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  1. MINDHUNTER 2017

    Series

    In the late 1970s, two FBI agents start interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and use what they learn on open cases.

    The sides of MINDHUNTER

    • Interviews with real killers
    • The birth of criminal profiling
    • What the work does to the people doing it

    Good for you if

    • you like tension that comes from people talking across a table.
    • you like stories built on real cases and real killers.
    • you like a slow, quiet build more than action.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand a story left unfinished, and the series stopped after two seasons with the BTK thread still open.
    • you don't want to hear crimes against women and children described in detail.

    About: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession

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  2. The Serpent 2021

    Series

    The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

    The sides of The Serpent

    • Charles Sobhraj preying on travellers in 1970s Asia
    • His partner Marie-Andrée Leclerc
    • A Dutch diplomat trying to stop him

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of how Charles Sobhraj was finally caught.
    • you like Tahar Rahim as a cold, charming killer.
    • you like a diplomat closing in while the killer slips away.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch the murders of real young travellers.
    • you lose track when the timeline jumps back and forth.

    About: deception · obsession · justice

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  3. El irlandés 2019

    Película

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, un veterano de guerra de origen irlandés que trabaja como camionero, conoce accidentalmente al mafioso Russell Bufalino. Una vez convertido en su hombre de confianza, Bufalino envía a Frank a Chicago con el encargo de ayudar a Jimmy Hoffa, un poderoso líder sindical relacionado con el crimen organizado, con quien Frank mantendrá una estrecha amistad durante casi veinte años.

    Las caras de El irlandés

    • Un sicario que recuerda desde un asilo
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Décadas de mafia

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una historia de gánsteres lenta y reflexiva.
    • te gustan las leyendas actuando juntas una última vez.
    • te gusta un final sobre la soledad y el arrepentimiento.

    Mala para ti si

    • tres horas y media te parecen demasiado.
    • quieres una película de gánsteres rápida.

    Temas: la lealtad · envejecer · el arrepentimiento

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  4. Blow 2001

    Película

    Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de George Jung, un hombre de familia humilde que consiguió hacerse multimillonario gracias a su propia versión del sueño americano. Durante su estancia en la cárcel se adentra en el mundo del narcotráfico en Colombia, y a través de un ingenioso sistema de importación llega a comerciar la mayor parte de la cocaína que entra en Estados Unidos durante los 70. Acompañado por Mirtha y Delgado, formarán un triángulo que compartirá situaciones límite dominadas por la pasión, el odio, la amistad y una desmedida ambición de poder.

    Las caras de Blow

    • George Jung traficando cocaína
    • El cártel de Medellín de Pablo Escobar
    • Un padre y su hija

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan las historias reales sobre cómo llegó la cocaína a Estados Unidos.
    • te gusta un ascenso y una caída a lo largo de los años 70 y 80.
    • te gusta seguir a Johnny Depp como un traficante al que no deberías apoyar.

    Mala para ti si

    • no puedes ver cómo la adicción destroza a una familia.
    • necesitas una historia que termine con algo de esperanza.

    Temas: la codicia · el arrepentimiento · los padres y las hijas

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  5. Black Bird 2022

    Series

    As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

    The sides of Black Bird

    • A drug dealer sent into a maximum security prison
    • A man suspected of killing young girls
    • A confession to get out of him

    Good for you if

    • you like long conversations in a cell where one wrong word ruins everything.
    • you can't look away from Paul Walter Hauser as Larry Hall.
    • you want a true story told soberly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear a man describe the murders of young women.
    • you want a prison story with fights and escapes.

    About: guilt · redemption · fathers and sons

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  6. A unique look inside the mind of an infamous serial killer with this cinematic self-portrait crafted from statements made by Ted Bundy, including present-day interviews, archival footage and audio recordings from death row.

    The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

    • Ted Bundy's own taped interviews from death row
    • Archive footage of 1970s trials
    • Detectives and journalists who followed the case

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear a real case from the recordings themselves.
    • you like 1970s archive footage of a case that marked America.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to a man describe crimes against real young women.
    • you need some hope, and this offers none.

