Romanzo Criminale: The Series (Seasons 1–2)

Romanzo Criminale: The Series (2008) is an Italian crime drama from director Stefano Sollima you can watch online on iFILM. It charts the rise and fall of a gang that spent fifteen years, from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, chasing one dream: to own Rome.

Three friends from the city's edges — Lebanese, Freddo and Dandi — start with a kidnapping and grow from petty crooks into a force the Mafia, the politicians and the secret services all have to reckon with. On their trail is Commissioner Scialoja, for whom the case turns into an obsession. Money, women, old loyalties and slow-burning grudges pull the crew apart, and every miscalculation costs someone their life. The characters draw on the real Banda della Magliana that terrorized the capital.

Sollima made this before Gomorrah and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and his cold, unsentimental eye for criminal Rome is already here. Two seasons: the first hits hard with street warfare, the second digs into the politics, the betrayals and what power does to a man who plays the game too long. Brutal and never glamorized. Stream every episode of Romanzo Criminale online on iFILM.