Best Italian Dramas on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Italian Dramas on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 37 titles in category code 4282. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 1978, 2h 57m. In late 19th-century Italy, four peasant families struggle to survive.
2. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 2h 11m. In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio forms a life-changing bond with his father's charismatic research assistant Oliver in the Italian countryside.
3. The Great Beauty (2013)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 2h 21m. As charming 65-year-old journalist Jep Gambardella writes about Rome's culture and social life, he reflects with bitterness on the passions of his lost youth, even as he paints a complex portrait of the lovely and ancient city.
4. Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 2h 07m. Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise's son will change his world.
5. Malena (2000)
Rated 7.5/10 on IMDb, from 2000, 1h 32m. Twelve-year-old Renato is enamored with Malèna.
6. Suburra (2015)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 2h 14m. A grueling battle over turning a seaside town near Rome into a gambling paradise exposes criminal rivalries and endemic corruption on a grand scale.
7. Il Divo (2008)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2008, 1h 58m. This entertaining docudrama traces the life and career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's long chokehold on Italian politics.
8. Human Capital (2013)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 50m. In the wake of the economic meltdown, the fate of two families are bound together by their children's romance and a mysterious hit-and-run accident.
9. Italian Race (2016)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 58m. A talented young car racer and her gifted but unreliable brother take to the track to win, and work on healing the wounds of the past.
10. Dogman (2018)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 1h 38m. When his life hits a breaking point, a meek dog groomer must find a way to free himself from under the thumb of the town bully, a browbeating ex-boxer.