Sicilian movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sicilian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, visually appealing, talky, atmospheric and masterpiece films and TV shows about / with sicilian, family relations, murder, death, culture clash, mafia, runaway, storytelling, love and kiss plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in Italy, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sicilian: The Star Maker (1995), The Sicilian Girl (2008), Divorce Italian Style (1961), The Golden Girls (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Sicilian Vampire (2015), The Godfather Part III (1990), The Godfather Part II (1974), True Romance (1993), The Sicilian Clan (1969).
Best films
New films
| Anna (2021) | 7.0 | |
| Marianna Ucria (1997) | 6.0 | |
| In the Mix (2005) | 3.0 | |
| Friends and Family (2001) | 6.3 | |
| Golden Door (2006) | 6.8 |
List of sicilian movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
erotic scene, filmmaking, love and romance, hidden identity, self discovery, disorder, hopes, village life, cons and scams, village, small town, on the road ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, madrid, rome italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
betrayal, mafia, sicilian, village, murder, danger, testimony, family life, youth, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1991, year 1985
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Style:
black comedy, humorous, witty, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
divorce, sicilian, cousin cousin relationship, murder, manipulation, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s, 18th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life. He meets ...
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
sicilian, sexual frustration, jealousy, culture clash, erotica, husband wife relationship, porn industry, porn, female nudity, cycling, workout, porn star ...
Time:
70s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
old woman, female protagonist, widow, senior citizen, sicilian, friendship, elderly, group of friends, dating, southern belle, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
florida, sicily, miami, atlanta georgia, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death ...
Style:
fairy tale, touching, romantic, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
sword fight, revenge, swashbuckler, true love, love and romance, pirate, medieval, imaginary kingdom, love, love story, prince, lovers apart ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 20th century, year 1987, victorian era ...
Place:
seattle, canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Equal parts Goodfellas and Dusk till Dawn, Sicilian Vampire tells the story of reputed mobster Sonny Traficante who was hoping to get away to the family hunt lodge for a little rest and relaxation and create some memories. Instead, what he got was a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, mafia, sicilian, revenge, superhuman powers, henchman, killing, bandit, supernatural power, society, supernatural ability, monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
saga, epic, neo noir, visually appealing, bad ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, gangster, violence, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, guilt, sicilian mafia, assassination, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, new york, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, dark comedy, intense, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, cocaine, lovers on the run, gangster, mafia, gunfight, shootout, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, bodyguard, love, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, seattle, michigan ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, crime drama, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, caper, mafia, sicilian, organized crime, gangster, robbery, female nudity, criminal, security system, family honor, escape from custody ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
rome italy, france, paris france, venice, italy ...
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2.2M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story:
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, sad, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, sister in law sister in law relationship, mental illness, cafe, politics, musician, idealism, hopes, couple relations, friendship, storytelling, police brutality ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 2003, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, sicily, lebanon, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Style:
neorealism, dark comedy, poliziottesco, art house, hood ...
Plot:
italian mafia, gangster, factory, mafia, police, sicilian, gang, city, ghetto, italian gangster, cosa nostra, immigrant ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
italy, sicily, new york, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to ...
Style:
political, neorealism, poliziottesco, detective, neo noir ...
Plot:
terrorist, politics, revolution, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, world war two, trial, sicilian, passion, mafia, death, italian gangster ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, 50s, 60s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, europe, palermo italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and ...
Style:
neorealism, cynical, dark comedy, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
violent father, seduction, italian neorealism, unwanted pregnancy, sicilian, pregnant girl, infamy, feminism, dream, time travel, pregnancy, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy, southern italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style:
epic, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, nothing goes right, farce, father son relationship, mafia, casino, satire, american football, femme fatale, assassination, voice over narration, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place:
las vegas, sicily, italy, europe, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.
Style:
contemplative, neorealism, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
minimal dialogue, italian neorealism, sicilian, european, worker, long distance relationship, longing, renewed love, couples, promotion, introspection, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, gay, thief, friendship, human nature, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, mexico, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a ...
Style:
anthology, sexy, erotic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, medieval, male pubic hair, adult humor, naked man, male nudity, erection, siblings relations, infidelity, sexual relations, sex with a priest, forbidden love ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, year 1971
Place:
italy, europe, germany, naples italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever ...
Style:
anthology, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque
Plot:
sicilian, police officer, satire, homelessness, restaurant, mafia, kidnapping, hitchhiking, funeral, hospital, police, priest ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
Five stories center around a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Style:
anthology, neorealism, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
ghost, anarchist, fall in love, pumpkin, sex, dialectical materialism, sicilian, family relations, psychopath, human nature, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
sicily, persia, italy, europe, southern italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, political ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, legal, murder, injustice, life is a bitch, courtroom, judge, lawyer, italian fascism, sicilian, court case ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1937
Place:
italy, palermo italy
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
Style:
surreal, satirical, intellectual, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
motorcycle, eccentricity, multiple storylines, satire, self discovery, diary, introspection, midlife crisis, lifestyle, friendship, terminal illness, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 70s, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sad, breathtaking, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
poet, poetry, writers, love, friendship, communism, island, postman, bicycle, art, letter, amor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1994, 90s, future ...
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, chile, naples italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, youth, gangster, unfulfilled love, coincidence, love and romance, innocence lost, mob boss, italian mafia, italian gangster, cosa nostra, boss ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
pope, world war two, catholic priest, catholic, money, forbidden love, religion, politics, female nudity, sicilian, christian, christianity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1982, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, italy, brooklyn new york city
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