Subgénero: Historical
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The Lovers Under the Danube (Los amantes bajo el Danubio)
Is there any motive more powerful than love or hate? Budapest, 1944. The war and the Nazi occupation has brought absolute and utter chaos to the European city. Hardship, anguish and persecution reach the lives of Bora, Marga, Andris and Hanna, inhabitants of the city and witnesses of atrocious events. Bora and Hanna…
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A Sensitive Subject (Un asunto sensible)
Three Cuban stories of crime and betrayal. The emotionally thrilling true crime story and its trial that struck the Cuban society and negatively shifted their opinion about the Castro regime. After having recently survived the failed invasion of officer Fulgencio Batista´s Presidential Palace, four children from the Revolutionary Directory were gunned down by the Havana…
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Venice Blue (Azul Venezia)
The music conservatory for girls is being pestered by a cruel murderers´ cult. Venice, 1716. Caterina Sforza, a forensic trainee and daughter of the most prestigious doctor in the city, is a 17-year-old girl with a casual look and incredible beauty. Her life radically changes when she finds the body of a crucified girl on…
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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All for the Homeland (Todo por la patria)
The disappearance of a soccer player who broke the country. Buenos Aires, 1933. Crisis peaks, hopelessness spread, soccer comes to the rescue. But the most expensive and most famous soccer player of his time, Bernabé Ferreyra, has just disappeared. The press speculates that he has gone back to his home town to demand more money…
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Nothing, Nobody (Nada, Nadie)
The voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. After the Mexico City earthquakes of September 19th and 20th, 1985, nothing and nobody would ever be the same again. Panic, desperation, anger, impotence, horror, rescues, solidarity, death, the megalopolis completely destroyed. While a child would get out, unharmed, from under huge debris, somewhere else someone would take…
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Born (Film)
The most expensive ransom in Argentinian history. 14th September 1974. Jorge and Juan Born, heirs and main stockholders of Bunge & Born – the most influential corporation in Argentina during the 20th Century- travel by car when, all of a sudden, a group of Montoneros guerrilla stops the vehicle and kidnaps the brothers. A forced…
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The Bakery of Wonders (El obrador de los prodigios)
A love letter to the legendary bakery and its city, Barcelona. Mateu Serra is a boy who decides to leave his hometown, Lérida, to go in the search of his brothers to Barcelona. He finds one of them, Antón, working in a bakery. Years later, Mateu will start up his own bakery, together with…
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The dressmaker’s son (El hijo de la costurera)
The story of the one and only “couturier”: Balenciaga. . Balenciaga grew up in the Basque Country, at the beginning of 20th century. He was very close to his mother, Martina, recognized dressmaker among the upper classes. The Marchioness of Casa Torres, one of his mother’s main clients, noticed the child had talent when he…
