Synopsis
The Forbidden City (La città proibita, 2025) is an Italian action film directed by Gabriele Mainetti that you can watch online on iFILM. A young man whose family restaurant is buried in debt stumbles into an alliance with a foreign woman searching for her missing sister — a search that leads straight into Rome's criminal underworld, the part that doesn't appear in travel guides.
The two of them work their way through layers of organized violence, facing figures played by Italian heavyweights Marco Giallini and Luca Zingaretti. Shot on location in Rome, the film stars Liu Yase, a Chinese actress well known to Asian audiences, in a co-production that blends Italian crime cinema with the rhythm of East Asian action. It runs 138 minutes.
Mainetti built it as something genuinely rare: a European street-level action film that takes its fighting seriously, set against Roman backdrops you don't normally see in this genre. Stream The Forbidden City (2025) online on iFILM.
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