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Netflix is one of the most popular streaming services, and its influence continues. Although its original titles haven't always won the hearts of the critics, they have attracted millions of views on the platform.

The streamer has released many popular titles in the last few months, and many of them jumped on its prestigious "Most Popular" list. Now, it's Counterattack's turn, its new addition to the military-action genre. The Mexican action thriller is the latest title to join Netflix's Most Popular Movies in Non-English, per Tudum.

Counterattack, or Contraataque in Spanish, premiered on Netflix on Mar. 4. The action thriller was a massive success in its first week between Mar. 3 and 9, debuting at the top of the global charts for Movies in a foreign language with 22.1 million views and 31.3 million hours viewed.

Its reign continued, and during the week between Mar. 31 to Apr. 6, Counterattack already joined Netflix's Most Popular Non-English...

Netflix's Counterattack is headlined by a star-studded Spanish cast led by the likes of Luis Alberti, Leonardo Alonso, and Noe Hernandez. 

The Spanish action thriller follows the story of Captain Guerrero and his group of Special Forces operatives who unearth a dangerous conspiracy after making an enemy out of a ruthless drug trafficker in Mexico. 

Directed by Chava Chartas, Counterattack (alternatively titled as Contraataque) premiered on Netflix on February 28. 

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Netflix continues to bring audiences action movie delights from all over the globe with Counterstrike (Aka Contraataque). Helmed by Mexican filmmaker Chava Cartas, the film is delivering on its promise to bring all the explosions a fan of the genre could possibly want. Having landed on the platform on Friday, the film has jumped straight in at number two on the streamer's chart.

Chava Cartas is best known for the action seriesRosario Tijeras, and written by Jose Ruben Escalante Mendez. Counterstrike stars Luis Alberti, Noé Hernández, Luis Curiel, Leonardo Alonso, David Calderón, Guillermo Nava, Israel Islas, Mayra Batalla, Ishbel Bautista, Frida Jiser. You can check out the official synopsis for the action outing below.

“When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a criminal group.”

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Netflix continues to bring audiences action movie delights from all over the globe, with the new trailer for Counterstrike (Aka Contraataque), helmed by Mexican filmmaker Chava Cartas, promising to deliver all the explosions a fan of the genre could possibly want. The footage reveals our first look at the action thriller, which boasts a gripping synopsis, as a group five friends find themselves doing battle with a merciless cartel. You can check out the trailer for Counterstrike below.

Directed by Chava Cartas, best known for the action seriesRosario Tijeras, and written by Jose Ruben Escalante Mendez, Counterstrike stars Luis Alberti, Noé Hernández, Luis Curiel, Leonardo Alonso, David Calderón, Guillermo Nava, Israel Islas, Mayra Batalla, Ishbel Bautista, Frida Jiser and is due to hit Netflix later this month on February 28, 2025. You can check out the official synopsis for the action outing below.

“When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy,...

"I want each and every one of them torn to shreds!" Not if they take you out first. Netflix has revealed an official trailer for an intense action thriller movie called Counterstrike, made by the Mexican filmmaker Chava Cartas. This is set for a streaming debut on Netflix starting at the end of this month. When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a ruthless drug cartel. While there have been a few other movies titled Counterstrike before (like this one), this new movie reminds me of the popular video game Counter-Strike made by Valve. With a similar concept about a group of five elite soldiers (basically a group of players hanging out & working together on the same team?) outsmarting the dangerous cartel and taking out the bad guys. Starring Luis Alberti, Noé Hernández, Mayra Batalla, Leonardo Alonso,...

This piece was originally posted in 2022. We have updated the “Where to Watch” section for each film.

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Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. To celebrate, we got to thinking about some of our favorite Indies from the Hispanic world. These stories are narrative and documentary, drama and comedy, and are both harrowing and heartfelt. A little of everything, and plenty to add to your watchlist.

Prayers For The Stolen (2021)

Writer/Director: Tatiana Huezo

Producers: Nicolás Celis, Jim Stark

Starring: Guillermo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Eileen Yañez, Alejandra Camacho

Synopsis: In a solitary town nestled in the Mexican mountains, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground. Ana and her two best friends take over the houses of those who have fled,...

The Last Wagon is a Mexican movie directed by Ernesto Contreras and starring Adriana Barraza and Guillermo Villegas.

