Movies and TV shows set in palermo italy
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in palermo italy ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with mafia, murder, gangster, sicilian, italian mafia, italian gangster, organized crime, family relations, corruption and cosa nostra 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 palermo italy: The Sicilian Girl (2008), Mafia Only Kills in Summer (2016), The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), Hymn to Love (2009), The Whores (1994), Giovanni Falcone (1993), Shut Up and Kiss Me! (2004), Corleone (2007), Corleone (1978), Come Into the Light (2005).
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List of movies set in palermo italy
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
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a daughter of sixteen — struggling with the problems of everyday life. Seemingly ordinary problems, oh, and the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, disturbing, dark comedy
Plot:
mafia, bandit, satire, lifestyle, gang, temptation, crime family, sicilian mafia, mobster, cosa nostra, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, organized crime ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo 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: Documentary
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Documentary in which nine gay couples of different ages talk about their lives, about the everyday joys and sorrows. Interviews not only in Italy but also in Paris, Berlin and Spain.
Style:
lgbt cinema, light, humorous, tense, captivating
Plot:
family relations, gay couple, mother daughter relationship, marriage, gay interest, lesbian interest, gay parent, gay marriage, children, lesbian couple, gay relationship, gay subtext ...
Place:
europe, versailles, catalonia, sicily, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, melancholic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
making love, pimp, sexuality, survival, mature, working class, character study, street life, city life, social realism, exploitation, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. ...
Plot:
mafia, italian mafia, crime family, italian gangster, judge, sicilian mafia, cosa nostra, italian police, carabinieri, heroes, police officer, police officer killed ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
sicily, italy, palermo italy
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ryan and Pete are 27-year old best friends in Miami, born on the same day and each searching for the perfect woman. Ryan is a rookie stockbroker living with his psychic Mom. Pete is a slick surfer dude yet to find commitment. Each meets the women of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
love and romance, friendship, looking for love, family relations, friends, fall in love, buddies, parents and children, gangster, gay, girl, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palermo italy
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, bribery, notoriety, cat and mouse, corrupt politician, mobster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Style:
crime drama, poliziottesco, intense, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
mafia, friendship, corruption, organized crime, gangster, betrayal, power struggle, loyalty, brotherhood, underworld, coming of age, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A priest (Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children by providing them with a place ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, factual
Plot:
coming of age, priest, hopes, murder, mafia, mob boss, hitman, church, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, showdown ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins police inspector Francesco Demir in solving crime with the help of synesthesia.
Style:
psychological, tense, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
sleuth, police investigation, journalist, homicide detective, crime investigation, journalism, male female relationship, opposites attract, partners against crime, relationships, criminal, female journalist ...
Place:
palermo italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, italian mafia, italian gangster, mafia, circus, crime family, wedding, against the odds, hip hop, frame up, drug abuse, political corruption ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, palermo italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl ...
Plot:
skinhead, social injustice, traumatic childhood, gays and lesbians, angry, street kid, gay subtext, drug dealing, juvenile delinquent, rape, unemployed, male pubic hair ...
Place:
italy, palermo italy
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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: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, realistic, not serious, offbeat, witty ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, down syndrome, mafia, gangster, fall in love, insurance fraud, cocaine, murder, mole, italian gangster, amor, dark humor ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
lifestyle change, female protagonist, female writer, ghost writer, changing lives, writer's life, mysterious character, secret, screenwriter, assassination, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, palermo italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Style:
poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, police, italian police, amateur detective, italian gangster, crime family, italian mafia, investigation, love triangle, violent content, gangster, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
Plot:
university, police, friendship, father son relationship, student, joke, trip, smuggler, thief, brother sister relationship, sicilian, fake identity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1975, 21st century
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, italy
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Genre: Crime
Country: Italy
Story:
Italian drama starring Beppe Fiorello, Sebastiano Lo Monaco and Anna Ammirati
Style:
serious, detective, period piece, heroic, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, historical figure, investigation, biopic, law enforcement, police procedural, justice, corruption, organized crime, assassination, courage ...
Time:
90s, turn of the century, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, new york, palermo italy
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
Plot:
unfaithfulness, male female relationship, migrant, train, train conductor, nurse, mother daughter relationship, love, husband wife relationship, teacher, father son relationship, love triangle ...
Time:
60s
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, milan italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante ...
Style:
political thriller, bleak, suspenseful, tension, tragic
Plot:
investigative journalism, air disaster, conspiracy, cover up, investigation, air force, whistleblower, political corruption, realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mediterranean sea, sicily, palermo italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not ...
Style:
poliziottesco, independent film
Plot:
mafia, pizza, woman with a gun, work abroad, european in usa, back in hometown, italian abroad, multiple deaths, erotic dance, family relations, female pubic hair, masturbation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
palermo italy, new york, sicily, italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead ...
Style:
anthology, dark comedy, tragicomedy, black comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
mafia, satire, organized crime, betrayal, resurrection, dual role, moral ambiguity, small town, revenge, character study, theft, poverty ...
Place:
sicily, palermo italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his ...
Style:
comedy drama, humorous, sex comedy, lighthearted
Plot:
referee, soccer, football, moral dilemma, temptation, ambition, celebrity, sexual tension, character study, identity crisis, rivalry, social satire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
palermo italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period drama, tragic
Plot:
deaf, child marriage, female protagonist, forced marriage, patriarchy, disability, feminism, family secret, resilience, self discovery, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, palermo italy
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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: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, non-linear
Plot:
prison, prison life, fighting crime, government facility, price of justice, fish out of water, life is a bitch, society, feminism, government official, life sentence, prison guard ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place:
italy, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
obsession, manipulation, gay, serial killer, lgbtq, homosexuality, secret identity, gay subtext, psychopath, envy, jealousy, sociopath ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe, persia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, progress, social relations, starting over, society, italian immigrant, tradition, superstition, family history, parent child relationship, hopes, emigrant ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, turn of the century ...
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, europe, palermo italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense
Plot:
love affair, dangerous attraction, love and romance, couples, infidelity, gangster, drug dealing, cheating wife, going straight, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, store ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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