman of Sorrento
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyDrama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A young woman named Beatrice loses her sight after witnessing the death of her mother. Unable to see Beatrice is unable to identify her mothersโ killer. The police arrest a man who they believe is the murderer. Did they get the right man or is the killer still lurking in the shadows? Years later a family friend introduces Beatrice to a renowned Doctor who specializes in restoring sight. Will Beatrice regain her sight and identify her mothersโ killer or will someone make sure that she never sees again?
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Old Guard
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920sThere were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
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Loyalty of Love
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 19th CenturyHot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a historical drama. During the period in which Italy was under Austrian rule, Count Federico (Nerio Bernardi) fights tirelessly to free his people from oppression. The Count's wife Teresa (Marta Alba) remains loyally by his side, even when he is unfaithful to her, which is often. Federico doesn't realize how important Teresa is to him, nor how much he loves her, until it's almost too late. At time of the release of Loyalty of Love, star Marta Alba had transferred her base of operations to New York, where she starred in Broadway production of Tovarich.
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My Song Goes Round the World
๐ฎ๐น ItalySet in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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