Italian Drama Archives

1993

Italian drama based in the turbulent political landscape of 1990s Italy.

A chance meeting between two young strangers sparks an unforgettable evening in this romantic drama. Looking to get away from the nightclub where they’ve met, Lei and Lui begin a conversation that will change their plans, and possibly their lives.

Aldo Moro: 55 Days to Death

The complex and delicate journey embarked on by Aldo Moro, one of the greatest Italian statesmen. From his “historic compromise” with the left wing, to his captivity and his relationship with the Brigades. A man’s courageous battle for his freedom and his ideal of democracy, the fight of a hostage impotent in the hands of terrorists.

Anna – Season 1

A 13-year-old Sicilian girl must contend with a viral contagion that has killed off all adults on the island as she sets out in search of her kidnapped brother.

Anti-Drug Squad – Season 1

Detective Daniele Piazza wants revenge against the drug dealers who killed his wife and left his daughter motherless 13 years ago. As newly appointed chief of the Anti-Drug Squad, he’s got a team of experts to bring down the cartel and its shadowy boss, known only as the Eighth King of Rome.

Baby – Season 1

Inspired by a true story, this series follows a group of Roman teenagers as they defy society in their search for identity and independence. Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city’s underworld and start leading double lives.

Baby – Season 2

Chiara struggles to break free from the underworld, Ludo faces new complications in every part of her life, and Damiano scrambles to pay off his debt.

Black Moon – Season 1

In 17th-century Italy, a teenager learns about her destiny among a family of witches, just as her boyfriend’s father hunts her down for witchcraft.

Blanca – Season 1

Blanca, a blind profiler, comes back to Genova, her hometown. A difficult case forces her to remain and to face with her mysterious past. Based on books by Patrizia Rinaldi.

Cacciatore: The Hunter – Season 1

Italy and the mafia were at war in the early 1990s, as rival families fought for control of Sicily’s streets, until a determined young prosecutor steps in to fight for the innocents caught up in the carnage.

Camorra Connection – Season 1

Follows one of the most ruthless mafia and criminal organizations that has ever known Italy, a clan capable of building over the years a plot of unprecedented violence and impunity, of becoming once economic enterprise and political party, to corrode institutions from within.

Corleone

This series tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone. The film is inspired from the eponymous book-inquiry of Giuseppe D’Avanzo and Attilio Bolzoni.

Curon – Season 1

Anna returns to her family’s hotel in the mountains of Italy with her twins to find that old superstitions and town demons have not been forgotten nor have they died in the time she was away.

Dieci Inverni

Born of a chance meeting on a ferry in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla’s rocky romance unfolds over ten winters as new lovers come and go, but they are eternally thrust back into one another’s arms. Winner of the 2010 David di Donatello Award for Best New Director. Directed by Valerio Mieli and stars Isabella Ragonese, Michele Riondino and Glen Blackhall.

Don Matteo – Season 1

Terence Hill (famous for his partnership with Bud Spencer in spaghetti westerns such as They Call Me Trinity and My Name is Nobody) stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help. In fact, he never met anyone marginalized he didn’t want to help: the elderly, the homeless, the immigrant, the unemployed. He sees them all as he bicycles along the streets and through the countryside of his parish.

Don Matteo – Season 5

Don’t Leave Me – Season 1

Police officer Elena deals with cyber crimes and violence against children. The discovery of a young boy’s body in the Venetian Lagoon brings her back to the city she left twenty years earlier.

Ever After

The story of Anna and Enrico – a couple who, after their happy wedding 11 years ago, now find themselves in a bitter custody battle for their young son Pietro. With a constant back and forth between past and present, this gripping drama dissects their relationship to uncover what made their love story fall apart.

Fear of Loving – Season 1

Stefano Loi, the president of the big pharmaceutical group Loipharma, lives happily in Turin together with his beautiful wife Emma and his two children Carlotta and Tommy. Suddenly Emma dies in a car accident and their whole life is turned upside down.

Gomorra – Season 1

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 the clan’s godfather, Pietro Savastano.

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