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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
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
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
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
El visitante 2020
Serie
El detective Ralph Anderson, está a punto de comenzar un nuevo caso: el cuerpo mutilado de un niño de 11 años ha sido encontrado en los bosques de Georgia y hay que aclarar lo sucedido. Ralph todavía está recuperándose de la muerte de su propio hijo, por lo que abordará el caso de forma poco convencional, contando para ello con la ayuda de una investigadora privada con misteriosas habilidades.
Las caras de El visitante
- A boy's murder in a Georgia town
- A suspect seen in two places at once
- An investigator who sees what others miss
Buena para ti si
- you like dread that builds in quiet rooms and dark caves.
- you like a case with proof that a man was in two places at once.
- you like a patient story that takes its time with grief.
Mala para ti si
- the murder of a child and a grieving family are too much for you.
- you need a crime explained without anything supernatural.
Temas: grief · belief · evil
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
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
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
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
No es país para viejos 2007
Película
A hunter in West Texas finds two million dollars at the scene of a drug deal gone wrong, and a hitman starts following him.
Las caras de No es país para viejos
- A cat-and-mouse chase across Texas
- A killer who flips a coin
- An old sheriff who doesn't understand his world anymore
- Silence instead of music
Buena para ti si
- you like suspense built from silence, a hotel room and a door.
- you like scenes that take their time before anything happens.
- you like an ending that leaves you thinking instead of explaining.
Mala para ti si
- sudden, cold violence ruins a film for you.
- you need music to carry a film. There's almost none.
Temas: fate · chance · violence · growing old
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
Perdida 2014
Película
On their fifth wedding anniversary, a man's wife disappears, and as the police and the press dig in, he becomes the main suspect.
Las caras de Perdida
- A marriage seen from both sides
- A trial on television
- A story that changes shape halfway
- Cold, precise, and darkly funny
Buena para ti si
- you love it when the floor drops out from under you halfway.
- you like a lead performance you can't look away from. Rosamund Pike holds every scene Amy is in.
- you like people who are hard to like.
Mala para ti si
- you'd rather skip sex scenes, or you're watching with family.
- one sudden, very violent scene would ruin the evening for you.
Temas: marriage · lies · the media · image
Sospechosos habituales 1995
Película
Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), un agente especial que trabaja para el servicio de aduanas de EEUU, está investigando las consecuencias de un incendio a bordo de un barco en el puerto de San Pedro de Los Ángeles, con un balance de 27 víctimas mortales -todas aparentemente asesinadas-. La única fuente de información de Kujan es Roger Kint (Kevin Spacey), un estafador lisiado que sobrevivió al incendio. En comisaría, Kint cuenta que todo comenzó 6 semanas atrás en Nueva York, cuando 5 delincuentes, 5 "sospechosos habituales", fueron detenidos para una rueda de reconocimiento referente al robo de un camión de armas...
Las caras de Sospechosos habituales
- Five criminals in a line-up
- A survivor telling the police a story
- Keyser Söze
Buena para ti si
- you like an ending that makes you replay the whole film in your head.
- you like an interrogation that becomes a story.
- you like trying to work out who's behind it all.
Mala para ti si
- you want a simple story. This one is told in flashbacks, on purpose.
- you can't root for crooks. Every lead here is a career criminal.
Temas: deception · legend · fear

El mentalista 2008
Serie
El mentalista es una serie policiaca americana sobre Patrick Jane, ex médium, que trabaja de asesor para la Oficina de Investigación de California (California Bureau of Investigation), usando su altamente desarrollada capacidad de observación, que anteriormente usaba para "leer" mentes.
Las caras de El mentalista
- A fake psychic working with the police
- A serial killer called Red John
- Cases solved by reading people
Buena para ti si
- you like a weekly case cracked by watching how suspects lie.
- you like Simon Baker's charm as Patrick Jane, smiling while he grieves.
- you want a long hunt for Red John, the killer who took Jane's family.
Mala para ti si
- seven seasons of cases is too much for you.
- you want shootouts and chases more than conversations in a room.
Temas: grief · revenge · deception
Taxi Driver 1976
Película
Para sobrellevar el insomnio crónico que sufre después de su regreso de Vietnam, Travis decide trabajar como taxista nocturno. Como individuo tiene poco contacto con la gente, pero observa la violencia y desolación en la que se hunde la ciudad de Nueva York. Travis anota en su diario todas sus impresiones, hasta que un día decide pasar a la acción.
Las caras de Taxi Driver
- A lonely veteran driving nights in New York
- You talkin' to me?
- A girl he wants to save
Buena para ti si
- you like a performance that gets under your skin.
- you like a dark, dirty city and a darker mind.
- you like a character study of a man coming apart.
Mala para ti si
- a sudden, bloody climax ruins it for you.
- you can't watch a child forced into prostitution. Jodie Foster plays Iris, twelve years old and on the street.
Temas: loneliness · violence · the city
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
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
Marvel - Jessica Jones 2015
Serie
Jessica Jones, es una serie de televisión estadounidense creada por Netflix y basada en el personaje del mismo nombre de los cómics de Marvel. Una mujer con superpoderes decide renegar de ellos e iniciar una vida nueva ejerciendo como detective privada.
Las caras de Marvel - Jessica Jones
- A super-strong private eye who drinks too much
- A man who controls minds with his voice
- Cases in Hell's Kitchen
Buena para ti si
- you like a hero who is rude, broken and drinks alone.
- you want David Tennant as Kilgrave, a villain you can't look away from.
- you like a private detective's noir cases.
Mala para ti si
- a story about abuse, control and trauma is too much for you.
- you need a superhero show that moves fast.
Temas: trauma · control · survival
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
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