Italian politics movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant italian politics movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, political drama, serious, suspenseful, captivating and political thriller films and TV shows about / with italian politics, corruption, politics, investigation, assassination, politician, political corruption, murder, italian history and satire plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres shot in Italy, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as italian politics: Exterior Night (2022), Loro (2018), The Last 4 Days (1974), Il Divo (2008), The Bodyguards (1993), Loro 2 (2018), The Traitor (2019), Illustrious Corpses (1976), Whatsoeverly (2011), 1994 (2019).
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story:
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Style:
factual, political drama
Plot:
fascism, political violence, alternate history, years of lead, resistance, corruption, terrorism, italian history, cold war, che guevara, female terrorist, neglected wife ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
italy, switzerland, rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, atmospheric, serious, absurd ...
Plot:
sex scene, politician, scandal, rise to the top, society, head of state, rivalry, storytelling, political corruption, greed, interview, blackmail ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!
Style:
contemplative, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
fascism, italian politics, world war, italian history, escape attempt, partisan, resistance, totalitarian state, dystopia, biopic, military, rise and fall ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
alps, milan italy, italy
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20K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
Style:
political, disturbing, philosophical, cerebral, enigmatic ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, italian history, corruption, assassination, terrorist, prime minister, murder, state affairs, idealism, blackmail, head of state ...
Time:
70s, year 2008, year 1993, year 1991, year 1992 ...
Place:
europe, italy, sicily, moscow russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian gangster, italian mafia, mafia, organized crime, crime family, italian politics, politics, assassination, police corruption, political corruption, life turned upside down, political conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite ...
Style:
captivating, period piece, intense, black comedy, cult classic ...
Plot:
italian politics, scandal, politician, extramarital affair, corruption, politics, political unrest, family life, historical figure, political scandal, historical character, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
sardinia, rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, captivating, intense, factual ...
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, gangster, trial, sex, mob boss, sicilian mafia, organized crime, italian history, assassination attempt, assassination ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 2000, year 1992, year 1984 ...
Place:
sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb)
Style:
poliziottesco, detective, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
italian politics, conspiracy, police, politics, italian police, serial killer, city, organized crime, italian mafia, sicilian mafia, trust, jazz ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
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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: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
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Story:
After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, political, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
corruption, political scandal, political intrigue, affair, italian history, politics, political conspiracy, italian politics, corrupt politician, scandal, society, political corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The series follows Benito Mussolini's career from his founding of the Fasci Italiani in 1919 through the assassination of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1925.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dramatic, political thriller, grim ...
Plot:
italian history, fascism, rise to power, nationalism, biopic, italian politics, authoritarianism, political violence, tyranny, character study, ambition, assassination ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, serious, political drama
Plot:
moral dilemma, character study, grief, italian politics, loneliness, legacy, redemption, family secret, midlife crisis, slow burn, widower, bureaucracy ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband is murdered and, unfortunately, their fears are realized. ...
Style:
political thriller, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, political intrigue, political corruption, italian politics, mafia, female protagonist, conspiracy, fear, justice, investigation, danger, intimidation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to ...
Style:
tense, captivating, political thriller, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, assassination, political unrest, father daughter conflict, haunted by the past, years of lead, daughter, father and daughter, social problems, teenager, insurgent, life is a bitch ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
Plot:
christmas, hotel, murder, escapades, interrogation, friendship, disorder, killer, wanted, danger, money, chase ...
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his ...
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, thought provoking, allegory, controversial ...
Plot:
poet, biopic, symbolism, marxism, screenwriter, portrait, italian politics, religion, life & death, scandal, violent death, blasphemy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Style:
satirical, parody, black comedy, controversial, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political corruption, satire, conspiracy, corruption, secret society, political satire, scandal, cover up, social satire, social commentary, dark humor, political intrigue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story about how the pact beetween Italian State and Mafia was inked with innocence blood.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, controversial ...
Plot:
mafia, corruption, gangster, society, controversy, organized crime, political conspiracy, true crime, negotiation, betrayal, cover up, assassination ...
Place:
italy, sicily
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Genre: Biography, Crime, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, thrilling, detective, bleak ...
Plot:
mafia, investigation, crime family, organized crime, assassination, uncover truth, crime solving, who done it, forensics, police detective, police investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
sicily
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 410 min.
TV show
Story:
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, political drama
Plot:
fascism, world war two, world war, italian fascism, rape, tyrant, villain as protagonist, italian politics, son in law, ss, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 1937, 1940s, post world war one ...
Place:
milan italy, austria, switzerland, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
Style:
historical drama, tension, political thriller, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, kidnapping, political violence, power struggle, political unrest, hostage situation, social commentary, conspiracy, mourning, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Plot:
politics, election, corruption, investigation, political corruption, manipulation, bribery, fighting the system, dishonesty, state affairs, city council, lie ...
Time:
1940s, year 1963, 60s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is ...
Plot:
cold war era, kolkhoz, tractor, mayor, vodka, communism, italian opera, journalist, confusion, blackmail, revenge, italian abroad ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, italy, ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Style:
social, not serious, comedy drama, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
corruption, italian politics, politician, protest, labor union, family relations, truth, crooked politician, corrupt politician, redemption, political satire, honesty ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when ...
Style:
informative, tragic, political drama
Plot:
based on real people, communist party, politics, communism, italian politics, kidnapping, career, communist, newspaper, life, blackmail, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1973, year 1984, 20th century, 80s, year 1975 ...
Place:
rome italy, soviet union
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Style:
melancholic, period piece, political, social documentary, experimental ...
Plot:
female protagonist, class struggle, gender roles, identity crisis, alienation, moral ambiguity, character study, city life, bittersweet, coming of age, political intrigue, girl ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, iconic filmmaker Orson Welles (Danny Huston) makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
filmmaking, murder, starting over, investigation, movie business, manipulation, femme fatale, showbiz, dishonesty, private detective, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, post world war two, year 1948
Place:
italy, europe, usa, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A chief of detectives, homicide section, commits a murder and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Style:
surreal, bleak, psychological, political, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, politics, police investigation, police, courtroom drama, satire, gay husband, years of lead, extramarital affair, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, clever, funny ...
Plot:
twins, politics, political rally, impostor, campaign, switching roles, disorder, hidden identity, state affairs, dishonesty, political party, politician ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, france
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