Films set in Italy

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

1997 film by Roberto Benigni

2011 film directed by Joe Johnston

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

2008 film by Marc Forster

2018 film directed by James Wan

2009 film directed by Chris Weitz

2017 film by Luca Guadagnino

2004 film directed by Paul Greengrass

Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.

1981 film by John Glen

2023 film directed by James Mangold

2022 American film directed by Colin Trevorrow

2019 film by James Mangold

2013 film directed by Ron Howard

1994 film by Michael Radford

1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

2017 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

2019 film directed by F. Gary Gray

1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard

1968 film by Franco Zeffirelli

2021 film directed by Ridley Scott

1985 film directed by James Ivory

2012 film by Faruk Aksoy

Brüno is a 2009 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, who produced, co-wrote, and played the gay Austrian fashion journalist Brüno Gehard. The film also stars Gustaf Hammarsten. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, it is the third film based on one of Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show, following Ali G Indahouse and Borat.

1970 film by Elio Petri

1971 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2017 film by Ridley Scott

2023 film directed by Michael Chaves

1953 film directed by Federico Fellini

2004 film by Wes Anderson

2011 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2007 film by Salvatore Maira

1969 film directed by Peter Collinson

Avanti! (Italian interjection – 'come in!'; ) is a 1972 comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. The film follows an American businessman attempting to recover the body of his father from Italy, only to learn his seemingly-straightlaced father died alongside his mistress.

1991 film by Michael Lehmann

2023 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2009 film by Rob Marshall

2008 film by Iain Softley

2010 film directed by Anton Corbijn

1953 film by John Huston

1932 film directed by Frank Borzage

2022 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1970 film by Vittorio De Sica

2008 film by Uli Edel

1999 film by Patrice Leconte

1927 French silent film directed by Abel Gance

2023 film directed by Julius Avery

1990 film directed by Albert Pyun

2024 film directed by Michael Mohan

2020 film by Kenneth Branagh

2021 film directed by Patrick Hughes

1967 film by Franco Zeffirelli

1998 film directed by François Girard

1980 film by Moustapha Akkad

1936 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy

1966 film directed by John Frankenheimer

1957 film