Set in Veneto

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

168 films and series set here, 29 with their speech described.

Relief map of Where in Veneto these titles are setAPERA12345
  1. 168 titles set in Veneto · click a dot to filter
  2. 1VeneziaOdio il Natale98
  3. 2VeronaFratelli d'Italia11
  4. 3Cortina d'AmpezzoVacanze di Natale9
  5. 4PadovaLa giusta distanza8
  6. 5ValdobbiadeneDieci inverni1

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Two titles are set in more than one town here and appear under each pill they belong to, so the pills above total 170 against Everywhere's 168.

10 of 168Ordered by how often each title is looked up on Italian Wikipedia.
  • Un passo dal cielo2011 · series · standard
    #1798avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Rai prime-time fiction shot in the Dolomites: everyone speaks standard Italian, with at most a light northern colouring on some local minor characters and occasional German/Ladin place-names in the mountain setting.

    Normal conversational pace with clean, well-articulated network delivery; family scenes bring some overlap but interruption is not the house style.

  • Vacanze di Natale1983 · film · Cortina d'Ampezzo · Romanesco, standard, Milanese-Lombard
    #2310avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The Roman characters speak standard Italian heavily coloured by Romanesco lexicon and pronunciation, with a Milanese family supplying northern regional colour; grammar stays largely standard so lines remain followable.

    Fast comic delivery with characters talking over each other in group scenes, plus rapid-fire gag exchanges and shouted family arguments.

  • Le città di pianura2025 · film · Venetian, standard
    #3287avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Set in the Veneto hinterland and the two older drinkers speak a strongly Veneto-coloured Italian — local lexicon, local interjections and cadence over broadly standard grammar — while the young student's speech is closer to standard, so a learner follows the sense but loses the flavour and the occasional fully dialect line.

    Normal conversational pace with the slack of half-drunk rambling; some overlap between the two older men but rarely genuine cross-talk.

  • Odio il Natale2022 · series · Venezia · standard
    #4243avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Set in Chioggia in the Veneto, and the setting shows in accent and occasional regional colour, but the cast speaks standard Italian throughout.

    Normal conversational speed with brisk comic delivery and some overlap at crowded family and party scenes, but individual exchanges stay clear.

  • Sole a catinelle2013 · film · Venezia · standard, Apulian
    #5230avg. 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.

  • Gomorra2008 · film · Venezia · Neapolitan, standard
    #6184avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Stated languages: cinese, francese, italiano, lingua napoletana

    Nearly all the speech is Neapolitan as spoken among the Scampia and Casal di Principe characters, not Italian with an accent, and the film circulated in Italy with Italian subtitles.

    Confrontations, courtyard scenes and the two boys' scenes are shouted fast with heavy interruption and speakers talking across each other.

  • Pane e tulipani2000 · film · Venezia · standard
    #7174avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Everyone speaks standard Italian; Rosalba and her family carry an Abruzzese colouring and the Venetian characters a local accent, with only scattered regional turns of phrase, no shift out of standard Italian.

    Normal conversational speed with some overlap in the family and restaurant scenes, slowed by Fernando's measured, unhurried delivery.

  • Non mi lasciare2022 · series · standard
    #8158avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Set in Venice and the lagoon, but the cast speaks standard Italian throughout with at most light Veneto accent and the odd local expression from minor characters.

    Normal Rai prime-time conversational rhythm, articulated clearly for broadcast, with overlap only in heated confrontations.

  • Monella1998 · film · standard, Emilian-Romagnol
    #9146avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Village characters speak standard Italian carried on a strong northern, Po-valley accent with scattered local tags and exclamations, but the grammar stays standard and lines remain followable.

    Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the shop and family scenes; the flirtation scenes are unhurried two-handers.

  • Dove vai in vacanza?1978 · film · Venezia · standard, Romanesco
    #10136avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The Sordi episode's greengrocer couple speak popular Roman — standard grammar carried on thick Romanesco phonology and local lexical habits — while the other two segments and the museum/hotel people around them speak standard Italian.

    Normal conversational speed with the overlap typical of a married couple talking across each other, but the comic timing keeps lines separable rather than piling them up.

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