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    Can you recommend any classic Italian crime dramas?


    Something along the lines of these that I liked: the ’70s-80s classics like Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, S.W.A.T.), Vega$), Magnum P.I. and Miami Vice; also Sweeney and The Professionals) (UK ’70s cop shows), and of German shows: Cobra 11 (first 8 years), The Commissioner), Derrick), The old man), The clownalso newer if something along the lines of The last bull) (a cop who was shot in the head in late ’80s, then spent 20 years in coma and woke up in 2010, now being an old-school macho cop in the modern world.) Also the French Louis de Funes’ Gendarme moviesthough they were more comedic than serious. But probably I could say I might be also more into the general aesthetics of the time and bit more action-driven; like while that one’s much newer, I found CSI (and any spin-offs) just extremely boring.

    So I’d imagine something in that ballpark, perhaps from the First Republic era or maybe early Second Republic (until early-2000s or so). Also I’d welcome some with more regional themes (a la less Rome or Milan-centric), even if a bit newer; like in Germany there’s Rosenheim-Cops in rural Bavaria and the Ostfrieslandkrimis set in the East Frisia (Lower Saxony seaside), based on Klaus-Peter Wolf’s novels.

    Can you recommend any classic Italian crime dramas?
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    9. electrickangaroo31 on

      1992, 1993, and 1994. It’s not your classic crime drama, but it tells the story of Berlusconi’s rise to prominence and power. So there’s a lot of crime and corruption involving judges and police.

    10. riffraff on

      We have a bunch of police procedural crime dramas, looking at those started before the 2000 (list from wikipedia with links to the italain version but you can translate easily)

       [*Il commissario Montalbano*](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_commissario_Montalbano) (1999-2021) probably the best, set in Sicily

      [*Linda e il brigadiere*](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_e_il_brigadiere) (1997-2000) more comedic

      [*Don Matteo*](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Matteo) (2000-) probably the most successful

      [*Il maresciallo Rocca*](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_maresciallo_Rocca) (1996-2005) mostly carried by the main character, Gigi Proietti, who was a very beloved actors and showman in Italy

      [*La squadra*](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_squadra_(serie_televisiva)) (2000-2007) set in Naples

      Most have some comedy in them, some have been distributed abroad too.

      After the 2000s there was a *boom* of crime drama so there’s dozens more, often based on successful books, and there’s even stuff like[ L’ispettore Coliandro](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27ispettore_Coliandro) which is very peculiar, a kind of deconstruction of the genre, and each episode filmed in a different way.

      EDIT:

      [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imma_Tataranni_-_Sostituto_procuratore](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imma_Tataranni_-_Sostituto_procuratore) is set in Matera, which is a quite unusual setting, and follows a woman judicial prosecutor, quite a peculiar one.

    14. Marite64 on

      “Il rossetto” by Damiano Damiani. Inspired by the novel “Quer pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana”.