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Bus 174 2002
Documentary
On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
The sides of Bus 174
- A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
- Live television footage of the standoff
- The life of the young man holding the gun
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
- you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
- you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
- you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.
About: poverty · police violence · invisibility
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.
- you won't read subtitles for long Spanish-language scenes.
About: power · violence · justice
Narcos: Mexico 2018
Series
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
The sides of Narcos: Mexico
- The rise of the Guadalajara cartel
- A DEA agent working the Mexican border
- Police chiefs and generals on the payroll
Good for you if
- you like watching an empire built out of marijuana fields and bribes.
- you want real names and real events from 1980s Mexico.
- you like every meeting feeling like it could end badly.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through executions and torture.
- you can't take the drug trade, the addiction and what it costs families.
- you won't read subtitles, and much of the dialogue is in Spanish.
About: power · corruption · loyalty
Ciudad de Dios 2002
Película
Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia del crecimiento del crimen organizado en los suburbios de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, desde finales de los años sesenta hasta el comienzo de los ochenta, cuando el tráfico de drogas y la violencia impusieron su ley entre la miseria de las favelas.“Buscapé” tiene 11 años y es sólo un niño más en Cidade de Deus, un suburbio de Río de Janeiro. Tímido y delicado, observa a los niños duros de su barrio, sus robos, sus peleas, sus enfrentamientos diarios con la policía. Ya sabe lo que quiere ser si consigue sobrevivir: fotógrafo. “Dadinho”, un niño de su misma edad, se traslada al barrio. Sueña con ser el criminal más peligroso de Río de Janeiro y empieza su aprendizaje haciendo recados para los delincuentes locales. Dos vidas paralelas en Cidade de Deus.
Las caras de Ciudad de Dios
- Un chico con una cámara en una favela de Río
- Niños que se vuelven jefes de banda
- Veinte años de un barrio
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película rodada con energía cruda e inquieta.
- te gustan las historias basadas en lugares y personas reales.
- te gusta ver cómo una banda de narcos se apodera de una favela de Río, de los pequeños atracos de los años 60 a la guerra abierta de los 70.
Mala para ti si
- los niños con armas y los asesinatos brutales son demasiado para ti.
- no lees subtítulos. Es en portugués (existe doblaje).
Temas: la violencia · la pobreza · la huida
The Dissident 2020
Documentary
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
The sides of The Dissident
- A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
- His fiancée waiting outside
- Dissidents fighting a state online
Good for you if
- you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
- you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
- you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
- you can't hear the details of a killing described.
About: free speech · surveillance · impunity
Cocaine Cowboys 2006
Documentary
In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.
The sides of Cocaine Cowboys
- Miami in the cocaine boom of the 1980s
- Smugglers and a hitman telling their own story
- Griselda Blanco and the drug wars
Good for you if
- you like smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami.
- you want the true story told by the people who lived it.
- you like seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand crime scene photos and talk of killings.
- you can't listen to smugglers and a hitman telling their stories with pride.
About: greed · drugs · money
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord 2012
Series
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.
The sides of Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
- The life of Pablo Escobar from petty crime to cartel boss
- A drug lord elected to Congress
- Colombia under the Medellín cartel's war
Good for you if
- you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.
- you like following how a cocaine empire was built, step by step.
- you like watching money buy politics until the state fights back.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch bombings and murders that happened to real people.
- a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.
About: power · violence · memory
Sicario 2015
Película
En la zona fronteriza que se extiende entre Estados Unidos y México la joven Kate Macer, una idealista agente del FBI, es reclutada por una fuerza de élite del Gobierno para luchar contra el narcotráfico. Bajo el mando de Matt Graver, un frío miembro de las fuerzas gubernamentales, y de Alejandro, un enigmático asesor, el equipo emprende una misión que lleva a la mujer a cuestionarse sus convicciones sobre la guerra contra los narcos y los límites de la ley.
Las caras de Sicario
- Una agente del FBI en la guerra contra las drogas
- Un cruce de frontera en Juárez
- Un hombre con una agenda oculta
Buena para ti si
- te gusta la angustia en cada escena, sobre todo en la frontera.
- te gusta un mundo moralmente oscuro.
- te gustan los paisajes de desierto y las redadas con visión nocturna.
Mala para ti si
- los cuerpos en las paredes y las ejecuciones te lo arruinan.
- necesitas ritmo. Buena parte es una espera silenciosa antes de que algo estalle.
Temas: la moral · el poder · la ley
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story 2022
Documentary
Jimmy Savile was one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an investigation prompted more than 450 horrific allegations of sexual assault and abuse, with victims as young as 5.
The sides of Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
- A TV star loved by the British public
- Archive footage of his decades of fame
- Survivors of his abuse
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.
- you want to see how fame and institutions protected Jimmy Savile.
- you want to know how this stayed hidden for so long.
