Suburra

Suburra

Year: 2015

Runtime: 130 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Stefano Sollima

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A ruthless gangster, known as "Samurai," aims to transform Rome's waterfront into a sprawling entertainment complex resembling Las Vegas. To achieve this ambitious goal, he unites the city's various mob bosses, forging a fragile alliance. However, their uneasy peace is quickly threatened as conflicting interests and power struggles emerge, jeopardizing the entire operation and plunging Rome into chaos.

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1

Malgradi pushes a controversial bill to reshape Ostia's future

Filippo Malgradi, a Italian MP, advances a bill to change the classification of several administrative areas in hopes of kickstarting a Las Vegas–like real estate project in Ostia. He relies on his privileged ties with the crime boss Samurai, who also has deep interests in the venture. The arrangement hints at a corrupt nexus between politics, crime, and finance, supported by the Vatican Bank's potential funding.

November 2011 Parliament, Rome
2

Hotel room scandal and a body in the aftermath

In a hotel room, Malgradi engages with Sabrina and the underage Yelena; Yelena dies from cocaine intoxication. Malgradi leaves and asks Sabrina to dispose of the body, triggering a chain of favors. Sabrina calls Alberto 'Spadino' Anacleti, who retrieves the corpse and dumps it into a reservoir.

November 2011 Hotel room
3

Sebastiano's mansion: secrets, debts and threats

Sebastiano hosts secret parties for Italy's high society at his family mansion. After his father commits suicide due to debts with the Anacleti family, Manfredi summons Sebastiano and threatens him to relinquish all property to pay the debts.

November 2011 Sebastiano's family mansion
4

Spadino's leverage and Malgradi's precarious position

Spadino blackmails Malgradi into purchasing drugs and prostitutes solely from him and the Anacleti. Malgradi seeks help from 8-Ball Adami, who controls influence in the Ostia area, to tilt the balance in the deal.

November 2011 City around Ostia
5

The killing sparks a power shift

The confrontation between 8-Ball and Spadino escalates until 8-Ball kills Spadino, leaving Manfredi enraged and hungry for revenge. The murder shifts the power dynamics within the crime families and their political backers.

November 2011 Around the Ostia real estate site
6

Sabrina seeks shelter; a dangerous revelation follows

Fearing for her life, Sabrina hides at Sebastiano's house. She reveals to him the name of Spadino's killer, and Sebastiano passes this information to Manfredi in exchange for clemency, escalating the vendetta between the families.

November 2011 Sebastiano's residence
7

Anacleti's men ambush 8-Ball; a vendetta unfolds

Anacleti's henchmen ambush 8-Ball but fail to kill him. Meanwhile, Viola, 8-Ball's drug-addicted lover, launches a personal vendetta and enlists one of 8-Ball's men to assassinate Anacleti's hitmen, broadening the conflict.

November 2011 City streets
8

Samurai tries to broker peace

Seeing a full-scale war threaten his real estate interests, Samurai mediates between 8-Ball and Manfredi, attempting to deescalate the feud and preserve the deal that benefits him.

November 2011 Mediation venue
9

Sabrina's betrayal fuels the siege

Manfredi forces Sebastiano to hand Sabrina over; she reveals to him that Malgradi was the trigger for the cascade of events leading to Spadino's murder, tying Malgradi directly to the killings.

November 2011 Sebastiano's residence
10

Guarantor exposed; a hostage exchange

Sebastiano tells Manfredi that Malgradi is the guarantor of the real estate project. Manfredi breaks into Malgradi's apartment, takes Malgradi's son hostage, and demands a stake in the profits, escalating the coercive pressure.

November 2011 Malgradi's apartment
11

The hitmen fall; a killer's escape

Samurai orders 8-Ball's elimination; he executes 8-Ball and his henchmen to pacify Manfredi. During the gunfire, Viola hides and manages to escape, avoiding the immediate danger.

November 2011 City streets
12

Bill passes, powers shift, and a chilling discovery

The real estate bill is approved, but Yelena's body has been found and Malgradi is warned a judiciary probe may follow. The Prime Minister resigns, jeopardizing Malgradi's parliamentary immunity and throwing the whole affair into a new political crisis.

November 2011 National Parliament / Government offices
13

Sebastiano's brutal retribution

Sebastiano brutalizes Manfredi in the night, beating him and locking him in the cage of Manfredi's own ferocious pit bull, which mauls him to death amidst the chaos.

November 2011 Manfredi's residence
14

Final act: Viola ends Samurai

In the final act, Viola shoots Samurai as he leaves his mother's apartment, bringing a bitter closure to the power struggle and the escalating vendettas surrounding the Ostia project.

November 2011 Samurai's mother's apartment

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