    About: evil · justice · the media

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  7. The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.

    The sides of Monster: The Ed Gein Story

    • A Wisconsin farmer and grave robber in the 1950s
    • A son under his mother's hold
    • The horror films built on his crimes

    Good for you if

    • you want to watch Charlie Hunnam vanish into a hard role.
    • you want to know how one man shaped Psycho and Leatherface.
    • you can spend a whole season inside the head of a Wisconsin killer.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand graphic violence and desecrated bodies.
    • you can't watch abuse and madness up close.

    About: madness · a mother's hold · horror and Hollywood

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  8. The Act 2019

    Serie

    The Act se centra en Gypsy Blanchard, una niña que intenta escapar de la relación tóxica que tiene con su madre sobreprotectora, Dee Dee. Su búsqueda de la independencia acaba abriendo la caja de Pandora, lo que al final resulta en un asesinato.

    Las caras de The Act

    • La historia real de Gypsy Rose Blanchard
    • Una madre que mantuvo enferma a su hija
    • Un asesinato en Misuri

    Buena para ti si

    • quieres entender un crimen real desde dentro de la casa.
    • te gustan Joey King y Patricia Arquette en una historia de madre e hija.
    • te gusta la angustia que crece hacia algo que sabes que va a pasar.

    Mala para ti si

    • no soportas el maltrato infantil ni la crueldad médica en pantalla.
    • necesitas esperanza, y la vida de Gypsy es una jaula que se va cerrando.

    Temas: el control · el abuso · la libertad · la maternidad

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  9. The Last Duel 2021

    Film

    King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

    The sides of The Last Duel

    • A knight and a squire, old friends turned enemies
    • One crime told three times
    • A duel to the death in medieval Paris

    Good for you if

    • you like a real 14th century trial in mud, steel and castles.
    • you want a brutal duel on horseback and on foot.
    • you want Jodie Comer as Marguerite, holding her ground against a court of men.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a rape on screen. Here you see it twice, from two points of view.
    • two and a half hours is too much for you.

    About: honor · truth · women's voices

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  10. Love & Death 2023

    Series

    Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life... until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

    The sides of Love & Death

    • Two churchgoing couples in a small Texas town
    • An affair between friends
    • A death and the trial that followed

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real 1980 case that shocked a Texas town.
    • you can't look away from Elizabeth Olsen as Candy Montgomery.
    • you like a courtroom drama where the verdict is in doubt.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand an axe attack shown on screen.
    • a real killing and a grieving family are too much for you.

    About: adultery · faith · justice

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  11. Uno de los nuestros 1990

    Película

    Henry, un niño de trece años de Brooklyn, vive fascinado con el mundo de los gángsters. Su sueño se hace realidad cuando entra a formar parte de la familia Pauline, dueña absoluta de la zona, que lo educan como un miembro más de la banda convirtiéndole en un destacado mafioso.

    Las caras de Uno de los nuestros

    • Un chico que siempre quiso ser gánster
    • Treinta años en la mafia
    • Un plano secuencia por la cocina de un club nocturno

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta la emoción de la vida de gánster, y luego su precio.
    • te gusta una película que avanza al ritmo de sus canciones.
    • te gusta un tipo gracioso que da miedo.

    Mala para ti si

    • los asesinatos repentinos y brutales te arruinan una película.
    • dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.

    Temas: la lealtad · la codicia · la paranoia

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  12. Alias Grace 2017

    Series

    Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.

    The sides of Alias Grace

    • An Irish maid convicted of murder in 1843
    • A doctor trying to unlock her memory
    • A woman's life told from inside prison

    Good for you if

    • you like the lives of servants in 19th-century Canada.
    • you like wondering, scene after scene, whether Grace did it.
    • you like Sarah Gadon's calm, unreadable Grace.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and most of it is Grace and the doctor talking quietly in a prison room.
    • you want to know for sure who killed Thomas Kinnear.

