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The Jinx (El gafe) 2015
Documental
Miniserie de TV (6 episodios). Trozos de un cádaver son encontrados en la bahía de Texas. Los investigadores siguiendo la pista dan con un millonario de una poderosa familia neoyorquina.
Las caras de The Jinx (El gafe)
- Robert Durst answering questions on camera
- Three deaths across New York and Texas
- Old letters and a handwriting match
Buena para ti si
- you like a New York real-estate heir who seems out of reach of the law.
- you like a cold case reopened piece by piece.
- you like watching a man answer questions he could have refused.
Mala para ti si
- you can't sit through real murders and grieving families.
- you need momentum, and long interviews lose you.
Temas: wealth · guilt · justice
Misterios sin resolver 2020
Documental
Casos reales de desapariciones estremecedoras, asesinatos escalofriantes y encuentros paranormales inspiran el atrapante relanzamiento de esta icónica serie documental.
Las caras de Misterios sin resolver
- Real disappearances and unsolved murders
- UFO sightings and ghost stories
- Families still waiting for answers
Buena para ti si
- you like a case you can try to solve in an hour.
- you can live with an episode that ends without an answer.
- you like UFO lights in the sky between two murder cases.
Mala para ti si
- you can't watch real families still grieving a loved one.
- you can't take paranormal episodes next to real crimes.
Temas: disappearance · the unexplained · grief
Escena del crimen: Desaparición en el Hotel Cecil 2021
Documental
El célebre hotel Cecil cae en la infamia cuando desaparece su huésped Elisa Lam. Con el creador de Las cintas de Ted Bundy, explora los aspectos más oscuros del crimen.
Las caras de Escena del crimen: Desaparición en el Hotel Cecil
- A downtown Los Angeles hotel with a dark past
- A young guest who disappears in 2013
- Elevator footage that went around the internet
Buena para ti si
- you like a disappearance that seems to have no explanation.
- you like a hotel where every floor seems to hide something.
Mala para ti si
- a real young woman's disappearance and her family's pain are too much for you.
- you need momentum, and four episodes circle one case through the hotel's past and online theories.
Temas: disappearance · rumor · mental health
Jeffrey Epstein: Asquerosamente rico 2020
Documental
Los relatos de las sobrevivientes avivan esta docuserie, que analiza cómo el convicto abusador sexual Jeffrey Epstein usaba su riqueza y poder para perpetrar sus delitos.
Las caras de Jeffrey Epstein: Asquerosamente rico
- Survivors telling their own stories
- A billionaire's homes in Palm Beach and New York
- A 2008 plea deal and its consequences
Buena para ti si
- you want to hear the survivors in their own words.
- you want to understand how money and connections protected one man for years.
Mala para ti si
- you can't hear accounts of the sexual abuse of teenage girls.
- you need some hope, and justice here comes late and incomplete.
Temas: abuse of power · justice · survivors
A los gatos, ni tocarlos: Un asesino en Internet 2019
Documental
Los brutales vídeos de un retorcido criminal llevan a un grupo de investigadores internautas a una arriesgada búsqueda que los adentra en un siniestro submundo.
Las caras de A los gatos, ni tocarlos: Un asesino en Internet
- Online amateur sleuths tracking a man who posts animal cruelty videos
- Clues found in the background of video frames
- A hunt that ends with a real murder
Buena para ti si
- you like an investigation solved from tiny details in the background of a video.
- you want to know how a killer used the internet to be seen.
- you like a three-episode manhunt where the stakes keep rising for the amateur sleuths.
Mala para ti si
- you can't take detailed accounts of animals and a man being killed.
- you can't take a true crime where the victim's family is still grieving.
Temas: the internet · attention · guilt
Conversaciones con asesinos: Las cintas de Ted Bundy 2019
Documental
Entrevistas actuales, imágenes de archivo y grabaciones de audio hechas en el corredor de la muerte configuran un retrato mordaz del famoso asesino en serie Ted Bundy.
Las caras de Conversaciones con asesinos: Las cintas de Ted Bundy
- Ted Bundy's own taped interviews from death row
- Archive footage of 1970s trials
- Detectives and journalists who followed the case
Buena para ti si
- you want to hear a real case from the recordings themselves.
- you like 1970s archive footage of a case that marked America.
Mala para ti si
- you can't listen to a man describe crimes against real young women.
