Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1My Brilliant Friend (2018)My Brilliant Friend (2018) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Nov 2018Elena and Lila’s friendship develops through a Naples neighbourhood where education, money and family loyalties open very different doors. The long span allows a small decision to acquire consequences years later. Adapted from Elena Ferrante’s novels, it is the strongest starting point here for…0
  2. 2The Lying Life of Adults (2023)The Lying Life of Adults (2023) 6.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 Jan 2023Giovanna begins to question the adults around her as she moves between different parts of Naples and different accounts of her family. Another Ferrante adaptation, this makes class legible through language, manners and access to particular homes. Choose it for a shorter, more concentrated study of…0
  3. 3The Good Mothers (2023)The Good Mothers (2023) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Apr 2023Women inside ’Ndrangheta families attempt to break with a system that treats kinship as a means of control. Based on real events, the drama follows their risks alongside the prosecution seeking their cooperation. Its perspective makes family power concrete through children, movement and safety,…0
  4. 4Bang Bang Baby (2022)Bang Bang Baby (2022) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 28 Apr 2022A teenager in northern Italy discovers that her father is alive and connected to organised crime. Alice’s desire to belong pulls against the life she thought she understood. The stylised 1980s presentation gives this coming-of-age crime story its own texture, with family recognition becoming a…0
  5. 5The Bad Guy (2022)The Bad Guy (2022) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Dec 2022A Sicilian prosecutor falsely accused of Mafia involvement moves into the world he once fought. The premise makes an unruly, darkly comic test of the boundary between public authority and criminal power. Luigi Lo Cascio leads a deliberately heightened series, best chosen when you want institutional…0
  6. 6Gomorrah (2014)Gomorrah (2014) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 May 2014The struggle within a Naples crime organisation reaches through households, estates and local business. Its value for this theme lies in how control is maintained and replaced, with neighbourhood life carrying the consequences. The violence is relentless, and the series offers a bleak view of power…0
  7. 7Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Oct 2017A dispute over land outside Rome connects criminal interests, political office and Church connections. The city’s development becomes a practical reason for people from different worlds to cooperate and betray one another. Choose it for the networks around a valuable site and the way private…0
  8. 8The Art of Joy (2024)The Art of Joy (2024) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 30 May 2024Modesta’s passage from poverty into a convent and an aristocratic Sicilian household makes desire and social advancement inseparable. Valeria Golino adapts Goliarda Sapienza’s novel with a protagonist whose resourcefulness can also be deeply unsettling. Watch for the changing uses of dependence,…0
  9. 9The Story (2024)The Story (2024) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Jan 2024Jasmine Trinca plays Ida, a Jewish schoolteacher trying to keep herself and her sons alive through war and its aftermath in Rome. Adapted from Elsa Morante’s novel, the series measures immense historical forces through a vulnerable household. It is the most painful social-history choice here, with…0
  10. 10Everything Calls for Salvation (2022)Everything Calls for Salvation (2022) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Oct 2022Daniele wakes in a psychiatric ward after an involuntary admission and begins to understand the men sharing it with him. The institution’s rules, the staff’s decisions and the patients’ attachments create a small, consequential community. Choose it for care and authority examined through daily…0