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Memories of Murder (Crónica de un asesino en serie) 2003
Película
Corea del Sur, 1986. Una joven aparece brutalmente violada y asesinada. Dos meses después, se producen una serie de violaciones y asesinatos en circunstancias similares. Para buscar al asesino, se organiza un destacamento especial, encabezado por un detective de la policía local (Park Doo-man) y un detective de la policía de Seúl (Seo Tae-yoon), que ha solicitado ser asignado al caso.
Las caras de Memories of Murder (Crónica de un asesino en serie)
- Dos detectives rurales tras un asesino en serie
- La Corea del Sur de los años 80 bajo régimen militar
- Crímenes basados en un caso real sin resolver de la época
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una cacería en campos bajo la lluvia donde cada pista se escapa.
- puedes reírte de policías torpes y brutales en medio de un caso sombrío.
- aguantas una historia donde la desesperación gana a la justicia.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas la brutalidad policial ni ver víctimas asesinadas en pantalla.
- no quieres leer subtítulos durante dos horas.
- necesitas un caso cerrado y un culpable con nombre.
Temas: la obsesión · el fracaso · la violencia policial · un país en transición
Gone Baby Gone 2007
Film
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
The sides of Gone Baby Gone
- A four-year-old missing in Boston
- Two private detectives from the neighborhood
- A choice between the law and what is right
Good for you if
- you like a missing-child case that keeps changing shape.
- you like a tense thriller in the bars and streets of Boston.
- you like an ending that leaves you asking what you would have done.
Bad for you if
- a missing child, drugs and abuse are too much for you.
- you need an ending that leaves you some hope.
About: justice · parenthood · corruption
Dear Child 2023
Series
A mysterious woman's escape from her harrowing captivity points investigators toward the dark truth behind an unsolved disappearance 13 years earlier.
The sides of Dear Child
- A woman escaping a cabin in the woods
- A girl who escaped with her
- Parents still searching for their daughter after 13 years
Good for you if
- you like a thriller that starts with an escape and never lets go.
- you like a mystery where no one is who they seem.
- you like piecing together an old disappearance.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch captivity and abuse of a mother and her children.
- you won't read subtitles for a German series.
About: trauma · family · captivity
Millennium: Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres 2011
Película
Esperando poder distanciarse de la acusación de difamación que pesa sobre él, el periodista Mikael Blomkvist se traslada a una isla remota en el norte de Suecia donde la muerte aún no resuelta de una joven atormenta a su tío cuarenta años después. Alojado en una cabaña de la isla donde el asesino puede estar aún rondando, la investigación de Blomkvist le lleva a dibujar los secretos y mentiras de esta poderosa y rica familia junto a una rara aliada, la tatuada y hacker punki, Lisbeth Salander...
Las caras de Millennium: Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres
- Un periodista y una hacker
- Una chica desaparecida hace cuarenta años
- Una isla sueca helada
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una investigación oscura e intrincada.
- te gusta la angustia en imágenes frías y limpias.
- te gusta una protagonista feroz e inolvidable.
Mala para ti si
- las escenas de violación y tortura son demasiado para ti.
- prefieres no ver escenas de sexo explícitas, o no con compañía.
- más de dos horas y media es demasiado para ti.
Temas: la violencia contra las mujeres · la verdad · la venganza
El intercambio 2008
Película
Christine Collins es una madre que recupera a su hijo, al que habían secuestrado meses antes. Pero en la locura del muy fotografiado reencuentro, comienza a sospechar que el niño que le han entregado no es su hijo. A pesar de unas fuerzas del orden corruptas y de una opinión pública más que escéptica, intenta dilucidar el misterio cueste lo que cueste. Tachada de loca e incapacitada, por fin encuentra un aliado en el reverendo Briegleb, que la ayudará en su búsqueda.
Las caras de El intercambio
- Una madre cuyo hijo desaparece en el Los Ángeles de 1928
- Un niño devuelto por la policía que no es el suyo
- Una mujer internada en un psiquiátrico por insistir
Buena para ti si
- quieres la historia real de Christine Collins y su lucha contra la policía de Los Ángeles.
- no puedes apartar la vista de Angelina Jolie como una madre que no se rinde.
- te gusta el Los Ángeles de los años veinte, con sus tranvías y sus centralitas telefónicas.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas un niño desaparecido y los crímenes que hay detrás.
- dos horas y veinte te parecen demasiado.
Temas: la maternidad · la corrupción · la verdad
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
Prisioneros 2013
Película
Cuando su hija pequeña y su amiga desaparecen el día de Acción de Gracias, un padre se toma la justicia por su mano mientras un detective investiga el caso.
Las caras de Prisioneros
- Un detective que no se rinde
- Hasta dónde llega un padre
- Un caso construido como un laberinto
- Lluvia, frío y luz gris
Buena para ti si
- te gusta estar tenso durante dos horas y media seguidas.
- te gusta reunir pistas e intentar adelantarte al detective.
- te gusta ver a un actor llegar a un lugar crudo. Hugh Jackman lo hace.
Mala para ti si
- un niño en peligro es demasiado para ti.
