Etiqueta: Investigation
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Strokes of Light (Golpes de luz)
Endearing and wild. Julia is a journalist in her forties who decides to move with her son Sebas to her hometown in Galicia. She takes advantage of the trip to take care of her mother, give herself time after the recent breakup with her husband and work on a report about heroin trafficking.…
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The Darkness Inside Me (Lo oscuro que hay en mí)
His inheritance is an enigma that he will be forced to discover. Buenos Aires, late nineties. Luis is a city employee who enjoys his routine, both at work, which does not demand too much of him, and in his marriage. Luis suffers from a disorder he calls "flattening", in which he lapses into a sudden…
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HDP
When ambition knows no boundaries, and money is religion. HDP are the initials of Hugo David Prado, owner of Grupo Alfa, the largest business conglomerate in the country. As owner of more than one hundred companies, a bank and a television network, for this tycoon his religion is money. When a global pandemic hits…
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The Millionaires of War (Los millonarios de la guerra)
To make millions you don't need to win the war. December of 2006, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs, an era of blood and fire that has left hundreds of thousands dead. However, a handful of businessmen, some associated with former Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, used this crisis to…
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I Can’t Hear the Children Play (No oigo a los niños jugar)
The silence is deafening. After a tragic, life-altering accident, 17-year-old Alma isn’t sure she can cope with her new, cruel reality. After the loss of her parents, she suffers post-traumatic shock, which leads her to attempt to take her own life. Her attempt is unsuccessful, and she is immediately checked in to a clinic…
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The Chasers Saga (Saga Los Rastreadores)
The Secret City | The Hidden Power Other invisible cities exist within the city of Madrid. The Mopa clan, a gang of seven-centimeter anthropomorphic creatures called chasers, has lived hidden for decades on the rooftop of a department store in downtown Madrid. They steal food from the supermarket, play in the aisles at midnight and have fun scaring customers.?However, they have to stay hidden, because if humans see them, they would be instantly turned into salt. Sasa is a young thirteen-year-old clan creature who has never been outdoors. She hopes to soon pass the Test that will allow her to become an explorer in order to fulfill her…
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No Corpses (Sin cadáver) (TV Series)
The dead that don’t exist. No confession, no witnesses, no dead bodies, no biological remains, yet a conviction. This is the real case of Ramon Laso, a Spanish serial killer convicted in 1993 for the murders of his first wife and six-year-old son, and in 2014 for the murders of his second wife…
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Crime is Spelled with an A (Crimen se escribe con A)
Three dates, three alibis, one murderer. Rebeca Sanz is murdered in her home. Just before she takes her last breath, she manages to write her killer's name in her own blood, but when she is found, only the initial A remains. In the days prior, she had met three men through a dating service…
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Favaloro: The Great Operator (Favaloro: El gran operador)
The Argentine doctor who transformed and democratized surgery worldwide. René Favaloro is the most transcendental Argentinean doctor of the 20th century for his contribution to humanity and the lives that have been saved as a result of the surgical procedure he systematized in 1967; a procedure that would transform world medicine forever with his bypass technique. This is a journey through his life, from his origins, his training, his influences and his experiences that shows the process that delineated his way of thinking and understanding the country where he lived. It is a journey through the ups and downs that marked the life of the heart surgeon committed to guaranteeing access to highly complex medical procedures even for those who could not afford it. Since his arrival to his country of origin (Italy) to the tragic afternoon of his suicide. Along the way, he deals with his childhood; the fanaticism he inherited from his uncle for gymnastics; his time at the Rafael Hernández National School, where he received a humanistic education from teachers such as the essayist Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña or the art critic Jorge Romero Brest; or at the University of La Plata in Argentina. There was also his ideological distance from Peronism; his time as a rural doctor in the Argentiean town of Jacinto Arauz; his settlement in the United States, where he perfected his skills as a surgeon specializing in coronary diseases at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic and established the definitive procedure for the coronary bypass, which since 1968 has saved millions of lives around the world. And, of course, his return to Argentina, where he created the foundation that bears his name and from which he tried to provide high quality medicine for all. Like no other figure in the medical field in Argentina, the surgeon René Gerónimo Favaloro managed to exceed his academic prestige to become a public figure of the highest profile and an ethical reference for millions of people. RELEVANT DATA: Pablo Morosi, a researcher and author of Favaloro. The Great Operator, spent two years conducting an in-depth research and more than 140 interviews that immersed him in the world of one of the most important doctors in the history of Argentina. What the critics have said: “A complete, detailed…
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Mona Carmona and the Enigma of the Sagrada Familia Basilica (Mona Carmona y el enigma de la Sagrada Familia)
The great Basilica contains a great treasure that only a great detective will be able to discover. Mona, a precocious and brilliant thirteen-year-old Mexican teenager, is an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and any type of story that challenges her intellect and confronts her with a powerful enigma. She has always wanted to…
