Subgénero: Melodrama
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Trío
Trio revolves around the wish of two unemployed actors: they want to stage The poison of theatre (actually, Sirera’s most famous play), despite the author’s opposition, because he cannot stand any more being known exclusively for this piece, and he is fed up with it. This story is a reflection on creativity, fame and the…
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When The Cold Reaches The Heart (Cuando el frío llegue al corazón)
This story of adolescent awakening and the discovery of sex. Recalled from adult memories, takes us to the summer in a city up north. Ludi’s father is in prison because of political issues and women troubles, therefore there is no parental control: summer is his. Ludi will initiate himself in adulthood. A beautiful woman guides him…
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The poison of theatre (El veneno del teatro)
Paris, 1784. Gabriel de Beaumont has been invited to the palace of a famous marquis, an aristocrat known for his eccentricities. Once there, he is requested to perform a play written by the marquis, about Socrates’ death. Soon he discovers everything was a trap. The aristocrat wants to experiment on him the limits between reality…
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Indian Summer
Daniel, a forty-year-old writer with two written novels, has become a Spanish literature doctorate teacher in Chicago. During his stay there, he tries to write a new novel. Loneliness and a strange relationship push him to attempt swapping reality with the fiction in his novel in which he pours his personality and his wishes that,…
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The boat without a fisherman (La barca sin pescador)
How far are you willing to go for money? Ricardo Jordán makes a pact with the devil in order to obtain a lot of money; in exchange, he has to kill someone he does not know, somewhere far away. This could only happen via thought. Two years later, Ricardo starts the quest of his victim’s…
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The House with Seven Balconies (La casa de los siete balcones)
An ode to hope, love, innocence and illusion. The house with seven balconies is a mansion in a small countryside town where the inhabitants go to mass every Sunday. Ramón lives in it. He is a widower, a gambler and a womanizer who spent away the fortune his wife left him. He lives with Genoveva (his…
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The Lady of Dawn (La Dama del Alba)
Set in a rural area, it tells the story of a family in grieve due to the death of Angelica, one of the daughters. The mother has not been able to get over the disappearance of the young girl, and this affects the family’s daily life, the rest of the children, and the grandfather. One…
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Three perfectly married women (Las tres perfectas casadas)
Three happy marriages, whose members, friends of youth, married the same day, celebrated their eighteenth anniversary all together as is their custom, but the absence of the master of ceremonies, a friend common to all of them, clouds the evening and provokes tension. This hardened bachelor has died in an accident and has left the…
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Trees Die Standing Tall (Los árboles mueren de pie)
"Do not see me fall. Dead inside, but standing tall. Like a tree." A married old couple spends their days regretting that their beloved grandson left. Mr. Balboa, in order to help with his wife’s sadness, fakes letters and pretends they are written by their grandson. One day, a real letter saying he is coming…
