Etiqueta: Crime
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The Cornelia Weber-Tejedor Saga (Saga Cornelia Weber-Tejedor)
The thrilling cases of the German-Spanish police inspector shake the quiet city of Frankfurt. Cornelia Weber-Tejedor is half German and half Spanish. She is an attractive woman in her thirties. She has a pet raven. A bit hypochondriac and a fan of donuts, her mom’s Galician food, cold beer and and TV shows, she has The…
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The Secret of the Flemish (El secreto de los flamencos)
Two opposite artistic movements will fight at any cost to play a leading role in the world. The Renaissance is undoubtedly a time of artistic brightness. While the masters in Florence control the mathematical secret of perspective, the Flemish artistic school focus on the alchemic mysteries of pigments. In spite of that, the world still…
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Just (Justo) (TV Series / Film)
True justice must be cold, implacable, dispassionate. Until now. True justice must be cold, implacable, dispassionate. Each generation must have thirty six Justs. The Tzadik are anonymous people who, according to the Jewish tradition, keep the balance between Good and Evil on the face of the Earth. 70-year-old Justo Ledesma is one of them.…
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Three Minutes of Color (Tres minutos de color)
Life knows nothing about death. Coque Brox is a police inspector, chief of the Disappearances Group of the Barcelona National Police. It’s been a while now that his life is a disaster. The loss of his seven-year-old son meant the rejection of his family, so now he has to share an apartment with a…
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Shooting Up The Sky (El cielo a tiros)
The children of drug cartels were the real victims. After twelve years without setting foot on his country, Larry goes back to Colombia, for they have found his father’s body in a common grave. His childhood friend, Pedro, picks him up at the airport and takes him directly to the Alborada celebration, a popular festival…
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The Reef (Arrecife) (Serie TV)
Danger is the best aphrodisiac. Climate change empties hotels and money laundering regenerates them as phantom emporiums. At the time of extreme tourism, travelers need other kind of emotions. Former rockstar Mario Müller comes up with a visionary possibility of tourism in the Caribbean: the pleasures of fear. He builds The Pyramid Resort in the…
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Argon’s Shot (El disparo de Argón)
The priority is not to cure, but to sell. Antonio Suárez, fake disciple of the famous Catalan ophthalmologist Barraquer, founds an eye hospital in Mexico. The building aims at improving vision and health. But this ideal happens in a Mexico where organ trafficking is one of the versions of the informal economy. Suárez cannot…
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Gloria Damasco Saga
In her dreams hide the key to solving the case. The Gloria Damasco saga is a faithful tribute to the noir novel; it joins the political and human rights problems of the Chicano sector with the essence of the purest mystery genre. Most of Gloria’s cases happen in the San Francisco Bay Area. We find…
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The Pilgrim’s Codex (El códice del peregrino)
The Apocalypse at a hands reach. Patricia Veri and Diego Martínez are an Argentinian couple of international art traffickers. Jaques Roan, a French billionaire, hires them to steal the Codex Calixtinus from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain; the codex is a 12th century manuscript whose content has always been a motive for…
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Killing Socrates (El asesinato de Sócrates)
He was the wisest man on Earth, but his death would be violent and carried out by the man with the blue gaze. Perseus, a baby with the brightest blue eyes, is born in Sparta and his own father condemns him to death. His mother Deianira tries to end with her abusive husband, but Perseus…
