Historia de un clan (2015) User Reviews

Netflix's best kept secret

[skyeporcupine · 8/10 · 9 May 2018]

Historia de un clan is a gripping crime drama inspired by true events that took place in Argentina in the 1980s. With hints of Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, Historia de un clan is excellently cast, terrifically written, and beautifully directed. You feel like you're peering into the complicated lives of an extraordinary family, seemingly perfect on the outside, with many dimensions and dark hidden corners.

Great Mini Crime Saga for Single Season Binge Watchers

[micirisi · 7/10 · 18 January 2017]

Many Spoilers. All based on a "true story" which takes place in Argentina during the eighties. English subtitles also for those non Spanish speaking. If the preceding circumstances annoy you, don't watch. The story evolves around a patriarch of Italian descent not quite making it with his corner grocery store. There are debts and a family that desire to be provided. So kidnapping becomes the family business. Some family involved, some not and others looking away. To add to the drama there is a lot of sexual tension with the villain's youngest daughter spicing up every scene. Then another daughter involved in a suspected lesbian relationship with a nun. Argentina's brief answer to the Soprano's.

Spectacular drama

[floatingpolarbear · 10/10 · 16 January 2017]

If I could give more than 10 out of 10 I would. This is film-making at a level that transcends into pure art. Often while watching, one has the feeling of seeing something real and being an invisible observer. One gets to experience that sense of immersion into this particular world which is so intricate and believable. It's entertaining and shocking and disturbing in the sense that the viewer, against oneself, finds oneself agreeing with the miserable philosophies spewed by the patriarch and his entourage. This is due to the film's skill in drawing you into the middle of this family and into their intimate space and need for survival and extension of comforts. Very intelligent and talented people made this.

Incredible Series, Netflix pulled of BIG time!

[wedamnz · 10/10 · 23 June 2018]

From all the series I watched in my life this one definitely tips my top 3.

The story is so well-made it's amazing, there aren't a lot series that get me sucked in to the story but with this one couldn't stop watching. The acting and camerawork is highly professional and so realistic, the fun fact is the big series such as "Shooter" can learn a lot of these actors in my opinion.

I can't really explain in words about how exciting the series was this is a must-watch for everyone. The few reviews on the other hand.. are really depressive because this series deserves so much better!

Watch it, you won't regret it! (:

One of the greatest binge worthy series Netflix has to off

[theamusements · 10/10 · 23 September 2017]

I was presented this show by a friend who loves great slow-burn character shows like True Detective, Breaking Bad. I began watching this and, could not stop watching all 11 episodes. It's just amazing writing, acting, directing, that sucks you in an blows you away.

I am so depressed this series only has 300+ votes. This show is as great as the greatest series on television and anyone who loves binge worth television will love every moment as this intense show.

If you're ever embarassed by your family...just pull this out to watch and you'll feel better

[Michael Fargo · 10/10 · 31 July 2019]

The most original aspect of this series is the family and how perfectly the actors render their, uh, quirks. "Based on real events" is a staggering claim, but here they are the grand and glorious Puccio family who could probably qualify as their own psychological disorder. While the social fabric in Agrentina was strained during the time of the crimes, this bunch brings a whole new meaning to pathology...which is both hair-raising and very, very funny.

Imagine bringing the mark of a kidnapping home, keeping him hostage in a bathroom and believing none of the rest of the family is aware of what's going on. As the criminal syndicate who thought up this disastrous little project gather and regularly march in and out of the house without anyone asking, "What are you doing?" Not since "The Accidental Tourist" have such a family of eccentrics been assembled. Their crimes become legendary.

The style the director chose is straightforward (with magnificent yet unsettling mise-en-scène), you feel like you've never seen anything like it. Gathered for dinner, the family wearing full head masks as the daughters perform a dance that probably will never again find comparison in film. And Cecilia Roth as the mother of this lot, brings such a subtle humor in her performance as the wife who can't sit still or the family won't have clean clothes or food to eat without her efforts (and that's probably true). Once the ransom money starts pouring in, she takes on the role of bourgeoise with great alacrity, hiring a maid/cook/housekeeper so she can shop with the same determination she devoted to caring for her family...yet she's bored with her new found freedom and longs to put the vacuum to use.

At least her daughter has moved on from having a nun (who tap dances) in her bedroom to a "voluptuous" nude for her daily sketches. The shame it brings in her mother's eyes disrupts the moral balance in the family, yet the body tied up in the bathroom seems outside her gaze.

The series becomes darker and darker with each episode as the crimes become more frequent and the family members' tenuous sanity gets buried with each body. But our enjoyment increases with what the producers accomplish: the foolishness and avarice of men...and the blood ties that no one ever seems to think or able to verbalize, "I'm outta here, folks."

Don't miss this. It truly is one of a kind...just like the Puccio's and their "Association" and its exploits.