The 10 best movies to think about Italy!
Are you excited for your next travel to Italy? You are looking forward to breathe the Italian atmosphere and you can’t really wait anymore?Check out this list of movies that will bring in your house the Authentic Italian mood!
Italy is a beautifull country and the perfect set for magical movies.
I propose here a list of movies where Italy is not only a beautiful scene on the back of the story but it is also one of the main characters!
Please let me know if I forgot any film!
Gladiator
Historical film about the Roman Empire. A great view on Rome and how it use to be
Il Postino
The man selected to deliver letters to Pablo Neruda, exiled on an island off the coast of Italy, has his worldview changed by the poet, who returns to Chile, leaving the postman with dreams and aspirations he can’t figure out how to achieve
The Italian Job
A breezy reworking of the 1969 favorite boasts Mark Wahlberg as a master thief looking for revenge from Edward Norton, a former ally who killed mentor Donald Sutherland, then duped him by taking millions in gold bars from a Venice heist. Italian settings include such towns as: Canazei, Genoa, Trento, and Venice
La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita follows Marcello Mastroianni as a journalist who descends into “the sweet life of debauchery” as he chronicles the rich and famous in Rome.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Lush, involving thriller based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, a young New Yorker hired by a tycoon to persuade wastrel son Jude Law to leave his Italian villa and return to America. After befriending Law and girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow, Damon’s devious nature – and his knack for forgery and imitation – come into play. Italian settings include such towns as: Ischia Island, Naples, Palermo, Positano, Procida, Rome, Salerno, and Venice.
Under the Tuscan Sun
In this lovely adaptation of Frances Mayes’ bestseller, Diane Lane is a recently divorced writer urged by pal Sandra Oh to get away from her dreary existence in San Francisco by taking a trip to Italy. Once in gorgeous Tuscany, Lane decides to radically change her life by buying and renovating a villa in the countryside, hoping her luck at love changes in the process. Italian settings include such towns as: Arezzo, Cortona, Florence, Montepulciano, Positano, and Salerno.
The plot follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, as he tries to stop what seems to be the Illuminati, a legendary secret society, from destroying Vatican City with the newly-discovered power of antimatter.
Star wars – The attack of the clones
Lucas uses Italy as set of the fifth episode of his legendary series.
The reggia di caserta and the lake of Como are the set of some of the most spectacular scenes of the movie!
Life is beautiful
It is a 1997 Italian movie which tells the story of a Jewish Italian who must employ his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp? This four Oscar winner movie tells a sad story about an Italy that we hope not to see again anymore.
The English Patient
The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa.
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