Etiqueta: Marriage
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Life on a thread (La vida en un hilo)
Mercedes has just become a widow after Ramón’s death, with who she had been very unhappy. One day on a train, she encounters a fortune-teller. She reminds her that once she could have chosen another man and shows her how her life would have been if she had chosen that man. Is she still in time…
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The arrival of the barbarians (La llegada de los bárbaros)
A security guard finds a man sitting on a bench on the street. The guard must prevent anyone from sitting there, but the man who is sat there is a Latin professor who has lost his job, wife and house, and considers that bench where he is resting the only thing he has in his…
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Odds and Nines que (Pares y Nines)
Federico, computer technician, and Roberto, high school teacher, are friends and share a flat, a past and a complicated present. Both were married to Carmela, and now both fight for the same woman: Nines, their neighbor. This situation leads to a series of misunderstandings that complicate the plot, treated with great sense of humor. THEMES: Friendship,…
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Tell them with Valium (Dígaselo con Valium)
A young marriage, who represent social success, has its monotony broken when two peculiar and crazy women who broke out from jail appear in front of them. Victims of domestic violence, they have decided to become the persecutors. THEMES: Social Climbing, Marriage, Prison, Revenge, Domestic Abuse, Mental Illness GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: The author…
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Mum Steals Our Boyfriends (Mamá nos quita los novios) (Film)(TV Series)
Mrs. Robinson is back and this time she's staying This familiar comedy introduces us into the day-to-day life of a peculiar family. Amadora is a widow, very beautiful and mother of three young people, who are already of age of marriage: Julio, Luisa Rosa and Cristina. They are a well-placed family, so the three brothers…
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Sabela of Cambados (Sabela de cambados)
Summer break is over and Eduardo, son of the Marquis of Soñeiro, goes back to Santiago de Compostela to resume his studies. Back in his family residence, he is waived goodbye by Sabela, his mother, and Tonucha, an orphan picked up by the family with whom Eduardo has planned to marry once he finishes his…
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The wedding was at twelve (La boda era a las doce)
Alicia, the owner of a perfumery, dresses up as a servant to get revenge on Ricardo, a cinema actor, who paid no attention to her after receiving by mistake the picture of the ugly Matilde, who actually works for Alicia. The actor is about to marry a singer and Alicia manages to interpose herself in…
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The pretty mother (La madre guapa)
Elena is a mature woman, widow and mother of grown up children, but she is still strikingly beautiful. Her children are against her plans of marrying a man she loved when she was young, to whom she is united by something that has been kept a secret for many years. THEMES: Love, Dysfunctional family, Generation Gap,…
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The papiruse (La papirusa)
A man emigrates to Cuba with the intention of building up a fortune. Thanks to his adventurous spirit, he manages to buy a cigarette factory. Having gained success in his business, he thinks of marrying his daughter to the heir of an impoverished noble family. THEMES: Immigration, Economic Crisis, Integration, Social Climbing, Travel, Overcoming, Family, Business,…
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Chiruca Bilogy
A love between two worlds Chiruca works as a maid for the important Valdoviño ducal family formed by the Duchess, her oldest son and her grandchild, the youngest of the Valdoviño's, whose parents died and lives in America. One day, the administrator announces that the family’s wealth is in jeopardy and, facing the imminent ruin,…