This movie is all about education and the importance of being a dedicated teacher. It’s the kind of film that has a strong message to teach us and inspire us to learn. If you’re someone who enjoys learning life lessons and exploring themes of compassion, fairness, and the goodness of people, then you’ll definitely want to check this movie out.

About the film

This film is technically well-made, but it doesn’t focus on displaying its technical virtues. Instead, it aims to teach us about life and evoke a range of emotions. It pays tribute to teachers and uses melodrama to achieve its goals.

Although this may not appeal to everyone, the film has a good screenplay and takes us on an interesting journey of discovery. The attention to...

Though in production since March, Alejandro G. (née González) Iñárritu’s Limbo—his first feature since 2015’s The Revenant—has moved along rather quietly, its biggest known details the presence of Daniel Giménez Cacho (Zama) and Griselda Siciliani, as well as the great Darius Khondji assuming Dp duties and the addition of Roma‘s production designer Eugenio Caballero. Otherwise, something about “the political and social modernity of Mexico,” a claim that leaves us intrigued if not, well, advised. And while it would hardly be a shame to go between now and its likely 2022 premiere sans further info, a report from Mexican outlet El Universal has our attention.

From their reporting comes word Limbo concerns the Mexican-American War, production having constructed an exact replica of the Chapultepec Castle—site for the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec, a turning point wherein thousands of Mexican soldiers were slain. (Peep their site for a set photo...

We’ve all heard the warning, “If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.” Well, that’s nothing compared to the consequences if you steal gasoline straight from the source — an extremely high-risk practice now on the rise in Mexico, where the combustibility of extracting raw fuel from open fields is amplified by the dangers of dealing with the cartels who control this emerging black market.

However volatile, these activities have become widespread enough that the locals now have a word for such outlaws: “Huachicolero” — the original Spanish-language title of director Edgar Nito’s attention-grabbing, ignition-ready debut, “The Gasoline Thieves,” which earned its talented helmer the “best new narrative filmmaker” title at the Tribeca Film Festival. For complicated reasons, Mexican crime stories generally don’t translate well across borders: Those that play well at home tend to feel exaggerated and over-the-top compared to the cold-blooded ruthlessness of movies like “Sicario,...

Five competition sections drew 42% female, 40% non-white directors.

Becks (pictured) directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell won the U.S. Fiction Award. Lena Hall and Mena Suvari star in the drama about a singer-songwriter who moves in with her ultra-Catholic mother after a break-up and strikes up an unexpected friendship with the wife of an old nemesis.

Mexico’s The Night Guard (El Vigilante) by Diego Ros earned the World Fiction Award and tells of a security guard who becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a crime at the construction site he is paid to patrol. Leonardo Alonso, Ari Gallegos,...

Exclusive: Amp International handles sales on Edgar Nito co-production.

Shoot is underway in the outskirts of Irapuato, Mexico, on crime drama Guachicolero, the debut feature of shorts director Edgar Nito.

Nito and Alfredo Mendoza’s script tracks the corruption and downfall of a young man who teams up with local gangsters making a living extracting gasoline from government pipelines.

Joshua Sobel (Are We Not Cats), Annick Mahnert (78/52) and Victor Léycegui (En La Sangre) will serve as producers on the co-production between Mexico, Us, UK and France.

The film is executive produced by Bob Portal, Sonia Lowe and Inderpal Singh of Alliance Media Partners who will handle world sales under the Amp International banner.

Eduardo Banda will star (pictured with Nito) supported by Fernando Becerril (The Mask of Zorro), Regina Reynoso (While the Wolf’s Away), Leonardo Alonso (Sin Nombre) and Pascacio Lopez (On Childhood).

“Nito is endowed with that rare formula of artistic flair, edge and talent...

A single night in the life of a security guard on a mountainside construction site becomes a dark night of the soul for its hapless hero in The Night Guard, the striking helming debut from former film editor Diego Ros. Combining a nicely impassive, almost at-times comic performance from Leonardo Alonso as the titular hero — a good man in a bad, bad world — with thriller elements and a constant, air of quiet menace, Night Guard is a wonderfully atmospheric, slightly off-kilter piece through which evil gently and troublingly pulsates, as well as being a solid calling card from...

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