Subgénero: Historical
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License to spy (Licencia para espiar)
Women who dedicated their life to the dangerous art of espionage. When we think about female spies, Mata Hari and World War I usually come to mind. But the truth is that women have had a much more relevant role in political secrets for much longer in practically every culture there is. In this…
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Hilda Krüger
A complex investigative operation of a Nazi spy in México. Hilda Krüger, an attractive and sophisticated German actress, starred in one of the most extravagant episodes of the mid 20th-century. Admired by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's omnipotent and sinister Minister of Propaganda, she first left for the United States with the apparent intention of continuing…
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The Nazis in México (Los nazis en México)
A distant territory becomes Hitler’s obsession to achieve victory. In the 1930s, Mexico becomes an obsession for Adolf Hitler. The war had not yet begun, but Hitler was convinced that establishing an alliance with this country would be fundamental to his victory. The Nazis in Mexico presents the German attempts to take over Mexican…
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The wars of General Omar Torrijos (Las guerras del general Omar Torrijos)
General Omar Torrijos' legacy. General Omar Torrijos Herrera, a national-progressive dictator, "convicted, sworn and converted", as he defined himself, led the Panamanian nation for ten years. Since the coup d'état that put him in charge on October 11, 1968, his mandate did not cease to be controversial, as he became one of the most…
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The Woman with No Name (La mujer sin nombre)
A writer silenced by History… until now. Stage director Noelia Cid is a hardworking, disciplined, intuitive, and highly organized woman. When she is commissioned to direct Spell, a play by renowned playwright Gregorio Martínez Sierra, she decides to use the documents that his wife María Lejárraga preserved, to conduct the research. Noelia is…
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The School of the Americas (La escuela de las Américas) (TV Series)
The facility that produced murderers. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the U.S. Army's training center founded in 1946. Hidden in plain sight in Columbus, Georgia, it has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America. The purpose of the school is to train military personnel according to the…
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Faster than Life (Más rápida que la vida) (TV Series / Film)
The incredible story of the fastest girl in the world. Dorothy Levitt: The first English woman race car driver and a pioneer of feminism. This is her fascinating life, that of a woman ahead of her time who broke down all prejudices. London, 1903. Dorothy is all over the front pages of English newspapers after…
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The Chauffeur’s Son (El hijo del chófer) (Film/ TV Series)
Arrogant, aggressive, unscrupulous, resentful, manipulative, narcissistic and cynical… Josep Quintà was able to stay afloat during the postwar period thanks to his car. He was one of the few who had one and thanks to it he was able to move around his native Figueres region working as a chauffeur. That's how he…
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The Anatomist (El anatomista) (Film)
Women carry between their legs the keys to heaven and hell. “What every man once dreamed of: the magic key that opens women's hearts, the secret that governs the mysterious desire of female love…” Mateo Colon, an anatomist during the Renaissance, falls prey to an obsession. He falls in love with Mona Sofia, an…
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155, Simon Radowitzky
A fierce struggle for ideals. Simón Radowitzky, a young Ukrainian anarchist, fled in 1908 from Russian repression to take refuge in Argentina. Soon after settling in, Simón assassinated the bloodthirsty Buenos Aires police chief responsible for the massacre of workers known as “La Semana Roja” (Red Week). He served a sentence of 21 years…