    About: memory · guilt · women's lives · class

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  13. British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

    The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

    • Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
    • Her last days on death row
    • Her childhood in Michigan

    Good for you if

    • you want a real person behind the headlines.
    • you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
    • you can take a story that ends in an execution.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
    • you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.

    About: the death penalty · trauma · madness

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  14. When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

    The sides of Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Osage families murdered for their oil money
    • A marriage built on poison
    • 1920s Oklahoma

    Good for you if

    • you want to know the true story of the Osage murders.
    • you like 1920s Oklahoma, rich with oil and greed.
    • you can't look away from Lily Gladstone as Mollie.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is too much for you.
    • you need momentum, not a slow tightening noose.

    About: greed · betrayal · injustice

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  15. 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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  16. Griselda 2024

    Series

    Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.

    The sides of Griselda

    • Griselda Blanco's rise in Miami's cocaine trade
    • Sofía Vergara as a drug lord and a mother
    • Miami in the 1970s and 1980s

    Good for you if

    • you want to see Sofía Vergara in a role far from comedy.
    • you like the rise of a cartel boss told from the inside.
    • you're drawn to dramas drawn from real criminal history.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand cartel killings shown on screen.
    • you'd rather not watch drug addiction and loss up close.

    About: ambition · motherhood · power

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  17. The Ripper 2020

    Documentary

    For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.

    The sides of The Ripper

    • Thirteen women killed in the North of England
    • A police hunt that lasted five years
    • Women of Yorkshire recalling the fear

    Good for you if

    • you want the victims and their families heard, not just the killer.
    • you like a portrait of Yorkshire in the late 1970s.
    • you want to understand why the police took so long to catch him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to families talk about murdered mothers and daughters.
    • you need a story that leaves you with some hope.

    About: violence against women · police failure · fear

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  18. The Reader 2008

    Film

    The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

    The sides of The Reader

    • A teenager's affair with an older woman
    • A war crimes trial years later
    • A secret she keeps at any cost

    Good for you if

    • you like Kate Winslet as a woman hard to love and hard to judge.
    • you like a story about how postwar Germany faced its past.
    • you like following Michael from a teenager in love to a lawyer still marked by her.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather avoid sex scenes, especially with a teenager.
    • you can't take the Holocaust and shame at the heart of a love story.

    About: guilt · shame · memory

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  19. Una mente maravillosa 2001

    Película

    Obsesionado con la búsqueda de una idea matemática original, el brillante estudiante John Forbes Nash llega a Princeton para realizar sus estudios de postgrado. Es un muchacho extraño y solitario, al que sólo comprende su compañero de cuarto. Por fin, Nash esboza una revolucionaria teoría y consigue una plaza de profesor en el MIT. Alicia Lardé, una de sus alumnas, lo deja fascinado al mostrarle que las leyes del amor están por encima de las de las matemáticas. Gracias a su prodigiosa habilidad para descifrar códigos es reclutado por Parcher William, del departamento de Defensa, para ayudar a los Estados Unidos en la Guerra Fría contra la Unión Soviética.

    Las caras de Una mente maravillosa

    • Un genio de las matemáticas en Princeton
    • Códigos que solo él ve
    • Una esposa que se queda

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta un protagonista brillante y frágil.
    • te gusta una historia de amor que sobrevive a la enfermedad.
    • te gusta una película que te hace dudar de lo que viste.

    Mala para ti si

    • no puedes ver la enfermedad mental de cerca. La película se queda con Nash en lo peor.
    • pones los ojos en blanco ante los discursos sinceros. El discurso del Nobel a su esposa se entrega por completo.

    Temas: el genio · la enfermedad · el amor

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  20. The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.

    The sides of The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness

    • A journalist obsessed with the Son of Sam case
    • A theory of a Satanic cult
    • 1970s New York in fear

    Good for you if

    • you like 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear.
    • you like following a theory that the killer did not act alone.
    • you like a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not revisit the murders of real young people.
    • you need a theory backed by proof, not obsession.

    About: obsession · truth · fear

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