¿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.
Lo más cercano a The Mole Agent primero
Honeyland 2019
Documentary
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
The sides of Honeyland
- Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
- Her old, bedridden mother
- A nomadic family moving in next door
Good for you if
- you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
- you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
- you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.
About: balance · solitude · greed
Faces Places 2017
Documentary
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
The sides of Faces Places
- Agnès Varda and the artist JR
- A photo truck across rural France
- Giant portraits pasted on walls, barns and containers
Good for you if
- you like an old filmmaker and a young artist becoming friends.
- you like a gentle road trip full of kind people.
- you like huge photos of farmers and dockers covering whole buildings.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to follow Varda and JR chatting in French.
- you need a story that goes somewhere fast.
About: friendship · old age · ordinary people · memory
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
Stutz 2022
Documentary
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
The sides of Stutz
- Jonah Hill filming his own therapist
- Therapy tools drawn on index cards
- A psychiatrist living with Parkinson's
Good for you if
- you like long, honest conversations about how to live.
- you like the warmth between Jonah Hill and Phil Stutz.
- you want to know the man behind the therapist.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at self-help and open hearts on camera.
- you need more than two men talking in a room.
About: therapy · self-acceptance · mentorship
Nostalgia for the Light 2010
Documentary
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
The sides of Nostalgia for the Light
- Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
- Women searching the sand for their dead
- Pinochet's political prisoners
Good for you if
- you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
- you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
- you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.
Bad for you if
- you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.
About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024
Documentary
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
The sides of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- A young man with a muscle wasting disease
- His life online in World of Warcraft
- Parents discovering his friends after his death
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry over a life that was richer than his parents knew.
- you believe friends made online can be real friends.
- you want a true story pieced together from his game logs and chat messages.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Norwegian film.
- you can't face a young man's illness and death.
About: friendship · disability · grief
To Be and to Have 2002
Documentary
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
The sides of To Be and to Have
- A one-class village school in Auvergne
- A patient teacher, Georges Lopez
- Children from four to twelve over one school year
Good for you if
- you like a quiet year in a small village classroom.
- you like watching children grow up across one school year.
- you enjoy patient scenes with no narration and no hurry.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French documentary.
- you want a documentary about school policy, not one classroom's year.
About: education · childhood · patience
Up 2009
Película
Tras atar miles de globos a su casa, Carl Fredricksen, un vendedor de globos jubilado, se embarca en el mundo de los sueños de la infancia. Pero sin que Carl lo sepa, Russell, un explorador de 8 años, se encuentra en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado: el porche delantero de la casa. El dúo más improbable conoce a fantásticos amigos como Dug, un perro con un collar especial que le permite hablar, y Kevin, un pájaro de cuatro metros de altura que no vuela. Atrapados en la selva, Carl se da cuenta de que a veces las mayores aventuras de la vida son las que menos esperabas.
Las caras de Up
- Todo un matrimonio en cinco minutos
- Un anciano y un niño explorador
- Una casa llevada por globos
Buena para ti si
- aceptas llorar en los primeros diez minutos.
- te gustan un perro que habla y un viejo gruñón.
- te gusta una aventura hacia una cascada en el fin del mundo.
Mala para ti si
- no ves películas de animación.
- necesitas que la lógica se sostenga. Una casa cruza un continente atada a unos globos.
Temas: el duelo · la aventura · la amistad
Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020
Documentary
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
The sides of Dick Johnson Is Dead
- A daughter filming her father's last years
- Staged deaths with stunt doubles
- A father living with dementia
Good for you if
- you can laugh at a daughter staging her father's death again and again.
- you want to be moved by a father and daughter saying goodbye.
- you like a close, playful bond between a father and his daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a parent's memory fade right now.
- you'd rather a documentary stay plain, without staged scenes of heaven.
About: death · memory · father and daughter
Stories We Tell 2012
Documentary
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Good for you if
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
After Life 2019
Series
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
The sides of After Life
- A widower who lost his wife Lisa
- Her old videos he watches every night
- A small local newspaper and its odd colleagues
Good for you if
- you like a grieving man saying the cruelest thing in the room.
