7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Documentary, Crime • 2025 • 89 min • Adults (18+)
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe (2025)
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe (2025)
Overview
In June 2001, hundreds of kilos of cocaine washed ashore in Rabo de Peixe, a small fishing village in the Portuguese Azores. Director João Marques returns to that event through interviews with residents, police, and journalists, tracing how the windfall quietly dismantled the community's social fabric. The Leans Traditional label fits because the film's emotional center is a tight-knit, traditional fishing community whose norms and bonds are visibly eroded by the drug intrusion. There is no political or ideological agenda on display, no LGBTQ or gender themes, and no systemic critique. The story is essentially a cautionary chronicle about how outside disruption unravels a place that had been, for better or worse, holding itself together.
Starring Cast
António Arruda • António Pacheco • Estevão Gago
Where to watch
NetflixRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
In June 2001, hundreds of kilos of cocaine washed ashore in Rabo de Peixe, a small fishing village in the Portuguese Azores. Director João Marques returns to that event through interviews with residents, police, and journalists, tracing how the windfall quietly dismantled the community's social fabric. The Leans Traditional label fits because the film's emotional center is a tight-knit, traditional fishing community whose norms and bonds are visibly eroded by the drug intrusion. There is no political or ideological agenda on display, no LGBTQ or gender themes, and no systemic critique. The story is essentially a cautionary chronicle about how outside disruption unravels a place that had been, for better or worse, holding itself together.
Starring Cast
António Arruda • António Pacheco • Estevão Gago
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The documentary delivers a factual chronicle of drug-related social breakdown centered on individual choices and their fallout, with no endorsement of systemic ideological critiques or partisan solutions.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
João Marques draws on direct access to Rabo de Peixe villagers for this documentary cataloging the 2001 cocaine incident's effects. The central question posed is how sudden exposure to narcotics reshaped a traditional Portuguese fishing community's social fabric. Representation relies on local Portuguese subjects without recasting or swaps. The framing presents community members and authorities neutrally.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The documentary presents the drug discovery's disruption of village social fabric through resident testimonies without examining or taking positions on family structures, roles, or values.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary contains no depiction of LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
No transgender characters or themes appear. The documentary examines the effects of a 2001 cocaine discovery on villagers and authorities in Rabo de Peixe.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
João Marques's documentary draws on direct access to Rabo de Peixe villagers, police, and witnesses recounting the 2001 events. It poses how the cocaine discovery transformed the community. No historical figures or legacy characters are recast with altered genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
This documentary examines real 2001 events in the Portuguese Azorean village of Rabo de Peixe, drawing on interviews with local residents, police, and journalists. No fictional source material, legacy characters, or historical figures are adapted or recast.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
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