Movies and TV shows set in mediterranean sea

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in mediterranean sea ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out sexy, realistic, melancholic, erotic, psychological and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with friendship, beach, love, female nudity, mediterranean, love and romance, sea, nude, coming of age and male nudity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in France, Italy, USA and other countries.
mediterranean sea movies
136
TOP 10 movies tagged as mediterranean sea: A Bigger Splash (2015), Sex and Lucia (2001), The Durrells (2016), Summer Lovers (1982), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), First Desires (1983), Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), The House by the Sea (2017), In a Wild Moment (1977), A Talking Picture (2003).

List of movies set in mediterranean sea

A Bigger Splash (2015)
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experiences trouble when the wife invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
Style: sexy, emotional, melancholic, suspense, sexual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: rock star, infidelity, skinny dipping, father daughter relationship, beach, extramarital affair, teenage girl, love quadrangle, relationships, singer, rock concert, male nudity ...
Time: year 2015, 90s
Place: italy, mediterranean sea, london, canada
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 7.0
 40K
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, naughty, cerebral ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, erotica, porn, female masturbation, hopes, waitress, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: mediterranean sea, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
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 8.2
 16K
The Durrells (2016)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, costume drama, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: greek island, province, friendship, island, relationships, parents and children, family life, culture shock, expatriate, changing lives, family relations, widow ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1935
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe
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Summer Lovers (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, sexual, romantic, eros ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: polyamory, nudism, naturist, nudity, female nudity, summer vacation, infidelity, greek island, love triangle, public nudity, relationships, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, manipulation, gay, serial killer, lgbtq, homosexuality, secret identity, gay subtext, psychopath, envy, jealousy, sociopath ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1999, 90s ...
Place: italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe, persia ...
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First Desires (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
Style: erotic, sensual, sexual, controversial, serious ...
Plot: nude bathing, virgin, teenage girl, seaside, lesbian, nude women, female nudity, nudity, young love, masturbation, erotica, sex ...
Time: 80s
Place: mediterranean sea
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Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Spain, Turkey, Italy, France, Tunisia
Duration: 170 min.
Story: On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cruise, family vacation, ship, couples, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, ocean, wedding anniversary, dysfunctional marriage, dysfunctional family, road trip ...
Place: mediterranean sea, india, istanbul turkey
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The House by the Sea (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community ...
Style: psychological, touching, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: grief, nostalgia, family relations, soldier, frustration, dealing with the past, military, death, suicide, dead brother, inheritance, working class ...
Time: 2010s
Place: south of france, mediterranean sea
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In a Wild Moment (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being ...
Style: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loss of virginity, topless beach, father daughter relationship, female nudity, beach, teenage sex, summer vacation, friendship, age difference, coming of age, sex scandal, beach party ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: riviera, saint tropez, mediterranean sea, europe, france ...
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A Talking Picture (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter ...
Style: talky, humorous, clever, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, cruise, ship, greek, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, couples, parents and children, cruise ship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2003, middle ages, year 2001, 21st century
Place: mediterranean sea, jerusalem, middle east, israel, istanbul turkey ...
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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't ...
Style: romantic drama, existential, atmospheric, psychological, art film ...
Plot: mediterranean, obsession, loneliness, sailing, identity, love triangle, mysterious stranger, bittersweet, illusion, love, party, beach ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy, mediterranean sea, greece
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 7.5
 7K
Swept Away (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. He is stood up.
Style: sexy, sexual, harsh, talky, melancholic ...
Plot: island, happy ending, sodomy, survival, abuse, fall in love, master and servant, yacht, bare breasts, stranded, love story, opposites attract ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, italy
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Corniche Kennedy (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to ...
Style: sexy, suspense, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: seaside, nude, love triangle, friendship, group of friends, drug, hiding place, teenage boy, police, teenage girl, friend, sea ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, mediterranean sea, south of france, marseille
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Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and ...
Style: erotic, witty, sensitive, anthology, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, pre-teens
Plot: womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, jealousy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, teenager, love, teenage girl, love story ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, mediterranean sea, normandy, paris france
