Italian Dramas on Netflix

In late 19th-century Italy, four peasant families struggle to survive. For one sensitive boy, a good shoe will make all the difference in the world.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:57:34
Netflix ID: 70001601 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 80169498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:21:14
Netflix ID: 70275597 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 02:07:29
Netflix ID: 81004245 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Twelve-year-old Renato is enamored with Malèna. But when jealous townsfolk begin spreading rumors about her, Renato must separate fact from fiction.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:32:01
Netflix ID: 60003396 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A grueling battle over turning a seaside town near Rome into a gambling paradise exposes criminal rivalries and endemic corruption on a grand scale.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:14:49
Netflix ID: 80075009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This entertaining docudrama traces the life and career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's long chokehold on Italian politics.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:58:13
Netflix ID: 70100556 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:50:39
Netflix ID: 70309682 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:58:01
Netflix ID: 80196047 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:38:44
Netflix ID: 81006781 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Between the 1970s and 1980s, as the Mafia terrorizes his homeland with bombs and killings, young, love-struck Sicilian Arturo grows to manhood.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:29:26
Netflix ID: 80036589 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On December 12, 1969, a huge bomb planted in a bank in Milan killed 17 people, a shocking crime that the Italian police first blamed on anarchists.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:04:13
Netflix ID: 70257419 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:56:23
Netflix ID: 80116340 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Growing apart from his own children, an elderly widower forms a bond with the young family next door — until a tragedy changes everything.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:44:57
Netflix ID: 81234001 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A series of strangers visit an enigmatic man that they believe can grant any wish. In return, they must carry out any task he assigns.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:41:09
Netflix ID: 81002881 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two teenagers form the fabric of this gritty examination of the Neapolitan mob.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:11:23
Netflix ID: 70100401 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Caterina stays grounded amidst the tumult of moving to a new city with help from the extraordinary Australian boy who lives across the way.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:42:01
Netflix ID: 70027110 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three generations of a family face tumultuous personal and political events as their lives unfold in the Sicilian village of Bagheria.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:33:59
Netflix ID: 70117542 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this dark satire of family ties, a poor Italian family greedily grabs for compensation cash from the government after their daughter is killed.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:29:22
Netflix ID: 70257720 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a chance meeting atop a Paris rooftop, a waiter and a young French woman spark a volatile romance and attempt to keep their love story pulsating.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 02:00:37
Netflix ID: 81005285 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bodyguard Antonio doesn't accept his wife's decision to leave him, and he follows her throughout her day, hoping for reconciliation. Meanwhile, his boss, politician Elio Fioravanti, faces serious family difficulties of his own.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:37:29
Netflix ID: 70109142 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The day-to-day stories of the controversial Italian riot police are told through the eyes of three unpopular officers who confront violence daily.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:45:29
Netflix ID: 70271479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shocked to learn his son is leaving medicine to become a priest, atheist heart surgeon Tomasso sets out to undermine his son's charismatic mentor.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:27:36
Netflix ID: 80194608 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman pregnant with her first child and whose husband is unemployed loses her stable job, so she devises a dangerous plan to save her family.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:42:30
Netflix ID: 81005200 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Thirty years after his mother’s death crushed his childhood, a writer seeks to understand the event's effect on his life, career and views on love.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 02:10:59
Netflix ID: 80115135 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A rebellious teen grows up to become one of Milan's most ambitious criminals during the golden years of the 'ndrangheta Mafia in the 1980s.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:51:22
Netflix ID: 81080942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:36:50
Netflix ID: 81292345 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An angst-ridden teen who can't seem to find joy in anything faces a new outlook on life when he meets a pretty girl with a serious illness.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:41:53
Netflix ID: 80075003 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fresh off a breakup, a journeyman actor seeks romantic freedom and adventure only to get trapped by his own neuroses.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:34:22
Netflix ID: 81005286 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A vandalized car and a violent attack set a small-time crook and a mob boss on a wild collision course as they hunt for their targets: each other.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:39:03
Netflix ID: 81237756 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1914, an illiterate Italian goat herder is torn between the utopian ideals of an artists' commune and the science of a pragmatic local doctor.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:57:09
Netflix ID: 81023621 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The daughters and widows of a legendary film idol and Lothario gather to honor his career in this riotous tribute to the golden age of Italian cinema.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:40:12
Netflix ID: 81005194 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The eccentric son of a wealthy industrialist believes that he's found his late father's reincarnation -- a materialist man seriously mired in debt.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:26:03
Netflix ID: 81005195 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two divorced middle-aged friends pledge to remain single, but their resolve is tested by a charming young man who connects with both of them.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:32:35
Netflix ID: 81005208 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young woman gets engaged to the man of her dreams, her mother is reconnected with a lover from her past -- the father of the groom.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:41:27
Netflix ID: 80987550 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she once loved.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:42:17
Netflix ID: 80139012 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Reveling in the pain of a past romance, a professor strives for liberation when her ex pursues a younger woman, and a former student pursues her.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:27:55
Netflix ID: 81005207 · Watch on Netflix