- you need some hope, and this offers none.
Temas: evil · justice · the media
MINDHUNTER 2017
Serie
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.
Las caras de MINDHUNTER
- Interviews with real killers
- The birth of criminal profiling
- What the work does to the people doing it
Buena para ti si
- 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.
Mala para ti si
- 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.
Temas: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession
Acosador nocturno: A la caza de un asesino en serie 2021
Documental
1985. Un asesino en serie implacablemente perverso acecha bajo el soleado encanto de L. Á. En esta historia policial real, dos detectives no pararán hasta capturarlo.
Las caras de Acosador nocturno: A la caza de un asesino en serie
- Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
- Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
- Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw
Buena para ti si
- you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
- you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
- you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.
Mala para ti si
- you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
- you can't look at crime scene photos.
Temas: fear · the hunt · justice
Zodiac 2007
Película
In 1970s San Francisco, a cartoonist, a reporter and two police inspectors spend years trying to identify the Zodiac killer, who taunts them with letters and codes.
Las caras de Zodiac
- An obsession that eats years of a life
- Real investigation work, step by step
- 1970s San Francisco
- A case that won't close
Buena para ti si
- you like a cartoonist, a reporter and a detective trying to crack a killer's coded letters.
- you like a long investigation more than a quick chase.
- you can live with questions that never get a full answer.
Mala para ti si
- you want chases and shootouts. This one is mostly phone calls and archives.
- two hours and forty minutes is too long for your evening.
Temas: obsession · the truth · time · journalism
Bajo escucha 2002
Serie
The Wire (Bajo escucha) es una aclamada serie de televisión creada por David Simon que retrata de forma realista y cruda el narcotráfico, la policía y la sociedad de la ciudad de Baltimore.
Las caras de Bajo escucha
- Baltimore cops wiretapping a drug crew
- The docks, the schools, City Hall and the newspaper
- Dealers and detectives seen from both sides
Buena para ti si
- 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.
Mala para ti si
- you lose track with dozens of characters on both sides.
- you need some hope. Baltimore rarely changes here.
Temas: institutions · the drug war · loyalty
El impostor 2012
Documental
En junio de 1994, Nicholas Barclay, un niño tejano de 13 años, desapareció sin dejar rastro. Tres años después, se reciben noticias sorprendentes sobre el caso: el chico ha sido hallado en España y afirma que ha sido torturado por sus secuestradores. Tras la inicial alegría de la familia al recuperarlo, se plantea un problema inexplicable: ¿cómo es posible que el hijo rubio de los Barclay sea ahora moreno?
Las caras de El impostor
- A Texas boy missing for three years, found in Spain
- A family welcoming him home
- A man telling the camera how he lied
Buena para ti si
- you like a story that gets stranger every ten minutes.
- you like an investigation where the questions keep changing.
- you like hearing a con man explain his con himself.
Mala para ti si
- you can't take a real missing child and a grieving family.
- you can't stand not knowing who to believe. Each witness tells the story their own way.
Temas: identity · lies · grief
Wild Wild Country 2018
Documental
Cuando un controvertido líder de una secta construye una ciudad utópica en el desierto de Oregón, los conflictos con los lugareños traspasarán las fronteras del estado.
Las caras de Wild Wild Country
- A guru's followers building a city in the Oregon desert
- Ma Anand Sheela, his right hand
- A small town fighting back
Buena para ti si
- you like a fight between a commune and a town that becomes a national case.
- you can't look away from Sheela telling her own story decades later.
- you like a true story that gets stranger with each episode, and you can't guess where it goes.
Mala para ti si
- six episodes of over an hour each is too much for you.
- you need momentum, and the archives and interviews take their time.
Temas: faith · power · utopia
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
- The true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
- A mother who kept her daughter ill
- A murder in Missouri
Buena para ti si
- you want to understand a true crime from inside the house.
- you like Joey King and Patricia Arquette in a mother-daughter story.
- you like dread that builds toward something you know will happen.
Mala para ti si
- you can't stand child abuse and medical cruelty on screen.
- you need some hope, and Gypsy's life is a cage that keeps closing in.
