Subgénero: Melodrama
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What mom has left us (Lo que mamá nos ha dejado)
A dysfunctional family comedy. César (50) has raised his three daughters alone and doing the best he could, or better said, as well as circumstances have allowed him to. According to his daughters, he did it horribly. By accident, on a cold January night, the family reunites to catch up after five years…
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Jack, Knight and King (Jota, Caballo y Rey)
A political satire about power, vanity, corruption… and a horse. Set in the Latin American dictatorship landscape of the 50s belonging to tropical tyrants that were corrupt, violent and usually eccentric. With the dictatorial regime of Rojas Pinilla in the Colombia of 1954, this novel is an analysis of power, vanity and corruption with a…
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The Heart Tastes Bitter (Respirar por la herida)
What would you do? Would you seek revenge? Eduardo Quintana's life stopped making sense 12 years ago, when his wife and daughter were killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Since that day, Eduardo decided to go after the driver seeking revenge. Now that Eduardo is out of prison, he lives a tormented life full…
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My Downstairs Neighbor (El vecino de abajo)
“I’ve done so many things for love, but I had the feeling that what I was able to do for hate had no limits”. An anonymous female translator has a quiet and simple life which is suddenly interrupted by the domestic reforms her downstairs neighbor is doing. All those twelve-hour-long noises…
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Beatriz chose not to get married (Beatriz decidió no casarse)
Beatriz dedicated her entire life to fulfill her only dream: to be a successful and recognized writer. At forty-five years, his long hours of work have been rewarded with the Cervantes Prize for Literature, a prize he won after having a life full of nights in solitude with the only company of wine and music.…
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Three (Tres) (Film)
Rocío, Ángela and Carlota have not seen one another in the last twenty years, concretely, since they finished their studies. Having been inseparable friends until that moment, the future took them to different points. Now they have a common certainty: they feel lonesome. In the course of a long night, they try to find…
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Chon Recalde’s wedding (La boda de Chon Recalde)
The Recalde’s sisters, daughters of a ship captain who was executed by firearm because of confronting General Franco, are back home in Villareal de la Mar. There, they will try to adapt to the province life of the postwar. In Villareal, it is more important being the granddaughters of two admirals than the daughter of…
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Without questions (Sin preguntas)
Eight different stories show the abuse of power and violence in very different environments. The protagonists of these stories are victims who are defenseless before those who, theoretically, should protect them and watch over their safety. Medical, police and sexual abuses… Stages like a laboratory, a mental institution, a dark alley or a courtroom in…
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Pakita: Stimulating, bitter and necessary (Sólo para Paquita)
Pakita is the play´s main character. She is abandoned by her husband. The woman suffers this separation since she is madly in love with the man. Finally, Pakita gathers the necessary strength and courage to join a group of lonely people, who were left by their significant others, and who share their stories in order…
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Mom (Mamá)
A woman from the poor Spanish countryside sends her 15-year-old daughter to Argentina during the Peronist years. She wants to save her from her misery and promises her that the whole family will follow her. Something goes wrong though, and no one comes: the girl is left trapped in a hostile country, where she grows up,…