- dos horas y media son demasiado para tu noche.
Temas: la fe · la venganza · la culpa · la paternidad
The Fall 2013
Series
When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
The sides of The Fall
- A London detective sent to Belfast
- A family man who is a serial killer
- A slow cat-and-mouse hunt
Good for you if
- you like knowing who the killer is and waiting for Stella Gibson to close in.
- you want to watch Gillian Anderson's cool, unshakable detective.
- you like a Belfast police task force working a serial killer case.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch killings of women shown up close.
- you'd rather not spend hours inside a killer's daily life with his own children.
About: obsession · control · violence against women
The Chestnut Man 2021
Series
At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.
The sides of The Chestnut Man
- A chestnut figure left at each murder scene
- Two mismatched Copenhagen detectives
- A minister's daughter who went missing
Good for you if
- you like a serial killer hunt in autumn Copenhagen.
- you like a missing girl case tied to fresh murders.
- you can take a cold, grim Nordic noir.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand mutilated bodies on screen.
- you won't read subtitles for a Danish series.
About: grief · the past · justice
Top of the Lake 2013
Series
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
The sides of Top of the Lake
- A detective back in her New Zealand hometown
- A pregnant twelve-year-old girl who vanishes
- A lake town ruled by a dangerous father
Good for you if
- you like a missing-girl case in a remote New Zealand town.
- you like a patient story that lets the lake and the mountains breathe.
- you want to watch Elisabeth Moss carry a detective who is barely holding on.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch stories about the sexual abuse of girls and women.
- you want a crime show with chases and shootouts.
About: trauma · abuse · going home · motherhood
The Killing 2011
Series
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
The sides of The Killing
- Two detectives on the murder of Rosie Larsen
- A grey and rainy Seattle
- A mayoral campaign caught up in the investigation
Good for you if
- you like one murder investigated over two whole seasons.
- you like long rainy silences and a patient investigation.
- you can take a story about grief that stays dark.
Bad for you if
- you want shootouts and chases more than interrogations.
- you lose track when the story splits between the detectives, the grieving family and a mayoral race.
About: grief · guilt · obsession
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
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
Bodyguard 2018
Series
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
The sides of Bodyguard
- A war veteran guarding a government minister
- A politician pushing new surveillance laws
- A terror plot in London
Good for you if
- you like a protection officer who never knows who to trust.
- you like politics, terror plots and secret services pulling strings.
- you like watching Richard Madden hold together a man who is falling apart.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand bombings and shootings.
- you find a soldier's trauma and despair on screen too much.
About: trauma · loyalty · power
Babylon Berlin 2017
Series
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
The sides of Babylon Berlin
- A Cologne detective in 1929 Berlin
- A young typist who wants to join the police
- Nightclubs, drugs and rising Nazis
Good for you if
- you want the Weimar years before the Nazis took power.
- you like 1920s Berlin streets and clubs rebuilt in rich detail.
- you like a detective caught between drug rings, gangs and crooked police.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a German series.
- you lose track of police, gangs and political plots across five seasons.
About: decadence · corruption · trauma
Unbelievable 2019
Series
After a young woman is accused of lying about a rape, two female detectives investigate a spate of eerily similar attacks.
The sides of Unbelievable
- A teenager not believed after reporting a rape
- Two detectives in Colorado linking similar cases
- A true story told with care
Good for you if
- you want a true case told with respect for the women it happened to.
- you like a patient investigation built on small details.
- you like Kaitlyn Dever as Marie, a girl nobody believes.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story about sexual assault.
- you want chases and gunfights in a crime story.
About: being believed · justice · trauma
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
Sharp Objects 2018
Series
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
The sides of Sharp Objects
- A reporter back in her Missouri hometown
- Two murdered girls
- A mother and daughter with a terrible bond
Good for you if
- you want to watch Amy Adams carry every scene as Camille.
- you like a heavy, humid small town revealed one memory at a time.
- you can take a dark Southern story with no easy comfort.
Bad for you if
- you can't face self-harm, alcoholism and child abuse on screen.
- you'd rather avoid frank sex scenes, and Camille has a few.
About: trauma · mothers and daughters · home
Line of Duty 2012
Series
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
The sides of Line of Duty
- A police anti-corruption unit
- Interrogations that last a whole episode
- A hunt for the officer behind organised crime
Good for you if
- you like interrogation rooms that feel like a battlefield.
- you like Ted Hastings, Steve Arnott and Kate Fleming cornering a suspect with words.
- you like following a conspiracy that grows across seasons.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not commit to several seasons of one conspiracy.
- you lose track of names, ranks and police acronyms.
About: corruption · loyalty · truth
Absentia 2017
Series
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
The sides of Absentia
- An FBI agent found alive six years after vanishing
- A husband who has remarried
- A son who doesn't remember her
Good for you if
- you like a heroine accused of crimes she can't remember.
- you want to know who held Emily captive and why.
- you like Stana Katic fighting her way to the truth.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand torture scenes.
- you need a thriller where every turn feels realistic.
About: identity · motherhood · trauma