Best Italian action series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch action shows from Italy, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Citadel: Diana 2024

    Milan, 2030: Diana Cavalieri is a double agent for the secret syndicate Citadel, who infiltrated Manticore, the rival agency that destroyed Citadel eight years ago. Trapped behind enemy lines, Diana has a chance to leave the agency forever, but she has to decide whether to trust a surprising ally: the heir of Manticore Italy, Edo Zani. Part 3 of the Citadel Universe (1. Citadel Honey Bunny, 2. Citadel S1, 3. Citadel: Diana)

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  • Poster for Romanzo Criminale

    Romanzo Criminale 2008

    Love, business, anxieties, friendships, feuds, and resentments paint the picture of the main story, that of a group of criminals who for nearly fifteen years, from 1977 to 1992, cherished an illusion: that of conquering Rome. The Lebanese, Freddo, Dandi, Patrizia, and Commissioner Scialoja are some of the characters inspired by the true story of the Magliana gang. As stated by Aldo Grasso, the first season of the series gives more space to the crime scene, that is, the criminal exploits of the Magliana gang, while the second season delves deeper into the "behind the scenes" of the crime: thus, the gang's repositioning after a key plot event, and the effects and questions this has provoked in the protagonists' consciences.

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  • Poster for Doc

    Doc 2020

    When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.

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  • Poster for The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo 2025

    Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him.

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  • Poster for Sonic the Hedgehog

    Sonic the Hedgehog 1993

    Sonic, Tails, Princess Sally, and a band of freedom fighters battle to overthrow Dr. Robotnik, a despotic dictator who conquered their home planet Mobius years ago, and rules it as a polluted industrial dystopia.

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  • Poster for Inspector Montalbano

    Inspector Montalbano 1999

    A look at the life of the police commissioner, Salvo Montalbano, of the Sicilian town of Vigata and the criminal cases solved by him.

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  • Poster for Public Disorder

    Public Disorder 2025

    Following the fateful aftermath of a demonstration, tensions rise within a riot squad that struggles to separate work from personal life.

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  • Poster for Huntik: Secrets & Seekers

    Huntik: Secrets & Seekers 2009

    Huntik: Secrets & Seekers is an Italian/American animated television series, begun in 2009, created and directed by Iginio Straffi. It was a co-production between Big Bocca Productions, a company owned by Richard McWilliam, CEO and owner of Upper Deck and Rainbow S.p.A. It acts like one of the spin-offs to the Winx Club series. All of the show's designs, animation and visual style were created in Italy, while the scriptwriting and original voice recording were done in the United States. It aired on The CW4Kids at 11:30am Eastern Standard Time on Saturdays. In Europe, the series used to air on Disney XD, and on CITV. In India, the series' first season aired on Disney XD in 2010. The series premiered on January 3, 2009, with one episode in the US and the first four episodes in Europe, making Jetix the home for premieres beyond the first episode. It was revealed in a magazine with the new season of the Winx Club, that the second season of Huntik would air in fall 2012 in the US. However, the second season began airing in the spring of 2012 in UK on CITV & Australia on channel eleven. The first season was released on DVD by Anime Works in 2010.

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  • Poster for Around the World in 80 Days

    Around the World in 80 Days 1989

    The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout, and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.

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  • Poster for Inspector Coliandro

    Inspector Coliandro 2006

    Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.

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  • Poster for Marco Polo

    Marco Polo 1982

    The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

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  • Poster for World of Winx

    World of Winx 2016

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

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  • Poster for Celebrity Hunted Italy

    Celebrity Hunted Italy 2020

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  • Poster for Piedone - A Cop in Naples

    Piedone - A Cop in Naples 2024

    Back in the police force after being suspended, Vicenzo Palmieri, infamous for his rough charm, adopts creative ways to bring criminals to justice.

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  • Poster for Big Man

    Big Man 1988

    The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.

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  • Poster for Monster Allergy

    Monster Allergy 2006

    In a world where monsters can only be seen by a select few, tamer Zick and his ordinary friend Elena must capture the mischievous monsters as well as the evil Magnacat.

