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PS: Favorite Milan, Cortina or Verona Backdrop Film (Ready 2/06/26)

The Milano Cortina 2026: XXV Olympic Winter Games are being held in Northern Italy from 06 February 2026 to 22 February 2026. Worldwide, people will visit its hosts, Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, and Verona, as well as, the Dolemitic Alps over this two-week period through the power of television. These locations have served as the backdrop or been an essential plot element in hundreds of movies, making it a very familiar destination for many viewers. Sources: Wiki: Milan Set Films, Veneto Secrets: Cortina Set Films, Let's Travel More: Verona Set Films


Which of these select movies that uses Northern Italy, specifically Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo or Verona, as a significant plot element or backdrop is your favorite film? 

Live Poll: TBD

See the partial list of movies that use the Dolemites, Milan, Cortina or Verona as a film location here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls538170376/

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3 years ago

Fringe answer options set in Milan, Cortina or Verona Italy

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Any not listed Dolemites, Milan, Cortina or Verona location filmed movie suggestions?

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The 1968 Fellinni version of Romeo and Juliet is the best one and was filmed in Pienza, Siena, and Tuscany.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ Thanks, a great movie and I appreciate the suggestion. I am limiting the poll options to those in or just adjacent to the 2026 Olympic venues, especially those in the Dolemites, Milan, Cortina or Verona. Therefore, anything not in northern Italy or not on the Italian Peninsula is going to be excluded from consideration. The Romeo & Juliet (1968) film locations were more centrally located, further south and in the flatter Tuscany region (see map) of Italy. Normally, I restrict the movies to a single Olympic city, but I had to open the geographical scope a bit wider to accommodate the spread of Olympic venues throughout the region's combined host sites with MilanCortina d'Ampezzo, and Verona co-hosting these Olympics.

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Sorry that you had to give the geography lesson.  I know that the original Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Verona and so I assumed the most accurate movie was also filmed in the area.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​,

I thought exactly the same thing because of the Verona connection. But, when I compiled the initial list I found it was filmed around Rome and Tuscany mostly. Probably, likely to more production facilities being available in Rome and Tuscany could adequately double for the outdoor scenes. This Romeo & Juliet (2013) is the only one that I know of that were stickers for using the actual setting as a film location.

That's why I like the suggestions, so keep them coming. They help to see if anything was grossly overlooked or see if it a title slipped through the cracks. It is nice to see you back on the message board.

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@mariojacobs​ Thanks, provisionally added.