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The Eternaut (2025)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Deadly snow turns recognisable Buenos Aires streets into hostile territory, while Juan Salvo's group has to think collectively to survive. The 2025 adaptation of Oesterheld and Solano López's Argentine comic is the obvious starting point for a taste for graphic storytelling. Its scale grows from ordinary people, improvised protection and a city suddenly made strange.
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Like Water for Chocolate (2024)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
This 2024 Mexican series makes Tita's cooking an expression of feelings her family will not let her speak. Colour, food and magical exaggeration give inherited rules a physical presence. Choose the series rather than the earlier film for more time inside the household's rivalries and the historical pressures around its romance.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Macondo's houses, weather and impossible events give the Buendía family chronicle a rich visual life. This Colombian adaptation works best if you let names and recurring desires accumulate rather than expecting a brisk central quest. It is a particularly satisfying choice for readers curious about how magical realism survives the move from prose to images.
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3% (2016)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Brazilian Portuguese leads this dystopia about young people competing for entry to an apparently better world. The selection tests keep asking whether talent, obedience and moral worth have been confused on purpose. Pick it for an expandable speculative premise and arguments about inequality, rather than a glamorous escape into its privileged destination.
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Invisible City (2021)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A dead river dolphin on a Rio beach draws an environmental police officer towards figures from Brazilian folklore. The city's hidden supernatural life gives the mystery a visual vocabulary beyond imported demons. It is an appealing route into fantasy where grief and damage to the natural world are part of the same investigation.
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Nobody's Looking (2019)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
A new Brazilian guardian angel discovers that helping people is less straightforward than following the office rulebook. Bright uniforms and bureaucratic routines make the celestial workplace comically tangible. Choose it for the clash between a simple visual concept and increasingly awkward questions about whether anybody in authority knows best.
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Girls from Ipanema (2019)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A deserted wife stays in late-1950s Rio and sets about opening a music club, bringing women's ambitions into conflict with money, marriage and prejudice. Bossa nova and period clothes provide pleasure without removing those obstacles. The Portuguese-language drama suits a mood for friendship and reinvention with a strong sense of design.
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Back to 15 (2022)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Anita's chance to revisit her Brazilian teenage years makes early internet nostalgia part of a time-travel comedy. Changing one embarrassment never quite produces the adult life she imagined. The lighter choice here for viewers who enjoy a colourful premise about identity, friendship and the unwise wish to edit every earlier decision.
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Green Frontier (2019)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A Bogotá detective's murder investigation moves into the Colombian Amazon and unsettles her assumptions about knowledge and history. Forest imagery and a supernatural possibility make the case more than an urban procedural transplanted into trees. Choose it for an eerie, short mystery involving exploitation and competing understandings of the place.
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Eva Lasting (2023)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
A girl arrives at a Colombian boys' school in the 1970s and disturbs its comfortable account of how boys and girls ought to behave. Books, conversation and adolescent posturing give the romance its social texture. A useful choice when you want youthful discovery in a specific earlier world rather than another contemporary campus fantasy.
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A Thousand Fangs (2021)
6.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A Colombian commando mission enters jungle horror, trading the expected action-series certainty for an enemy the soldiers cannot readily understand. The atmosphere and grotesque imagery are the draw. This is the choice for a taste for pulp excess and frightening visual set pieces, with gore and violence fully part of the deal.
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The House of Flowers (2018)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
A Mexican flower-shop dynasty's carefully arranged public image starts to wilt under concealed relationships and competing family interests. The bright design and emphatic performances suit the show's appetite for melodrama. Pick it when you want family secrets delivered with comic extravagance rather than austere realism.
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Club de Cuervos (2015)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Siblings fight over a Mexican football club after their father's death, turning ownership into an argument about gender, entitlement and the family name. Knowledge of league tables is optional; the business and personal manoeuvring supply the comedy. A good alternative to stories in which power is measured only through criminal violence.
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Diablero (2018)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A priest, a demon hunter and their allies search Mexico City's supernatural underworld, where the fantastic rubs against crowded everyday life. The scruffy practical business of dealing with demons gives the show a pleasing comic-book energy. Choose it for monster adventure and local texture rather than sombre supernatural prestige.
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Belascoaran, PI (2022)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Héctor leaves engineering and marriage behind to become a private detective in 1970s Mexico City. Long cases let the city, corruption and his uneasy new identity crowd into the mystery. Its appeal is the eccentric person trying to read the streets, with a playful period look that keeps the investigations from becoming interchangeable.
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The Boss (2022)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Eliseo knows what happens behind the doors of the Buenos Aires building he manages, and makes increasingly calculating use of that knowledge. Guillermo Francella's affable surface is the sharpest weapon in this Argentine dark comedy. A compelling small-scale power story about service work, class and the danger of being underestimated.
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Community Squad (2023)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
A civilian patrol assembled to improve the police's image exposes the gap between public inclusion and the treatment of actual people. This Argentine comedy can become dark and violent, but institutional image-making is its central target. The ensemble's contradictory needs matter more than a simple joke about a diversity initiative.
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Almost Happy (2020)
6.9/10on IMDb
First aired
An Argentine radio host can entertain an audience more easily than he can sort out his attachment to his ex-wife. Awkward conversations and a slightly bruised self-image drive this quieter comedy. Choose it as a break from monsters and grand family sagas, with adult uncertainty handled at the scale of an ordinary day.
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El Reemplazante (2012)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
A former finance executive becomes a mathematics teacher in Santiago, where students' lives resist his tidy assumptions. The Chilean drama makes school a meeting point for class, work and the unequal choices available to young people. A grounded counterweight to the more visually fantastic selections, with students who have concerns beyond improving their teacher.
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Los Espookys (2019)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
Friends turn their love of horror effects into an improbable service business in an unnamed Latin American country. This primarily Spanish-language US comedy, made in Chile, treats homemade spectacle as everyday work. Its deadpan oddness and strange visual detours make it a particularly good choice for someone drawn to inventive, handmade-looking worlds.
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