Mediterranean movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mediterranean movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, melancholic, realistic, sexy, weird and tense films and TV shows about / with mediterranean, betrayal, love, summer, secrets, male nudity, female nudity, beach, couples and nude plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Italy, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mediterranean: A Previous Engagement (2008), The Holiday (2021), Respiro (2002), What? (1972), Sex and Lucia (2001), The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Donkey (2009), Mamma Mia! (2008), Pierrot the Fool (1965).
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love and romance, lovers reunited, couple relations, dull life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, love, adultery, mediterranean, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, malta
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Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story follows Kate, a woman who discovers that her husband is having an affair during a luxurious holiday somewhere in the Mediterranean. The troubled couple are sharing a villa with four of Kate’s closest friends, one of which is the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
family holiday, mediterranean, murder, betrayal, adultery, killing, family problems, infidelity, murder mystery, eccentric family, family relations, couple relations ...
Place:
malta
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style:
sincere, talky, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, coming of age, beach, island, teenage boy, teenage girl, villager, swimming, mentally unstable, human nature, family life, injustice ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right.
Style:
black comedy, sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, sexuality, beach, absurdism, erotica, female nudity, nudity, voyeurism, mediterranean, american abroad, attempted rape, villa ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, eastern europe, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, naughty, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, erotica, porn, female masturbation, hopes, waitress, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't ...
Style:
romantic drama, existential, atmospheric, psychological, art film ...
Plot:
mediterranean, obsession, loneliness, sailing, identity, love triangle, mysterious stranger, bittersweet, illusion, love, party, beach ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother ...
Style:
tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, bleak ...
Plot:
family conflict, fatherhood, mediterranean, husband wife relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, death of mother, family drama, father son estrangement, mother son relationship, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, serbia
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
wedding, mother daughter relationship, dancing, father daughter relationship, single parent, greek island, teenage girl, single mother, happy ending, dance, broadway, meet the parents ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, fictional island, italy, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
on the road, surrealism, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, on the run, vietnam war, couples, infidelity, lovers, couple relations, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 1965, 60s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, paris france, europe, africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style:
romantic, period piece, humorous, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, love story, relationships, cons and scams, fish out of water, happy ending, destiny, marriage proposal, medium, magician, plot twist ...
Time:
1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, provence, south of france, french riviera ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, private detective, murder, whodunit, amateur detective, multiple suspects, hercule poirot, hotel, writers, couple relations, gem, investigation ...
Time:
year 1982, 1930s, 20th century, 80s, 1920s
Place:
mediterranean sea, greece, south of france, albania, england ...
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Genre: Mystery
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, contemplative
Plot:
water shortage, heat wave, immigrant, seaside, hostility, alone, isolated house, loneliness, isolation, police, police officer, beach ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
greece
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Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. It follows on the story from the pilot of the same name, and revolves around the series' protagonist, Sinbad. The series is a re-telling of the adventures ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, stylized, light, epic fantasy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sword fight, escapades, sinbad, sword and sorcery, adventurer, travel, danger, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, ocean, sailor, mediterranean ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
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Genre: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. Together with his ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
adventurer, travel, sea voyage, journey, exploration, mediterranean, rivalry, friendship, innovation, expedition, determination, competition ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1820s
Place:
india, bombay india, london, saudi arabia, egypt
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the adventures of four brothers who become seafarers. ...
Style:
suspense, historical drama, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
pirate, sea voyage, turkish history, sea battle, seafaring, mediterranean, sea adventure, piracy, pirate ship, brothers, pirate captain, admiral ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
ottoman empire
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Spain
TV show
Story:
Gala is a New York City socialite on the run in a quaint Spanish town with her mother and daughter. Gala's new life brings her into the path of a brash but charming winery owner—and a deep well of family secrets.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mediterranean, lifestyle change, family problems, problem, changing lives, marital problem, money problems, financial problem, countryside, small town life ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After turning 60, a wealthy woman suddenly falls in love with an attractive and much younger man, but her family raises doubts about his intentions.
Style:
dramatic, sensual, suspense, twisted
Plot:
mediterranean, secrets, forbidden love, family drama, seduction, passion, motherhood, class conflict, intimacy, matriarchy, scandal, betrayal ...
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of five women who face labor injustices and everyday problems as maids in a hotel on the Mediterranean Coast.
Style:
entertaining, witty, captivating, humorous, realistic
Plot:
women, hotel, waitress, employment, social commentary, mediterranean, workplace, chambermaid, job, female protagonist, coworker, woman ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, melancholic, art house
Plot:
relationships, intimate, introspection, mediterranean, slice of life, small town, friendship, community, resilience, bittersweet, slow burn, coming of age ...
Place:
sardinia
Is relevant?
Country: Italy
Story:
Anemos is a conceptual film in which, following the call to spirituality, we go through history on a trip from Magna Grecia to the Aeolian Islands, from the desert to the Cathar countries, observing the wind that rushes towards the Mediterranean. We ...
Style:
spiritual, poetic, contemplative, philosophical, meditative ...
Plot:
mysticism, humanity, mediterranean, pilgrimage, environmentalism, revelation, immigration, haunting, desert
Place:
sicily, italy, south of france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
TV show
Story:
The sea has the power to unite, but also the cruelty to separate people forever. A country like Greece, with the sea and boat trips written in its DNA from ancient times to today.
Style:
melancholic, serious, emotional, bleak, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sea, shipwreck, loss, grief, mediterranean, survival, trauma, mourning, danger, island life, isolation, storm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands ...
Style:
humorous, period piece, satirical, romantic comedy, lighthearted
Plot:
hotel manager, summer, mediterranean, everyday life, class differences, nude beach, getting home, fish out of water, social commentary, exploitation, tourist attraction, summer romance ...
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
Style:
sitcom, family comedy, situational comedy, light hearted, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
children, yacht, vacation, mediterranean, summer vacation, family bonds, stowaway, cruise, parenting, responsibility, midlife crisis, siblings ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A comedy about three Bavarian guys who are traveling to Saint Tropez.
Style:
sex comedy, buddy comedy, lighthearted, slapstick
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fish out of water, road trip, party, summer, mediterranean, farce, sexual innuendo, fetish, bare butt, nudity, german humor, holiday ...
Place:
south of france, provence, saint tropez
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Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Style:
romantic, action adventure, historical romance, costume drama, tense ...
Plot:
pirate, female protagonist, seafaring, heroine, romantic reunion, mediterranean, danger, escape, loyalty, bravery, captured, betrayal ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, moody
Plot:
obsession, mediterranean, stalker, go go dancer, young woman, dangerous attraction, coastal town, nightlife, female protagonist, danger, manipulation, seaside ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
french riviera
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Ilana travels to Santorini with her Greek boyfriend Mike for his sister Alex's wedding, she's thrilled to be asked to be her American Maid of Honor. Mike surprises Ilana by proposing, leaving Ilana gets caught in the whirlwind created ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, exciting, sincere ...
Plot:
wedding, overprotective mother, couple relations, love and romance, couples, mother and son, love affair, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, parents and children, male female relationship, relationships ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
How do you solve a murder in a post-fact world? Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone on board is hiding something… but is one of them a killer? That’s what the world’s once ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, thrilling, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, boat, murder investigation, ocean liner, lesbian, secret, murderer, intrigue, crime solving, uncover truth, investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
near future
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