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Sicily : Top 10 Films Set in Sicily

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1. La Terra Trema

Visconti’s 1948 adaptation of Verga’s I Malavoglia , the story of a fisherman’s failed dream of independence.
2. Divorzio all’Italiana

Pietro Germi’s 1961 comedy has Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian aristocrat seeking a divorce when divorce in Italy was not legal.
3. A Ciascuno il Suo

Adapted from a Sciascia novel, a look into the Mafia and life in 1960s Sicily, directed by Elio Petri in 1967.
4. Il Gattopardo

Luchino Visconti’s 1968 film version of Lampedusa’s novel stars Burt Lancaster.
5. Giorno della Civetta

A 1968 Mafia murder thriller adapted from Sciascia’s novel The Day of the Owl .
6. The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 Mafia classic with Marlon Brando as the Don Corleone.
7. Cento Giorni a Palermo

Giuseppe Ferrara’s 1983 film documents the story of policeman Carlo Alberto Della Chiesa, murdered by the Mafia after just 100 days on the job.
8. Kaos

A 1984 film adaptation of four Pirandello stories.
9. Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1989 Academy Award-winning film takes a romantic look at growing up in a remote village.
10. Il Postino

The life of a Sicilian fisherman-cum-postman is turned around through his friendship with the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda (1994).