1,797 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy
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When Naples Sings
🇮🇹 ItalyMost likely made for the large Neapolitan immigrant population in the States, Roberto Leone Roberti’s love poem to Naples more than captures the heartache of the countless émigrés who were forced by economic circumstances to leave their homeland.
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Romola
🇮🇹 ItalyIn Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
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Quo Vadis?
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe Roman Banquet The golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel- re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced. (Print Ad in Daily Argus, Mount Vernon NY, 6 June 1925)
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Messalina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century"Messalina" (1924), the tale of that wicked and lustful empress who had a talent for causing problems.
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Three Weeks
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandA young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
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Three Ages
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s Ancient HistoryA cyclone of laughs and thrills — The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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The White Sister
🇮🇹 ItalyA love that outlived passion! — Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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The Man Without Desire
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920s The 18th CenturyA doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
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The Eternal City
🇮🇹 ItalyWar drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Italian troops. As with many silents directed by George Fitzmaurice this film is now a lost film.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyEven without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.
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Vanina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1820sVanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
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Lucrezia Borgia
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyRodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
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The Betrothed
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th CenturyBased on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.
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Meriota, die Tänzerin
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century -
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
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Intrigue
🇮🇹 ItalyIntrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.
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Blind Husbands
🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 ItalyAn Austrian military officer and roue' attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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The Plague in Florence
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturySuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
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The Romance of Lady Hamilton
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAn aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
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