My Brilliant Friend (Seasons 1–4)

My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale, 2018) is an HBO and RAI co-production you can watch online on iFILM — four seasons adapted from Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace play the young Elena and Lila, chosen from thousands of auditions; Alba Rohrwacher narrates as the older Elena.

The story opens in a Naples tenement in the 1950s, where education is treated as an eccentricity and a girl's best option is a decent husband. Elena is quiet and studious; Lila burns and breaks things. Their friendship is not warmth but friction — a rivalry that keeps reshaping both women across four decades, a city and an entire country.

Directors Saverio Costanzo, Laura Bispuri, Daniele Luchetti and Alice Rohrwacher shot largely on location in Naples, and the texture of the place is written into every frame. This is one of the defining European dramas of the past decade. Stream all seasons of My Brilliant Friend online on iFILM.