Set in Marche

Films and series set in Marche. And what the Italian sounds like.

36 films and series set here, 10 with their speech described.

Relief map of Where in Marche these titles are setAPERA123
  1. 36 titles set in Marche · click a dot to filter
  2. 1AnconaLa prima notte di quiete11
  3. 2Ascoli PicenoL'ombra del giorno8
  4. 3San Benedetto del TrontoDigitare il codice segreto1

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One title is set in more than one town here and appears under each pill it belongs to, so the pills above total 37 against Everywhere's 36.

10 of 36Ordered by how often each title is looked up on Italian Wikipedia.
  • Che Dio ci aiuti2011 · series · standard
    #1821avg. 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.

  • L'ombra del giorno2022 · film · Ascoli Piceno · standard
    #2173avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Set in Ascoli Piceno in 1938 but played in standard Italian with only light central-Italian accent and occasional local colour; no shift out of standard Italian.

    Deliberate, unhurried delivery with pauses; the two leads talk quietly past each other rather than overlapping.

  • La prima notte di quiete1972 · film · Ancona · standard
    #3148avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Set on the wintry Adriatic coast around Rimini, but the cast — teachers, bourgeois wives, a gambling set — speaks standard Italian throughout, with only light Romagnolo-tinged colouring from the provincial minor characters and a post-synchronised track that flattens accent further.

    Delivery is deliberately slow and weighted, with pauses between lines and almost no cross-talk; the dubbed track gives each speaker clear separation.

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

  • Il giovane favoloso2014 · film · standard, Neapolitan
    #4124avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The bulk is early-19th-century literary standard Italian, but the Naples section brings genuine Neapolitan in the street and household scenes around Ranieri, which a learner with standard Italian will lose.

    Delivery is deliberate and declamatory, with characters finishing their thoughts and little cross-talk outside the Neapolitan street scenes.

    Also set elsewhere — the description covers the whole title.

  • La stanza del figlio2001 · film · Ancona · standard
    #5119avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    An educated middle-class family in Ancona speaking standard Italian throughout; at most a light central-northern colouring, with no local lexicon or grammar.

    Normal conversational pace with a deliberately quiet, measured delivery in the therapy scenes; some overlap at family meals but little sustained cross-talk.

  • Ossessione1943 · film · Ancona
    #6105avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • #7105avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • La ragazza con la pistola1968 · film · Ancona
    #8102avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • E adesso sesso2001 · film · Ascoli Piceno
    #992.5avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Serafino1968 · film
    #1086.6avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

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