Temas: control · abuse · freedom · motherhood
Spotlight 2015
Película
Cuando el tenaz equipo de reporteros de la sección "Spotlight" ahonda en los alegatos de abuso dentro de la Iglesia Católica, descubren en su investigación el encubrimiento llevado a cabo durante décadas por parte de las altas esferas de organizaciones religiosas, legales y gubernamentales de Boston, desatando una ola de revelaciones alrededor del mundo.
Las caras de Spotlight
- Journalists investigating abuse in the Church
- Interviews with survivors
- A city that looked away
Buena para ti si
- you like a story told through interviews and documents.
- you want to see how a true investigation was done.
- you like slow-building pressure on the powerful.
Mala para ti si
- child abuse, even described, is too much tonight.
- you want action. It's phone calls and paper.
Temas: truth · power · complicity
The Batman 2022
Película
Cuando un asesino se dirige a la élite de Gotham con una serie de maquinaciones sádicas, un rastro de pistas crípticas envía Batman a una investigación en los bajos fondos. A medida que las pruebas comienzan a acercarse a su casa y se hace evidente la magnitud de los planes del autor, Batman debe forjar nuevas relaciones, desenmascarar al culpable y hacer justicia al abuso de poder y la corrupción que durante mucho tiempo han asolado Gotham City.
Las caras de The Batman
- A young Batman as a detective
- A killer leaving riddles
- Gotham drowning in rain
Buena para ti si
- you like Batman solving a case like a noir detective.
- you like red light, rain and darkness.
- you like a moody, patient investigation.
Mala para ti si
- three hours is too much for one evening.
- you want a light superhero film.
Temas: corruption · revenge · hope
El timador de Tinder 2022
Documental
Un estafador se hacía pasar por magnate y seducía a mujeres en Internet para estafarles millones de dólares. Ahora sus víctimas planean vengarse.
Las caras de El timador de Tinder
- A man posing as a diamond heir on a dating app
- Private jets paid for with other women's loans
- Three women who decide to fight back
Buena para ti si
- you like seeing exactly how a con works, message by message.
- you like hearing the women he fooled tell it themselves.
- you like the moment the money runs out and the threats start.
Mala para ti si
- you came for a love story. This is about how one was faked.
- you can't watch real people sink into debt and fear.
Temas: trust · money · betrayal
Narcos 2015
Serie
La verdadera historia de los poderosos y violentos cárteles colombianos sirve de hilo conductor en esta serie dramática de mafiosos de gran realismo.
Las caras de Narcos
- Pablo Escobar's rise in 1980s Colombia
- Two DEA agents hunting him
- The Cali cartel after him
Buena para ti si
- 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.
Mala para ti si
- you can't watch the bombings and killings that took real lives in Colombia.
- you won't read subtitles for long Spanish-language scenes.
Temas: power · violence · justice
Tiger King 2020
Documental
El encargado de un zoológico pierde la cabeza en esta historia real sobre un crimen por encargo en el excéntrico submundo de la cría de grandes felinos.
Las caras de Tiger King
- A private zoo full of tigers in Oklahoma
- A feud between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin
- A murder-for-hire plot
Buena para ti si
- you can laugh at how far a feud between zoo owners goes.
- you like a real story stranger than anything you'd make up.
- you like a cast of big cat breeders who each seem invented.
Mala para ti si
- you can't watch big cats kept in cages and badly treated.
- you need answers, and the disappearance of Carole Baskin's husband is never solved.
Temas: obsession · rivalry · greed
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
- A journalist and a hacker
- A girl missing for forty years
- A cold Swedish island
Buena para ti si
- you like a dark, intricate investigation.
- you like dread in cold, clean images.
- you like an unforgettable, fierce heroine.
Mala para ti si
- rape and torture scenes are too much for you.
- you'd rather not watch frank sex scenes, or not with company.
- over two and a half hours is too long for you.
Temas: violence against women · truth · revenge
True Detective 2014
Serie
Each season, different detectives work one murder case. The first follows two Louisiana detectives on a ritual killing that stays with them for seventeen years.
Las caras de True Detective
- Dos detectives, la conversación como tensión
- La obsesión por un caso que no se cierra
- Un lugar que parece embrujado
Buena para ti si
- you like long conversations in a car more than shootouts.
- you like a case that takes its time and a mood that settles in.
- you like dark ideas and darker places.
Mala para ti si
- you'd rather not keep track of one case told across two or three timelines.
- you can't take disturbing images of murder victims.
Temas: time · evil · faith · partnership