15 Films & TV Shows Set In Malta
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Luzzu
🇲🇹 Malta The 2020sJesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.
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Testament of Youth
England 🇲🇹 Malta The 1910sDivided by war. United by love. — Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Simshar
🇲🇹 Malta The 2000sInspired by true events — Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.
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Youth Without Youth
🇲🇹 Malta 🇷🇴 Romania 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930s The 1960sA love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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Black Eagle
🇲🇹 MaltaThere are no armies. There is no glory. This fight is one on one. — One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tani, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
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Final Justice
🇲🇹 MaltaJoe Don Baker is looking for trouble. — Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.
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Trenchcoat
🇲🇹 MaltaAn aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
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Shout at the Devil
🇲🇹 Malta 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1910sA spectacular adventure you will always remember and a beautiful love story you will never forget. — During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
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The MacKintosh Man
England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sOnly MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead! — A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Hell Boats
🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sTheir job: HIT IT HEAD-ON! Their target: HELL-ON-EARTH! — A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
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Eyewitness
🇲🇹 MaltaA boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
England 🇲🇹 MaltaThe evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
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Treasure in Malta
🇲🇹 MaltaSix episodes relating to a thriller of a hunt after archaeological treasure in Malta, and the thwarting of crooks.
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Malta Story
🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sIn 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
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The Midshipmaid
England 🇲🇹 MaltaThe Midshipmaid is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Frederick Kerr, Basil Sydney and Nigel Bruce.
