Subgénero: Mystery
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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,…
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Oh dear (The Mother of dramas) (Madre (el drama padre))
Four twin sisters are going to get married to four twin brothers. Despite rumors arising about them being all siblings, they end up getting married. Little by little new characters appear and we start discovering that no one is the child of whom it seems to be, there is no certainty about any of it. …
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A coming and going husband (Un marido de ida y vuelta)
Pepe and Leticia are married. Pepe realizes that his death is near and makes Paco Yepes, a friend of the family, to promise that he will not marry Leticia if she is a widow, since Pepe knows that Leticia finds Paco charming. The presentiment ends up becoming reality once Pepe is dead: Paco and Leticia…
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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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Blondes are better with potatoes (Como mejor están las rubias es con patatas)
Doctor Ulises has been gone for 15 years, disappeared in the African jungle. Now he has come back to civilization. This situation is complicated for his former wife who has remarried Bernardo. With Ulises’ return, the marriage is invalid. Also, the Doctor seems to have gone crazy after living with the native: he is kind…
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Mr. Garcia’s corpse (El cadáver del señor García)
Abelardo and his fiancée Hortensia toast for their future happy marriage. Mr. Garcia, one of their guests, is desperate and thinks of hiding in the living-room next door to commit suicide. The two lovers, the house-keepers, some friends and neighbors -among which are a coronel, a priest, a Russian and a forensic surgeon- form the…
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Eloísa is under an almond tree (Eloísa está debajo de un almendro)
This story has as its basis 11 main characters. The main theme is articulated by Fernando’s story, the protagonist, who comes back home after his father's death. In a letter his father left, he asks him to solve a crime: the murder of a woman that took place years ago. This takes Fernando to a…
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The honesty of the lock (La honradez de la cerradura)
A bourgeois marriage is visited by The Lady, a lender who asks them to keep some money because she fears that it can be stolen by the maid. The Husband and wife accept, although they are surprised and overwhelmed by the request of the stranger. The next morning, the Lady dies, so the marriage decides…
