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Movies Set in Italy

Kinora's catalogue lists 111 films set in Italy, spanning 1940–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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  • 1976

    1900

    Emilia-Romagna — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
    Ruraldir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • 1986

    A Room with a View

    Florence · Surrey — 1900s
    Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory
  • 1977

    A Special Day

    Rome — 1930s
    Urbandir. Ettore Scola
  • 1961

    Accattone

    Rome — 1960s
    Urbandir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • 1973

    Amarcord

    Rimini — 1930s
    Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Federico Fellini
  • 1972

    Avanti!

    Ischia — 1970s
    Island · Coastal Seadir. Billy Wilder
  • 2010

    Barney's Version

    Montreal · Rome
    Urbandir. Richard J. Lewis
  • 1952

    Bellissima

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1959

    Ben-Hur

    Jerusalem · Judea · Rome — Ancient
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. William Wyler
  • 1948

    Bicycle Thieves

    Rome — 1940s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1958

    Big Deal on Madonna Street

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. Mario Monicelli
  • 1949

    Bitter Rice

    Po Valley — 1940s
    Ruraldir. Giuseppe De Santis
  • 1964

    Blood and Black Lace

    Rome — 1960s
    Urbandir. Mario Bava
  • 1972

    Caliber 9

    Milan — 1970s
    Urbandir. Fernando Di Leo
  • 2017

    Call Me by Your Name

    Italy — 1980s
    Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino
  • 1993

    Caro diario

    Rome · Aeolian Islands — 1990s
    Urban · Islanddir. Nanni Moretti
  • 1970

    Catch-22

    Pianosa — 1940s
    Island · Coastal Seadir. Mike Nichols
  • 1988

    Cinema Paradiso

    Rome · Sicily — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
    Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
  • 1963

    Cleopatra

    Alexandria · Rome — Ancient
    Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • 2024

    Conclave

    Rome — 2020s
    Urbandir. Edward Berger
  • 1963

    Contempt

    Rome · Capri — 1960s
    Urban · Island · Coastal Seadir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • 1971

    Death in Venice

    Venice — 1910s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1975

    Deep Red

    Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Dario Argento
  • 1961

    Divorce Italian Style

    Sicily — 1960s
    Ruraldir. Pietro Germi
  • 1973

    Don't Look Now

    Venice — 1970s
    Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
  • 1972

    Don't Torture a Duckling

    Basilicata — 1970s
    Ruraldir. Lucio Fulci
  • 2000

    Gladiator

    Rome — Ancient
    Urbandir. Ridley Scott
  • 2008

    Gomorrah

    Naples · Caserta — 2000s
    Urbandir. Matteo Garrone
  • 2022

    Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    Italy — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
    Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson
  • 1981

    History of the World: Part I

    Rome · Paris · Spain — Ancient · Medieval · 1700s
    Urban · Wildernessdir. Mel Brooks
  • 1953

    I Vitelloni

    Italy — 1950s
    Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
  • 1962

    Il Sorpasso

    Rome · Tuscany — 1960s
    Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Dino Risi
  • 1989

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Venice · Austria · Hatay — 1930s
    Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
  • 1970

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Elio Petri
  • 1991

    Johnny Stecchino

    Palermo · Cesena — 1990s
    Urbandir. Roberto Benigni
  • 1954

    Journey to Italy

    Naples — 1950s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Roberto Rossellini
  • 1953

    Julius Caesar

    Rome — Ancient
    Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • 1960

    L'Avventura

    Sicily — 1960s
    Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1962

    L'Eclisse

    Rome — 1960s
    Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1960

    La Dolce Vita

    Rome — 1960s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
  • 1961

    La Notte

    Milan — 1960s
    Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1954

    La Strada

    Italy — 1950s
    Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
  • 1985

    Ladyhawke

    Italy — Medieval
    Rural · Wildernessdir. Richard Donner
  • 1997

    Life Is Beautiful

    Italy — 1930s · 1940s
    Urbandir. Roberto Benigni
  • 2000

    Malena

    Sicily — 1940s
    Ruraldir. Giuseppe Tornatore
  • 1962

    Mamma Roma

    Rome — 1960s
    Urbandir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • 1964

    Marriage Italian Style

    Naples — 1940s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1951

    Miracle in Milan

    Milan — 1950s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 2005

    Munich

    Munich · Paris · Rome · Beirut · New York City — 1970s
    Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
  • 1975

    My Friends

    Florence — 1970s
    Urbandir. Mario Monicelli
  • 1991

    My Own Private Idaho

    Portland · Idaho · Rome · Seattle — 1990s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Gus Van Sant
  • 1991

    Night on Earth

    Los Angeles · New York City · Paris · Rome · Helsinki — 1990s
    Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch
  • 1957

    Nights of Cabiria

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. Federico Fellini
  • 1990

    Nikita

    Paris · Venice — 1990s
    Urbandir. Luc Besson
  • 1983

    Nostalgia

    Tuscany · Rome — 1980s
    Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • 1943

    Obsession

    Po Valley · Ancona — 1940s
    Rural · Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
  • 2000

    One Hundred Steps

    Cinisi — 1960s · 1970s
    Ruraldir. Marco Tullio Giordana
  • 1997

    Ovosodo

    Livorno — 1990s
    Urbandir. Paolo Virzì
  • 1946

    Paisan

    Sicily · Naples · Rome · Florence — 1940s
    Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Roberto Rossellini
  • 1970

