Tres Caínes (Season 1)

Tres Caínes (2013) is a Colombian drama series you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Carlos Gaviria and Mauricio Cruz, based on the actual case of the Castaño Gil family. The Castaños were prosperous ranchers in rural Colombia. When guerrillas seized and killed their father, the three surviving brothers did not pursue legal remedies.

Fidel, Vicente, and Carlos — played by Julián Román, Elkin Díaz, and Gregorio Pernía — organize their own paramilitary force and go to war with the guerrillas directly. What starts as a family vendetta expands into one of the defining chapters of Colombia's decades-long internal conflict. The series tracks how a shared purpose fractures under the weight of betrayal, methods, and competing ambitions.

Drawn from court transcripts and declassified accounts from the Castaño legal proceedings, the show doesn't tidy things up. Heavy and morally uncomfortable — it asks exactly how much distance separates a self-defense army from the armed groups it claims to oppose. Stream Tres Caínes online on iFILM.