Ripley is a 2024 crime thriller limited series written and directed entirely by Steven Zaillian — the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Schindler's List and The Irishman — for Netflix. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the series stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, a small-time con artist scraping by in 1960s New York who is hired by a wealthy American businessman to travel to coastal Italy and convince his wayward son to return home. What he finds there changes the direction of his life entirely.

Scott plays Ripley as a man of almost no fixed identity — a hollow, supremely adaptable intelligence who can inhabit whatever social role a situation demands and whose moral blankness is the story's most disturbing and compelling quality. Johnny Flynn plays Dickie Greenleaf, the golden, careless heir living the Mediterranean dream that Ripley has always wanted, and Eleonoroe Signole plays Marge, Dickie's companion whose accumulating suspicion of Ripley drives an escalating dramatic tension. Zaillian directed all eight episodes himself — a rare achievement on a premium television production of this scale — and shot the entire series in a luminous, precisely framed black and white.

Ripley was one of the most purely cinematic television productions of 2024, winning four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Cinematography for cinematographer Robert Elswit. Zaillian's decision to shoot in black and white across real Italian locations — Atrani, Rome, and Venice — drew on the tradition of Italian neorealism and the noir visual language that Highsmith's novels inhabit, resulting in a series that critics described as unlike anything else on television in its year and an argument for the limited series as a genuinely cinematic art form.