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El Capo 2009
Series
El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.
The sides of El Capo
- The most wanted drug lord in the country
- A wife and a lover on the run with him
- A war declared on the government
Good for you if
- you like a narco saga told from the boss's side.
- you can root for a drug lord at war with the state.
- you like a manhunt that never lets him rest.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootouts and cartel killings.
About: power · loyalty · betrayal
Senora Acero 2014
Series
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
The sides of Senora Acero
- A woman taking over her father's smuggling business
- Crossings at the border between Mexico and the US
- A feared woman boss in a world of men
Good for you if
- you like a woman rising in Mexico's criminal underworld.
- you like a telenovela full of betrayals and narrow escapes.
- you like love affairs tangled with the smuggling trade.
Bad for you if
- five seasons is too much for you.
- you can't stand shootouts and cartel killings.
About: power · loyalty · revenge
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
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
Vagabond 2019
Series
Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.
The sides of Vagabond
- A stuntman whose nephew dies in a plane crash
- An intelligence agent who wanted a quiet job
- A corruption scandal reaching the top
Good for you if
- you like a stuntman doing his own fights and chases.
- you like a plane crash that turns into a conspiracy.
- you like chasing corruption up to arms dealers and ministers.
Bad for you if
- you won't watch a Korean series with subtitles.
- you need an ending, and this one stops on a cliffhanger.
About: grief · revenge · corruption
La jauría 2020
Series
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.
The sides of La jauría
- A student leader who disappears in Santiago
- Three women police officers searching for her
- A network of abusers hidden behind an online game
Good for you if
- you like a race against the clock to find a missing girl.
- you like an investigation that keeps going deeper than one culprit.
- you want a story about how men protect each other at the top.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built around sexual violence.
- you lose track when three detectives, their families and several suspects share the story.
About: gender violence · impunity · 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
The Inmate 2018
Series
A former U.S. Marine, Lázaro Mendoza, enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple murder. Now as Dante Pardo, his mission is to infiltrate a dangerous band of inmates and guards that operate inside and outside of prison who are the prime suspects of the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of U.S. Judge, John Morris. Inside La Rotunda, Lázaro has to find out who carried out the kidnapping and the whereabouts of the girl.
The sides of The Inmate
- A former Marine under a false name
- A maximum security prison in Mexico
- A judge's kidnapped daughter
Good for you if
- you like an undercover man who can be exposed any day inside La Rotunda.
- you like prison gangs and guards running their business inside and outside the walls.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand prison beatings and killings.
About: undercover work · corruption · family

La piloto 2017
Series
Yolanda dreamed her entire life of being a pilot. She found a stewardess job, and an unexpected role in drug smuggling.
The sides of La piloto
- A flight attendant who dreamed of being a pilot
- Drug smuggling flights for a cartel
- A Mexican telenovela about ambition
Good for you if
- you like an ordinary woman pulled into drug trafficking.
- you like risky flights with the police on her trail.
- you like telenovela love stories tangled with danger.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel shootings and killings.
About: ambition · survival · betrayal
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
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
El marginal 2016
Series
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
The sides of El marginal
- An ex-cop jailed under a false name
- An Argentine prison run by its inmates
- A judge's kidnapped daughter
Good for you if
- you like an undercover man who could be found out any day in San Onofre.
- you want prison gangs and the Borges brothers up close.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand prison beatings and killings.
About: survival · identity · corruption
Triple Frontier 2019
Film
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
The sides of Triple Frontier
- Five former special forces soldiers
- A drug lord's house full of cash
- A trek over the Andes with too much money
Good for you if
- you like a brutal trek through the Amazon and over the Andes.
- you like a raid on a drug lord's jungle house where every minute counts.
- you like old army friends tested by greed.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gunfights that hit civilians.
- you want a fun heist with jokes and swagger.
About: greed · brotherhood · guilt

The Cartel 2008
Series
The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business, you always lose.
The sides of The Cartel
- Ten friends inside a Colombian drug cartel
- A young man drawn into the trade for money
- Traffickers turning informant to US agents
Good for you if
- you like a story from inside the Colombian cocaine business.
- you can follow young men chasing money you know will ruin them.
- you like wondering which friend will betray the others first.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootings and murders on screen.
About: ambition · betrayal · money
Operación Pacífico 2020
Series
The story of Captain Amalia Ortega, leader of a secret unit, whose mission is to capture the most wanted Mexican drug trafficker, putting both her profession and family's life at risk.
The sides of Operación Pacífico
- A captain leading a secret unit
- The hunt for Mexico's most wanted drug lord
- A family put at risk by the job
Good for you if
- you like a manhunt for a cartel boss seen from the side of the police.
- you like armed operations led by a woman in command.
- you want a heroine torn between her duty and her own family.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel violence on screen.
About: duty · family · the drug war
La isla 2005
Película
Año 2019. Lincoln Seis-Eco y Jordan Dos-Delta se encuentran entre los cientos de residentes de una especie de campo de concentración. Dentro de ese lugar cuidadosamente vigilado, su vida cotidiana, como la de los demás, está rigurosamente controlada y llena de restricciones. La única salida -y la esperanza que todos comparten- consiste en ser elegidos para ir a "La isla", el único lugar del mundo que no ha sufrido los efectos contaminantes de un desastre ecológico que, al parecer, acabó con todos los humanos excepto los habitantes de esa zona. Lincoln, que vive atormentado por pesadillas inexplicables, se siente cada vez más inquieto, y su creciente curiosidad lo llevará a descubrir un terrible secreto.
Las caras de La isla
- Un hombre que descubre que es un clon
- Un centro cerrado que promete una isla
- Ewan McGregor y Scarlett Johansson en fuga
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las persecuciones de Michael Bay con ruedas de tren cayendo sobre una autopista.
- te gusta descubrir que el paraíso con el que todos sueñan es una mentira.
- te gustan dos clones huyendo de los hombres enviados a traerlos de vuelta.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas que la ciencia de la clonación se sostenga.
- prefieres los personajes a la trama antes que persecuciones sin parar.
Temas: la identidad · la libertad · lo que hace humana una vida
The First Purge 2018
Film
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
The sides of The First Purge
- The first Purge night on Staten Island
- A drug dealer defending his neighborhood
- Masked mercenaries sent in
Good for you if
- you like a story about a government testing violence on a poor neighborhood.
- you like a drug dealer fighting mercenaries floor by floor in a tower block.
- you like one long night of hiding and running.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand a whole night of killings.
- you need a social experiment that makes logical sense.
About: power · racism · resistance
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.
About: survival · corruption · power behind bars
Sin senos sí hay paraíso 2016
Series
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 can't watch shootings and cartel killings.
About: revenge · betrayal · family

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.
About: survival · ambition · exile