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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

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  1. Narcos 2015

    Series

    A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

    The sides of Narcos

    • Pablo Escobar's rise in 1980s Colombia
    • Two DEA agents hunting him
    • The Cali cartel after him

    Good for you if

    • you want the hunt for Pablo Escobar told through the American agents who were part of it.
    • you like seeing how cocaine money flowed from Medellín to Miami.
    • you like a manhunt where every raid could go wrong.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch the bombings and killings that took real lives in Colombia.

    About: power · violence · justice

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  2. Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

    The sides of El Señor de los Cielos

    • A cartel boss who moves drugs by plane
    • Mexico in the 1990s
    • A family pulled into the business

    Good for you if

    • you like the logistics of a cartel, planes, runways and money laundering.
    • you like a trafficker playing politicians, generals and rival bosses against each other.
    • you like following Aurelio Casillas, a boss you shouldn't root for.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
    • ten seasons of telenovela is too much for you.
    • you can't stand constant shootouts and executions.

    About: ambition · family · betrayal

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  3. GoodFellas 1990

    Film

    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

    The sides of GoodFellas

    • A boy who always wanted to be a gangster
    • Thirty years in the mob
    • A shot through a nightclub kitchen

    Good for you if

    • you like the thrill of the gangster life, then its price.
    • you like a film that moves to its songs.
    • you like a funny guy who's frightening.

    Bad for you if

    • sudden, brutal killings ruin a film for you.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: loyalty · greed · paranoia

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  4. La Reina del Sur 2011

    Series

    After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...

    The sides of La Reina del Sur

    • A young Mexican woman on the run
    • A drug empire built across Spain
    • A narco boyfriend's murder

    Good for you if

    • you like the world of cartels, smugglers and dirty money.
    • you like rooting for Teresa Mendoza as she becomes a drug queen.
    • you like a woman climbing a world run by men.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through cartel killings.
    • you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.

    About: survival · ambition · exile

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  5. A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

    The sides of The Wolf of Wall Street

    • Excess on every level
    • How the con works
    • A very dark comedy

    Good for you if

    • you want to laugh at excess pushed to absurd levels.
    • you like following a crook having the time of his life.
    • you like an actor going all in, like the scene crawling to the car.

    Bad for you if

    • lots of nudity, sex and drugs isn't for you tonight.
    • three hours is too much for one evening.

    About: greed · excess · money

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  6. Scarface 1983

    Film

    After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

    The sides of Scarface

    • A refugee who wants the world
    • Cocaine and Miami in the 80s
    • Say hello to my little friend

    Good for you if

    • you like a performance that's over the top on purpose.
    • you like following a ruthless Cuban refugee building a cocaine empire in Miami.
    • you like an ending with no mercy.

    Bad for you if

    • chainsaws and shootouts ruin it for you.
    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.
    • films from 1983 feel dated to you.

    About: greed · power · excess

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  7. City of God 2002

    Film

    In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

    The sides of City of God

    • A boy with a camera in a Rio favela
    • Kids who become gang lords
    • Twenty years of a neighbourhood

    Good for you if

    • you like a film shot with raw, restless energy.
    • you like stories based on real places and people.
    • you like watching a drug gang take over a Rio favela, from small hold-ups in the 60s to open war in the 70s.

    Bad for you if

    • children with guns and brutal killings are too much for you.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Portuguese (a dub exists).

    About: violence · poverty · escape

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  8. The Wire 2002

    Series

    Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

    The sides of The Wire

    • Baltimore cops wiretapping a drug crew
    • The docks, the schools, City Hall and the newspaper
    • Dealers and detectives seen from both sides

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how police, politics and schools keep a city stuck.
    • you like a case built patiently over a whole season.
    • you want people like Omar, Stringer Bell and McNulty to stay with you.

    Bad for you if

    • you lose track with dozens of characters on both sides.
    • you need some hope. Baltimore rarely changes here.

    About: institutions · the drug war · loyalty

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  9. The Irishman 2019

    Film

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    The sides of The Irishman

    • A hitman looking back from a nursing home
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Decades of the mob

    Good for you if

    • you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
    • you like legends acting together one last time.
    • you like an ending about loneliness and regret.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is far too long for you.
    • you want a fast gangster film.

    About: loyalty · ageing · regret

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  10. Breaking Bad 2008

    Series

    A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer starts making meth with a former student to pay for his family's future.

