Subgénero: Mystery
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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…
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The teapot (La tetera)
The calm life of Juan and Julieta, a bourgeois marriage from the countryside, falls apart when the dead body of Alicia’s (Julieta’s sister) boyfriend appears. Juan becomes the prime suspect and Julieta is thought to be his next victim in order to get Alicia’s favors; but a series of characters that will make the plot…
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Miracle in the López household (Milagro en casa de los López)
Mercedes and Jerónimo are a well-off marriage living in a luxurious chalet with their servants, Teresa and Jacinta. They have been living enclosed for ten years, and they hope for something extraordinary to happen in their lives. One day, a young woman appears with the address of the chalet and the personal data of the protagonists. This is the trigger to…
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Carlota
Charlie Barrington is in the street, next to his house, talking with Sgt. Harris, while waiting for the detective Douglas Hilton. They listen Carlota, Charlie's wife, playing the piano in the house. When the detective arrives, they knock on the door, but Carlota's delay in opening worries them, and they force the door open. When they enter, they…
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The case of the murdered woman (El caso de la mujer asesinadita)
Mercedes is a wealthy woman who shares her boring life with her husband Lorenzo and the servants Teresa, Rosaura and Renato, in a villa on the outskirts. One night, Mercedes has a strange dream in which a married couple, accompanied by a Native American, burst into their home claiming that it is their own home,…
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The horrifying secret of Maximo Marville (El espantoso secreto de Máximo Marville)
A deceived husband, who shelters an assassin on his estate, encloses his wife and his mistress with the assassin’s help. The prison he has thought for them are cages of small dimensions. THEMES: Revenge, Conspiracy, Adultery, Infidelity, Deceit, Marriage GENRE: Drama, Suspense, Mystery RELEVANT FACTS: Very interesting short novel that this great author wrote…
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The Saboya Gang (La banda de Saboya)
The story is about a man who had made a deal with a group of evildoers in tails, and now he is obliged to steal, even thou he does not feel any kind of pleasure doing it. The crimes committed by the group will be investigated by a young lady police officer who tries to…
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A Cat With Nine Lives (Las siete vidas del gato)
A woman investigates the murder attempt on a young woman recently married to a man whose family appears to be cursed, since up to seven* women have been murder around that family. A waltz tune and a black cat are always found at the crime scene. *In Spanish, the title and the number of women…
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The Inhabitants of the Uninhabited House (Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada) (TV Movie)
It's harder to face humans than ghosts. On a rainy and cold night Mr. Raimundo and his chauffeur Gregorio have a car breakdown in the middle of a desolate wasteland. The only refuge is a nearby manor house -plagued by strange and ghostly creatures- where inexplicable mysteries take place. A band of counterfeiters and two sisters…
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Thieves are honorable people (Los ladrones somos gente honrada)
The play unfolds around a white-collar robbery in the bourgeois home of recently married Daniel and Herminia. Daniel is a former thief who fell in love with Herminia when preparing to rob her parent’s home. This has made Daniel’s former partners to seek revenge and plan to rob them. Meanwhile, new characters come into play,…
