Horror, psychology and suspense are some of the basic features of these series. If you think you’ve seen the best, in this list you’ll find the most interesting from Netflix that will play with your mind: they will complicate your ability to distinguish reality from fiction and you will be enveloped by an unprecedented dark world, worthy of a marathon.
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1. dark
The story takes place in Winden, a town in Germany, where everyone seems to live peacefully, until two children disappear. The film responds very well to its name, as its chapters tell dark stories, where themes such as disappearances, suicides and murders are key factors in understanding the outcome.
dark it is not an easy series to understand due to the constant time changes — narrated between 1953 and 2019 — and its unexpected characters, who will make you stop and analyze each episode. The German series will premiere its second season next year. Are you ready to enter the dark world of dark🇧🇷
2. Bates Motel
Bates Motel is an adaptation of one of the most studied films by psychology: Psychosis, by Alfred Hitchcock, from 1960. The series tells the story of the unhealthy relationship between the submissive son, Norman Bates, and his possessive mother, Norma Bates. A dark event forces them to move to a town to start over. The Bates buy a motel, where atypical episodes occur throughout the chapters. Norman discovers that he suffers from a mental illness that becomes dangerous for those around him, to the point of committing merciless crimes with a personality created by his mind, while living an ordinary life.
So, are you willing to dive into this story of mental illness and psychoterrorism around the Bates Motel?
3. The Sinner
The Sinner tells the story of Cora Tannetti, a young woman who, after listening to a melody, kills a man by stabbing him in the middle of a beach without justification. After the episode, Cora doesn’t know why she killed him and takes on a legal process in which, little by little, she will discover a dark past that caused her partial memory loss and an outcome that will clarify the episode responsible for her psychogenic amnesia.
4. Maniac
The new Netflix series, scheduled to be released on September 21, bets that the production will make you think more than dark🇧🇷 maniac develops the story of two people who voluntarily went to a clinic to test experiments, where mind games will make it difficult to separate reality from fiction.
5. Mindhunter
The analysis of the psychology of the most atrocious criminals is the starting point of this series. Two FBI agents try to discover a new method to understand the behavior and workings of the killers’ minds, approaching them and putting themselves in danger.
6. Black Mirror
The dark side of technology envelops humanity. A simple story plays with your mind when the erroneous practices of this age, where everything is digitized, turn human beings into dependents on technological devices.
7. The Wood
There is a murderer in the village and everyone is suspicious of everyone else. The disappearance, rape and murder of a teenager in the woods of a quiet town in France has triggered a police investigation to find those responsible. During the investigations, two other girls disappear and, in the midst of despair, everyone wonders: whatwho lives in the woods?
8. The Returned
The fatal traffic accident with a school bus causes the death of a group of children traveling for an excursion. Four years after the event, a family’s lives are brought to a standstill when their daughter, who died in that incident, returns home.
The parents, moved, try to keep what happened a secret, until they discover that several people in the city have returned many years after they were presumed dead. A horror and mystery story that will captivate the audience.
9. The Innocents
Two teenagers in love run away from their homes to live a story together and without the restrictions of their families. But nothing goes as planned, as a dark and dangerous world welcomes them and the girl begins to develop supernatural abilities.
10. Hannibal
In order to stop serial murders, an FBI expert teams up with a psychiatrist to understand the mind and behavior of serial killers🇧🇷 A series that develops clues, mysteries and many criminal acts that reveal the darkest side of the human mind.
Netflix is full of series in which psychology and atypical situations play a key role. Go ahead and watch the episodes and get ready to rack your brains until you discover the truth behind each story.
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