List of films about the unification of Italy
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Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the unification of Italy (Risorgimento). This list does not include documentaries, short films.[1][2][3]
1910s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | Italy | A Sicilian Heroine | I mille | Alberto Degli Abbati | Drama. Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| 1918 | Italy | Tosca | Alfredo De Antoni | Drama. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo |
1920s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | Weimar Republic | Vanina | Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit | Arthur von Gerlach | Drama. Based on the short story Vanina Vanini. |
| 1927 | Italy | The martyrs of Italy | I martiri d'Italia | Domenico Gaido | |
| 1928 | Soviet Union | The Gadfly | Овод კრაზანა |
Kote Marjanishvili | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel The Gadfly. |
1930s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Italy | 1860 | Alessandro Blasetti | Drama, History. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Landing at Marsala, Battle of Calatafimi, Expedition of the Thousand | |
| 1934 | Italy | Villafranca | Giovacchino Forzano | Based on the play Villafranca. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II | |
| 1934 | Italy | Loyalty of Love | Teresa Confalonieri | Guido Brignone | Drama. Based on the play Il conte Aquila. Teresa Casati, Federico Confalonieri. |
| 1935 | Italy | I Love You Only | Amo te sola | Mario Mattoli | Comedy. Based on the play Il gatto in cantina. |
| 1937 | Italy | Doctor Antonio | Il dottor Antonio | Enrico Guazzoni | Drama. Based on a novel Doctor Antonio. |
| 1939 | Italy | The Knight of San Marco | Il cavaliere di San Marco | Gennaro Righelli |
1940s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Italy | Beyond Love | Oltre l'amore | Carmine Gallone | Drama. Based on the short story Vanina Vanini. |
| 1941 | Italy | The Story of Tosca | Tosca | Carl Koch | Drama, Musical. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo |
| 1941 | Italy | Old-Fashioned World | Piccolo mondo antico | Mario Soldati | Drama. Based on a novel The Little World of the Past. |
| 1942 | Italy | The Countess of Castiglione | La contessa Castiglione | Flavio Calzavara | Drama, History. Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione |
| 1942 | Italy | A Garibaldian in the Convent | Un garibaldino al convento | Vittorio De Sica | Comedy, Drama. Expedition of the Thousand |
| 1942 | Italy | Luisa Sanfelice | Leo Menardi | Drama. Based on a novel La Sanfelice. Luisa Sanfelice | |
| 1945 | Italy | All'ombra della gloria | Pino Mercanti | Drama, History. | |
| 1949 | Italy | The Mill on the Po | Il mulino del Po | Alberto Lattuada | Drama, History. Based on a novel Il mulino del Po. |
| 1949 | Italy | Dead Woman's Kiss | Il bacio di una morta | Guido Brignone | Drama, War. Based on the novel Il bacio d'una morta. |
1950s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Italy | The Count of Saint Elmo | Il Conte di Sant'Elmo | Guido Brignone | Drama. |
| 1950 | Italy | Cavalcade of Heroes | Cavalcata d'eroi | Mario Costa | Fall of Rome (1849) |
| 1952 | Italy France |
Red Shirts | Camicie rosse | Goffredo Alessandrini Francesco Rosi |
Drama, History. Anita Garibaldi |
| 1952 | Italy | They Were Three Hundred | Eran trecento | Gian Paolo Callegari | Drama, History. Sapri Expedition |
| 1952 | Italy | The Secret of Three Points | Il segreto delle tre punte | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Adventure, Romance. |
| 1952 | Italy | Lieutenant Giorgio | Il Tenente Giorgio | Raffaello Matarazzo | Drama. Based on a novel Il tenente Giorgio. |
| 1953 | Italy | The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | Raffaello Matarazzo | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance. Giuseppe Verdi |
| 1954 | France Italy |
The Contessa's Secret | La Castiglione La Contessa di Castiglione |
Georges Combret | Drama, History, Romance. Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione |
| 1954 | Italy France |
House of Ricordi | Casa Ricordi | Carmine Gallone | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance. Casa Ricordi |
