Meet the Unholy Trinity. Suburra, the superbly sex, but dark Mafia thriller from 2016 is coming back but this time it will be a Netflix originale series. Today the streaming giants have announced the series will be coming to their channel this Autumn and to celebrate the news we have a short teaser trailer. Once again Rome will fall to the underbelly of the Roman criminal underworld. Church, State, Family nothing is sacred, check out the new trailer as it looks like business as usual…Sexy and violent!
Directed by Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli, and Giuseppe Capotondi, Suburra: The Series is a crime thriller set in Rome which describes how the Church, the State, and organised crime collide and blur the lines between the legal and the illicit in their savage quest for power.
At the heart of the story, we find three young men: Numero 8 (Alessandro Borghi), Spadino (Giacomo Ferrara) and Lele (Eduardo Valdarnini) with different backgrounds, ambitions, and passions who will have to forge alliances to realise their deepest desires. Other characters include Sara Monaschi (Claudia Gerini), Amedeo Cinaglia (Filippo Nigro), Samurai (Francesco Acquaroli) and Manfredi Anacleti (Adamo Dionisi).
Based on the novel of the same name but set several years previous, Suburra: The Series is full of action, drama and crime which sees 20 days of turmoil in 10 powerful episodes.
Suburra the movie which starred Pierfrancesco Favino (World War Z/My Cousin Rachel/Rush) which was released in the UK cinemas last year making our top 10 movies of 2016 list. Sandra Harris review the movie for our sister site Cinehouse (read Sandra’s review), calling it an “absolutely stunning film, with sex, glamour and violence coming out its ears”.The movie really got into the dark and twisted world of Italian politics as well as the criminals who attempted to turn a nearby Roman Town into a ‘las Vegas’ style resort. Love Goodfellas, you’ll love this!
The ‘unholy Trinity’ aka Suburra The Series will be released globally  exclusively on Netflix from 6th October.
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