Etiqueta: Crime
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Maror: the rules of gender (Maror: las reglas del género)
The romantic novel becomes a crime novel It's winter and in an isolated summer sea house some family members get together to spend a few days: Isabel, famous best-selling fiction author, her husband, Pablo; their daughter, Esperanza, and Pilar, Isabel’s sister. The breaking news is that the protagonist wants to abandon her career as a…
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Adventure in the grey (Aventura en lo gris)
After the war, a group of political refugees (Goldmann, Silvano, Ana, Isabel, Carlos, a peasant…) escapes from an imaginary country called Surelia. While staying in a hostel, Isabel is murdered while the rest of the group is sleeping. From this moment on, reality and dreams mix up. In an oneiric dimension where all of them…
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Three diamonds and one woman (Tres diamantes y una mujer)
Diamond is not a woman's best friend A family of thieves is planning to rob some famous diamonds from a renowned noble family. The robbery is planned to the last millimeter. The occasion: the night of a huge party organized by the family. However, in the course of the robbery, one of the thief family…
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Benedicat
Written by Josep Lluís and Rodolf Sirera, Benedicat is set in two historical moments and in two different places: Croatia’s Kingdom in the 40's (then a puppet regime for Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany), and Italy in the 70’s. In the first of the periods we will attend to the triumph of Croatian Utasas’ fanaticism, which will…
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The poison of theatre (El veneno del teatro)
Paris, 1784. Gabriel de Beaumont has been invited to the palace of a famous marquis, an aristocrat known for his eccentricities. Once there, he is requested to perform a play written by the marquis, about Socrates’ death. Soon he discovers everything was a trap. The aristocrat wants to experiment on him the limits between reality…
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The boat without a fisherman (La barca sin pescador)
How far are you willing to go for money? Ricardo Jordán makes a pact with the devil in order to obtain a lot of money; in exchange, he has to kill someone he does not know, somewhere far away. This could only happen via thought. Two years later, Ricardo starts the quest of his victim’s…
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The key in the attic (La llave en el desván)
A Premonitory Nightmare Mario is a scientist who is absolutely ruined because they have stolen the formula of his big discovery. Besides, he has not overcome the death of his parents, even when he was a child when it happened. To make matters worse, his wife has left with her lover, Alfredo, the same person…
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The decent woman (La decente)
Nuria and Roberto met in aircraft accident. Saved by the rescue forces, each one departs to their own destiny, but over time they meet again. In a visit to Roberto, Nuria explains that she loves him, but since she is very decent and married, this love is impossible, unless her husband dies – which is…
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Jack, The Ripper (Jack, el destripador)
A police officer seems to be unable to catch the culprit from his murder investigation despite having been able to do so several times. His police work will become hindered by the pressure exerted by his chiefs. THEMES: Murder, Investigation GENRE: Drama, Crime RELEVANT FACTS: One of the author’s most popular short novels…
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Carlota
Charlie Barrington is in the street, next to his house, talking with Sgt. Harris, while waiting for the detective Douglas Hilton. They listen Carlota, Charlie's wife, playing the piano in the house. When the detective arrives, they knock on the door, but Carlota's delay in opening worries them, and they force the door open. When they enter, they…
