The BEST episodes directed by Andrea Barzini
#1 - The Witness
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 11
Dario is a thirteen year old boy who witnesses a murder. The victim, before his death, reveals an important secret. The police then decided to hide the boy in Canonica, hoping that Don Matteo convinces him to tell the secret.
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#2 - The King of Chess
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 14
Like every year, it is scheduled in the square of Gubbio the game of living chess. The event, however, is in doubt after many older people become victim of strange incidents that seem to all be caused by a mysterious "king of chess."
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#3 - Election Campaign
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 1
A young journalist and a candidate for mayor of Gubbio is killed during the election campaign, perhaps because of his environmental projects. Soon, however, investigation of burning that the young man was leading comes to light. Meanwhile, Laura Respighi, intelligent and attractive woman comes to Gubbio, as replacement of candidate. She not only wins the election but will also lose her head to Captain Anceschi.
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#4 - Dance Competition
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 5
A well-known tango dancer dies suddenly during a dance competition organized by the municipality. Suspicions pin on an irreproachable pharmacist. To blame him for the murder is even the daughter, life and dance partner of the victim, who accuses the father of having killed the dancer to prevent their love story. Doesn't the girl know that a more complex truth binds her family to the victim...
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#5 - Death at Dawn
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 6
Natalina is rushed to the hospital for a tachycardia attack. While Don Matteo is in the hospital to assist the housekeeper, a strange accident occurs: a doctor falls from the fourth floor of the hospital. Suicide is thought of, but Don Matteo has collected his last words: disconnected syllables apparently meaningless. To overcome the code of silence that reigns in the hospital, Anceschi decides to infiltrate Cecchini as a nurse in the ward. The marshal, with the help of Don Matteo, will discover a strange round of drugs and medicines; and some mysterious deaths...
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#6 - Mysteries and Lies
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 15
A forty-year-old aristocratic lady is found murdered in her villa. The investigations immediately focus on the clandestine and stormy relationship that the woman had with one of her employees. However, many other and more intricate secrets are hidden behind the prestigious family name: a professional killer, fragile lives built on secrets and lies.
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#7 - The Suspect
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 19
A prominent winemaker is killed in his cellar. Suspect number one is a childhood friend, the son of a family maid, who was unjustly fired. But the man, who fled after the murder, was not alone; with him was Laura, the mayor. Torn between a sense of duty and feeling, torn apart by suspicions and jealousy, Anceschi is no longer able to trust her...
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#8 - The Suitcase
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 9
For a trivial exchange of suitcases Natalina is involved in an international intrigue: the suitcase found by the housekeeper belongs in fact to an attractive model, a former TV starlet, who has just returned to Gubbio from the United States and was found dead in her apartment. As the investigation proceeds, someone is keeping an eye on Natalina...
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#9 - Paragraph 23
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 7
Marshal Cecchini finds himself involved in a family drama: due to an accident, his daughter Patrizia risks losing her sight. She urgently needs eye surgery. To deal with the substantial medical expenses, Cecchini, instead of asking his friends for help, relies on a financial institution, thus ending up the victim of a legalized scam. When he realizes it, it's too late, the trap has already been sprung.
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#10 - Three Marriages and... One Father Christmas
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 13
During the celebration of a marriage by Don Matteo, the police arrests the groom. The accusations are heavy for him: as a result of the robbery a woman was killed.
#11 - The Flight
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 16
The hang gliding champion of the area die during a flight. The Carabinieri and Don Matteo set to work to try to understand whether it was a simple accident or a murder and find that the emotional situation of man might be relevant in resolving the case.
#12 - Private Investigations
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 13
The man responsible for the death of Captain Anceschi's father is assassinated after being released from prison. The captain, who had sworn to take revenge, is seriously suspected and suspended from duty. Don Matteo and Marshal Cecchini set to work with a confidential investigation...
#13 - Precious Goods
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 17
A man is attacked and injured at home, in full view of his wife. While the police investigate the case, another family reports the disappearance of their son Bruno. The case seems to be resolved when it is discovered that Camilla has been hiding a runaway boy in the rectory for some time. But the case instead gets complicated: the child Camilla found is not Bruno and moreover he refuses for fear of revealing his identity. Where is he from? What is he running from? What is the connection between the two cases?
#14 - The Magician
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 4
Monica, who believes to have cancer, meets the healer and magician Kaspar, who has a reputation of taking advantage of people in distress. After several healing sessions with Kaspar, Monica's medical condition improves. It's a miracle - and attracts many people to Kaspar's 'practice'. Police officers question Kaspar, but only Don Matteo's help leads them on the right track
#15 - The Band
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 11
Sergio is run over by a car. His fiancée Angela mourns his death but decides to begin a new life. After joining a music band, she receives anonymous threats: Someone wants her to leave town. Police investigations lead to a young man who seems to be involved in the car accident. Don Matteo has to solve the case.
