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.

[2][3] 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.

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.

Spadino is from a Romani crime family who made a fortune by violent means as money lenders and debt collectors.

They lent money to the father of Sebastiano, a pimp who organizes secret parties in his family villa for important members of the Italian high society.

Fearful that an all-out war between Aureliano and Manfredi could threaten his real estate interests, Samurai decides to intervene between the two to bring peace.

[8][9] Hanh Nguyen of IndieWire stated, "While it delivered shocks and spectacle, its characterizations felt shallow and stereotypical — probably because it tried to pack too much into its 130-minute runtime.