Movies and TV shows set in naples italy
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in naples italy ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, realistic, period piece, suspenseful and psychological films and TV shows about / with betrayal, organized crime, revenge, camorra, mafia, urban, corruption, murder, society and violence 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 naples italy: The Hand of God (2021), The Lying Life of Adults (2023), Piranhas (2019), My Brilliant Friend (2018), Parthenope (2024), Borgia (2011), The Equalizer 3 (2023), Domenica (2001), The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019), Gorbachev (2010).
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List of movies set in naples italy
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
coming of age, childhood trauma, poverty, loss of virginity, life, city life, change of luck, society, lifestyle, young boy, big city life, soccer fan ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
naples italy, nebraska, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Plot:
mother, coming of age, teenage girl, father, family relations, teenager, runaway teen, fugitive, parent child relationship, runaway girl, lie, teenage daughter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Style:
rough, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, camorra, gang, criminal, teen angst, boyhood, hooliganism, rivalry, self discovery, gangster, fistfight ...
Time:
year 2019, 21st century
Place:
naples italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Style:
touching, sincere, suspense, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hopes, brutality, friendship, children, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, parents and children, girl, relationship problems, friends, girlfriend, father daughter relationship, feminist ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
naples italy, italy, usa, syria, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Style:
mythical, captivating, psychological, crying
Plot:
high society, seaside, brother sister relationship, life, lifestyle, relationships, italian woman, female pubic hair, anthropology, professor, seductress, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1950, year 1982, year 1973, year 1968, year 1975 ...
Place:
italy, naples italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Borgia is a French-German-Czech historical drama television series created by Tom Fontana. The show recounts the Borgia family's rise to power and subsequent domination of the Papal States during the Renaissance.
Borgia debuted in Italy via ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, rough, costume drama, sensual ...
Plot:
renaissance, vatican, european history, italian history, political intrigue, power struggle, politics, historical character, pope, duke, church, brother sister sex ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times
Place:
italy, rome italy, naples italy, europe, france ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, crying, spooky, surprise ending ...
Plot:
mafia, one man army, vigilante justice, organized crime, american abroad, tough guy, warrior, african american, crime boss, haunted by the past, past, blonde ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
italy, naples italy, sicily, boston, rome italy
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s play Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità to the big screen, a story the director sets in the present day, using the text as an opportunity to continue to investigate reality. The protagonist, Antonio Barracano, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, modern day adaptation
Plot:
camorra, mob boss, father son relationship, town mayor, fighting crime, life philosophy, society, mayor, organized crime, legal, law and order, nudity ...
Place:
naples italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
gambling, obsession, gambler, downfall, fall in love, society, love and romance, character study, rivalry, couples, realism, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
naples italy, europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Life in Naples is tough. So Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.
Style:
picaresque, witty, dark comedy, slapstick
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, ruse, scam, con artists, satire, fraud, survival, streetwise, corruption, social commentary, working class, bureaucracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, italy
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
The series Gomorrah - The Origins explores Pietro Savastano's youth in the 1970s, in a Naples undergoing a transformation, poverty-stricken and plagued by cigarette smuggling. The story begins in 1977 with a very young Pietro, the son of no ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, bleak, retro, soulful
Plot:
camorra, organized crime, mature, loss of innocence, urban, corruption, rise to power, betrayal, adoption, claustrophobia, italian mafia, origin story
Time:
70s
Place:
naples italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Three undercover cops in Naples must face their own demons as well as criminals.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
police chase, organized crime, partners against crime, partner, sleuth, crime investigation, unsolved crime, crime solving, cold case, investigation, forensics, murder investigation ...
Place:
naples italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, comedy drama
Plot:
family relations, domestic drama, family conflict, relationship problems, satire, family problems, relationships, father figure, slice of life, weekend, siblings, small town life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
naples italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his ...
Style:
family saga, crime drama, bleak, dark, crime thriller ...
Plot:
mafia, crime family, confession, tragedy, organized crime, betrayal, moral ambiguity, fatalism, revenge, corruption, guilt, power struggle ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
southern italy, naples italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Carmine, a sewer worker for the city of Naples, finds himself working in the vault of the Bank of Naples one morning, and he gets the idea to pull off a robbery using the sewer system. To pull off the heist, he enlists the help of Gaetano, a former ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, friends, bank robber, society, career criminal, rivalry, revenge, murder, chase, hacking, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
naples italy, italy
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, tense, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, camorra, organized crime, violence, crime boss, ambition, power struggle, rise to power, criminal underworld, gang war, urban ...
Time:
70s
Place:
naples italy, italy, napoli italy
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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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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, dramatic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
italian history, napoleonic wars, revolution, rebellion, political intrigue, female protagonist, tragic romance, aristocracy, urban, class conflict, dialogue, nationalism ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
naples italy, italy
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Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Country: Italy, USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.
Style:
serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
music, mafia, musician's life, city life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, society, folklore, urban, performer's life, world war two, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, biopic, world war, anarchist, solar eclipse, italian fascism, priest, peasant ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1936, 1930s, year 1935
Place:
rome italy, naples italy, italy, europe, new york ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ciro's body is sinking in the dark waters of the Gulf of Naples. And as it sinks deeper and deeper, memories emerge. The sounds muffled by the water merge with the screams of fleeing people. It is 1980, the earth shakes, the palace collapses, ...
Style:
harsh, serious, intense, rough, hood
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, gang, ghetto, conspiracy, mafia, runaway, tough guy, corrupt cop, escapades, danger, heist, violence ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
naples italy, europe, italy, napoli italy
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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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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his queen Maria Sofia. This serio-comic drama follows the ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, comedy drama, costume drama
Plot:
royalty, exile, cross dressing, character study, catholic church, aristocracy, vatican, retiring, social change, satire, obsession, melancholy ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
rome italy, italy, naples italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother ...
Style:
art house, experimental, melancholic, art film, grim
Plot:
landslide, memory, loss, natural disaster, poverty, martyrdom, voice over narration, eviction, nostalgia, migration, grief, coastal town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poetic realism, naples italy, southern italy
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