The Borgias The Borgias 2011 7.9 56659 7.8 275 7.6 521 77.0 1788 0 Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. Flesh and Blood 50 https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/2f7Vx9hLfbCOFxrWXiWeHFewTkG.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/dzzIfvCQeTOn7mZIKuQSfRl3UHI.png Pope Innocent VIII dies. Rodrigo Borgia wins election as Pope Alexander VI by bribing enough of the cardinals to vote for him in conclave. Alexander "packs" the College of Cardinals with 13 new members, including his son Cesare. He then tries to contract an alliance with the powerful family of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, one of his two original rivals for the Papacy. That alliance, ever fragile, breaks after Alexander's other rival, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), contracts his own alliance with the King of France for an invasion of Italy. Having survived the French invasion with his Papacy intact (just barely), Alexander VI containues to advance his agenda. But the Sforza family continues to thwart him, leading him to make physical war upon them. Nor has Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere given up trying to rid the Vatican of Alexander. Having failed to depose the Pope legally, Cardinal della Rovere plots to assassinate him. Alexander VI survives Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere's assassination attempt, because his daughter Lucrezia knows how to treat catarella poisoning. Alexander's war with the Sforza family continues and escalates. Alexander now plots to turn the Papacy into an explicitly hereditary office. https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/aXurOo2Eu23pNOAgc557xygWhT6.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/q8v25AFCqldlPF7dF5c8Ioa95GX.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/n4C2cSowlATq4tHhlktSyQJprOd.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/sYcINDdHWC5VqEEBrG5wGLQDPxT.jpg US:TV-MA US:TV-MA {"tmdb":"33025","tvrage":"24608","imdb":"tt1582457","wikidata":"Q834868","tvdb":"187881"} 187881 tt1582457 33025 33025 24608 tt1582457 Q834868 187881 2011-04-03 Canceled false Drama Crime Showtime Take 5 Productions Octagon Films Showtime Networks BellMedia ImageMovers Amblin Television Myriad Pictures United States rome, italy pope florence, italy religion historical italian history historical drama renaissance italian renaissance 15th century european history court intrigue Jeremy Irons Rodrigo Borgia https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/w8Ct1q02Ht3sWdOSqfp3B85TzT.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16940 16940 François Arnaud Cesare Borgia https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2aPDGUGRcrBYmrQLc8AklEqp7xI.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/469462 469462 Holliday Grainger Lucrezia Borgia https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/oAqAaZhpVTJJoYdfJdhkncICoFs.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/302165 302165 Sean Harris Micheletto https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/jouyaTu0UuZMNBrADRRkCQX1VX1.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16702 16702 Thure Lindhardt Rufio https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/lDkRe6dlQoiehjay8pEP2WLU4qG.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20258 20258 Sebastian de Souza Alfonso of Aragon https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/aueQZSQghquLSZ4qjRQPO4GGAMS.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1192218 1192218 plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=ItLou92CsEM 2026-06-29 01:08:50 The Borgias Karen Richards PRODUCER https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029064 1029064 Bill Goddard PRODUCER https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1109214 1109214 Howard Ellis PRODUCER https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1245922 1245922 Adam Goodman PRODUCER https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8aZGQysvBOeXAhaO3W0eKyFnTcq.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25457 25457 Jack Rapke PRODUCER https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/mK6wzRou2kvhPZNr2ZEF8mYIn3U.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23779 23779 Sheila Hockin PRODUCER https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1228427 1228427 James Flynn PRODUCER https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/jSwPJzsHYE3HtjXqvoN9d8TyFeZ.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252225 1252225 Neil Jordan PRODUCER https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uZ7CvCLTKb9qxjU4VsTNeyMRucd.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17016 17016 John Weber PRODUCER https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vcQCrKrVcNh6chIe78usICD47uq.jpg https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1233108 1233108