The Laundromat
“When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. The charming — and very well-dressed — founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen’s predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world’s corrupt financial system.”
Ghosts of Sugar Land
A group of suburban Muslim friends trace the disappearance of their friend “Mark,” who is suspected of joining ISIS.
Baby – Season 2
Baby is a coming-of-age story that explores the unseen lives of Roman high schoolers. Loosely inspired by a true story, the series follows a group of Parioli teenagers as they defy society in their search for identity and independence against the backdrop of forbidden love, family pressures, and shared secrets.
Diecisiete
As part of a reintegration program at a juvenile detention center, 17-year-old Héctor forms an unbreakable bond with a dog as timid and aloof as he is. When the dog is adopted, a miserable Héctor escapes to look for him, an unlikely journey begins in the company of his older brother Ismael, their grandmother Cuca, two dogs, a cow and other animals.
Eli
ELI is the story of a young boy (Charlie Shotwell) plagued with an unknown, debilitating illness that requires him to live completely sealed off from the outside world. After exhausting every option, his parents (Kelly Reilly and Max Martini) put their trust – and his life – in the hands of a doctor (Lili Taylor) whose experimental, cutting edge treatments at her clean house facility may hold Eli’s last hope. As Eli undergoes the tremendously intense process that could potentially cure him, he begins to be haunted by experiences that make him question who he can trust and what is lurking inside the house.
La Casa de las Flores – Season 2
After the unexpected death of the matriarch, Virginia de la Mora, the family is falling apart. Paulina, who now lives in Madrid with Maria José and their son Bruno, must return to México when she finds out that her mother’s will has been challenged.
Upon her return, Paulina finds her house worse than ever: her father, Ernesto, has joined a pseudo-spiritual success sect; her sister, Elena, is experiencing an identity crisis as a result of her latest relationships; Julián has found a new and peculiar job which will only bring him more problems.
Without leaving aside her coveted revenge against Diego, who fled with the family’s money, Paulina feels the responsibility of rescuing her family and recovering “La Casa de las Flores”, but she is unable to see that what she’s actually putting in danger is the home that she has decided to create again next to Maria José.
Living With Yourself
The Netflix original series Living with Yourself is an inventive existential comedy that asks: do we really want to be better? Miles (Paul Rudd) is a man struggling in life. When he undergoes a novel spa treatment that promises to make him a better person, he finds he’s been replaced by a new and improved version of himself. As he deals with the unintended consequences of his actions, Miles finds he must fight for his wife Kate (Aisling Bea), his career, and his very identity.
Tell Me Who I Am
When 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up from a coma after surviving a motorcycle accident, the world is not one he remembers. He has forgotten everything. His home. His parents. He can’t even remember his own name. The only thing he does know is that the person sitting next to him is his identical twin brother, Marcus. Alex relies on Marcus to to give him his memory back; to tell him who he is. But the idyllic childhood Marcus paints for his twin conceals a dark family secret. Now, after decades of hiding the painful realities of their past, Alex and Marcus go on a journey together to face the truth and finally discover who Alex really is. Directed by Ed Perkins, TELL ME WHO I AM explores the blurred boundaries of memory and reality, and the emotional bonds that allow us to survive.
Unnatural Selection
New developments in the science of gene-editing signal that society is on the verge of a technological breakthrough that could forever change the future of humans. From disease eradication to trait selection and biohacking, these groundbreaking experiments have inspired fierce debate over the moral, social and environmental implications. Over the course of this provocative four-part limited series, UNNATURAL SELECTION travels around the world to meet the scientists, hackers, critics, ethicists and beneficiaries of the technologies that defy evolution and have the potential to do incredible good and, possibly, irreparable harm.
SOURCE: Netflix Media Center