Venice - Italian Movie Trips

For centuries this town interconnected by its series of canals and small bridges was also the most important and opulent of the many warring Italian republics. As a crossroads for international trade and boundary adjustments of reigning empires, Venice reflects the influence of many and the dominion of none. Home to both Marco Polo and Byzantine churches (such as St. Mark's Basilica), Venice has the most perfectly balanced , indescribably exquisite public square and setting, and that in a country which has essentially perfected the transformation of public life into art.
region name: Veneto

Movies Filmed On Location In Venice Italy:

Chasing Liberty

While traveling in Europe and Italy, the President’s daughter eludes her Secret Service detail in the hopes of experiencing some real life. Her trip through Italy and Europe's capitals develops into an ongoing romantic adventure.

Death in Venice (1971)

Originally a short-story by Nobel Prize winning German author Thomas Mann. A jaded and solitary visit to the beaches of Venice -- beaches which are truly beautiful and serene in their own right but minor stars in a city of firmaments -- by a dissipated and probably dog-bitten foreign artist who tries to renew his youth with a distant obsession for a boy at the beach. Filmed in the same Venice hotel as scenes from The English Patient -- the Hotel Des Bains

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

The final film of the Indiana Jones trilogy focuses on the archaeologist's search for the Holy Grail and his father who went missing on its trail, everyone fighting off Nazis along the way. Scenes of Indy's apartment were filmed in the Danieli Hotel near Venice.

The Comfort of Strangers

Dark, compelling fare about a British couple on holiday in Venice who learn more about themselves than they imagined. Christopher Walken shines as he leads them down a twisting path.

The English Patient

Set in several medieval buildings and churches throughout Italy including the hotel and monastery at San'Anna In Camprena, The English patient tells the story of an anonymous British soldier, so disfigured by injuries that he has apparently lost his will to live. The ministrations of a selfless nurse steadily reveal the true nature of his many injuries.

The Italian Job (2003)

Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron try to track down gold they helped to steal in Venice and then lost to double-crossing partners.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A psychopath with few actual talents arrives in Italy and pretends to be the wealthy socialite he was originally asked to protect. By the same director as the The English Patient.

Tours and links:
Venice Film Festival