Besa () is a Serbian-British television series produced by and Red Planet Pictures.
Inspired by a true story and from an original idea by SrÃÂan à  aper, the plot follows Uroà ¡, a family man and a businessman from Belgrade who kills the daughter of Dardan, an Albanian drug lord, in a road accident. To atone for her death and in order to protect the lives of his own family, he is forced to start working as a hitman for the Albanian mob.
Besa is an Albanian cultural precept, usually translated as "faith" or "oath", that means "to keep the promise" and "word of honor".
Besa brought together writer/producer Tony Jordan and several Serbian screenwriters and script doctors, as well as international and regional actors, in creating the first TV series in the Adriatic region that compares with the standards of British television drama.
Besa features a mixture of local and international talent, with Taken costars Radivoje Bukviàand Arben Bajraktaraj playing the leads. Director Duà ¡an Lazareviàprevious credits include Misfits, Vera, Death In Paradise, Silent Witness. The series gathered more than 200 actors from the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia, as well as foreign actors from Albania, United Kingdom and France.
Besa was set up as an international co-production between and Red Planet Pictures. It was filmed for 120 days on numerous attractive locations throughout the Balkans. International sales and Distribution is handled by MBC Studios.
The second season was shot from 2020 to 2021 in Montenegro, Serbia and Estonia.
At FEDIS, the 9th International festival of domestic television series, Besa won the Golden Antenna award for Best TV series produced in Serbia, as well as for Best Music by composer Nemanja Mosuroviàand Best Photography by the director of photography Igor à  unter.
A Philippine-Malaysian adaptation has been announced on December 3, 2025 and will release on iWant in the Philippines and Astro in Malaysia as their own original content.