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  • Poster for The Cave of the Golden Rose

    The Cave of the Golden Rose 1991

    The king desires nothing more than a male heir. But his wife gives birth to a girl Fantaghirò. When she refuses to marry years later, she is sent in the forest where she learns how to ride and fight like a man. She appears disguised in a duel with Prince Romualdo, the son of her father's adversary. Both fall in love, but their marriage brings no peace to the united kingdom. Evil forces are trying to seize power.

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  • Poster for Il Re

    Il Re 2022

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  • Poster for One Step From Heaven

    One Step From Heaven 2011

    Un passo dal cielo (One step from heaven) is an Italian television series starring Terence Hill as commander of the State Forestry Corps in the Italian village of Innichen and Enrico Ianniello as the local State Police commissioner.

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  • Poster for Anti-Mafia Squad

    Anti-Mafia Squad 2009

    Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

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  • Poster for Police District

    Police District 2000

    The events of Police District unfold in the rooms of the 10th Tuscolano, a police station on the outskirts of Rome where current events intertwine with the private lives of the inspectors, officers and commissioners who, over the course of 11 intense seasons, have created one of the greatest successes on Italian TV.

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  • Poster for Simba: The King Lion

    Simba: The King Lion 1994

    After the lion king is shot by hunters, the other animals of the jungle decide to work together to raise his orphaned lion cubs, including his favorite son, Simba. Simba and his siblings end up being raised by a wolf along with a deer named Buckshot (changed from Bimbo to avoid being a walking copyright infringement), who had also previously lost his parents to hunters. It turns out the tiger Shere Khan was the one who arranged the death of Simba's father so he could be the king of the jungle, and he wishes to capture Simba with the help of his minions.

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  • Poster for Dinofroz

    Dinofroz 2012

    The series depicts the adventures of Tom, a 12-year-old boy and his friends who, after playing a board game, are transported to a world where they can transform into dinosaurs using stones called Rockfroz.

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  • Poster for Girls of Olympus

    Girls of Olympus 2021

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  • Poster for Inspector Rex

    Inspector Rex 2008

    A spin off from the Austrian series Kommissar (Inspector) Rex. Rex the Police Dog moves from Vienna to Rome to continue his career.

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  • Poster for Adrian

    Adrian 2019

    2068: in a dystopic Milan, a simple watchmaker called Adrian takes on a corrupt regime, assuming various identities with the aim of awakening popular consciences.

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  • Poster for Egyxos

    Egyxos 2015

    The story tells the adventures of Leo, a boy with an authentic passion for the Egyptians. He has to face the dangers of the parallel world of Egyxos, which is divided into two armies: the gold and the black.

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  • Rosy Abate - La serie 2017

    Five years have passed. Rosy did not die in the explosion. Actually, she changed her life. She moved to the shores of Liguria, under the assumed identity of Claudia Lodato. She works at a supermarket and is engaged to Francesco, a thoughtful and reliable man who loves her without knowing her true identity. Soon enough, Rosy's past catches up with her.

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  • Poster for Il Bosco

    Il Bosco 2015

    A young psychologist returns to her hometown in order to investigate the death of her mother from twenty years ago.

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  • Poster for The Secret of the Sahara

    The Secret of the Sahara 1988

    Desmond Jordan is an archaeologist who find an old parchment in where it is mentioned the history of the Loudspeaker Mountain, the guardian of an ancient and sought-after treasure hidden in someplace of the Sahara's desert.

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  • Poster for The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans 2006

    Based on the Fenimore Cooper novel set at the time of the North American colonial wars (1740-1806), The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the adventures of the frontier hero, Hawkeye and the noble warriors Uncas and Big Snake, the last survivors of the noble descendants of the Mohicans.

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  • Poster for Gormiti - The New Era

    Gormiti - The New Era 2024

    To save the Realm of Gorm from the evil Lord Graven, four teenage Earthlings are trained by the Guardian of the Temple Myridell to master their elemental powers and summon their Warrior Spirits, the legendary Gormiti.

