Mediterranean movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of mediterranean movies
123
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young lawyer arrives on a island in Spain with a weight on his conscience that is about to drive him to suicide. The encounter with a young teenager discovering sexuality will first reveal her vulnerabilities and finally her cynicism.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
island, suicidal thoughts, sexual awakening, coming of age, guilt, conscience, problem, suicidal tendency, advocate, loneliness, character study, regret ...
Place:
spain
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797
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension, emotional ...
Plot:
storm, small village, prediction, relationships, threat, fortune teller, female protagonist, countryside, superstition, folklore, three generations, family drama ...
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277
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, sensual, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
desire, love triangle, sexual tension, unrequited love, passion, domestic drama, coming of age, loss, working class, forbidden romance, aspiration, jealousy ...
Place:
athens greece
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265
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, existential, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, escape, alienation, character study, frustration, social realism, forbidden love, cross cultural relations, illicit affair, mature, loneliness, class conflict ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!
Style:
suspense, tense, eurospy
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, spy thriller, secret agent, nuclear threat, conspiracy, investigation, undercover, greek, danger, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Peplum movie from 1964
Style:
fast paced, period piece, light hearted
Plot:
peplum, rescue mission, brotherhood, evil queen, mythology, ancient world, spectacle, friendship, mediterranean, violence, evil, bare chested male ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Film inspired on the character from "Don Juan Tenorio".
Style:
sexy, erotic, sex comedy, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
sexploitation, seduction, womanizer, erotica, lust, promiscuity, intimate, mediterranean, literary, castration, scandal, bohemian ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to ...
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspense, tragic ending, noir ...
Plot:
kidnapping, paranoia, female protagonist, suspicion, hostage rescue, confrontation, organized crime, betrayal, manhunt, crime investigation, investigation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
sardinia, italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
Style:
uplifting, lighthearted, feel good, romantic comedy, retro ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
love, greek, farce, mediterranean, satire, travel, small town, marriage, identity, mistaken identity, holiday, wedding ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. ...
Style:
clever, period piece, lighthearted, tension, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, jewel theft, blackmail, caper, con artists, mediterranean, escape plan, moral ambiguity, bank, cat and mouse, revenge ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
spain, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual ...
Style:
philosophical, bleak, psychological, art house, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, trial, murder, existentialism, apathy, indifference, alienation, colonialism, fatalism, beach, character study, literary ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
algeria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, humorous, romantic
Plot:
love triangle, brothers, family drama, ex couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, romantic triangle, relationships, romancing partners, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love affair ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in ...
Style:
psychological, crime drama, captivating, thrilling, dark ...
Plot:
criminal, life, problem, fatalism, fate, moral ambiguity, realism, urban decay, slow burn, minimalism, social commentary, corruption ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Malta
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the shade of Malta’s scorching sun, around the edges of the Swedish online-gambling community, exiled con man Dimman shows up for a lavish wedding, kicking off a desperate and decadent pursuit of redemption.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, dark comedy
Plot:
shame, con artists, secrets, character study, redemption, fraud, guilt, moral ambiguity, temptation, identity crisis, decadence, exile ...
Place:
malta
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280
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Saverio Lamanna, a journalist turned spokesman for an influential government politician, is fired after committing imprudence at work. Defeated both emotionally and professionally, Saverio decides to leave Rome and return to Màkari, his birthplace ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
investigation, lifestyle change, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, changing lives, new life, fired from the job, amateur detective, tradition, small town, friendship ...
Place:
sicily
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839
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, France, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island where she tries to survive, then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour guide and together they find the resilience ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
hopes, friendship, refugee, connection, character study, love story, male female relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, love interest, couples ...
Place:
greece, liberia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain
Duration: 370 min.
TV show
Story:
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from ...
Style:
tense, psychological, detective, crime drama, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, serial killer, police detective, murder investigation, female police detective, brutal murder, murderer, crime investigation, secret, murder mystery, police investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, youth, family relations, society, social issues, identity, memory, adaptation, reminiscence, literary, autobiography, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, algeria, north africa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
As a vicious drug dealer tries to overtake Marseille, a rogue police captain and his daredevil team welcome a new recruit with an agenda of her own.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, crime thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
drug trade, investigation, group, criminal, police, con artists, drug crime, drug traffic, drug, drug dealing, drug lord, illegal drugs ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
marseille
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Genre: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An aged , above any suspicion, bourgeois by the nickname 'The Master', lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter. In reality, however, he is an illicit trade in antiquities, a loan shark and a black market ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
loan shark, hitman, prostitute, obsession, antique dealer, forbidden love, underworld, organized crime, fight, rescue, femme fatale, fall in love ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Hotel Conte del Mare hosts some very unusual guests in a rather special room, the Red Room.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, satirical, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
hotel, hotel room, receptionist, secrets, satire, moral ambiguity, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, obsession, symbolism, intimate ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Olivia, after having attempted suicide, is investigated for her collaboration in an art smuggling ring with Yaman, her Turkish lover with whom she is in love.
Style:
soap opera, captivating, romantic, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
longing, passion, love, love and romance, couples, love affair, love interest, couple relations, amor, professor, romantic relationship, love story ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid ...
Style:
controversial, historical drama, art house, intense, political drama
Plot:
opera, terrorism, hostage, israeli palestinian conflict, controversy, adaptation, moral ambiguity, kidnapping, tragedy, confrontation, ship, mediterranean ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a ...
Style:
inspirational, scenic, emotional, cute, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
horse, horse race, beach, boy horse relationship, shipwreck, human animal relationship, child, survival, stallion, desert island, widow, single mother ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
detroit, bronx new york city, new york, astoria oregon
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Croatia, USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his ...
Style:
satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
satire, cia agent, male friendship, american abroad, ex husband ex wife relationship, movie star, bromance, father daughter relationship, undercover, drug lord, special agent, celebrity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain, former yugoslavia, mediterranean sea, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, surreal, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, anti war, satire, military, bomber, male nudity, soldier, aviation, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, sardinia, mediterranean sea, new york ...
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588
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, dark comedy, black comedy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicidal, social satire, dysfunctional family, teenager, husband wife relationship, journey, save the day, aunt nephew relationship, mediterranean, atmosphere, teenage protagonist, half sister ...
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style:
touching, serious, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, gays and lesbians, island, lesbian romance, lesbianism, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian sex, village life ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century, 1800s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, sicily
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.
Style:
feel good, witty, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, breast cancer, couples, love and romance, wedding planning, fall in love, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, hairdresser, meet the parents, bald woman ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
nordic, police vigilantism, plot twist, police, telephone call, race against time, guilt, kidnapping, mission, police officer, revelation, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, future
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