2024 begins as it ends: full of premieres netflix. This month of January features films like JA Bayona’s ‘The Snow Society’; The international film ‘Lift’, represented in Spain by Ursula Corberó, and ‘My loneliness has wings’, the directorial debut of Mario Casas. The series’ big premiere is ‘Griselda,’ starring Sofía Vergara as the leader of a Colombian cartel, but also featuring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh for ‘The Sun Brothers.’
‘Snow Society’
4 days. Film
JA Bayona’s new film is a survival story based on a real disaster, as he did in ‘Impossible’. In this case, the accident that occurred in the Andes Mountains in 1972 on Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was taking a rugby team to Chile. Only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash, and they had to resort to extreme measures to survive. Spanish nominee for the Oscars.
‘Elevator: a first-class robbery’
Day 12. Film
Úrsula Corberó turns into a robber again after ‘La casa de papel’. Now he is part of an international gang ready to pull off a huge feat: stealing 500 million gold coins from a passenger plane 12,000 meters above sea level. Joining the cast are Kevin Hart, Billy Magnussen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jacob Batalon, Sam Worthington and Jean Reno. Directing is by F. Gary Gray (‘The Italian Job’, ‘Fast & Furious 8’), a specialist in adrenaline thrillers.
‘My loneliness has wings’
20 days. Film
Mario Casas’ directorial debut, starring his brother Óscar. The actor of the films ‘Innocent’ and ‘The Photographer of Mauthausen’ shot the film in the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Barcelona, where he spent his childhood. There, a group of children lead a life on the edge, robbing jewelry stores.
‘Griselda’
25 days. Sherry
Sofía Vergara produces and stars in this story from the showrunner and director of ‘Narcos’, inspired by the life of Griselda Blanco, the creator of one of the most profitable cartels in history. In ’70s and ’80s Miami, Blanco’s lethal blend of charm and brutality helps her easily transition between work and family, earning her the nickname ‘The Godmother.’
Movies
‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’. 1 day. A family escapes the intense air pollution of Beirut and starts living in a house in the mountains. However, a garbage storage area will be built next to the house.
‘Orange days’. 1 day. A Psychology student meets a somewhat sassy violinist. With the help of sign language, they begin a relationship that will help them face their fears.
‘Unlimited’. 1 day. When her eccentric father is kicked out of the nursing home where he lives, a single mother takes a relaxing road trip across the United States with herself and her son.
‘With my remaining years’. 1 day. A law student gets involved in a dangerous job that forces him to embark on a hectic journey from Los Angeles to Mexico to pay off his father’s debt.
‘It’s just chemistry’. Day 3: The romance between a young woman and a television star becomes complicated when she begins to see her best friend, a psychologist who doesn’t believe in love, with different eyes.
‘Life goes on’. Day 5: An artist, mourning the death of her husband, a famous writer, takes her two closest friends to Paris. Painful truths will emerge there.
‘From the Ashes’. 18th day.
’60 minutes’. Day 19. Mixed martial arts fighter Octavio (Emilio Sakraya) has only 60 minutes left to attend his daughter’s birthday party; Otherwise, you risk losing custody forever. But when he decides to give up the fight to make it on time, some dangerous criminals pursue him across the city in a race against time.
‘Kitchen’. In January (date to be determined). Izi is about to escape from Kitchen, one of the poorest areas of London. Until a young man comes along and has to rethink his options.
sherry
‘tricks’. 1 day. Mini series adapted from a novel by Harlan Coben, ‘Innocent’. Ex-soldier Maya, who sees her allegedly dead husband on security camera, uncovers an evil family conspiracy from the 90s.
‘New targets’. 1 day. Season 2. When a business consultant inherits a problem-ridden farm, he is forced to confront his rural past and his family’s future.
‘Sun Brothers’. Day 4: The series stars Michelle Yeoh, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for the movie ‘Everything at Once Everywhere’. The story begins with the murder of her husband in Taiwan. His first son, a dangerous gangster, leaves the Asian country to join his mother and younger brother in Los Angeles and try to protect them.
‘The boy who ate the universe’. Day 11. The adventures of a 12-year-old boy in the suburbs of Brisbane (Australia) in the 80s.
‘Kübra’. Day 18. A former soldier living in the suburbs of Istanbul tries to rebuild his life.
‘Heritage’. Day 19: A woman inherits a cemetery after the death of her unknown uncle and finds herself involved in a series of murders.
‘Baby bandit’. Day 31. The series was inspired by a major robbery that occurred in Chile in 2014.
Documentaries and ‘facts’
‘Crypto scam’. 1 day. Documentary in which Ray Trapani explains how he founded his controversial company, accompanied by his family, old friends and the journalist who exposed the Centra Tech case, the first large-scale fraud of the cryptocurrency age.
‘The treasure of Lake Kivu’. 1 day. Documentary analyzing the conflict around a lake in Central Africa that contains incalculable methane deposits but could end the lives of millions of people.
‘We are what we eat: an experiment with twins’. 1 day. Documentary series in which several identical twins change their diets and lifestyles for eight weeks in a scientific experiment analyzing the impact of food on health.
‘Desertification’. 1 day. Documentary explaining how climate change and agriculture are causing global desertification that threatens the way of life of many communities.
‘Trust: the game of greed’. 10 days. ‘Reality’, in which 11 strangers receive a quarter of a million dollars to split equally. Will they act fairly and be content with what they get?
‘Breaking point’. 10 days. Season 2. Documentary series about tennis.
‘Love is blind. Sweden’. Day 12: ‘Reality’ for couples.
‘Crimes’. Day 12. Documentary Series.
‘Love on the autism spectrum’. Day 19: Documentary series in ‘Reality’ format This shows how various people with varying degrees of autism cope in the dating world.
‘Love with a deadline’. Day 23. ‘Reality’, in which a group of women travel to dream destinations such as Okinawa and Kyoto to find their ideal partners.
‘Six countries: The heart of rugby’. Day 24. Documentary Series.