Movies and TvShows featuring "venetian" theme.

In 16th-century Venice, a merchant borrows money from a moneylender and agrees to a gruesome penalty if he fails to repay. Meanwhile, a suitor competes for the hand of a wealthy woman, leading to a complex web of prejudice, intolerance, and love.

City of Women is a surreal adventure film set in a city where women dominate. The protagonist, Snàporaz, finds himself lost in this female-dominated society, encountering various characters and situations that challenge his views on gender roles and relationships. The film explores themes of empowerment, memory, and disillusionment.

The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's amorous escapades, radiant, joyful and brightly lit, with his oppressive solitary confinement in the gloom of a half-darkened cell.

Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations. Discover the innovative projects and feats of engineering currently underway, including a hi-tech flood barrier, eco-projects to conserve the lagoon, and new efforts to investigate erosion beneath the city.

The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and musician of the 17th century.

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

A Venetian countess, pregnant with illegitimate child, befriends her also pregnant servant girl and they almost become more than friends, but her family, infuriated over her scandalous pregnancy, has a plan for her and the baby.

When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home to tell his beloved wife, Perla. Later, Maurice discovers the part has gone to a famous American star, but he must play the role of his life to be sure Perla, who has become very ill with cancer, doesn't find out.

In the dark and eerie streets of medieval Venice, a knight discovers a sinister secret that threatens the lives of all its inhabitants. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he realizes that the fate of the city may rest solely on him.

Monty Don travels to the Adriatic coast, exploring gardens in Venice, Croatia and Greece.

They have traveled the length and breadth, taught us to read and write, told us their fantastic stories. But who are these ancient Greeks we no longer remember? They are much closer to us than it seems. Because the desires, the anxieties, the fears have remained the same. Hercules in Polesine is a journey through time and into the sea. The entertaining journey through 5,000 years of stories, myths, legends that tell us about horned and cheating gods, listless heroes and mythomaniacs, of desperate and blustering men. And all these stories make us think about how we are now, all that way we have (not) done from the beginnings of civilization to the aftermath of the ATM queue.

A young woman, lost in the middle of Scotland and without network, finds on her road an old telephone booth.

Gary is entering in his teens and has a crush on Valentine, who is much taller and more sexually developed than he is. He is attracted to her and would like to kiss and romance her, but he feels insecure and dreams of becoming an adult to do so. Gary draws an adult version of himself on the wall of his room hoping to be that guy once. When his wish comes true and adult Gary comes to life from the wall, Gary comes to regret it.