During the quarantine, we suggested three film series, leisure options to help make those days more bearable. And we say "those days" because moving to the next phase and enjoying good weather now allows us to spend more time outdoors.
There will always be time to watch a movie, though. Do you like spy movies? Do you prefer fantasy? Are you looking for films about friendship that you'd share with your friends? We're sharing some options with you that you can find on Netflix, Filmin, Prime Video, and other streaming platforms.
Of spies
Spy movies do not usually leave us indifferent. They catch us. Some have a real basis, others are purely fiction. There is everything in this list of five spy movies released in recent years and that you can enjoy streaming.
- State secrets (2019) - Prime Video and Movistar. As politicians in Britain and the United States search for an excuse to invade Iraq, a GCHQ translator, Katharine Gun, leaks a confidential email urging spying on members of the UN Security Council to force the resolution to pass. go to the war. Accused of violating the Official Secrets Law and with the possibility of ending up in prison, Katharine and her team of lawyers set out to defend their actions. With his life, his freedom and his marriage in danger, he must stand up for what he believes in.
- The coldest game (2019) - Netflix. While playing a game of chess in Warsaw against the best Russian player, Josh Mansky, a once brilliant chess champion and now an alcoholic, finds himself immersed in a spy plot involving the two world superpowers. As the military crisis grows, the game of chess takes on an unimaginable relevance. Americans fear losing the two games they are playing: chess and world domination.
- mila 22 (2018) - Fimin and Prime Video. James Silva is a seasoned CIA agent, who is sent to a country suspected of illegal nuclear activity. Official Li, arrives at the US embassy seeking to exchange information on stolen radioactive material in exchange for its safe passage to the United States. Silva is assigned the dangerous mission of transporting him from the center of a city to an airstrip 22 miles away (about 35 kilometers).
- The red spy (2018) - Movistar. Joan Stanley is a charming old woman who has never raised any kind of suspicion ... until one morning in 2000 MI5 agents arrest her, accused of providing information to communist Russia. One of the biggest KGB spy cases has come to light and Joan is one of the suspects. During the interrogation, Joan recalls the year 1938, when she was studying Physics at Cambridge and fell in love with a young communist, Leo Galich (Tom Hughes), the same one who later, during World War II, put her before a difficult crossroads: Choose between betraying your country or saving the world from a nuclear catastrophe. And, working in a top-secret facility dedicated to nuclear research during the war, he comes to the conclusion that the world is on the brink of guaranteed destruction, and he must choose between betraying his country and his loved ones ... or saving them . Film based on the life of Melita Norwood, the longest-serving British spy in the KGB.
- Red sparrow (2018) - Prime Video. Dominika Egorova is recruited against her will to be a "sparrow", a trained seductress from the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to retain her sense of identity during the dehumanizing process of training. Finding its strength in an unjust system, it turns out to be one of the program's strongest assets. His first target is Nate Nash, a CIA official who leads the agency's most confidential infiltration of Russian intelligence. The two young agents fall into a spiral of attraction and deception that threatens their careers, loyalties and the security of their respective countries.
Fantasy movies
Fantasy is a genre that does not generally admit half measures. Many of you will not even consider watching movies of this genre; Others have probably seen most of the movies that appear on our list. Be that as it may, here are five very different movies to enjoy:
- Light of my life (2019) - Filmin, Movistar. A father and his daughter travel a world in which women have almost disappeared. A story of ultra-protection but also about the difficult task of educating and teaching children to live so that one day they can fly alone.
- Children of the sea (2019) - Fimin and Movistar. Ruka is a young teenager whose parents have separated. Her father works at the local aquarium, so she spends a lot of time there, fascinated by the sheer number of marine species found there. One day, two boys named Umi and Sora are taken to the aquarium due to family problems. After coming into contact with them, Ruka realizes that they both have a special connection to the ocean, just like her. However, the power of his two new friends seems to get in the way of the interests of the aquarium and the population in which they all reside.
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - Movistar, Prime Video. Carrying out his threat, Grindelwald escapes from custody and has begun gathering followers, most of whom are unsuspecting of his true intentions: raising pureblood wizards to reign over all non-magical creatures. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans, Albus Dumbledore recruits his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that await. The lines are drawn as love and loyalty are put to the test, even among the closest of friends and family, in an increasingly divided magical world.
- During the storm (2018) - Netflix. A mysterious interference between two times causes Vera, a happily married mother, to save the life of a child who lived in her home 25 years earlier. But the consequences of his good deed cause a chain reaction that makes him wake up in a new reality where his daughter has never been born ...
- The shape of the water (2017) - Movistar and Prime Video. In a haunting high-security laboratory, during the Cold War, an unusual connection occurs between two seemingly distant worlds. The life of the lonely Elisa, who works as a cleaner in the laboratory, changes completely when she discovers an experiment classified as secret: an amphibian man who is confined there.
Between friends
Who has a friend has a treasure. Did you miss yours during the quarantine? If you haven't been able to meet them yet, these movies won't make you feel better, will they? What we do know is that they will make you remember how important they are.
- Fourteen (2019) - Filmin. Mara and Jo, two twentysomethings living in New York, have been friends since high school. Over the course of a decade, as jobs, boyfriends, and apartments come and go, their powerful bond stretches but is never completely broken. Imagine Eric Rohmer filming his own "Frances Ha." Well that.
- Friends with tradition (2019) - Neflix. When a group of lifelong friends head to Napa for a weekend to celebrate one of their 50th birthday, old conflicts from the past reappear.
- The call (2017) - Netflix. María and Susana are two rebellious 17-year-old adolescents who are in the Christian summer camp "La brújula" in Segovia, which they have attended since they were little. Both have a passion for reggaeton and electro-Latin, but the surprising appearances of God to Maria will begin to change their lives ... Film adaptation of the homonymous musical of 2013, of great success in Spain.
- Ágatha's friends (2015) - Filmin. Àgata has entered university and something has changed: she no longer sees her lifelong friends as before, relationships have changed. With this generational portrait, the four students from Pompeu i Fabrá presented their final year project, preparing a thesis on friendship.
- Girlhood (2014) - Filmin. Oppressed by her family environment, the null prospects in school and by the law imposed by the boys in her neighborhood, Marieme begins a new life when she meets three rebellious girls who refuse to follow the established norms. She changes her name, her way of dressing, and leaves school to be accepted into the band, hoping that this is the way to freedom.