¿Qué quieres ver esta noche?
Cada título dice para quién es bueno y para quién no. Toca lo que quieres esta noche, o di que no a uno y por qué.
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Breaking Bad 2008
Serie
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer starts making meth with a former student to pay for his family's future.
Las caras de Breaking Bad
- La lenta corrupción de un hombre corriente
- El crimen como negocio
- Una mala decisión que se descontrola
- Desierto, tensión, largos silencios
Buena para ti si
- you like rooting for someone you know you shouldn't.
- you like tension that builds for a whole episode before it breaks.
- you watch for how people change more than for what happens.
Mala para ti si
- graphic violence ruins a show for you. Some scenes are hard to unsee.
- TV is how you unwind. This one keeps you tense.
- five seasons is more than you want to start.
Temas: pride · family · power · consequences
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
- An FBI agent in the drug war
- A border crossing at Juárez
- A man with a hidden agenda
Buena para ti si
- you like dread in every scene, especially at the border.
- you like a morally dark world.
- you like desert landscapes and night-vision raids.
Mala para ti si
- bodies in walls and executions ruin it for you.
- you need momentum. Much of it is silent waiting before something breaks.
Temas: morality · power · the law
El caballero oscuro 2008
Película
Batman/Bruce Wayne regresa para continuar su guerra contra el crimen. Con la ayuda del teniente Jim Gordon y del Fiscal del Distrito Harvey Dent, Batman se propone destruir el crimen organizado en la ciudad de Gotham. El triunvirato demuestra su eficacia, pero, de repente, aparece Joker, un nuevo criminal que desencadena el caos y tiene aterrados a los ciudadanos.
Las caras de El caballero oscuro
- A villain who only wants chaos
- A city forced to choose
- A hero paying the price
Buena para ti si
- you like a villain you can't take your eyes off.
- you like scenes where every choice could cost a life.
- you like tension that comes from people talking, like the interrogation room.
Mala para ti si
- you need things to end on a high. This one leaves a weight.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
Temas: chaos · order · sacrifice · corruption
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
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
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
- A hitman looking back from a nursing home
- Jimmy Hoffa
- Decades of the mob
Buena para ti si
- you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
- you like legends acting together one last time.
- you like an ending about loneliness and regret.
Mala para ti si
- three and a half hours is far too long for you.
- you want a fast gangster film.
Temas: loyalty · ageing · regret
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
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
Heat 1995
Película
Neil McCauley es un experto ladrón. Su filosofía consiste en vivir sin ataduras que puedan constituir un obstáculo, si las cosas se complican. Su banda la forman criminales profesionales tan cualificados que pueden impresionar incluso al detective Vincent Hanna. Pero Hannah vive tan obsesionado con su trabajo que llega incluso a poner en peligro su relación sentimental. Cuando la banda de McCauley prepara el golpe definitivo y el equipo de Hannah intenta evitarlo, cada uno de ellos comprende que tiene que vérselas con una de las mentes más brillantes a la que se ha enfrentado en su carrera.
Las caras de Heat
- A thief who can walk away in thirty seconds
- A cop who can't
- A shootout in downtown Los Angeles
Buena para ti si
- you like two men who respect each other and must collide.
- you like a cop and a thief who are the same man.
- you like a downtown bank robbery that turns into a street shootout.
Mala para ti si
- nearly three hours is too much for one evening.
- films from 1995 feel dated to you.
Temas: obsession · professionalism · loneliness
Hannibal 2013
Serie
Will Graham, que trabaja en el FBI como analista de crímenes, tiene una capacidad innata para empatizar con los psicópatas, lo que le permite entender sus motivaciones. Pero, cuando se da cuenta de que la mente del asesino en serie que está buscando es demasiado compleja incluso para él, recaba la ayuda de uno de principales psiquiatras del país, el Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Las caras de Hannibal
- An FBI profiler who thinks like killers
- A psychiatrist who cooks his victims
- Murder scenes staged like works of art
Buena para ti si
- you like crime scenes composed like paintings and dinners shot like still lifes.
