Suburra

Stefano Sollima's Suburra opened in Italian cinemas in October 2015 and became one of the highest-grossing Italian-language productions of its year, with over €4 million at the domestic box office. It is adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo (a sitting Italian magistrate, also known as the author behind Romanzo Criminale) and Carlo Bonini (an investigative journalist for la Repubblica).

The film is the third in Sollima's loose Roman-crime cycle, following his work on the Romanzo Criminale television series and his 2012 feature ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards. The screenplay is co-written by Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia, the long-running Italian writing partnership behind The Best of Youth, The Hundred Steps and Il Divo. The cast is led by Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola and Alessandro Borghi (in a star-making early role); cinematography is by Paolo Carnera, who would shoot Sollima's later Sicario: Day of the Soldado.

The film was loosely framed around the real Mafia Capitale investigation, the Roman corruption scandal first reported by Bonini and others in the press; the inquiry's first arrests came in late 2014, during Sollima's editing. The film and the subsequent Netflix series spinoff helped Sollima cross over to international productions including the Sicario sequel and Without Remorse for Amazon. Suburra remains the central anchor of his Italian-period work.