| 1954 | Italy | Senso | Luchino Visconti | Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel Senso. | |
| 1954 | Italy | 100 Years of Love | Cento anni d'amore | Lionello De Felice | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War. Battle of Monterotondo |
| 1954 | Italy | La pattuglia sperduta | Piero Nelli | ||
| 1955 | Soviet Union | The Gadfly | Овод | Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Action, Drama, History. Based on a novel The Gadfly. |
| 1955 | Italy | Count Aquila | Il conte Aquila | Guido Salvini | Based on the play Il conte Aquila. Teresa Casati, Federico Confalonieri |
| 1955 | Italy | Un giglio infranto | Giorgio Walter Chili | Drama, History. Based on the play I congiurati di Belfiore. | |
| 1956 | Italy | Tosca | Carmine Gallone | Drama, Musical, Romance. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo |
1960s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Italy France |
The Betrayer | Vanina Vanini | Roberto Rossellini | Drama. Based on the short story Vanina Vanini. |
| 1961 | Italy France |
Garibaldi | Viva l'Italia! | Roberto Rossellini | Drama, History. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Expedition of the Thousand |
| 1963 | Italy France |
The Leopard | Il Gattopardo | Luchino Visconti | Drama, History. Based on a novel The Leopard. |
| 1965 | Italy | Sons of the Leopard | I figli del leopardo | Sergio Corbucci | Comedy. Parody of the movie The Leopard. |
| 1969 | Italy France |
The Conspirators | Nell'anno del Signore | Luigi Magni | Comedy, Drama, History. |
1970s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Italy | Paths of War | Franco e Ciccio sul sentiero di guerra | Aldo Grimaldi | Comedy, Western. |
| 1971 | Italy | 1870 | Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 | Alfredo Giannetti | Drama, History. |
| 1971 | Italy | My father monsignor | Mio padre monsignore | Antonio Racioppi | Comedy. |
| 1971 | Italy Yugoslavia |
Liberty | Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato | Florestano Vancini | Drama, History. The Events of Bronte, Nino Bixio |
| 1972 | Italy | St. Michael Had a Rooster | San Michele aveva un gallo | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Drama, History. Based on the short story The Divine and the Human. |
| 1973 | Italy | The Five Days | Le cinque giornate | Dario Argento | Comedy, Drama, History. Five Days of Milan |
| 1973 | Italy | La Tosca | Luigi Magni | Drama, Musical. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo | |
| 1974 | Italy | Allonsanfàn | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Drama, History. | |
| 1976 | Italy | How Wonderful to Die Assassinated | Quanto è bello lu murire acciso | Ennio Lorenzini | Drama, History. Carlo Pisacane |
| 1977 | Italy | In the Name of the Pope King | In nome del papa re | Luigi Magni | Drama, History. Based on a novel I misteri del processo Monti e Tognetti. Giuseppe Monti, Gaetano Tognetti |
1980s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Italy | The sharpshooters are arriving | Arrivano i bersaglieri | Luigi Magni | Comedy, Drama. Capture of Rome |
| 1980 | Romania | The Stake and the Flame | Rug și flacără | Adrian Petringenaru | War. Based on a novel Rug și flacără. |
| 1981 | Italy France |
Passion of Love | Passione d'amore | Ettore Scola | Drama, History, Romance. Based on a novel Fosca. |
| 1986 | Italy | Superfantozzi | Neri Parenti | Comedy. | |
| 1986 | Soviet Union | The Mysterious Prisoner | Таинственный узник | Valeriu Gagiu | Adventure, Drama. Based on a novel Clad in Stone. Mikhail Beideman |
| 1989 | Italy | 'O Re | Luigi Magni | Comedy, Drama, History. Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Francis II of the Two Sicilies |
1990s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Italy France Germany |
In the Name of the Sovereign People | In nome del popolo sovrano | Luigi Magni | Drama, History. First Italian War of Independence |
| 1994 | Italy | The Hero of Two Worlds | L'eroe dei due mondi | Guido Manuli | Animation. |
| 1995 | France | The Horseman on the Roof | Le hussard sur le toit | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel The Horseman on the Roof. Angelo Pardi, 1826–1837 cholera pandemic |
| 1999 | Italy France |
Ferdinando and Carolina | Ferdinando e Carolina | Lina Wertmüller | Comedy, History. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Maria Carolina of Austria |
