Movies and TV shows set in napoli italy

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in napoli italy ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, poliziottesco, captivating and disturbing films and TV shows about / with camorra, gangster, death, police, female nudity, police officer, murder, bare chested male, betrayal and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Italy, France, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as napoli italy: Scent of a Woman (1974), Maradona, the Hand of God (2007), Vito and the Others (1991), Black Holes (1995), Gomorrah (2008), Macaroni (1985), The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966), Ultras (2020), Love and Bullets (2017), The King of Laughter (2021).

List of movies set in napoli italy

Scent of a Woman (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few ...
Style: black comedy, psychological, philosophical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: blind man, blindness, blind character, bitterness, road trip, disability, soldier, female nudity, lottery ticket, priest, cowardice, anger ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy
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Maradona, the Hand of God (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, uplifting
Plot: rise and fall, rise to the top, lifestyle, prodigy, athlete's life, society, rivalry, rising to stardom, hopes, rehabilitation, folk hero, addiction ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: argentina, napoli italy, naples italy
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Vito and the Others (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A despairing Rosario has just murdered his wife and daughter at the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Somehow, Vito quietly convinces his father to drop the gun, spare their lives and call the police. Placed in the custody of sexually abusive ...
Style: gay cinema
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: gay rape, male rape victim, coming of age, rape victim, sex scene, rape, male rape, young boy, bare chested male, youth, boy strangling, tiger ...
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
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Black Holes (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we can follow among fantasy, mythology and reality the absurd life of the protagonists.
Plot: extreme, lgbt, erotica, love, bloody corpse, bare chested male, man in underwear, homoeroticism, gay man has sex with a woman, male full rear nudity, chicken, woman in a bikini ...
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
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Gomorrah (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style: tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
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 6.4
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Macaroni (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unrequited love, culture clash, friendship, on the road, mistaken identity, buddies, society, dishonesty, love and romance, couples, disorder, family relations ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy, milan italy
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The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
Plot: heist, television, male protagonist, photograph, yacht, hospital, convict, tourist, female criminal, slut, drunkenness, dead body ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: napoli italy, italy, naples italy, europe
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 6.2
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Ultras (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
Style: aesthetic
Plot: soccer, hooligan, motorcycle, conflict, football hooligan, coming of age, smoking, wedding dress, cell phone, mobile phone, police, tattooed man ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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Love and Bullets (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A Camorra boss fakes his own death in order to start a new life elsewhere with his family, but a nurse happens to see him alive and well after the funeral. A hitman is promptly sent to get rid of her, only to find out that she's his first and ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, romantic, crime drama, dark comedy ...
Plot: murder mystery, camorra, criminal, gangster, faked death, murder, organized crime, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, criminal gang, hidden truth, love and romance, relationships ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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The King of Laughter (2021)
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, parody, poignant ...
Plot: playwright, theater, biopic, theatre play, courtroom drama, actor, stage actor, fictional biography, lifestyle, comedian, legal battle, historical figure ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and ...
Style: sexy, anthology, neorealism, sexual, aesthetic ...
Plot: pregnant wife, prostitute, striptease, temptation, unemployment, sexual freedom, forbidden love, redheaded woman, large family, palm reading, extramarital affair, women's prison ...
Time: 1950s, year 1963, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: rome italy, italy, milan italy, naples italy, napoli italy ...
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The Art of Happiness (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler ...
Style: contemplative, serious, touching, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: buddhism, taxi driver, surrealism, workplace, life turned upside down, workplace situations, dream, brother brother relationship, communist, dealing with death, radio dj, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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Song of Napoli (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Young musician becomes an undercover agent and is asked to join a neomelodic band in order to allow police to get their hands on an elusive camorra boss.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot: camorra, police chase, police officer, escapades, gangster, criminal, mafia, bandit, gang, music, satire, music band ...
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
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 7.0
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Martin Eden (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to ...
Style: cerebral, social, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: individualism, class struggle, young lovers, love at first sight, love and romance, secret love, social differences, couples, love affair, love triangle, writers, sword duel ...
Time: 70s
Place: naples italy, italy, napoli italy
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Cinderella the Cat (2017)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, anime ...
