The best Italian TV series of all time
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Gomorrah · Boris · Romanzo Criminale. (Updated Oct 1, 2025.)
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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Top 20
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Gomorrah
Sky Atlantic, 2014–2021. Genny Savastano, Ciro 'the Immortal' and the Secondigliano Camorra; sold to more than 190 countries.
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Boris
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.
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Romanzo Criminale
Sky, 2008–2010. The Banda della Magliana in 1970s Rome.
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My Brilliant Friend
Rai/HBO, 2018–2024. Lila and Lenù in Naples, from Elena Ferrante's novels.
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Inspector Montalbano
Rai, 1999–2021. Luca Zingaretti and Andrea Camilleri's Sicily; record ratings for twenty years.
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La Piovra (The Octopus)
Rai, 1984–2001. Michele Placido as Inspector Cattani against the Mafia.
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The Young Pope
Sky/HBO, 2016. Paolo Sorrentino and Jude Law as Pius XIII, the first American pope.
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The New Pope
Sky/HBO, 2020. The sequel with John Malkovich; 8.1 on IMDb.
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Tear Along the Dotted Line
Netflix, 2021. Zerocalcare and the armadillo in six animated episodes about Rome, friendship and grief.
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Suburra: Blood on Rome
Netflix, 2017–2020. Mafia, politics and the Vatican in Ostia; Netflix's first Italian series.
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Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno
Sky, 2024. Max Pezzali and Mauro Repetto in Pavia, the early days of 883.
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The Best of Youth
Rai, 2003. Marco Tullio Giordana tells forty years of Italian history through two brothers.
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The Sea Beyond
Rai, 2020–. A juvenile prison by the sea in Naples; a phenomenon on RaiPlay.
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1992
Sky, 2015. Stefano Accorsi and Tangentopoli, the year of the Mani pulite investigation.
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Skam Italia
TIMvision/Netflix, 2018–. Teenagers at a Rome high school, a remake of the Norwegian series.
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ZeroZeroZero
Sky/Prime Video, 2020. The journey of a cocaine shipment from Mexico to Calabria, from Roberto Saviano.
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Rocco Schiavone
Rai, 2016–. Marco Giallini as a Roman deputy police chief exiled to Aosta, from Antonio Manzini's novels.
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The Miracle
Sky, 2018. A statue of the Madonna that weeps blood, created by Niccolò Ammaniti.
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The Name of the Rose
Rai, 2019. John Turturro and Rupert Everett in Umberto Eco's abbey.
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Don Matteo
Rai, 2000–. Terence Hill as a priest-detective in Gubbio and Spoleto; one of Rai's longest-running series.
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