    The sides of Breaking Bad

    • An ordinary man's slow corruption
    • Crime as a business
    • One bad choice that spirals
    • Desert, tension, long silences

    Good for you if

    • you like rooting for someone you know you shouldn't.
    • you like tension that builds for a whole episode before it breaks.
    • you watch for how people change more than for what happens.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic violence ruins a show for you. Some scenes are hard to unsee.
    • TV is how you unwind. This one keeps you tense.
    • five seasons is more than you want to start.

    About: pride · family · power · consequences

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  11. In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

    The sides of The Godfather Part II

    • A son ruling the family business
    • A young father building it in old New York
    • A brother's betrayal

    Good for you if

    • you like a long, patient tragedy.
    • you like two great performances in two eras.
    • you like a dark family saga that offers no comfort.

    Bad for you if

    • over three hours is too long for one evening.

    About: family · power · loneliness

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  12. Oppenheimer 2023

    Film

    The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

    The sides of Oppenheimer

    • The man who built the bomb
    • A secret town in the desert
    • A hearing that decides his fate

    Good for you if

    • you like a lead performance carried by the eyes.
    • you like rooms full of brilliant people arguing.
    • you want to feel the first test in your chest.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours of talking is too much for one evening.
    • you want action. It's mostly meetings and hearings.
    • you want a story told in order. It jumps between periods.

    About: guilt · power · science

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  13. A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.

    The sides of Sin senos sí hay paraíso

    • A young woman from a cartel-run town
    • A family wronged and sent to prison
    • Revenge against the people who did it

    Good for you if

    • you like a revenge story set among drug lords and their families.
    • you want love and betrayal mixed into the danger.
    • you like a daughter fighting back for a family that was wrongly locked up.

    Bad for you if

    • three long telenovela seasons is too much for you.
    • you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
    • you can't watch shootings and cartel killings.

    About: revenge · betrayal · family

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  14. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  15. Gotham 2014

    Series

    Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

    The sides of Gotham

    • A young Jim Gordon in a corrupt police force
    • Bruce Wayne as a boy after his parents' murder
    • The Penguin climbing the underworld

    Good for you if

    • you like a city run by mob bosses and dirty cops.
    • you like watching Oswald Cobblepot scheme his way from errand boy to kingpin.
    • you like a young Gordon hunting the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents through a corrupt city.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand a show full of shootings, torture and bodies.
    • five seasons is too much for you.

    About: corruption · origins · justice

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  16. The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

    The sides of Schindler's List

    • A businessman who saves his workers
    • Black and white, and a red coat
    • A list that means life

    Good for you if

    • you like striking black and white images, and a little girl in a red coat you won't forget.
    • you like a villain who's frighteningly human.
    • you want to understand a true story from the inside.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust on screen is too much for you tonight.
    • over three hours is too long for one evening.
    • black and white puts you off.

    About: humanity · courage · evil

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  17. Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

    The sides of BlacKkKlansman

    • A Black cop infiltrating the KKK
    • A Jewish partner playing his body
    • Phone calls with the Grand Wizard

    Good for you if

    • you like absurd true stories told with humour.
    • you like stories that really happened.
    • you like undercover scenes that could go wrong.

    Bad for you if

    • real racist violence shown at the end is too much tonight.
    • you'd rather keep politics out of your evening. It ends on Charlottesville in 2017.

    About: racism · identity · resistance

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  18. Chernobyl 2019

    Series

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

    The sides of Chernobyl

    • The night a reactor exploded
    • Scientists against the lies of a state
    • Men sent onto the roof

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that never lets go.
    • you want to understand a real disaster.
    • you can take a grim, unflinching story.

    Bad for you if

    • radiation sickness shown in detail is too hard for you.
    • you can't watch animals being shot. Soldiers clear the zone of the pets left behind.

    About: truth · sacrifice · lies

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  19. This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

    The sides of DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

    • A serial killer in Milwaukee
    • Victims' families ignored by the police
    • A neighbour who kept calling for help

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how police and institutions failed his victims for over a decade.
    • you want a performance that stays with you, Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real murders and the grief of real families.
    • you need a little light, and this Milwaukee stays grey and hopeless from start to finish.

    About: racism · police failure · grief

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  20. Locked Up 2015

    Series

    Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.

    The sides of Locked Up

    • A young woman jailed for her boss's fraud
    • A women's prison run by its inmates
    • A cold, fearless inmate named Zulema

    Good for you if

    • you like a newcomer learning the rules of a prison where one mistake costs her.
    • you like a story where everyone, guards included, is breaking the law.
    • you can't look away from Zulema, the inmate you shouldn't root for.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take brutal fights and killings between inmates.
    • you won't watch a Spanish series with subtitles.

    About: survival · corruption · power behind bars

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