El marginal
Created by Sebastián Ortega, Adrián Caetano
On Televisión Pública Argentina, Netflix
A brutal, sustained prison thriller that follows an undercover cop into a violent criminal underworld, maintaining high tension and graphic brutality across its entire run.
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
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