Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (Season 1)

Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (2022) is the Netflix true-crime documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Rome, summer 1983: a fifteen-year-old walks home from a music lesson and is never seen again.

Emanuela was the daughter of a Vatican employee and lived inside its walls, which turned a missing-girl case into something far stranger almost overnight. Director Mark Lewis lays out lead after lead — ransom phone calls, a supposed link to the attempt on Pope John Paul II, the Magliana crime gang, whispers of blackmail and church secrets. Every thread runs deeper, and nearly every one dead-ends in silence.

Across four parts the investigation leans on people rather than reenactments: Emanuela's best friend speaks on camera for the first time, alongside her brother Pietro, reporters and investigators. A case the authorities have never been allowed to close gets a patient, meticulous airing here. Heavy but gripping viewing for anyone who values hard questions over easy answers. Stream Vatican Girl online on iFILM.