- you can't take your eyes off Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
- you like watching Will Graham get closer to the man sitting across from him.
Mala para ti si
- you can't stand corpses turned into displays.
- you want a crime show that plays like real police work.
Temas: manipulation · obsession · friendship · madness
Ozark 2017
Serie
Un asesor financiero arrastra a su familia de Chicago hasta Misuri con la misión de lavar 500 millones de dólares en cinco años para apaciguar a un capo de la droga.
Las caras de Ozark
- A financial adviser laundering cartel money
- A family moved from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks
- Marty and Wendy Byrde
Buena para ti si
- you like Marty Byrde talking his way out of a cartel bullet.
- you like the nuts and bolts of laundering money through lakeside businesses.
- you like a marriage and a family pulled deeper into crime together.
Mala para ti si
- you can't stand cartel killings.
- you need some hope, and the Byrdes rarely get any.
Temas: money · marriage · survival · complicity
Seven 1995
Película
Two detectives, one a week from retirement and one just transferred in, track a serial killer who builds each murder around one of the seven deadly sins.
Las caras de Seven
- Cazar a un asesino
- Un policía veterano y uno joven
- Una oscuridad sin piedad
Buena para ti si
- you like dread that builds in the rain and never lets up.
- you can take an ending that stays with you for days.
- you like following detectives through every step of a case.
Mala para ti si
- you can't look at the aftermath of violence. The film shows what was done, in detail.
- you watch films to feel better afterwards. This one won't let you.
Temas: sin · indifference · the city · partnership
Prisioneros 2013
Película
When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.
Las caras de Prisioneros
- A detective who won't let go
- How far a father will go
- A case built like a maze
- Rain, cold, and grey light
Buena para ti si
- you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
- you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
- you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.
Mala para ti si
- a child in danger is too much for you.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
Temas: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood
Mystic River 2003
Película
Cuando Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle y Sean Devine eran unos niños que crecían juntos en un peligroso barrio obrero de Boston, pasaban los días jugando al hockey en la calle. Pero, un día, a Dave le ocurrió algo que marcó para siempre su vida y las de sus amigos. Veinticinco años más tarde, otra tragedia los vuelve a unir: el asesinato de Katie, la hija de 19 años de Jimmy. A Sean, que es policía, le asignan el caso; pero también tiene que estar muy pendiente de Jimmy porque, en su desesperación, está intentando tomarse la justicia por su mano.
Las caras de Mystic River
- Three childhood friends in Boston
- A murdered daughter
- A past that never healed
Buena para ti si
- you like raw, powerful acting.
- you like a tragedy with no clean ending.
- you like a murder investigation in a tight neighbourhood.
Mala para ti si
- child abuse and a parent's grief are too heavy for you.
- you need momentum. Eastwood lets the grief and the silences run long.
Temas: trauma · guilt · loyalty
Better Call Saul 2015
Serie
Esta precuela de "Breaking Bad" nominada al Emmy narra la vida del picapleitos Jimmy McGill y su transformación en Saul Goodman, el abogado de moral laxa.
Las caras de Better Call Saul
- A small-time lawyer becoming Saul Goodman
- A brother who never believed in him
- A fixer named Mike Ehrmantraut
Buena para ti si
- you like a story that takes its time over one man's choices.
- you like watching Jimmy and Kim from up close, scene after scene.
- you like following a likable man you know will go bad.
Mala para ti si
- you'd rather avoid cartel killings and Tuco's beatings.
- six seasons of slow change is too much for you.
Temas: ambition · brotherhood · morality · love
Shutter Island 2010
Película
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal and his new partner go to a psychiatric hospital on an island to find a patient who escaped from a locked room.
Las caras de Shutter Island
- Un misterio que se vuelve contra ti
- Terror gótico en una isla
- Un hombre perseguido por una pérdida
Buena para ti si
- you love a story that makes you question everything you just saw.