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 7.3
 11K
The Collector (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Style: sexy, art house, psychological, talky, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: swimming pool, summer, passion, sex, holiday, art, relationships, crazy love, threesome, morality, artist, sex scene ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: saint tropez, france, mediterranean sea, cote d'azur, french riviera ...
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Stealing Beauty (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, teen, sensual, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: virginity, virgin, coming of age, first sexual experience, sex scene, innocence lost, female nudity, sex, sexual awakening, nymphet, couple relations, female masturbation ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: italy, tuscany, mediterranean sea, france, europe
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Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, Greece
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Autumn 2015. Profoundly affected by the picture of a little boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, lifeguards Oscar and Gerard travel to Lesbos (Greece). Once there, the reality is horrific: thousands of people risk their lives every day, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: rescue mission, emigrant, life risking, daring rescue, rescue, risk, struggle for survival, saving a life, water, sea disaster, compassion, heroism ...
Place: mediterranean sea, greece
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Ginger and Cinnamon (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Stefania, works in a bookshop. Shortly before she wants to close for holidays, Andrea, who is left behind by his fiance, enters the store.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, date night, pre-teens
Plot: young lovers, comedy of errors, innocence lost, love, vacation, island, teenage life, youth, family relations, breakup, adolescence vs adulthood, resort ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe, italy
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 7.0
 3K
Sublet (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
Style: art house, humorous, captivating, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay sex, lgbt, writers, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lgbtq, beach, marijuana, gay couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, usa, mediterranean sea, palestine, middle east ...
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 5.3
 106
Maramao (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
Style: melancholic, period piece
Plot: coming of age, childhood, teenage girl, sexual awakening, island, summer vacation, grownups, adolescence, youth, children, first love, loss of innocence ...
Time: 80s
Place: mediterranean sea
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 6.6
 2K
Mediterranea (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, melancholic, rough ...
Plot: illegal immigration, smuggling, migration, interracial relations, family relations, job seeking, storytelling, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, drunkenness, friendship, promise ...
Place: italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
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 7.0
 5K
Respiro (2002)
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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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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Aphrodite (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: massage, erotic massage, sexual intercourse, greek island, erotica, aristocracy, sex scene, sex party, erotic dance, voyeurism, masturbation, high society ...
Place: greece, mediterranean sea
Is relevant?
 7.4
 39K
Contempt (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style: art house, erotic, philosophical, biting, grindhouse ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, writers, film producer, estranged couple, car accident, film industry, passive aggression, swimming pool, relationships ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, france, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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 7.4
 18K
Mediterraneo (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in ...
Style: touching, sad, art house, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, greek island, friendship, italian soldier, wartime, soldier, culture clash, fascism, italian history, escapism, gay interest, nostalgia ...
Time: year 1991, post world war two
Place: mediterranean sea, greece, italy, europe
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The Invisible Ladies (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A group of five women who face labor injustices and everyday problems as maids in a hotel on the Mediterranean Coast.
Style: entertaining, witty, captivating, humorous, realistic
Plot: women, hotel, waitress, employment, social commentary, mediterranean, workplace, chambermaid, job, female protagonist, coworker, woman ...
Time: 2020s
Place: mediterranean sea, spain
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I'm Getting a Yacht (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
Style: sitcom, family comedy, situational comedy, light hearted, romantic comedy ...
Plot: children, yacht, vacation, mediterranean, summer vacation, family bonds, stowaway, cruise, parenting, responsibility, midlife crisis, siblings ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, mediterranean sea
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 6.2
 225
The Last of Us (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Tunisia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 95 min.
Story: N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, surreal, existential ...
Plot: migrant, self discovery, nature, surrealism, shipwreck, journey, loneliness, border crossing, isolation, identity, soul searching, humanity ...
Place: tunisia, mediterranean sea, north africa, poetic realism
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The Last of Sheila (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Style: suspenseful, tense, clever, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, yacht, murder, closeted homosexual, manipulation, mind game, game, paranoia, puzzle, vengeance, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: south of france, mediterranean sea, france, california
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