Suburra (film)

Suburra is a 2015 Italian neo-noir crime film directed by Stefano Sollima, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo. The movie was financed by Netflix and RAI. It stars Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano and Claudio Amendola, and focuses on the connections between organized crime and politics in Rome in 2011, inspired by true events from the Mafia Capitale. Suburra was the name of a suburb of Ancient Rome.

In 2017, Netflix released an adaptation of the movie in the form of a television series, Suburra: Blood on Rome. A second television spinoff of the film, titled Suburræterna, was released on 14 November 2023.

Plot

In November 2011, Filippo Malgradi is an Italian MP involved in a bill to change the classification of certain administrative areas; his objective is to allow a real estate project in Ostia so that it could be turned into a Las Vegas-like city. He has close relations with a local crime boss known as "Samurai" — a former neo-fascist terrorist turned professional criminal under the cover of an unsuspecting pump station owner — who also has deep interests in the real estate project. Samurai has privileged ties to the Vatican Bank, who will finance the project for profit.

In a hotel room, Malgradi has sex with two prostitutes, Sabrina and the underage Yelena; when the latter dies from cocaine intoxication, Malgradi leaves and asks Sabrina to dispose of the body. She calls in a favor from Alberto "Spadino" Anacleti, a young member of a Romani crime family, who collects the body and dumps it into a reservoir.