Best Italian TV shows
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Italian TV shows" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense and serious. Plot: murder, investigation, female nudity, mafia, corruption, sicilian mafia, police, organized crime, law enforcement and friendship. Genre: Drama, Crime and Thriller. Country: Italy, UK and USA.
Best Italian TV shows
TOP TV Shows: The Good Apprentice (2016), One Thousand and One Nights (2012), Killing Eve (2018), Inspector Montalbano (1999), Baby (2018), Domina (2021), The Young Montalbano (2012), Gomorrah (2014), Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003), Fate: The Winx Saga (2021), The Ladies' Paradise (2015), Zen (2011), 1992: Berlusconi Rising (2015), Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017), Corleone (2007), The Young Pope (2016), Crime novel - The series (2008), The Silence of Water (2019), SKAM Italia (2018), ZeroZeroZero (2019).
List of Best TV Shows
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Alice is a clumsy and passionate coroner resident. She fights between life and love complexities. Even tough she still has a lot to learn, she has a special quality: empathy with the victims that leads her to have crucial intuition in the cases that ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, witty, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, medical student, doctor, friendship, career, romancing partners, uncover truth, partner, police investigation, crime investigation, medical examination, murder ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Shahrazad travels through desert searching for the man she loves and who she believes she has lost forever. She arrives at a castle, the home of a prince who kills anyone who dares enter. She convinces the prince to grant her one night to tell him a ...
Style:
fairy tale, emotional, touching, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
arabian nights, lovers apart, love and romance, king, love, family relations, obsession, wooing, slavery, couple relations, moral dilemma, betrayal ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
middle east
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152K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Style:
exciting, dark comedy, suspense, tense, detective ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, psycho killer, psychopath, female protagonist, woman with a gun, investigation, hitman, female assassin, odd couple, lesbian love, obsession ...
Time:
2020s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Montalbano solves crimes in Sicily.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, mafia, murder, nypd, inspector, police inspector, town, incompetent police, up and down relationship, law enforcement, chief of police ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this series follows a group of Roman teenagers as they defy society in their search for identity and independence.
Style:
erotic, psychological, romantic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage prostitute, friendship, society, sex with a minor, high school student, family crisis, drug use, school, party, sex, independence, teenager ...
Place:
rome italy, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Domina follows Livia’s journey from a naïve young girl whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination, to Rome’s most powerful and influential Empress, driven by a deep desire to avenge her father and secure power for her ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, social documentary, period drama
Plot:
palace intrigue, roman empire, ancient rome, ancient, historical figure, high society, female nudity, wife, sexual abuse, historical character, affair, roman emperor ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
mafia, police investigation, crime solving, incompetent police, partner, outsmarting, up and down relationship, police detective, crime investigation, mind game, murder, law enforcement ...
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, atmospheric, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot:
twists and turns, law and order, workaholic, workplace, danger, exile, conflict, fighting crime, police investigation, police, law enforcement, justice ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, gang, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, italian mafia, gangster, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Piemonte of Carlo Emanuele III, Elisa di Rivombrosa tells the love story between Count Fabrizio Ristori and the maid Elisa Scalzi, lady companion of countess Agnes, mother of Fabrizio. The couple will face many difficulties, intrigues of all ...
Style:
captivating, tense, period drama
Plot:
countess, castle, high society, fall in love, conspiracy, relationships, male female relationship, marriage, murder, social relations, historical character, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, UK
TV show
Story:
The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
Style:
captivating, exciting, light, supernatural thriller, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
fairy, magic, magical power, wizards and magicians, good versus evil, magical, danger, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, witch, teenage life, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.
Style:
touching, suspenseful, sincere, dramatic, costume drama ...
