Director: Luis Estrada
Cast: Arcelia Ramírez, Paulina Gaitán, Joaquín Cosío, Mauricio Isaac, Alfonso Herrera
The Dead Girls is a 2025 Mexican crime-thriller series directed by Luis Estrada, based on the true story of the Baladro sisters — known as Las Poquianchis — who constructed a criminal empire in mid-twentieth-century Mexico and whose crimes shocked a nation.
What is The Dead Girls about?
In rural Mexico during the 1960s, three sisters rise from poverty to run an operation that begins as a brothel and escalates into something far darker. The series reconstructs how the Baladro women built a network of control, exploitation, and violence across provincial Mexico, drawing on historical records and survivor testimony. Each episode moves between the sisters' chilling calculation and the lives of those caught in their orbit — women, families, and communities unable to escape their reach. Estrada's approach treats the case as biography rather than sensationalism, keeping the focus on the institutional failures and social conditions that allowed the Baladros to operate for years before justice caught up with them.
Cast & crew
Director Luis Estrada, known for sharp political and social filmmaking in Mexico, brings documentary discipline to this dramatization. Arcelia Ramírez leads the ensemble in a role demanding restraint and menace in equal measure. Paulina Gaitán, Joaquín Cosío, and Alfonso Herrera round out a cast drawn from Mexico's most acclaimed screen talent, each grounding their character in the historical record.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers, The Dead Girls offers a window into a true-crime story largely unknown outside Latin America — a case that exposes how patriarchal social structures and corrupt institutions can enable prolonged violence against women. The themes of complicity, silence, and institutional failure resonate broadly across cultures. The series is available on K-Time with full Persian dubbing, meaning viewers can follow every detail in their own language without missing the nuanced performances. It sits firmly in the tradition of prestige Latin crime drama that has built a global audience over the past decade.
Where & how to watch
The Dead Girls is available on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Stream directly on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Cancel anytime.