- you like a film you want to restart as soon as it ends.
- you like a mood that gets under your skin: storms, cells, a lighthouse.
Mala para ti si
- grief and mental illness hit too close for you.
- you want to be sure what happened when the credits roll.
Temas: grief · guilt · madness · the truth
Animales nocturnos 2016
Película
Susan Morrow es una galerista afincada en Los Ángeles que comparte una vida llena de lujos, aunque vacía, con Hutton Morrow, su segundo marido. Un día, Susan recibe una novela escrita por su exmarido Edward Sheffiel, del que lleva años sin tener noticias. En una nota le pide que lea la novela inédita y que se ponga en contacto con él, pues se quedará unos días en la ciudad. Es de noche. Susan, sola en la cama, empieza a leer, y es la historia de un matrimonio con una hija que conduciendo por Texas una noche, son perseguidos por otro vehículo...
Las caras de Animales nocturnos
- A gallery owner reading her ex-husband's novel
- A story inside the story
- A night on a Texas highway
Buena para ti si
- you like cold, elegant images.
- you like a roadside scene that's hard to breathe through.
- you like a story within a story, where the novel Susan reads keeps echoing her own past.
Mala para ti si
- brutal scenes in the novel Susan reads are too much for you.
- cruelty told without comfort is too heavy for you.
Temas: revenge · regret · art
Memento 2000
Película
Leonard Shelby sigue la pista del hombre que violó y asesinó a su mujer. Sin embargo, la dificultad de localizar al asesino de su esposa se ve agravada por el hecho de que padece una forma rara e intratable de pérdida de memoria a corto plazo. Aunque puede recordar detalles de la vida antes de su accidente, Leonard no puede recordar qué ha pasado hace quince minutos, adónde va o por qué.
Las caras de Memento
- A man who can't make new memories
- Notes, photos and tattoos
- A story told backwards
Buena para ti si
- you like assembling a story in reverse.
- you like a man investigating his wife's murder with Polaroids and tattoos.
- you like a film you need to see twice.
Mala para ti si
- you want to know for sure who is lying. Even the ending won't tell you.
- you need some hope. Leonard's hunt for his wife's killer can never end.
Temas: memory · revenge · self-deception
El precio del poder 1983
Película
Un emigrante cubano frío y sanguinario, Tony Montana, llega de Cuba para instalarse en Miami, donde se propone hacerse con un nombre dentro del crimen organizado de Florida. Junto a su amigo, Manny Rivera, inicia una ascendente carrera delictiva.
Las caras de El precio del poder
- A refugee who wants the world
- Cocaine and Miami in the 80s
- Say hello to my little friend
Buena para ti si
- you like a performance that's over the top on purpose.
- you like following a ruthless Cuban refugee building a cocaine empire in Miami.
- you like an ending with no mercy.
Mala para ti si
- chainsaws and shootouts ruin it for you.
- nearly three hours is too much for one evening.
- films from 1983 feel dated to you.
Temas: greed · power · excess
El profesional (Léon) 1994
Película
Stan es un corrupto agente de la DEA cuya codicia le lleva a cometer asesinatos en las calles de Nueva York. El mortal juego del gato y el ratón empieza cuando se cruza en su camino un solitario hombre, llamado León. León es asesino a sueldo, un personaje indestructible e indocumentado, que sólo bebe leche y se ocupa de sus plantas. En medio se encuentra una huerfanita de 12 años, que no puede olvidar al hombre que asesinó a su familia.
Las caras de El profesional (Léon)
- A lonely hitman and a girl next door
- A plant he waters every day
- A corrupt cop on drugs
Buena para ti si
- you like an unlikely bond between a killer and a child.
- you like tight, stylish shootouts.
- you like an ending that leaves a lump in your throat.
Mala para ti si
- shootouts and a family's murder are too much for you.
- a twelve-year-old playing Russian roulette is too much for you.
Temas: innocence · loneliness · revenge