The late revelation of fatherhood turns the life of a TV producer upside down — someone consumed by work and detached from emotional ties. Forced to face the existence of a son he never knew, he embarks on an emotional journey shaped by humor, uncertainty, and attempts to make up for lost time. An unlikely encounter that defies logic and rekindles bonds buried under years of absence.
Defying the worn-out formulas of crime comedy, “Trouble” disarms the viewer with a string of absurdities that never feel gratuitous. Under Jon Holmberg’s precise direction, the plot exposes — with bitter irony and meticulous strangeness — the fragility of institutions that stumble over themselves while struggling to maintain a façade of order, offering a disturbing invitation to distrust the mechanisms that govern everyday life.
A broad-daylight hostage situation in the heart of Amsterdam becomes the starting point for a tense and sharp-edged thriller. In “iHostage”, Bobby Boermans turns a real-life incident into a cinematic experience that challenges viewers to confront the dark contours of urban instability and institutional collapse — without falling back on easy formulas or superficial moralizing.
Two icons of the past, now marked by time, meet again in a storyline that challenges the silence of solitude through minimal yet meaningful gestures. “Our Souls at Night” offers a quiet reflection on late-in-life affection, unlikely encounters, and the urgency of tenderness, even when everything seems long gone. There is still something to be said — and someone to share the night with, even if the world no longer expects anything from us.
When two souls wounded by marital boredom cross paths by chance in an airport, fate finds fertile ground to rekindle what had long been forgotten: the desire to feel alive. “Last Call for Istanbul” begins with a light touch but soon descends into the depths of neglected affection, exploring with sensitivity and courage the hidden reasons behind silent betrayals.
Amid precisely timed explosions and chases that feel orchestrated by a mad maestro, “6 Underground” discards any hint of subtlety to deliver an unrestrained spectacle of action. With Michael Bay at the helm, the film doesn’t aim to persuade through logic, but through visual impact, turning chaos into aesthetics and absurdity into its dominant language.
In a time-forgotten village in the Canadian Arctic, “North of North” sidesteps the traps of exoticized perspectives to craft an affectionate, ironic, and politically sharp narrative. The series follows a young Inuit woman in the midst of reinvention, balancing motherhood, family fractures, and professional dilemmas amid the harsh cold and the tenderness of human connections.
Amid emotional wreckage and suffocating conventions, an aristocratic woman finds in the unexpected the spark that rekindles her sense of freedom and desire. The story that once scandalized generations is reborn with both delicacy and strength, exploring the boundaries between genuine love and the prison of appearances, revealing that true transgression may simply be the act of feeling without asking for permission.
In “The Glass Dome”, Camilla Läckberg attempts to craft a psychological thriller with dark ambitions, set in a Swedish village steeped in trauma, silence, and fractured family ties. The series leans on flashbacks, intimate tension, and crimes rooted in emotional scars, but stumbles by reducing complexity to rigid formulas, offering more predictable conventions than genuine depths worth exploring.
In a setting where brutality is routine and affection an unattainable luxury, “The Gardener” delves into the mind of a killer shaped by the absence of empathy and controlled by an inscrutable mother. This Spanish series, steeped in a dark and unpredictable atmosphere, cultivates poetry amid death, exploring what happens when an emotional spark threatens to collapse an empire of coldness and reveals cracks where once there was only calculation and silence.