2000s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Italy | La Carbonara | Luigi Magni | Drama. Carbonari | |
| 2001 | Italy France United Kingdom Germany |
Tosca | Benoît Jacquot | Drama, Music, Musical. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo | |
| 2004 | Italy | The Remains of Nothing | Il resto di niente | Antonietta De Lillo | Drama, History. Based on a novel Il resto di niente. Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Parthenopean Republic |
| 2006 | Italy | Fire at My Heart | Fuoco su di me | Lamberto Lambertini | History. Joachim Murat |
| 2007 | Italy Spain Germany United States |
The Viceroys | I Viceré | Roberto Faenza | Drama, History. Based on a novel The Viceroys. |
| 2007 | Brazil Italy |
Anita, a Life for Garibaldi | Anita - Una vita per Garibaldi | Aurelio Grimaldi | Adventure, Drama, History. Anita Garibaldi |
2010s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Italy France |
We Believed | Noi credevamo | Mario Martone | History. Based on the novel Noi credevamo. Young Italy |
2020s
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Italy | The Battle of Rome 1849 | La battaglia di Roma 1849 | Luigi Cozzi | History, War. Based on the novel Un garibaldino a casa Giacometti. Fall of Rome (1849) |
| 2023 | Italy France Germany |
Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Drama, History. Based on the book Il caso Mortara. Mortara case |
| 2023 | Italian | Godfrey and Italy called | Goffredo e l'Italia chiamò | Angelo Antonucci | Goffredo Mameli |
| 2025 | Italy | The Illusion | L'abbaglio | Roberto Andò | Drama, History. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Vincenzo Giordano Orsini, Landing at Marsala, Battle of Calatafimi, Expedition of the Thousand |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror films
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Italy | The Kiss | Il bacio | Mario Lanfranchi | Drama, Horror. Based on the novel Il bacio d'una morta. |
Television films
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | East Germany | Vanina Vanini | Der furchtlose Rebell | Helmut Schiemann | Drama. Based on the short story Vanina Vanini. |
| 1964 | Italy | Antonello, Calabrian brigand leader | Antonello capobrigante calabrese | Ottavio Spadaro | Drama. Based on the play Antonello capobrigante calabrese. Bandiera brothers |
| 1972 | Italy | Giuseppe Mazzini | Pino Passalacqua | Biography, Drama, History. Giuseppe Mazzini | |
| 1976 | Italy West Germany |
Tosca | Gianfranco De Bosio | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller. Based on the play La Tosca. Battle of Marengo | |
| 1987 | Soviet Union | Rivares | Риварес | Bidzina Chkheidze | Music. Based on a novel The Gadfly. |
| 2003 | Italy | Pasquino's Night | La notte di Pasquino | Luigi Magni | Comedy. |
| 2004 | Italy France |
Luisa Sanfelice | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Drama, History, Romance. Based on a novel La Sanfelice. Luisa Sanfelice |
TV Series
Post-unification Italian brigandage
Films
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Italy | The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo | Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo | Pietro Germi | Action, Drama. Carmine Crocco |
| 1962 | Italy France |
The Italian Brigands | I briganti italiani | Mario Camerini | Drama, War. |
| 1993 | Italy | Bandits: Love and Liberty | Briganti - Amore e libertà | Marco Modugno | Drama. |
| 1999 | Italy | They called them... brigands! | Li chiamarono... briganti! | Pasquale Squitieri | Drama. Carmine Crocco |
| 2018 | Italy | The Grossi Gang | La banda Grossi | Claudio Ripalti | Adventure, Crime, Drama, History. Terenzio Grossi, Banda Grossi |
| 2021 | Italy | My Body Will Bury You | Il mio corpo vi seppellirà | Giovanni La Parola | Drama, History. |
TV Series
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Italy | L'eredità della priora | Anton Giulio Majano | Drama. Based on a novel L'eredità della priora. | |
| 2012 | Italy | Il generale dei briganti | Paolo Poeti | Drama, History. Carmine Crocco | |
| 2024 | Italy | Brigands: The Quest for Gold | Briganti | Antonio Le Fosse Steve Saint Leger Nicola Sorcinelli |
Action, Adventure, Drama, History. |