Set in Molise

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

5 films and series set here, the fewest of any region that holds any, 3 with their speech described.

A map with no dot on it: every title names only the region.

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5 of 5Ordered by how often each title is looked up on Italian Wikipedia.
  • Sole a catinelle2013 · film · standard, Apulian
    #1230avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Checco's speech is strongly Apulian/Barese in accent, cadence and scattered local lexicon, but the grammar stays standard and the northern and resort characters around him speak plain Italian, so a learner follows the sense while losing some colour.

    Normal conversational speed with bursts of rapid comic delivery, but the gags need to land so lines are mostly delivered one at a time rather than over each other.

  • Non ti muovere2004 · film · standard
    #2127avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Essentially standard Italian throughout; Italia's speech carries lower-class, vaguely southern-coastal colouring and the hospital scenes are unmarked standard, but nothing is spoken as a dialect.

    Delivery is deliberate and confessional in the narration and ordinary conversational in the scenes, with only occasional heated overlap in the arguments.

  • #383.7avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Padre Pio2000 · film · standard
    #443.1avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The speech is standard Italian with a light southern colouring for the Campanian and Gargano villagers around the friar, but no sustained dialect that would cost a learner whole lines.

    Delivery is deliberate and unhurried, the friar in particular speaking slowly, and few scenes are built on overlapping cross-talk.

  • Il viaggio2017 · film
    #55.8avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

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