Best Italian crime series

The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023)

In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

The General's Men (2023)

The efforts of a special paramilitary anti-terrorism unit set up in the 1970s by a high-ranking police official, Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.

Political Target (2006)

After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades from killing their next target — and strike fear at the heart of the State.

Amanti e Segreti (2004)

Amanti e Segreti is an Italian 2004 six-part crime thriller series directed by Gianni Lepre. Filming locations were Rome, Trieste, Ferrara and Tuscany. The first episode aired on 16 March 2004 on Rai Uno. The series was a success, with an audience of about 9 millions viewers. The series was sold to several foreign countries, including Japan, China, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Spain. A second season consisting of four episodes was produced and broadcast in 2005.

Telefono giallo (1987)

It covers unsolved crime cases and still open mysteries which happened in Italy since the aftermath of WWII. The episodes include reconstructions made by professional actors, interviews with the real protagonists of the cases, in-depth reports by journalists, investigators, experts and/or magistrates who dealt with the facts under examination, and from any phone calls from viewers who can provide new stimuli for the investigation.

Storie Maledette (1994)

Storie Maledette è un programma televisivo italiano nato nel 1994. L'ideatrice e la conduttrice del programma è Franca Leosini.Lo scopo della trasmissione, inserita nel palinsesto di Rai 3, è quello di raccontare storie di personaggi della vita comune diventati noti per avvenimenti di cronaca nera e, quindi, di casi giudiziari. Gli intervistati sono tutti condannati al carcere, da dove viene registrata la puntata, che ha lo scopo di ricostruire le vicende, l'analisi dei moventi, e il successivo iter processuale.

Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story (2023)

Reconstruction of one of the most shocking crime news events in recent decades: the murders of Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett by Danilo Restivo. The story begins on 12 September 1993 and takes place over a period of about twenty years between Potenza and the English coast of Bournemouth.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)

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 her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.

Christian (2022)

Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world.

The Red Door (2017)

Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.

Violet like the sea (2022)

Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins police inspector Francesco Demir in solving crime with the help of synesthesia.

Inspector Ricciardi (2021)

Naples, 1932. Detective Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi leaves no crime unsolved, being able to see the ghosts of people who have died violently and listen to their last thought. But this extraordinary gift is both a blessing and a curse!

The Gymnasts (2022)

Teenage obsessions clash with the brutal pressures of competitive training, when a team of young gymnasts compete in an elite tournament. Friendships are tested, rivalries flare, and some will do anything to win.

Time After Time (2023)

Elio a lawyer has a beautiful family but he became the top suspects for death of the girl he was in love with, thirty years ago.

R.I.S. - Delitti Imperfetti (2005)

A crime drama focusing on the scientific aspects of crime investigations.

R.I.S. Roma – Delitti imperfetti (2010)

R.I.S. Roma – Delitti imperfetti is an Italian television series.The episodes starts from 18 of March 2010 on Canale 5.

Brennero (2024)

Fosca Innocenti (2022)

The Fenoglio Method - The Cold Summer (2023)

Bari (southern Italy), 1991. A bloody mafia war is unfolding in a city believed to be safe from the mafia. Murders, ambushes and mysterious disappearances shake the streets of Bari. Commander Pietro Fenoglio, who uses unconventional investigative methods to solve crimes, embarks on a dangerous journey to find the truth. As the violence reaches its peak, he begins to uncover dark secrets that go back deep into the past.

Nero Wolfe (2012)

Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.

L'isola di Pietro (2017)

Elena Sereni returns to her hometown of Carloforte, a city on an island in Southern Sardinia, after hearing that her father, a pediatrician named Pietro Sereni, had last been seen rushing into a fiery blaze that killed four high school students.

The Young Montalbano (2012)

The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.

Valentina (1989)

The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which she gets involved because of her curiosity and her wonderful physical appearance. In the Shareholders She is often assisted by the antiquarian Philip Rembrandt, with whom she shares an ambiguous relationship.

Professione fantasma (1998)

Professione fantasma is an Italian television series.

Don Tonino (1988)

Don Tonino is an Italian television series.

Crimini (2006)

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

6 passi nel giallo (2012)

Origins of the Mafia (1976)

Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia

La promessa (1979)

Philo Vance (1974)

Italian miniseries starring the famous detective Philo Vance, which narrates the events that occurred in the first three books: "The Benson Murder Case", "The Canary Murder Case" and "The Greene Murder Case"