Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- tense
- cerebral
- paranoid
- focused thriller night
- arthouse movie night
What sets it apart
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Roberto Bermúdez moves from legal analysis of a student’s suspected murder to an investigation that dominates his life.
The central investigator is a criminal-law specialist whose suspicions develop through his expertise and teaching environment.
Bermúdez’s conviction centers on Gonzalo Ruiz Cordera, one of his students, making the teacher-student dynamic integral to the conflict.
Bermúdez is convinced of Gonzalo’s culpability, but the investigation’s evidence and conclusions remain contested rather than straightforward.
Films like Thesis on a Homicide, and why
The Secret in Their Eyes
shared crime investigation, intellectual suspense, moral ambiguity, and an obsessive protagonist
The Oxford Murders
shared academic setting, psychological suspicion, and a tense investigation shaped by uncertain evidence
The Vanishing
shared neo-noir atmosphere, criminal obsession, and ambiguity about guilt and interpretation
Movie Details
- Director
- Hernán Goldfrid
- Release Date
- 2013-01-17
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (195)
Cast
- Ricardo Darín
- Alberto Ammann
- Calu Rivero
- Arturo Puig
- Fabián Arenillas
- Mara Bestelli
- Antonio Ugo
- José Luis Mazza
- Natalia Santiago
- Ezequiel de Almeida
Common questions
- What is Thesis on a Homicide about?
- A criminal-law professor’s certainty that a student committed a brutal murder spirals into an obsessive and psychologically destabilizing investigation.
- What is Thesis on a Homicide like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Thesis on a Homicide as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Thesis on a Homicide violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Thesis on a Homicide as moderate.
- Which films are like Thesis on a Homicide?
- Films with a similar feel include The Secret in Their Eyes, The Oxford Murders, and The Vanishing.
- How long is Thesis on a Homicide?
- Thesis on a Homicide runs 106 minutes.
