Forbidden City (2025)6.7 /10

Storyline:  A place as inviting as Rome is typically not thought of as a "forbidden city" but, like all cities, there is another one beneath it, an underbelly filled with crime and corruption they don't want tourists to see. Marcello (Enrico Borello, FAMILIA) thinks he does not live in that part of Rome. He's in the multicultural Piazza Vittorio, filled with restaurants and shops with immigrants from all over. He fights to keep his family's restaurant afloat while both he and his mother (Sabrina Ferilli, THE GREAT BEAUTY) struggle with being abandoned by Marcello's father, who's left them for a younger woman. Into Piazza Vittorio comes Mei (the remarkable Yaxi Liu, a celebrated talent for her work as the lead stunt double in MULAN), who has snuck into Rome from China to search for her missing sister—and Marcello's father. This unlikely duo will soon learn that the forbidden part of Rome keeps secrets it doesn't want uncovered, and they're going to have to fight, and fight hard, to get to the truth.