| Sud (1993) | 6.4 | |
| Catch-22 (2019) | 7.7 | |
| The Sucker (1965) | 7.3 | |
| The Leopard (1963) | 7.9 | |
| The Godfather Part II (1974) | 9.0 |
Movies and TV shows set in southern italy
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in southern italy ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, tense, feel good, melancholic and light films and TV shows about / with small town, family relations, satire, female nudity, coming of age, isolation, friendship, death, social commentary and relationships plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Italy, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as southern italy: The Trick in the Sheet (2010), That Malicious Age (1975), Il dono (2003), Bambina (1974), I Hate Summer (2020), The Ciambra (2017), Contempt (1963), Terraferma (2011), Sud (1993), I'm Not Scared (2003).
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List of movies set in southern italy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it "o 'imbroglie din t'o lenzuolo" - "The Trick in the Sheet", as white sheets were used ...
Style:
psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, family comedy ...
Plot:
film history, actor, cinema, film industry, movie business, social relations, society, mistrust, lifestyle change, social problems, social change, village life ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
southern italy, italy, sicily, naples italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gardener Nino Castellano takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Gloria Guida and Anita Sanders which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem!
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sexy, sensual
Plot:
hairy armpit, nude fight, adultery, voyeurism, menage a trois, lesbian sex, gardener, love triangle, petting, mayhem, job, death ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern italy, ibiza, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, semi documentary
Plot:
mystery woman, empathy, character study, elderly man, possession, compassion, religion, secrets, humanism, moral dilemma, outsider, small town ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an ...
Style:
depressing, erotic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
maid, sex, nymphomaniac, virginity, erotica, sex with a maid, female nudity, affair, illicit affair, mentally challenged, kidnapping, nymphet ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family holiday, family vacation, beach, road trip, island, family relations, father son relationship, vacation, parents and children, friendship, old friend, travel ...
Place:
southern italy, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style:
neorealism, psychological, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
gypsy, coming of age, male female relationship, friendship, chase, brother sister relationship, betrayal, petty criminal, father son relationship, teenager, family relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
southern italy, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style:
art house, erotic, philosophical, biting, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, writers, film producer, estranged couple, car accident, film industry, passive aggression, swimming pool, relationships ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, france, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, tense
Plot:
tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit, migration ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A bunch of hopeless unemployed occupy a polling place during general election in Italy to protest and report the mafia affairs of Mr. Cannavacciuolo. He is candidate and is setting up a fraud to be elected anyway. Lucia, his daughter, is taken as ...
Style:
tense, political thriller, political drama
Plot:
hostage situation, mafia, corrupt politician, small town, unemployment, political candidate, social realism, desperation, class struggle, media circus, moral ambiguity, riot police ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, kidnapping, boy, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, children, captivity, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, year 1978, 21st century
Place:
italy, southern italy, milan italy, europe, brazil ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of ...
Style:
slow cinema, disturbing, captivating, tense, art house ...
Plot:
cave, underground, search party, escapades, explorer, research, silence, minimalism, isolation, outsider, nostalgia, european ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family secret, satire, family relations, father daughter relationship, identity, relationships, eccentric family, family problems, social satire, husband wife relationship, humour ...
Place:
southern italy, naples italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, social satire, culture clash, workplace, workplace situations, couple relations, disorder, couples, postman, misunderstanding, everyday life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, southern italy, europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the 19th century, when the southern lands of Italy are bandit territory, Filomena escapes her wealthy but sad life to lead a risky treasure hunt.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, thrilling, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
battles, bandit, treasure, changing lives, organized crime, female protagonist, lifestyle change, gang war, highwayman, criminal, gang warfare, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family secret, secret, life is a bitch, undercover, coming of age, silence, grownups, rebellion, family drama, secrets ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Story:
In the southern Italian village where writer Dora comes from, a sadistic murderer tortures and kills several people. The killer is inspired by the crime novels written by Dora herself. Two police officers investigate the case and suspect Dora and ...
Style:
dark, tension, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, sadistic killer, investigation, suspicion, violence, publisher, small town, slow burn, cat and mouse, obsession, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another.
Style:
funny, light, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
rivalry, chef, friendship, competition, food, family relations, relationships, humour, cooking and food, restaurant owner, rivals, restaurant ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
milan italy, southern italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Style:
slow cinema, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic, poetic ...
Plot:
identity, getting home, mother son relationship, character study, minimalism, train travel, nostalgia, portrait, realism, intimate, slice of life, emigration ...
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, corsica
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
Style:
period drama, tragic
Plot:
world war two, sexual abuse, female protagonist, coming of age, sexual awakening, adolescence, sensuality, trauma, rape, village life, class conflict, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
southern italy, italy
Is relevant?
859
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Third movie about the character of Cetto La Qualunque (Antonio Albanese)
Style:
satirical, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, politics, crown prince, lifestyle change, restaurant, money, restaurant owner, royal family, changing lives, prince, inheritance ...
Place:
italy, southern italy, germany
Is relevant?
216
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The friendship between two Southern Italy kids is tested by their meeting with a young girl who's attempted suicide after failing to get married. Based on the novel "Il paese delle spose infelici" (literally, "Village of the Sad ...
Style:
atmospheric, moody
Plot:
coming of age, loneliness, love triangle, small town, suicide attempt, melancholy, bittersweet, male friendship, sexual tension, slow burn, literary, social realism ...
Place:
southern italy, poetic realism, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, single parent, promise, grief, poverty, loss, mourning, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Giulia is thirty years old and unmarried. She has a good job which allows her to travel and lead a luxurious life in Milan and Paris. She is convinced that she has everything she needs for happiness, but after meeting Renzo, a charming Apulian ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot:
love story, family farm, inheritance, funeral, farmhouse, destiny, female protagonist, career, small town life, personal growth, relationships, heartwarming ...
Place:
paris france, southern italy, milan italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, satirical, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, family drama, family problems, outcast, irony, social problems, relationship problems, society, lifestyle, family relations, lighthouse, acceptance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
Style:
sexy, humorous, not serious, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
political satire, farce, politics, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, campaign, satire, state affairs, politician, corruption, political corruption, opportunism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, southern italy, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A judge decides to dedicate his life to go after the members of the 'Ndrangheta-mafia, when he meets a young heir who longs for a life without criminality.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, crime family, justice, criminal, judge, gang, crime boss, mafioso, outlaw gang, bandit, criminal gang ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won't be as simple as they'd hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, humorous, queer cinema
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, gays and lesbians, artificial insemination, lesbian couple, motherhood, lgbtq, wanting a baby, couple relations, family relations, relationships, family problems ...
Place:
southern italy, barcelona
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, bittersweet, coming of age, family problems, youth, family relations, older sister, imaginary friend, escape from reality, superhero, family drama, imagination ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, southern italy, sicily
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
community, small town, village life, escapades, society, disorder, heroes, friendship, friends, rich and poor, happy ending, dishonesty ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
southern italy
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