# The best Italian TV series of all time

The Italian series that top the rankings of Movieplayer.it, Hall of Series and IMDb user ratings, from Rai classics to the new wave from Sky, Netflix and HBO.

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- Oct 1, 2025 · Simona Bianco
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## Top 20

1. **Gomorrah** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky Atlantic, 2014–2021. Genny Savastano, Ciro 'the Immortal' and the Secondigliano Camorra; sold to more than 190 countries.
2. **Boris** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fox/Disney+, 2007–2022. The set of a terrible TV drama and the art of getting by; 8.5 on IMDb, the highest-rated Italian series.
3. **Romanzo Criminale** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky, 2008–2010. The Banda della Magliana in 1970s Rome.
4. **My Brilliant Friend** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai/HBO, 2018–2024. Lila and Lenù in Naples, from Elena Ferrante's novels.
5. **Inspector Montalbano** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 1999–2021. Luca Zingaretti and Andrea Camilleri's Sicily; record ratings for twenty years.
6. **La Piovra (The Octopus)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 1984–2001. Michele Placido as Inspector Cattani against the Mafia.
7. **The Young Pope** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky/HBO, 2016. Paolo Sorrentino and Jude Law as Pius XIII, the first American pope.
8. **The New Pope** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky/HBO, 2020. The sequel with John Malkovich; 8.1 on IMDb.
9. **Tear Along the Dotted Line** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2021. Zerocalcare and the armadillo in six animated episodes about Rome, friendship and grief.
10. **Suburra: Blood on Rome** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2017–2020. Mafia, politics and the Vatican in Ostia; Netflix's first Italian series.
11. **Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky, 2024. Max Pezzali and Mauro Repetto in Pavia, the early days of 883.
12. **The Best of Youth** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 2003. Marco Tullio Giordana tells forty years of Italian history through two brothers.
13. **The Sea Beyond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 2020–. A juvenile prison by the sea in Naples; a phenomenon on RaiPlay.
14. **1992** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky, 2015. Stefano Accorsi and Tangentopoli, the year of the Mani pulite investigation.
15. **Skam Italia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — TIMvision/Netflix, 2018–. Teenagers at a Rome high school, a remake of the Norwegian series.
16. **ZeroZeroZero** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky/Prime Video, 2020. The journey of a cocaine shipment from Mexico to Calabria, from Roberto Saviano.
17. **Rocco Schiavone** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 2016–. Marco Giallini as a Roman deputy police chief exiled to Aosta, from Antonio Manzini's novels.
18. **The Miracle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sky, 2018. A statue of the Madonna that weeps blood, created by Niccolò Ammaniti.
19. **The Name of the Rose** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 2019. John Turturro and Rupert Everett in Umberto Eco's abbey.
20. **Don Matteo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rai, 2000–. Terence Hill as a priest-detective in Gubbio and Spoleto; one of Rai's longest-running series.

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