    Patton

    Sicily · France · Germany · Tunisia — 1940s
    Desert · Ruraldir. Franklin J. Schaffner
  • 2016

    Perfect Strangers

    Italy — 2010s
    Urbandir. Paolo Genovese
  • 1940

    Pinocchio

    Italy — Timeless
    Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hamilton Luske
  • 1992

    Porco Rosso

    Milan · Italy — 1920s · 1930s
    Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • 1960

    Purple Noon

    Rome — 1960s
    Coastal Sea · Urbandir. René Clément
  • 1951

    Quo Vadis

    Rome — Ancient
    Urbandir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • 1964

    Red Desert

    Ravenna — 1960s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1960

    Rocco and His Brothers

    Milan — 1960s
    Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1972

    Roma

    Rome — 1930s · 1970s
    Urbandir. Federico Fellini
  • 1953

    Roman Holiday

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. William Wyler
  • 1945

    Rome, Open City

    Rome — 1940s
    Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini
  • 1974

    Scent of a Woman

    Turin · Naples — 1970s
    dir. Dino Risi
  • 1954

    Senso

    Venice · Verona — 1800s
    Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1946

    Shoeshine

    Rome — 1940s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1960

    Spartacus

    Rome — Ancient
    Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
  • 1996

    Stealing Beauty

    Tuscany — 1990s
    Ruraldir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • 1999

    Tea with Mussolini

    Florence · San Gimignano — 1930s · 1940s
    Urbandir. Franco Zeffirelli
  • 1982

    Tenebre

    Rome — 1980s
    Urbandir. Dario Argento
  • 1954

    The Barefoot Contessa

    Madrid · Los Angeles · Rapallo — 1950s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • 1988

    The Big Blue

    Sicily · Greece · Andes — 1960s · 1980s
    Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Luc Besson
  • 1970

    The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

    Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Dario Argento
  • 2024

    The Brutalist

    Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
    Urbandir. Brady Corbet
  • 1971

    The Conformist

    Paris · Rome — 1930s · 1940s
    Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • 1996

    The English Patient

    Cairo · Sahara · Italy — 1930s · 1940s
    Desert · Ruraldir. Anthony Minghella
  • 1970

    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    Ferrara — 1930s · 1940s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1972

    The Godfather

    New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas — 1940s · 1950s
    Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • 1974

    The Godfather Part II

    New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas · Havana — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1940s · 1950s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • 1990

    The Godfather Part III

    New York City · Sicily — 1970s
    Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • 2013

    The Great Beauty

    Rome — 2010s
    Urbandir. Paolo Sorrentino
  • 1959

    The Great War

    Italy — 1910s
    Ruraldir. Mario Monicelli
  • 1976

    The House with Laughing Windows

    Comacchio — 1970s
    Ruraldir. Pupi Avati
  • 1963

    The Leopard

    Sicily — 1800s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1952

    The Little World of Don Camillo

    Po Valley — 1940s
    Ruraldir. Julien Duvivier
  • 1981

    The Marquis of Grillo

    Rome — 1800s
    Urbandir. Mario Monicelli
  • 1986

    The Name of the Rose

    Italy — Medieval
    Ruraldir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • 1976

    The Omen

    London · Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Richard Donner
  • 1963

    The Pink Panther

    Cortina d'Ampezzo · Rome — 1960s
    Mountain · Urbandir. Blake Edwards
  • 1994

    The Postman

    Italy — 1950s
    Island · Coastal Seadir. Michael Radford
  • 1998

    The Red Violin

    Cremona · Vienna · Oxford · Shanghai · Montreal — Early Modern · 1700s · 1800s · 1960s · 1990s
    Urbandir. François Girard
  • 1969

    The Sicilian Clan

    Paris · Rome · New York City — 1960s
    Urbandir. Henri Verneuil
  • 1999

    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    New York City · Italy — 1950s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Anthony Minghella
  • 1972

    The Way of the Dragon

    Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Bruce Lee
  • 1952

    The White Sheik

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. Federico Fellini
  • 1997

    Three Men and a Leg

    Italy — 1990s
    Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aldo Baglio
  • 1988

    Time of the Gypsies

    Yugoslavia · Milan — 1980s
    Rural · Urbandir. Emir Kusturica
  • 1960

    Two Women

    Rome · Ciociaria — 1940s
    Rural · Mountaindir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1976

    Ugly, Dirty and Bad

    Rome — 1970s
    Urbandir. Ettore Scola
  • 1952

    Umberto D.

    Rome — 1950s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
  • 1965

    Von Ryan's Express

    Italy — 1940s
    Rural · Mountaindir. Mark Robson
  • 1974

    We All Loved Each Other So Much

    Rome — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Ettore Scola
  • 1957

    White Nights

    Livorno — 1950s
    Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
  • 1963

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Naples · Milan · Rome — 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica

Frequently asked

How many movies are set in Italy?

Kinora's catalogue lists 111 films set in Italy, spanning 1940–2024.

What are some movies set in Italy?

Films set in Italy in our catalogue include 1900 (1976), A Room with a View (1986), A Special Day (1977), Accattone (1961), and Amarcord (1973).

What is the oldest movie set in Italy?

Pinocchio (1940) is the earliest film set in Italy in our catalogue; the most recent is The Brutalist (2024).

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