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  • Poster for Sandokan

    Sandokan 1998

    Exotic settings, spectacular naval battles, dangerous islands, hidden treasures, a lost thrones and... a love to be found. Fast action stories, funny situations, and much more - all based on the famous books of Emilio Salgari. The adventures of the bravest pirate of Malaysia - Sandokan.

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  • Poster for Carabinieri

    Carabinieri 2002

    When Paola Vitali arrives at the Carabinieri station in Città della Pieve, she appears to be the only woman in an all-male station, but there is no time for pleasantries as Marshal Tommaso Palermo immediately puts them all to the test.

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  • Poster for Desert of Fire

    Desert of Fire 1997

    A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents.

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  • Poster for The Odyssey

    The Odyssey 1968

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

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  • Poster for The Tiger Roars Again

    The Tiger Roars Again 2001

    History takes place in Borneo, India, and in southern China, the young Sandokan, who has since become Rajah of Kiltar, along with his faithful comrades Yanez and his chameleon Paco, the sweet Marianne, and the young Kammamuri, are confronted with two new enemies who threaten peace in the eastern territories. The new enemy is known as the White Rajah.

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  • Poster for Puppy in My Pocket

    Puppy in My Pocket 2009

    Flo and Magic must help the puppies of Pocketville make their way to children in the real world and try to get Princess Ava, who was beamed to the real world by her sister, Eva, back into Pocketville.

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  • Poster for La fuggitiva

    La fuggitiva 2021

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  • Poster for Detective Extralarge

    Detective Extralarge 1991

    Jack Costello is a retired cop and now private detective who lives in Miami, who handles a myriad of cases for unusual clients. At his side are old police buddy Sam Bosley and cartoonist-turned-amateur sleuth Jean Philippe Dumas, who is using Costello as an influence and has nicknamed the burly detective "Extralarge." In the second series, Costello faces other dangerous cases, again with Bosley and Archibald, the son of an old friend, who Costello amusingly nicknames "Dumas."

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  • Poster for One Thousand and One Nights

    One Thousand and One Nights 2012

    Shahrazad travels through desert searching for the man she loves and who she believes she has lost forever. She arrives at a castle, the home of a prince who kills anyone who dares enter. She convinces the prince to grant her one night to tell him a story, their story, a story that lasts one thousand and one nights...

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  • Poster for We Are Angels

    We Are Angels 1997

    Bob and Joe are two prisoners locked up in the Latin American maximum security prison of Santa Consuelo. The two manage to escape during an attack by the revolutionaries commanded by Napoleon Duarte and pretend to be friars, taking refuge in the mission of San Rolando. In the mission, in which monks and Indians live in harmony, the two escapees become Father Orso and Father Zaccaria and win the affection of all.

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  • Poster for Il sangue e la rosa

    Il sangue e la rosa 2008

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  • Poster for The Devil's Clock

    The Devil's Clock 2020

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  • Poster for 44 Cats

    44 Cats 2018

    The adventures of four kittens who make up the musical group called The Buffycats, with stories focusing on themes of friendship, altruism, tolerance and diversity.

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  • Poster for The marshal Rocca

    The marshal Rocca 1996

    The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

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  • Poster for Desideria e l'anello del drago

    Desideria e l'anello del drago 1995

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  • Poster for From the Barn to the Track

    From the Barn to the Track 2020

    Davide Cironi is an experienced test driver and a reference point for four-wheel enthusiasts. Dealing with ancient glories and old wrecks, he recovers battered cars from remote places with the aim of refurbishing them and bringing them to the track. To carry out each project, he uses the help of the best workshops around the country, because a real restoration does not only require time and dedication, but above all experience and great knowledge of the four wheels.

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  • Poster for Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus 1985

    After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.

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  • Poster for Alisea and the Dream Prince

    Alisea and the Dream Prince 1996

    Alisea and her brothers have been captured by Azaret, an evil wizard. Alisea escapes the castle and meets the young Prince Demian, with whom she falls in love. The spirit of the source promises that they will always be together if they are to drink from its source. Alisea is again caught by the magician, and Demian has to return to his father's cone, which aims to turn him into a warrior. Seven years later, Demian becomes a warrior, but has not forgotten Alisea, who he sees in his dreams. Azaret tries to prevent Demian and Alisea from begin together.

