Suburra

Suburra (2015) is a hard-edged Italian crime thriller from Stefano Sollima you can watch online on iFILM. A countdown ticks toward the day Rome falls, and over one rain-soaked week the rot at the city's core spills into the open.

A power broker nicknamed Samurai wants to flip a quiet stretch of coastline near Rome into an Italian Las Vegas. Everyone has a stake: bought-off politicians, men inside the Vatican, a Roma clan, and the old crime families. They agree to cooperate, then the truce splinters within days. Pierfrancesco Favino plays a politician sinking in his own filth, Alessandro Borghi is the volatile Number 8, and Elio Germano sets off the carnage as a small-time debtor who panics at the worst moment.

Sollima shoots Rome under relentless rain, a capital on the eve of collapse, which is exactly what the tagline "Rome will fall" promises. The film spawned a popular Netflix franchise and helped relaunch Italian crime cinema. It's for viewers who want a bleak power saga with no heroes and no clean exits. Stream Suburra (2015) online on iFILM.