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Jun 25, 2024 · Venice’s timeless beauty and shadowy streets add layers of intrigue and suspense, perfectly complementing the film's chilling narrative. The Premise: Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo.
- Noah Wilson
Feb 18, 2005 · In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
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- Drama, Romance
- Michael Radford
- 2005-02-18
Dec 24, 2019 · La Serenissima: Ten of the Best Films Set in Venice. One of the most cinematic cities on the planet, Venice has been the backdrop to countless romances throughout the decades, but cinematic visions of the floating metropolis have also revealed a darker side to this most decadent of cities.
- Thomas Storey
- Summertime
- Death in Venice
- Don’T Look Now
- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
- The Comfort of Strangers
- The Wings of The Dove
- Bread and Tulips
- Italian For Beginners
- The Italian Job
- The Merchant of Venice
Director: David Lean Language: English Run time: 100m 94% Rotten Tomatoes It’s interesting how many ‘women travel to Italy to escape their desperately lonely lives’ films there are. I can think of at least four off the bat. One of these films set in Venice is David Lean’s 1955 film Summertime starring the late, great Katherine Hepburn. She appears ...
Director: Luchino Visconti Languages: English, French, Italian, Polish Run time: 130m 67% Rotten Tomatoes Set in the 1800s around the time of the Cholera epidemic, a composer with a wanky name Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice to convalesce due to his serious health issues. He becomes infatuated with a Polish teenage boy staying at his hotel,...
Director: Nicolas RoegLanguage: English Run time: 110m 97% Rotten Tomatoes I’ll be honest, Don’t Look Now is a horror film (at least, I think it is) so I’ve not seen it. But it’s notoriously one of the most influential classic films in Venice and is adapted from a Daphne du Maurier story. So it must be good! An English couple (played by Donald Suth...
Director: Steven SpielbergLanguage: English Run time: 128m 88% Rotten Tomatoes Indiana Jones is undoubtedly one of the BEST travel-inspiring franchises EVER! And if you’re planning a trip to Venice, the third instalment Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the one you want to watch.Mainly set in 1938, Harrison Ford’s ophidiophobic archaeologist is...
Director: Paul SchraderLanguage: English Run time: 107m 50% Rotten Tomatoes Venice is a city for lovers so it’s not surprising that there are tonnes of romantic movies set in Venice. British film The Comfort of Strangers stars Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett as a couple on a return getaway to Venice. Not long after they arrive, they meet a Br...
Director: Iain Softley Language: English Run time: 102m 84% Rotten Tomatoes Many of the best movies set in Venice feature upper-class English people who are either holidaying in Venice or have escaped there to spend the rest of their days as drunk artists and disappointments to their well-to-do parents. Or something like that. The Wings of the Dove...
Director: Silvio SoldiniLanguage: Italian Run time: 114m 71% Rotten Tomatoes Is this seriously the first Italian language movie on my list of Venice films?! Jeez, my bad. Bread and Tulips is a little bit of a hidden gem and might be hard to find on streaming services, but it’s just such a raw and endearing love story. If you’ve ever dreamed about l...
Director: Lone Scherfig Languages: Danish, Italian, English Run Time: 118m 88% Rotten Tomatoes Another romantic comedy, but Italian for Beginners has an extremely different aesthetic to Bread and Tulips. Directed in the Dogme 95 style, this is an exceptionally ‘realistic’ film which abides by strict filmmaking guidelines including the use of handhe...
Director: F. Gary Gray Language: English Run time: 110m 73% Rotten Tomatoes A loose remake of The Italian Job (1969) starring Michael Caine, the 2003 version moves the action from Turin to Venice. It’s one of the only action films set in Venice on this list, too, if you’re getting a bit sick of romcoms. The production shut down many of the Venetian...
Director: Michael RadfordLanguage: English Run time: 131m 71% Rotten Tomatoes There have been surprisingly few feature film adaptations of this William Shakespeare play. In fact, this movie is the first. The Verona-set play Romeo and Juliet usually takes centre stage when it comes to adaptations. Starring Al Pacino as the film’s villain Shylock, Th...
Venice can be the most magical and romantic of movie settings—or the most sinister and haunting. With its ornate architecture set upon a maze of canals as dense as its history, the city has provided the unforgettable backdrop to countless stories of dreams, nightmares, and intrigue—from the lumin...
Oct 13, 2023 · All of the most wanderlust-inducing and iconic films set in Venice. Spanning multiple genre, here are our favourite picks to travel to Venice through cinema.
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Aug 24, 2023 · 10 great films set in Venice. As the Venice Film Festival hits its 80th edition, and Don’t Look Now turns 50, we look east to that most captivating and cinematic of locations: the floating city of Venice. 24 August 2023.
