The Forbidden City
2025 · Movie · NR · 138 min · ★ 7.0
A young man tied to his family’s struggling restaurant teams up with a foreign woman searching for her missing sister in Rome. As they follow leads through a multicultural city, they’re pulled into dangerous clashes with ruthless criminals and forced to rely on each other to survive.
Also known as Forbidden City
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Details
- Original title
- La città proibita
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-03-08
- Language
- Italian
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 138 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (333 votes)
About
If you enjoy genre-mixing action with romance, humor, and a gritty Rome underworld vibe, this could click, especially if you liked They Call Me Jeeg Robot or Freaks Out; Not for you if you want tight pacing.
Pros: energetic martial-arts action; culture-clash charm; engaging character moments | Cons: too long runtime; uneven pacing; messy double climax
Themes
- kung fu
Cast & crew
Liu Yaxi
as Mei
Enrico Borello
as Marcello
Marco Giallini
as Annibale
Sabrina Ferilli
as Lorena
Chunyu Shanshan
as Wang
Luca Zingaretti
as Alfredo
- TI
Tomal Islam
as Santi
Miki Yeung Oi-Gan
as Yun
Claudio Pallitto
as Cip
- DM
Daniele Mosca
as Cioppe
Directed by Gabriele Mainetti