Plot:
department store, love triangle, italian woman, post war, love hate relationship, initially antagonists, love and romance, romantic relationship, new job, bankruptcy, family relations, romantic triangle ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 60s, year 1950
Place:
milan italy, italy, sicily
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4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, british police, hot and sexy, transcendence, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
Set in Rome, Milan and different Italian cities, the TV series offers a thrilling story following six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape in the early 1990s, during which Italy was gripped by the Clean ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sensual, erotic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, corruption, investigation, italian history, politician, law enforcement, state affairs, revolution, rebellion, crisis, cosa nostra, government corruption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
italy, milan italy, rome italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
gay, mafia, organized crime, male male relationship, gangster, corruption, rivalry, gang, murder, female nudity, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, new mexico
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, bribery, notoriety, cat and mouse, corrupt politician, mobster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Style:
captivating, controversial, psychological, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
pope, vatican, religion, catholic church, god, satire, scandal, betrayal, infidelity, nun, conspiracy, orphan ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, organized crime, female nudity, italian mafia, mafia, criminal heroes, gangster, drug dealing, law enforcement, police detective, dishonesty, violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
TV show
Story:
The disappearance of a teenager is the starting point of an investigation that will bring to light the dark side of a small village by the sea. False tracks, hidden truths and secret relationships - nothing is quite what it seems.
Style:
colorful, stylized, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
forensics, investigation, murder, puzzle, village, secret, cold case, good versus evil, multiple storylines, secret revealed, crime investigation, unsolved crime ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
An italian version of the acclaimed and innovative Norwegian youth series Skam, which follows a group of teenagers in their everyday life of school, love and leisure time.
Style:
emotional, sweet, sentimental, uplifting, realistic
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay relationship, teenager, lgbt, high school hunk, friendship, teenage sex, parent child relationship, school, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between girls, teenage boy ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero is an unforgettable exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade.
Style:
brutal, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, italian mafia, cartel, drug cartel, cocaine, drug dealer, drug trade, drug dealing, drug smuggler, drug, brutality, gunfight ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
africa, south america, mexico, italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
TV show
Story:
The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the ...
Style:
captivating, intense, talky, realistic, confusing
Plot:
italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, prosecutor, servant, justice, hotshot lawyer, judiciary, fighting crime, mob hit, frame up, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
finance, businessman, conspiracy, coping, bank manager, money, job, scandal, blackmail, abuse of power, rivalry, ambition ...
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother died, Valerio hired Irene, a single mother of two girls, to run the household. To Aurora's ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic
Plot:
cinderella, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, money, maid, stepmother, happy ending, ballroom dancing, gift, half sister, taxes, piano ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 439 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
italian mafia, mafia, corruption, war on drugs, investigation, fighting crime, crime solving, organized crime, crime investigation, drug, police investigation, criminal ...
Place:
sicily
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of ...
Style:
detective, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
violence, dishonesty, corruption, justice, undercover, hopes, danger, police, murder, society, disorder, investigation ...
Place:
italy, turin italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Style:
touching, sincere, suspense, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hopes, brutality, friendship, children, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, parents and children, girl, relationship problems, friends, girlfriend, father daughter relationship, feminist ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
naples italy, italy, usa, syria, new mexico
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
In the middle of a war between two kingdoms queen died tragically while giving birth to her third daughter. The king wanted a male heir to his throne and torn by the death of his wife, decides to sacrifice the girl and leads to the Cave of the ...
Style:
fairy tale, teen, beautiful
Plot:
sword and sorcery, female warrior, love, prince, medieval, duel, woods, sorcery, king, princess, sword duel, heroine ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After turning 60, a wealthy woman suddenly falls in love with an attractive and much younger man, but her family raises doubts about his intentions.
Style:
dramatic, sensual, suspense, twisted
Plot:
mediterranean, secrets, forbidden love, family drama, seduction, passion, motherhood, class conflict, intimacy, matriarchy, scandal, betrayal ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.
Style:
adult animation, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, cartoonist, satire, friends, travel, animal human communication, animal attack, love, young man, male female friendship, philosophy ...
Place:
italy, germany, rome italy
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