Movies Set in Italy in the 1940s

Kinora's catalogue lists 23 films set in Italy in the 1940s, spanning 1943–2024. 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
• 1948

  Bicycle Thieves

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1949

  Bitter Rice

  Po Valley — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Giuseppe De Santis
• 1970

  Catch-22

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

  Cinema Paradiso

  Rome · Sicily — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 2022

  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

  Italy — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson
• 1997

  Life Is Beautiful

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

  Malena

  Sicily — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1964

  Marriage Italian Style

  Naples — 1940s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1943

  Obsession

  Po Valley · Ancona — 1940s
  Rural · Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
• 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
• 1945

  Rome, Open City

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini
• 1946

  Shoeshine

  Rome — 1940s
  Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1999

  Tea with Mussolini

  Florence · San Gimignano — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Franco Zeffirelli
• 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
• 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
• 1952

  The Little World of Don Camillo

  Po Valley — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Julien Duvivier
• 1960

  Two Women

  Rome · Ciociaria — 1940s
  Rural · Mountaindir. Vittorio De Sica
• 1974

  We All Loved Each Other So Much

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