Entertainment
Famous Movies Filmed in Italy
List Rules
The movies below must have at least one major scene that was filmed in Italy
List of movies that were filmed in Italy, including trailers of the films when available. Italy has a lot of famous landmarks and beautiful landscapes, making it a great location to film movies in. This list of famous movies shot in Italy is listed by popularity, so the movie names at the top of the list are the most well-known. This isn't necessarily a list of all movies shot in Italy, so if you notice an important film is missing then feel free to add it at the bottom of this list.
Movies here include everything from Don Camillo in Moscow to A Question of Honour.
If you're trying to answer the questions, "What films were shot in Italy?" and "Which famous movies were filmed in Italy?" then you'e in the right place.
Both big studio and independent films that were filmed in Italy are included below, as well as all genres including horror, action, comedy and more.- Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: George Lucas
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) ; Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become ...more - Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Anthony Minghella
The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by ...more - Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Roberto Benigni
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a ...more - George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
After successfully robbing five casinos in one night, Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew of thieves have big problems. Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history, the ...more - Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Anthony Minghella
To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves- and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) ...more - Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Marc Forster
Following the death of Vesper Lynd, James Bond (Daniel Craig) makes his next mission personal. The hunt for those who blackmailed his lover leads him to ruthless businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu ...more - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"Cleopatra" is a lengthy, sprawling, spectacular love story, helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, depicting Cleopatra's manipulation of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the ...more - Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: John Glen
When a British ship is sunk in foreign waters, the world's superpowers begin a feverish race to find its cargo: a nuclear submarine control system. And 007 (Roger Moore) is thrust into one of his ...more - Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo Trieste
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, internationally released as Cinema Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo ...more - Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
In a globe-trotting assignment that has him skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater, British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with sexy Russian agent Anya Amasova ...more - Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Elya Baskin
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
In the 14th century, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), a renowned Franciscan monk, and his apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), travel to an abbey where a suspicious death has occurred. ...more - Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill
- Released: 1969
- Directed by: Peter Collinson
A British crook (Michael Caine) robs gold ingots in Italy by having a computer expert (Benny Hill) cause a traffic jam. - Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
In the Italian city of Verona, the Montague and the Capulet families are perpetually feuding. When Romeo (Leonard Whiting), a handsome young Montague, disregards convention by attending a Capulet ...more - Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
When a German U-571 submarine with a sophisticated encryption machine onboard is sunk during a World War II battle at sea, the Allies send an American Navy force led by Lieutenant Andrew Tyler ...more - Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Jim Fall
During summer break, Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) and her closest pals head off on a school-sponsored journey to Rome. Before long she makes the acquaintance of Paolo Valisari (Yani Gellman), a local ...more - Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Richard Donner
Upon breaking out of a dungeon, youthful thief Phillipe Gaston (Matthew Broderick) befriends Capt. Navarre (Rutger Hauer), a man with a strange secret. Navarre and his lover Lady Isabeau d'Anjou ...more - Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Brad Dexter
- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Mark Robson
World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a mass breakout from an Italian POW camp, commandeer a train and head towards the Swiss border. As the Italian war effort collapses, the escapees ...more - Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi, Mickey Knox
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Michele Soavi
Cemetery Man is a 1994 Italian-French-German comedy horror film directed by Michele Soavi and starring Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro and Anna Falchi. It was written by Gianni Romoli and based ...more - Penélope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Woody Allen
To Rome with Love is a 2012 magical realist romantic comedy film written and directed by and starring Woody Allen in his first acting appearance since 2006. The film is set in Rome, Italy; it was ...more - Ciccio Ingrassia, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Federico Fellini
Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters ...more - Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: François Girard
The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep ...more - Giulietta Masina, François Perier, Amedeo Nazzari
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Federico Fellini
The magnificent Giulietta Masina (Fellini's wife) plays an eternally optimistic Rome streetwalker with a heart of gold and a head of cotton candy in her husband's Oscar-winning masterpiece. This ...more - Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Gary Winick
While visiting Verona, Italy, with her busy fiance, a young woman named Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) visits a wall where the heartbroken leave notes to Shakespeare's tragic heroine, Juliet Capulet. ...more - Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Iain Softley
Mo (Brendan Fraser) and his daughter, Meggie, have the ability to bring storybook characters to life just by reading aloud. That gift backfires when he accidentally summons Capricorn, the evil ...more - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Michael Radford
Il Postino: The Postman is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the US as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title. However, since the ...more