Films and series set in Emilia-Romagna. And what the Italian sounds like.

Four titles are set in more than one town here and appear under each pill they belong to, so the pills above total 190 against Everywhere's 186.

• Gomorra - La serie2014 · series · Modena · Neapolitan, standard
  #11,349avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Stated languages: italiano, lingua napoletana

  The clans, their families and nearly everyone in the Secondigliano/Scampia world speak Neapolitan as a language rather than accented Italian, and the series was broadcast with Italian subtitles for Italian viewers outside Campania.

  Confrontations, family arguments and street exchanges come fast and clipped, with interruption and speakers talking over each other, and lines are often muttered or swallowed rather than articulated.

  The description names somewhere else, and we have not established which is right.

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• Che Dio ci aiuti2011 · series · Modena · standard
  #2821avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Prime-time Rai family fiction written in clean standard Italian throughout; a few characters carry a central or Roman accent and the odd colloquial regionalism, but nothing that changes the grammar or blocks a line.

  Normal Italian conversational speed, deliberately clear for a broad prime-time audience, with overlap mainly in the comic group scenes rather than as a style.

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• L'ispettore Coliandro2006 · series · Bologna, Rimini · standard
  #3587avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Set in Bologna and shot with local colour, but everyone speaks standard Italian with Emilian or southern-inflected accents rather than dialect; only stray regional turns of phrase appear.

  Comic-crime rhythm with fast delivery, characters talking over one another and frequent shouted interruptions in the station and on the street.

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• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma1975 · film · standard
  #4584avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Stated languages: francese, italiano, tedesco

  Essentially standard Italian throughout, post-synced with clear declamatory diction; only light northern colouring on some of the younger victims' speech.

  Delivery is slow and declamatory, one speaker at a time with the others listening, and almost no cross-talk or interruption.

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• Amarcord1973 · film · Rimini · Emilian-Romagnol, standard
  #5339avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Stated languages: greco antico, italiano

  The Rimini townspeople speak a heavily Romagnol-inflected Italian with local lexicon, nicknames and interjections, and several characters drift far enough into dialect that a learner with standard Italian loses whole exchanges.

  The family dinner and crowd scenes are built on shouting, interruption and several people talking at once, and the comic set pieces run fast.

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• Rapito2023 · film · Bologna · standard, Emilian-Romagnol
  #6289avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  The bulk of the film is in a formal period Italian, but the Mortara household and Bologna street scenes carry Emilian-inflected speech and the Roman clerical world adds local colour, so grammar stays standard while some lexicon and address forms are regionally and communally marked.

  Clerical and courtroom exchanges are measured and declamatory, while the family's scenes of protest and grief bring ordinary conversational speed and some overlapping shouting.

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• Novecento1976 · film · standard, Emilian-Romagnol
  #7279avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Stated languages: inglese, italiano

  The braccianti and farmhands of the Po valley estate speak Italian coloured by Emilian lexicon and cadence, while the landowning family and the political set speak standard — followable throughout, with occasional peasant lines that lean local.

  Normal conversational pace, with some overlap in the crowded farmhouse and crowd scenes but generally one speaker delivering at a time.

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• L'incredibile storia dell'Isola delle Rose2020 · film · Bologna, Rimini · standard
  #8277avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Speech is standard Italian throughout, with light Emilian-Romagnolo colouring in the Bologna and Rimini scenes and regional accents on some secondary characters, but no shift out of standard Italian.

  Brisk comic delivery with characters talking over each other in the group scenes and in the government meetings, faster than an unhurried conversational baseline.

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• Il signore delle formiche2022 · film · standard
  #9243avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  The speech is standard Italian throughout — provincial Emilian and Roman settings give some accent and light regional colour, but nothing a learner with standard Italian loses.

  Amelio stages the dialogue deliberately, with characters finishing their sentences; overlap appears mainly in the crowded courtroom and newsroom scenes.

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• Lea2022 · series · Ferrara · standard
  #10239avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

  Spoken in clean standard Italian throughout, with at most light northern colouring from the Ferrara setting.

  Normal conversational pace with clear articulation typical of prime-time Rai fiction; overlap is limited and lines are delivered to be understood.

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