Italian TV series about special services

List of the best Italian TV series about special services according to viewers: Spy City, Killing Eve, Beauty and the Beast, Titanic: Blood and Steel, We Are Who We Are, The Piano Forest, Luna Nera, An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts, Don't Leave Me, The Law According to Lidia Poët.

In the top there are new series of 2023, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
Duration01:08

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama
CountryItaly, Spain
Duration03:10

France, late 1700s. Leon Dalville is a prince who has it all - good looks, love and wealth. One mysterious night, however, he loses everything. His young wife passes away in a fire and the prince’s face is permanently marred. To hide his disfigurement, he wears a silver mask that only partially covers his face, turning him into a mysterious and cruel man who is tormented by his past and hated and feared by all. Innocent and naive Bella Dubois comes to Leon’s castle to offer her services as a maid, to pay back the debts her father has with the prince. Leon’s cousin Helene, who has always been in love with him, challenges the prince: he must seduce and abandon Bella. But, despite Helene’s cruel and deceitful tricks, Leon falls in love with Bella.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, history
CountryRepublic of Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany
Duration00:54

Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, music, anime
CountryJapan, Italy

A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryItaly

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.

Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryItaly

Alice is heartbroken and hopelessly single. But after befriending a charismatic astrology guru, she looks to the stars to find her perfect match.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecrime
CountryItaly

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryItaly

Forbidden from practicing law, a woman prepares an appeal to overturn the court’s decision in this true story of Lidia Poët, Italy’s first female lawyer.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryItaly

Italian miniseries.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
CountryItaly, Germany

The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
CountryItaly

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Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, biography, history
CountryItaly, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:46

The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon
CountryItaly

A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration02:02

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy
CountryItaly
Duration00:50

Il tredicesimo apostolo - Il prescelto is an Italian television series produced in 2012.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecartoon
CountryItaly
Duration00:13

Protected and empowered by the magical Tree of Life, the miniature metropolis of Pixieville is home to a group of extraordinary little creatures.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, history
CountryFrance, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration00:53

Borgia is a French-German-Czech historical drama television series created by Tom Fontana. The show recounts the Borgia family's rise to power and subsequent domination of the Papal States during the Renaissance. Borgia debuted in Italy via Sky Italia on 10 July 2011, and in North America via Netflix on 2 October 2011. It was since renewed for a second season, which premiered on Canal+ on March 18, 2013. Season 3 is currently in Pre-Production, and will be the end of the series.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecrime
CountryItaly

The murder of a teen girl impacts a public prosecutor linked to the victim, a lawyer seeking a career-making case and a suspect who says she's innocent.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom

After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryItaly
Duration01:42

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.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, cartoon
CountryItaly

Rose Cinderella is an average teenage girl who's as obsessed with shoes as she is fairy tales. But when she finds a key that unlocks a magical new world, she learns that fairy tales are not just in storybooks! When Rose tumbles into Fairy Tale Land, she discovers something even greater – her own magical family legacy! Her grandmother Cinderella is headmistress of Regal Academy, where five famous fairy tale families come together to teach the next generation of princes and princesses how to become heroes…with a lot of help from their legendary grandparents. Now Rose and her new best friends – Astoria Rapunzel, Joy Le Frog, Travis Beast and Hawk Snow-white – figure out how to fly dragons and outsmart witches, all while learning to use their magic and live up to their famous family names.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, detective
CountryItaly, USA

The Winx travel all over the world searching for talent for WOW. and preventing the mysterious talent thief from kidnapping them.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantasy, drama, history
CountryItaly, United Kingdom

The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B.C. as seen through the eyes of three people marked by death, loneliness and violence.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecrime, detective
CountryItaly

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

Markimdb: 8.7
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, Germany
Duration00:50

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.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryItaly

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

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryItaly, Germany

Turbo is an Italian television series.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly

A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly
Duration02:03

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryItaly, West Germany, Yugoslavia, USA

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title.Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills.The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama
CountryItaly

A modern love story set during the summer on Italy’s Adriatic Coast. An undeniable attraction brings together Ale and Summer, who come from very different worlds. For both, these holidays will be an unforgettable journey that will take them far from who they were before they met.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryItaly, France, West Germany

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family, western, cartoon, short, detective, military
CountryUSA, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Japan

Follow the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and his sidekick Tails, as they attempt to stop Dr. Robotnik and his array of robots from taking over the planet Mobius.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, cartoon, anime
CountryItaly

The Legend of Snow White is a Japanese anime series produced by Tatsunoko Production and based on the European fairy tale. Directed by Tsuneo Ninomiya and using a screenplay written by Jinzō Toriumi, the series premiered on NHK on April 6, 1994 and ran for 52-episodes until its conclusion on March 29, 1995.The series uses two pieces of theme music: one opening theme, "Heart no mori e tsuretette" by Miki Sakai with Red Dolphins, and one ending theme, "Folk Dance" by Mebae Miyahara.

Markimdb: 9.1
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Greece, Italy, Germany
Duration01:00

David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryItaly, USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain

A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
CountryItaly

When their mother mysteriously vanishes shortly after they all arrive in her hometown, teen twins discover secrets behind the village’s tranquil facade.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy

The extraordinary rise of Livia Drusilla, who overcame adversity to become the most powerful woman in the world. Follow Livia’s journey from a naïve young girl whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination, to Rome’s most powerful and influential Empress.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, documentary
CountryUSA, Canada, Germany, Italy
Duration04:37

Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part miniseries written and directed by John Harrison and based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Austria
Duration06:00

Scarlett is a 1994 six hour miniseries loosely based on the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone with the Wind, written by Alexandra Ripley. The series was filmed at 53 locations in the United States and abroad, and stars Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O'Hara, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler, and Sean Bean as Lord Richard Fenton as well as many other notable British and American actors.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly

Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved cult status in Italy.This is the second fiction series after Quo Vadis, Baby? that was produced by Sky and broadcast on Fox Crime, Sky One and on Sky Arts with English subtitles in 2012.The series is set in about 1977-89 and follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect. The gang is led by three old friends, Libanese, Freddo and Dandi.As well as its internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services. The plotline is based on the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective, history
CountryItaly, Germany
Duration00:50

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryItaly

Don Matteo is 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.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, crime
CountryItaly

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France, Spain, United Kingdom, USA

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy
CountryItaly

L'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series.




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