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Milan on film: Rocco and His Brothers, La Notte, I Am Love and House of Gucci
From the post-war classics to the fashion dynasties, Milan has given the cinema some of its most elegant and most searching portraits. Here are five films to watch before you go, with their official trailers. By the ULTIMATE Milan Editorial Team.
Updated October 2026
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Luchino Visconti’s epic follows a mother and her sons who come north from the south to make a life in Milan, with Alain Delon as Rocco. Milestone Films distributes the restoration in the United States.
La Notte (1961)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s portrait of a marriage over one day and night, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau, moves through the modern Milan of the early 1960s. Rialto Pictures distributes the restoration.
I Am Love (2009)
Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore stars Tilda Swinton as the Russian-born wife of a Milanese industrialist. The family’s house is the Villa Necchi Campiglio, the 1930s villa now run by the FAI and open to visitors.
House of Gucci (2021)
Ridley Scott’s drama, with Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, tells the story of the Gucci family and its fashion house.
Miracle in Milan (1951)
Vittorio De Sica’s fable, written with Cesare Zavattini, follows a kind-hearted young man and a community of the poor on the edge of the city. We found no official trailer online, so none is shown here.
Questions and answers
Where was I Am Love filmed in Milan?
The family’s house in the film is the Villa Necchi Campiglio, run by the FAI and open to visitors.
Trailers play from the official YouTube channels named under each film (checked 27 October 2026).