Plot: camorra, evil stepmother, stepmother, mob boss, ship, drug dealing, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, fighting crime, drug traffic, port, crime boss, organized crime ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his ...
Style: serious, disturbing, captivating, psychological, hood ...
Plot: killer, murder, society, danger, brutality, revenge, life & death, parents and children, camorra, gang, gangster, ghetto ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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Bets & Wedding Dresses (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Franco Campanella, a former postal worker earning under €1,000 monthly, is devoted to his family but addicted to gambling. On his daughter Luisa’s wedding eve, he promises to save for expenses but, after being denied a loan, gambles away tens of ...
Style: cynical, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light ...
Plot: family relations, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, gambling, dishonesty, young lovers, youth, parents and children, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, family problems ...
Place: europe, italy, rome italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, mockbuster, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: volcano, tourist, daring rescue, forces of nature, family in danger, chaos and mayhem, escapades, heroes, disaster, rescue mission, lava, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, napoli italy, pompeii
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Domenica (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis and Domenica,an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day along the vicoli of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he must take Domenica to the morgue., to ...
Style: melancholic, touching, realistic, existential
Plot: police inspector, orphan, bittersweet, hopes, character study, loss, childhood trauma, moving, journey, loneliness, morgue, resilience ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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Nasty Love (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When her elderly mother dies - apparently happy but in curious circumstances - her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: abuse, abusive parent, physical abuse, teen violence, domestic violence, domestic abuse, death of mother, reconciliation, feminist, urban setting, female investigator, hairy bush ...
Place: naples italy, napoli italy
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Farinelli (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Farinelli is a 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Style: sexy, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, factual ...
Plot: opera, music, art, opera singer, brother brother relationship, classical music, destiny, life philosophy, musician, siblings relations, sex, artist ...
Time: 18th century, ancient times, year 1994
Place: europe, madrid, napoli italy, italy, london ...
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Contraband (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape and revenge, rape, mafia, chase, gangster, gang, drug dealing, rivalry, law enforcement, tough heroes, criminal heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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Flatfoot in Africa (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediatlz before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Riyyo travels to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, cop, conspiracy, escapades, tough law enforcer, heroes, gang, against the odds, violent content, airplane, party, car chase ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: south africa, africa, napoli italy, naples italy, italy
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The Sucker (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: car chase, anti hero, hitchhiker, gangster, dishonesty, odd couple, partner, disorder, drug dealing, chase, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, paris france, france, naples italy, southern italy ...
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The Mafia Triangle (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge.
Style: crime drama, poliziottesco, crime thriller, dark, period piece ...
Plot: camorra, mafia, organized crime, mob boss, revenge, underworld, gang violence, urban, violent, betrayal, loyalty, hitman ...
Place: naples italy, italy, new york, usa, napoli italy
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The Last Judgment (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, ...
Style: philosophical, anthology, art house, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: social commentary, human nature, everyday life, moral dilemma, hypocrisy, existentialism, reflection, satire, absurdism, corruption, clergy, city life ...
Time: 60s
Place: naples italy, italy, napoli italy, europe
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The New Godfathers (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international ...
Style: crime drama, poliziottesco, suspenseful, bloody, tension ...
Plot: mafia, smuggling, drug smuggling, heroin, organized crime, underworld, betrayal, italian police, violent, loyalty, confrontation, law enforcement ...
Time: 70s
Place: naples italy, italy, usa, napoli italy
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Libera (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This high-energy three part comedy has a strong undercurrent of melancholy, as it shows three different women coping with difficult situations which are usually sexual in origin, even if the moment of romance is long past. In the first tale, Aurora ...
Style: emotional, tense, anthology, surprise ending
Plot: infidelity, character study, relationships, betrayal, deception, desire for fame, family secret, marriage crisis, working class, slice of life, multiple storylines, social realism ...
Time: 90s
Place: naples italy, italy, napoli italy
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The Knock Out Cop (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!
Style: slapstick, fast, exciting, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, law enforcement, cop, police, gangster, conspiracy, martial arts, heroes, murder, corruption, chief of police ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: africa, napoli italy, italy, naples italy
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Blood Brothers (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: camorra, lawyer, street kid, defense attorney, bad cop, released from prison, street crime, landlady, misery, mafia don, boarding house, ex convict ...
Time: 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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