| Lost Love (2003) | 5.9 | |
| Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 8.5 | |
| Inspector Montalbano (1999) | 8.3 | |
| The Leopard (1963) | 7.9 | |
| Anna (2021) | 7.0 |
Movies and TV shows set in sicily
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in sicily ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological and tense films and TV shows about / with family relations, mafia, society, sicilian, murder, death, female nudity, male nudity, sicilian mafia and italian mafia plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres shot in Italy, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sicily: Baaria (2009), Fireworks (2023), Melissa P. (2005), The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), The Sicilian Girl (2008), Inspector Montalbano (1999), The Viceroys (2007), Game of Love (2022), Angela (2002), The White Lotus (2021).
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List of movies set in sicily
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, small town life, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 60s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
June 1982, Sicily. While Italians dream of winning the World Cup, two adolescents dream of living their love story without fear. Gianni, 17, is bullied because of his homosexuality but his life changes when he meets by accident Nino, 16, a ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, dramatic, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay teenager, gay relationship, gay lead character, gay slur, gay interest, gay, lgbt teen, boys love, gay son, gay affair, gay couple ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
first sex, teenage sex, sexual intercourse, teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, sex, sex scene, erotic scene, sexy girls, coming of age, innocence lost, erotica ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, youth, gangster, unfulfilled love, coincidence, love and romance, innocence lost, mob boss, italian mafia, italian gangster, cosa nostra, boss ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
betrayal, mafia, sicilian, village, murder, danger, testimony, family life, youth, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1991, year 1985
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Montalbano solves crimes in Sicily.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, mafia, murder, nypd, inspector, police inspector, town, incompetent police, up and down relationship, law enforcement, chief of police ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, saga ...
Plot:
family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, revolution, dishonesty, society, family life, palace intrigue, victorian england, power struggle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Follows Vivien and Roy as their love story continues and leads them to Roy’s childhood home in Sicily to prepare for the sale of the family estate. During the visit, a mysterious woman arrives and befriends Vivien, much to Roy’s displeasure. ...
Style:
romantic drama, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
childhood home, past, hometown, mysterious past, secret past, secret, in laws, sibling relationship, dark past, relatives, back in hometown, love triangle ...
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense
Plot:
love affair, dangerous attraction, love and romance, couples, infidelity, gangster, drug dealing, cheating wife, going straight, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, store ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic ...
Style:
dark comedy, anthology, captivating, funny, psychological ...
Plot:
resort, satire, tropical island, vacation, social commentary, social satire, beach resort, gay lead character, exotic island, toxic relationship, female nudity, coworker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, sicily, thailand, italy, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
erotic scene, filmmaking, love and romance, hidden identity, self discovery, disorder, hopes, village life, cons and scams, village, small town, on the road ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, madrid, rome italy ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems
Style:
captivating, feel good, sincere, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot:
society, mayor, rivalry, ambition, escapades, adaptation, happy ending, obsession, danger, corruption, justice, friendship ...
Place:
sicily
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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: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, bribery, notoriety, cat and mouse, corrupt politician, mobster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, tense
Plot:
tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit, migration ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, suspense, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mafia, betrayal, gunfight, sicilian, leadership, politics, society, dishonesty, political unrest, gangster, class differences, italian gangster ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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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: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, progress, social relations, starting over, society, italian immigrant, tradition, superstition, family history, parent child relationship, hopes, emigrant ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, turn of the century ...
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, europe, palermo italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Laura, in order to save her relationship from falling apart, goes to Sicily, where she meets Massimo. A dangerous man, the head of a mafia family, kidnaps her and gives 365 days to love him.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sex, sex scene, erotica, dangerous attraction, passion, sexual relations, lust, rich man poor woman, oral sex, strong sexual content, captive woman, stockholm syndrome ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
sicily, warsaw poland, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and ...
Style:
neorealism, cynical, dark comedy, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
violent father, seduction, italian neorealism, unwanted pregnancy, sicilian, pregnant girl, infamy, feminism, dream, time travel, pregnancy, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy, southern italy
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
child, coming of age, social relations, society, adolescence, teenager, lifestyle, ambition, fashion, multiple storylines, direction and purpose, memory ...
Time:
1950s, 60s
Place:
sicily, italy, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style:
epic, period piece, cerebral, visual, political ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, literary, italian history, civil war, melancholy, catholic, ambition, nobility, death, execution ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century, year 1963 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, corsica, naples italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
Style:
romantic, captivating, crime thriller, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, tragic romance, cosa nostra, organized crime, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, criminal ...
Place:
sicily, palermo italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, art house, entertaining
Plot:
world war two, mafia, love and romance, male female relationship, mafioso, love affair, wartime life, romantic relationship, war, love story, wartime, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to ...
Style:
political, neorealism, poliziottesco, detective, neo noir ...
Plot:
terrorist, politics, revolution, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, world war two, trial, sicilian, passion, mafia, death, italian gangster ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, 50s, 60s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, europe, palermo italy ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 439 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
italian mafia, mafia, corruption, war on drugs, investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, organized crime, crime investigation, drug, police investigation, criminal ...
Place:
sicily
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
mafia, police investigation, crime solving, incompetent police, partner, outsmarting, up and down relationship, police detective, crime investigation, mind game, murder, law enforcement ...
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A deceased Sicilian father, has one last outrageous mission in store for his son - spread his ashes in the lemon groves of Sicily, reunite two feuding families, discovering the heart and soul of who he really is.
Style:
captivating, psychological, satirical, thrilling, feel good ...
Plot:
family feud, father son relationship, father, reconciliation, heartwarming, family drama, satire, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, family problems, inheritance ...
Place:
sicily, toronto ontario canada, canada, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, photojournalist, life is a bitch, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, captive, captivity, hostage, war correspondent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
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