These are the Netflix recommendations for this week

If you are among Netflix subscribers, new titles are waiting for you this week, both in series and movies, as well as documentaries, anime and children's. This short guide will help you choose what best suits your preferences.

Hail - Movie, available from March 30

This Argentine production once again brings to the Latin American public the recognizable face of Guillermo Francella (The Clan) to tell a story about the fragility of what is taken for granted and intolerance in times of networks and cancellation. Miguel Flores, a famous television meteorologist, is wrong in the forecast: he fails to prevent a terrible hail storm. He goes from being a beloved figure for the public to becoming the target of the anger of the entire city of Buenos Aires and its surroundings.

He then flees from the great metropolis to take refuge in his homeland, Cordoba, and unwittingly slips into an inner exploration and an adventure of self-knowledge. According to Francela told Infobae, Hail investigates what happens to someone who, through an unfortunate phrase or a poorly made diagnosis, goes from being a hero to a demon.”

The cast is accompanied by Romina Fernandes, Peto Menahem, Laura Fernández, Martín Seefeld, Nicolás Scarpino, Norman Briski, Viviana Saccone, Pompey Audivert and Eugenia Guerty. The direction is by Marcos Carnevale and the script is by Nicolás Giacobone and Fernando Balmayor.

Teen Mom 2 (Teen Mom 2) - Series, seasons 3 and 4 available from March 31

The reality show derived from the MTV hit Pregnant at 16 shows the cast of the previous season facing the difficulties of their new life in charge of children. Focused on four teenagers (Jenelle Evans, Chelsea Houska, Kailyn Lowry and Leah Messer), it recounts the experiences and efforts of the sudden adult life that a baby imposes, promising more family crises and surprising revelations as in the previous episodes of this series developed by Lauren Dolgen.

According to “Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing,” research from the University of Maryland and Wellesley College, the Teen Mom programs have had a positive impact on young women, and had not — as many feared — glamorized the experience of motherhood premature, a serious public health problem throughout Latin America. During the issuance of Pregnant at 16, the birth of teenage babies in the United States fell by 20,000 cases, or 5.7 percent.

In the first place, these shows encouraged searches for information on birth control, data that was shared on social networks. But above all, even though the girls were in the media, it showed that being a teenage parent is not about playing to dress up a baby pretty, but that it is — as The Washington Post summed up — “exhausting, expensive and, without a support system, also very lonely.”

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King) - Documentary film available from March 30

With the mysterious death of Gerry Cotten, CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency investment company QuadrigaCX, during a trip to India, the key under which the USD 250 million in investments of its clients was kept disappeared. Some of them suspect that this is perhaps a clever scam, and that the 30-year-old left the hospital in Jaipur in perfect health and with his funds.

Thus began an investigation that this documentary by British Luke Sewell follows step by step in an exciting true crime, a story that has not yet been closed with certainty. Added to the ever-attractive topic of scams are the dark stories about the cryptocurrency universe, in which rule number one seems to be the title of this investigation: trust no one.

“There were so many different pieces in this story. So many questions”, asks one of the interviewees. Many of them persist after this making of Minnow Films, with executive production by Sophie Jones and Morgan Matthews.

Escape Room: No Exit - movie, available from March 27

This Adam Robitel title, released in 2019, is part of a popular horror franchise. On this occasion, six people, strange to each other, receive mysterious black boxes that offer an experience in the Escape Room, where they will have to overcome different challenges, and whoever succeeds will have won a lot of money. It sounds like fun to them; however, that room will be the last place that many of them will step in life.

The characters represented by Taylor Russell, Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis and Nik Dodani must not only overcome the horrendous conditions of the rooms that touch them, which throw them into their worst nightmares, but also unravel the mystery of psychological horror that they are there for.

800 meters - Documentary series, available from March 25

On August 17, 2017, Younes Abouyaaqoub traveled 800 meters from Las Ramblas in Barcelona with a white van at full speed. The attack left 15 dead and 131 injured. That same day, in Cambrils, another attack was perpetrated. This docuseries by Elias Leon Siminiani attempts to understand the radicalization of the young people who committed the crimes, the later lives of the survivors and the details of the investigation.

The realization began three years after the terrorist attacks and goes far beyond the narrative of events to investigate the motivation of a group of young people willing to kill and die, on the path of radicalization that goes beyond these specific episodes. It also examines another motivation: that of the bereaved and survivors, who must live with the tear and find ways to move forward.

Around 100 journalists and legal investigators worked alongside award-winning director Siminiani, including Anna Teixidor, author of The 17-A Silences, and Nacho Carretero. The production fell to Ramón Campos.

Karate Kid 4: The Next Karate Kid - Movie, available from March 31

In 1994, the very young Hilary Swank (who would later win the Oscar for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby) joined the cast that already featured Pat Morita and Michael Ironside for the return of the master Miyagi who directed Christopher Cain.

The story begins when the master meets the widow of whom his commander was when, during World War II, he served in the United States Army. This is how she meets her granddaughter, Julie, a teenager who — to aggravate the sorrows of that age — has lost her parents in an accident and is bullied by the Alfa Elite group at her school. The teachings of karate will be the path that will allow Julie to find herself.

Thermae Romae Novae - Anime series, available from March 28

The premise of this animated story is as extravagant as it is funny: a Roman architect specializing in bathrooms, Lucius Modestus, faces the difficulties of thinking about innovations that place his work in history. That's where one day, by chance, he discovers a secret tunnel that takes him to modern Japan.

Lucius finds an enormous inspiration — for him, futuristic — that will allow him to leave a unique architectural legacy, while surprising his community with the inventions of contemporary bathrooms. This is how he returns to Rome to create the great spa of the empire.

Voiced by Tenjiro Tsuda as Lucius, Takahiro Sakurai as Yoshida, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Ceionius and Junya Enoki as Markus Annius, this anime series is an adaptation of Mari Yamazaki's manga and follows another appearance of Lucius on the screen: a series of six episodes and one live action series, both of 2012.

Mighty Express: Season 6 - Children's series, available from March 29

This creation by Keith Chapman and Spin Master Entertainment is a Canadian animation and CGI series about a group of precocious children who operate the Tracksville train station, a small town where humans have not lived, let alone adults. Together with the Mighty Express trains, each of which has a task to perform, they all ensure that the town is better every day and that the coexistence between small humans and trains is profitable and peaceful.

The short episodes began airing in September 2020, and in the new season trains and children will redouble their ingenuity to solve new problems as a team. Featuring the voices of Jay Hatton, Zoe Hatz, Meesha Contreras, Dylan Schombing, Tyler Nathan, Leo Orgil, Jon Pardi, Ian Ho, Evan LeFeuvre, Annick Obonsawin and Gracen Daly.

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