- you want a comedy that suddenly breaks your heart.
- you like Tony's slow way back to kindness, one villager at a time.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grief and thoughts of suicide up close.
- you roll your eyes at sincere lessons about being nice.
About: grief · kindness · depression
The Look of Silence 2014
Documentary
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.
The sides of The Look of Silence
- A man facing those who killed his brother
- Eye tests as a way into conversations
- Indonesia's 1965 killings
Good for you if
- you want to see a family ask the questions it was never allowed to ask.
- you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.
- you like quiet, patient conversations that say a lot.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to hear killers calmly describe what they did.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Indonesian.
About: guilt · memory · justice · grief
The Gleaners and I 2000
Documentary
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
The sides of The Gleaners and I
- Agnès Varda with a small digital camera
- People picking up what fields and markets leave behind
- Heart shaped potatoes
Good for you if
- you like meeting real people who live off what others throw away.
- you like Varda herself, filming her own hands and her own age.
- you want a gentle, curious film that wanders where it likes.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to hear Varda and the gleaners talk in French.
- you need momentum. Varda stops to film trucks on the road and a clock with no hands.
About: waste · ageing · what we keep
The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Documentary
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
Good for you if
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
Kotaro Lives Alone 2022
Anime
A lonely little boy moves into a ramshackle apartment building all on his own and makes friends with the broke manga artist who lives next door.
The sides of Kotaro Lives Alone
- A small boy living alone in a rundown apartment
- A broke manga artist next door
- A boy who talks like the samurai from his favorite show
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a small boy who hides how lonely he is.
- you like Karino, a broke manga artist, looking out for the kid next door.
- you like neighbors who slowly become a family.
Bad for you if
- you find hints of child neglect too sad to watch.
- you don't watch anime.
About: loneliness · found family · childhood
Waste Land 2010
Documentary
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
The sides of Waste Land
- One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
- Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
- The artist Vik Muniz
Good for you if
- you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
- you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
- you like giant portraits made from garbage.
Bad for you if
- you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
- you won't read subtitles for the Portuguese.
About: dignity · art · hope
Intocable 2011
Película
Un hombre tetraplégico y millonario contrata como cuidador a domicilio a Driss, un inmigrante de un barrio marginal recién salido de la cárcel. Aunque no parece la persona más indicada, congenian hasta forjar una amistad tan sólida como inesperada.
Las caras de Intocable
- Un hombre rico que no puede moverse
- Un cuidador de los suburbios
- Una amistad que nadie esperaba
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una comedia en la que dos hombres opuestos se pican.
- te gusta una película que sienta bien y que además te emociona.
- te gusta una historia real, con los verdaderos Philippe y Abdel al final.
Mala para ti si
- no lees subtítulos. Está en francés, aunque existe una versión doblada.
- no te ríes de los chistes sobre un hombre que no puede moverse.
Temas: la amistad · la discapacidad · las clases sociales

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.
The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
- A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
- A Mexican justice system that lets him go
- Years of protest in Chihuahua
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
- you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
- you need a story where justice wins in the end.
About: justice · grief · corruption
Cuba and the Cameraman 2017
Documentary
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
The sides of Cuba and the Cameraman
- An American filmmaker returning to Cuba for decades
- Three Cuban families growing old
- Fidel Castro seen up close
Good for you if
- you want ordinary Cuban lives filmed over more than forty years.
- you like history seen from a farm and a city street.
- you like watching the same people age on camera.
Bad for you if
- you can't take poverty and loss up close.
- you need a story that moves faster than decades of slow change.
About: time · poverty · revolution · family
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 2013
Documentary
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
The sides of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
- Hayao Miyazaki at work on The Wind Rises
- A year inside Studio Ghibli
- Producer Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata
Good for you if
- you want to watch Miyazaki draw, grumble and doubt at his desk.
- you like a quiet, patient film about daily work.
- you love Ghibli films and want to see where they come from.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need drama or stakes to stay with a film.
About: work · creation · ageing