Learn Italian with movies and TV programs
Learning a language is also a matter of quantity input and full immersion in the culture and usage of the other language. Original videos and movies are therefore a great help in providing this input, in a pleasant way. And repetition - seeing again, replaying the video - is another key aspect in learning.
Other videos
- Check also the other "Learn Italian" sections:
- Documentaries on the landscapes, traditions, history of Italy
- Videorecipes of the series "Learn Italian while cooking"
- Literature, with poems and passages by Italian authors, in parallel text
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Excerpts from movies and comedies
- Amici Miei, the Pisa Tower scene
- Buccio di Ranallo: L'Aquila, una città in Luce, a 2003 movie by Accademia dell'Immagine [12 min]
- Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone [5 min]
- from Dino Risi's movie Il Sorpasso: Il Sorpasso, Antonioni and Modugno clip (2:28 minutes), Il Sorpasso, final scene (3:46 minutes)
- From La Dolce Vita, The Trevi Fountain scene [4 min]
- Life of St. Francis of Assisi [10 min]
- Michelangelo, part 1 [15 min]
- Miseria e nobiltà, from the 1954 movie, the scene with the villager who needs to write a letter, [5 min]
- Neapolitan coffee-making [3 min]
- Non ci resta che piangere - Customs Officer scene [2 min]
- Rossellini's Paisà [14 min]
- Pulcinella against King Ferdinand, from the 1959 movie Ferdinando I, re di Napoli, [4 min]
- Eduardo De Filippo - Questi Fantasmi (coffee scene) [7 min]
- Totò sells Trevi Fountain
- Un Americano a Roma - Macaroni scene [3 min]
Excerpts from TV shows & interviews
- Voice of Italy 2014: Suor Cristina
- Amerigo Vespucci [3 min]
- Roberto Benigni: the Four Ducklings (4 minutes)
- As I put on this "coppola" [8 min]
- The Mona Lisa landscape [4 min]
- Dante and Beatrice duet, 8 minutes
- Carlo Verdone, Un Vigile Attento, 8 minutes
- The giants of Monte Prama [4 min]
- In 1957 Rai devised the first airtime devoted to advertising: Carosello, every evening at 20.50, 10 minutes of short sketches about two minutes each that, differently from today's zapping time, nailed down in front of the tv up to 19 million viewers. An example: Carosello 1967 - Going to the restaurant
Suggested Videos with English subtitles
- A documentary of 2001, "Emigranti", directed by Roberto Olla, in 8 parts Italians in the world - part 1 (the beginning)
- The Beginning of Southern Italian Emigration, with English subtitles (3 minutes)
- Coachsurfing: an interview on Rainews with English subtitles (9.50 minutes).
Recent Additions
La Ricotta
A sketch from Pasolini's "Curd Cheese", with Orson Welles playing the role of a Marxist, bossy director in a "movie within the movie" routine...
Omaggio a Roma
A 20-min long feature film, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, with Andrea Bocelli and Monica Bellucci...
Preferisco il Paradiso
A 2010 TV movie on St. Filippo Neri's street kids, starring Gigi Proietti [10 min].
Pane, amore e fantasia
A classic Italian comedy, starring Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida [4 min].
Pane carasau
The shepherd's bread, which was to last several months [10 min].
Un'estate al mare
The 7th episode of a popular comedy, full of gags and funny moments. [10 min]
Matrimonio all'Italiana
Marriage Italian style, starring Sofia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni [7 min].
Lettera a una professoressa
Don Milani's fight with the class-biased school system and methods of the 1960's [6 min].