#16 - Etruscan Tomb
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 13
During a walk in the woods, Nerino falls into a 'hole' and discovers an old Etruscan tomb, filled with treasures. When police officers arrive, the treasures have disappeared. Suspicion falls on Lanza, a surly man who was involved in a robbery before. But Don Matteo suspects a certain Mr. Todi.
#17 - Out Game
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 15
The town's volleyball team won the championship. During the celebration, Varoli, president and trainer of the team, is found dead. Vivana an ex-player of the team is suspected to have committed this crime because she has a motive: Since a car accident caused by Varoli, she is bound to a wheel chair. Don Matteo knows the girl and tries to prove her innocence.
#18 - The Confession
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 16
A young woman is killed in her home. Natalina, the house keeper, can aid police investigations because she saw Giovanni Antonelli escaping from the house. The man admits that he had a relationship with the victim but refuses to confess to the crime. Police investigations move to a company, owned by the victim's 'real' boyfriend.
#19 - Beauty Farm
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 7
In the beauty farm which is located just outside the city, there is also the wife of Marshal Cecchini, who won a holiday in the wellness facility. The beauty farm, which is also frequented by celebrities, is the scene of the murder of an American actress.
#20 - The Gift
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 18
During a pastry competition that brings Italy's most famous pastry chefs to Gubbio, a young industrialist, promoter of the competition, is poisoned by a slice of cake "stuffed" with strychnine. The police investigations focus almost immediately on the ex-girlfriend, the beneficiary of a billion-dollar insurance policy. Thanks to Don Matteo's help, it will be discovered that the industrialist's death was actually caused by an "error" in person: one of the confectioners in the competition had to die. And it is in a secret recipe that the solution to the mystery is discovered...
#21 - Stage Fright
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 6
A troupe of actors is in town to stage "Anna Karenina". During rehearsals, however, an accident occurs which convinces the actors that the stage is unlucky and that for this reason they refuse to perform. The Carabinieri and Don Matteo try to defeat the superstition.
#22 - Five Lobsters
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 5
A famous chef is killed. Police suspect the Bagnetti brothers, who were evicted by the chef and therefore have a motive. Gerolamo, a homeless man and witness of the homicide accuses Mordelli, another famous chef. Don Matteo thinks that the police in on the wrong track.
#23 - Move Gambling
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 9
A well known businessman is kidnapped. Who organized the abduction? Police seem to be on the right track and arrest an employee of the victim. While the son takes over his father’s business, Don Matteo finds out that many of the employees have bad interests…
#24 - Wife and Oxen of Your Countries
Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 10
Tarek, an immigrant, wants to traditionally arrange a wedding for his sons, who disagree with this tradition. To avoid the marriage, Mohammed commits a theft. When his brother Abdul gets involved in a violent crime, Don Matteo begins to investigate.
#25 - The Hostage
Don Matteo - Season 3 - Episode 4
The young woman Petra (Jacqueline Lustig), on the run from police after supposedly committing a crime, takes Don Matteo hostage. While the police and Don Matteo's 'family' attempt to free him, our protagonist cooks up a plan: In order to escape and to uncover the truth, he tries to become an accomplice to his kidnapper.
#26 - Murder LIve
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 12
Paco, a young rebel DJ of a small private radio station, is killed live during a broadcast. The investigations focus first on the owner of the radio, who wanted to bend Paco to his own ends, then on the members of an emerging rock group, the Crysis, discovered but also exploited by the DJ. It will be Don Matteo, for the occasion the conductor of a radio broadcast, who will read between the lines the truth about Paco and the whole story.
#27 - Behind the Curtain
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 16
Giulia, a famous opera singer, is poisoned during a dinner in her honor held in Don Matteo's rectory. The first suspicions fall on the young collaborator, tired of undergoing the whims of the woman, and on her husband, who would have betrayed her. The skein becomes even more tangled when the singer accuses herself of poisoning. The solution to the case lies instead in the woman's past, behind the curtain of her career and her success...
#28 - The Laws of Change
Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 20
A building contractor is found dead on his construction site. The carabinieri's suspicions focus on those responsible for "Casa Domani", a center for dyslexic children, which was about to be evicted by the builder. But mysterious events that occurred on the night of the crime and the discovery of the body of a man with no identity reopen the games. Don Matteo and the carabinieri discover the key to solving the mystery in the collapse of a building that occurred years earlier: a mystery in which chance played its part...