Subgénero: Historical
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Morgan Papers: Confessions of an Unfaithful Employee (Morgan Papers: Confesiones de un empleado infiel)
The first major case of evasion and money laundering in Argentina is uncovered. Hernán Arbizu, a senior executive of JP Morgan bank, commits a huge scam that comes to light in 2008. In order to avoid extradition to the U.S., he incriminates himself. After confessing to having been involved in eight unlawful money transfers…
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The Austrians Saga (Saga Los Austrias)
The Eagle´s Flight | Time is in your hands Three possible successors to the crown… one single throne. It is the year 1504. The throne of Castile will remain vacant after the death of Isabella the Catholic and its possible successors, hungry for power, will do anything and everything to have it. Juana de…
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The Merchant of Death (El mercader de la muerte)
The luxurious story of the assistant to the leading weapon trafficker in 20th century Europe. Monaco, 1930s. Spanish journalist José Ortega travels to Montecarlo to interview Alfonso XIII and regain his lost prestige in the media. In a country where luxury and excess are found in its every nook and cranny, José Ortega…
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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…