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  • Poster for The Black Corsair

    The Black Corsair 1997

    The Black Corsair

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  • Poster for The Seventh Scroll

    The Seventh Scroll 1999

    In the year 3000 BC an illegitimate son is born to Queen Lostris and the brave warrior Tanus. Her devoted eunuch Taita, a loyal servant, takes the baby boy and places him in a basket on the Nile. Five thousand years later, during our time, famous archaeologist Duraid al Simma and his wife Royan discover Queen Lostris's grave at the same spot, with ten scrolls inside it resembling a form of diary. The seventh scroll, which contains directions to Mamose's magnificent tomb with the legendary treasure, disappears without trace. Soon afterwards the couple adopt an unusual boy who displays an almost magical urge to be close to the Nile, so they name him after the river god Hapi. It is only ten years later that Taita's secret is almost solved. Fanatical art thief Schiller is also very curious about the information, and tries to track down more with the aid of his sidekick Boris. Whe Duraid dies during a struggle for possession of the scroll, Hapi and his mother turn to Nick Harper, an old acquaintance of Duraid's. Harper, who is an archaeologist with a keen sense of adventure and also a ladies' man, decides to help. The three of them travel to Ethiopia, followed by the greedy collector and his evil sidekick Boris, in order to search for the treasure. Eventually they not only solve Taita's strange riddle but also discover the origin of little Hapi, who meets his real parents Lostris and Tanus in a magic labyrinth...

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  • Cronache di Luxastra 2020

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  • Anime Selvagge 2020

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  • Poster for Pirates: Blood Brothers

    Pirates: Blood Brothers 1999

    Two brothers fell in love with the same woman, who was nearly killed by one of them in an accident. After the two men parted in anger, they meet years later when one is a famous pirate and the other one is a soldier who needs to hunt him down...

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  • Poster for Hotel Costiera

    Hotel Costiera 2025

    Shortly after Daniel, or DD as everybody knows him, starts working at the hotel, one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home while still solving the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.

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  • Poster for The new squad

    The new squad 2008

    In the heart of Naples, the Spaccanapoli Police Station is established to combat crime in the most affected areas. It is led by Deputy Commissioner Paola Ricci, a law-abiding officer who often clashes with Sergio Vitale, the impulsive and direct leader of the "Falchi" (Falchi). The Squad must confront crime but also its own vulnerabilities.

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  • Poster for Leo Da Vinci

    Leo Da Vinci 2019

    15 year old Leo and his friends Lollo and Lisa work on his ingenious inventions to help the city’s rulers, the Medicis, from the traps and ploys of a mysterious Conspirator.

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  • Poster for The squad

    The squad 2000

    One of the most enthralling crime series among Italian viewers: airing on Rai Tre from March 3, 2000, "La Squadra" offers a realistic overview of the world of crime through the cases investigated by the Sant'Andrea Police Station in Naples.

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  • Poster for Corto Maltese

    Corto Maltese 2003

    Elegant, daring, generous, Corto Maltese travels around the world wherever his current whim tales him. In every exotic locale his code of honor leads him to battle on behalf of the poor and the weak, battles he win due to his sparkling wit and daring.

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  • Poster for Il Ritorno di Sandokan

    Il Ritorno di Sandokan 1996

    The Return of Sandokan is a 1996 television series produced by Germany and Italy. It is the third chapter in the "Sandokan" saga starred by Kabir Bedi.

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  • Poster for In the Beginning: The Bible Stories

    In the Beginning: The Bible Stories 1997

    In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox.

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  • Poster for Treasure Island in Outer Space

    Treasure Island in Outer Space 1989

    Treasure Island in Outer Space (original: Il Pianeta Del Tesoro - Treasure Planet) is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti). It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).

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  • Camorra Connection 2013

    Follows one of the most ruthless mafia and criminal organizations that has ever known Italy, a clan capable of building over the years a plot of unprecedented violence and impunity, of becoming once economic enterprise and political party, to corrode institutions from within.

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  • Poster for Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero

    Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero 1999

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  • Poster for Anime e Sangue

    Anime e Sangue 2017

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