Bad for you if
- you can't take accounts of child sexual abuse.
- you need some justice at the end, and he died before any trial.
About: abuse of power · silence · celebrity
Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018
Film
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
The sides of Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- A CIA agent starting a war between cartels
- A hitman guarding a cartel boss's daughter
- The border between the US and Mexico
Good for you if
- you like slow, quiet build-ups before the shooting starts.
- you can take a story with no clean side and no clean win.
- you like covert raids and ambushes in the desert.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cold, brutal killings.
- you want a film that leaves you feeling better.
About: the drug war · loyalty · corruption
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
El Chapo 2017
Series
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
The sides of El Chapo
- A Sinaloa farm boy who becomes a kingpin
- Cartel deals and government deals
- Two prison escapes and a last capture
Good for you if
- you want the three decades of a real cartel rise, year by year.
- you like watching who owns the police and the politicians.
- you can follow a man whose trade ruins lives and still want to know what he does next.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through the executions and the torture.
About: power · impunity · the drug war
The Thin Blue Line 1988
Documentary
One night in November 1976, after his car breaks down on a road outside Dallas, Randall Dale Adams accepts a ride from teenager David Harris. Harris is driving a stolen vehicle and, later that night, when Dallas police officer Robert Wood pulls the car over to check its headlights, he is shot and killed. A jury believes Adams is the killer, but stylized reenactments and interviews with key figures, conflicting testimonies and evidence are presented to argue that Adams was framed by a corrupt justice system, ultimately leading to his exoneration.
The sides of The Thin Blue Line
- A policeman shot dead at a Dallas traffic stop
- A man sentenced for a killing he says he did not commit
- The same night retold by each witness
Good for you if
- you want a real case laid out witness by witness.
- you like testing one account against another.
- you like a repeating score that holds the dread steady.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, this one circles the same night.
- a killing and a death sentence are too much for your evening.
About: justice · truth · doubt

Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow 2014
Series
La Viuda Negra is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar de José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.
The sides of Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow
- The rise of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco
- Cocaine routes between Medellín and Miami
- A telenovela based on a true story
Good for you if
- you like a cartel story told across years of a trafficker's life.
- you can follow a woman who rules through fear.
- you want a drama based on the real life of Griselda Blanco.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootings and killings on screen.
About: ambition · drug trafficking · motherhood

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.
The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
- A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
- A Mexican justice system that lets him go
- Years of protest in Chihuahua
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
- you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
- you need a story where justice wins in the end.
About: justice · grief · corruption
Deliver Us from Evil 2006
Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
The sides of Deliver Us from Evil
- A priest who abused children for decades
- A Church that moved him from parish to parish
- Victims and their families speaking out
Good for you if
- you want survivors and their families to be heard.
- you want to understand how one priest escaped justice for so long.
- you want to see how an institution protected itself.
Bad for you if
- you can't take child abuse described in detail.
- you need a story that ends with justice served.
About: betrayal · faith · accountability
The Seven Five 2015
Documentary
Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of '80s Brooklyn.
The sides of The Seven Five
- Michael Dowd, a corrupt Brooklyn cop
- The 75th Precinct in the 1980s
- Cocaine dealers paying police for protection
Good for you if
- you like hearing how a cop ran a drug business from his patrol car.
- you want the real story behind a police scandal.
- you're fascinated by a man who brags about what he did.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cops and dealers describing beatings and threats.
- you can't watch a cop's slide into cocaine addiction told in his own words.
About: corruption · loyalty · betrayal
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich 2020
Documentary
Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.
The sides of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
- Survivors telling their own stories
- A billionaire's homes in Palm Beach and New York
- A 2008 plea deal and its consequences
Good for you if
- you want to hear the survivors in their own words.
- you want to understand how money and connections protected one man for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear accounts of the sexual abuse of teenage girls.
- you need some hope, and justice here comes late and incomplete.
About: abuse of power · justice · survivors
Gomorrah 2014
Series
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
The sides of Gomorrah
- The Camorra clans of Naples
- Ciro, the boss's loyal right hand
- Genny, the heir who wants his father's throne
Good for you if
- you want the drug trade of Naples seen from the inside.
- you like alliances where any meeting can end in a shooting.
- you like following Ciro and Genny though you shouldn't root for them.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cold, frequent killings.
- you won't read subtitles for a series in Neapolitan.
- five seasons of this darkness is too much for you.
About: loyalty · betrayal · power · fathers and sons
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV 2024
Documentary
Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.
The sides of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
- Former child actors from 90s kids' TV
- Crew members describing life on set
- Abuse behind shows made for children
Good for you if
- you want to hear former child stars tell their own story.
- you want to understand who held power over children on a TV set.
- you follow true crime about abusers who worked on children's shows.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear testimony about the sexual abuse of children.
- you need hope, and these wounds are still open.
About: abuse · power · childhood