Subgénero: Crime
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Niños de tiza
Roberto Esteban goes back to the neighbourhood where he spent his childhood and his memories are activated: street games, lost friends, coloured chicks, the urban legend on the Black Hand, and that old impossible love, Lola. Above all of them, there is still another memory: that on Gema “The mermaid”, a disabled girl who drowned…
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Spanish Texas
J., a Spanish detective, and a drunk and a complete loser, combination of Pepe Carballo and Torrente, investigates the death in strange circumstances of a woman on the other side of the Atlantic. He discovers that she was Laura Buendía, a scriptwriter who was preparing a documentary about the Spanish occupation of Texas. ¿Whom could…
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The Network (La Red)
PITCH: During the last months, in Spain, a high number of cases of kidnaps and hostages perpetrated by mobs from the East of Europe and Latin America, are becoming the center of the mass media. “Group Express”, led by Francisco Javier Tortosa, it´s an elite group (7 members from different nationalities that proceed from the…
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The Dean’s death (La muerte del decano)
When the habitual suspect is the victim The Dean of the Faculty of Arts just died in unclear circumstances. All the evidence surrounding the event suggests that it is a murder, and the principal suspect is a disciple and colleague of the professor. The cause of the crime seems to be passionate. Supposedly the dean was…
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The price of land (Tierra de por medio)
The play is about a police investigation that begins with the death of a Moroccan man that lived and worked in Spain illegally. He is found dead in the construction site of the new apartments he was working in. The construction work does not stop, a fact that leaves some questions hanging: What are the…
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Elite Police Unit (GEO) – Original Project
The G.E.O. is the Elite Unit of the Spanish police. A special group of operations that only the best agents can access to after having passed a very difficult test. Elite Police Unit is about this team whose job is to do what no one else can do. Counter-terrorism, anti-drug, aerial abductions… sixty minutes in…
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Sherlock Holmes, the Newest Adventures (Las Novísimas Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes) – Original Project
According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes died in Niagara Falls during his confrontation with Doctor Moriarty. According to Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Holmes survived the waterfalls, retired, got tired of retirement, and now investigates cases in London with Jardiel himself as an assistant. Sherlock Holmes, The Newest Adventures is a sitcom…
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The horrendous crime in Peñaranda del Campo (El horroroso crimen de Peñaranda del Campo)
A young girl disappears. Canelo, a young boy, declares he killed her and carved her up. When the trial arrives, the play takes the form of a farce: surrounded by surreal events, the executioner resigns. Unexpectedly, the victim appears in Portugal. THEMES: Society, Murder, Investigation, Prison, Misunderstandings GENRE: Drama, Suspense, Crime, Psychological, Horror RELEVANT FACTS:…
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Before dawn (Madrugada)
After her husband’s death, Amalia starts asking herself about the mysterious suffering and hiding attitudes he had months before dying. In order to find an answer to these questions, she gathers in the house all of Mauricio’s friends and family. They answer one by one that they defamed her in front of her husband. Finally,…
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Judges in the night (Jueces en la noche)
Juan Luis Palacios was a minister during the Franco Regime but has known how to adapt in the democratic era, turning into a respectable member of the Parliament, married to Julia. However, the phantom of the past atrocities is always around and his marriage is in crisis. In this context, Juan Luis discovers that Ginés Pardo,…
