El perro del Hortelano

“The orchard keeper’s dog” is a peculiar “court comedy”. Diana, the Duchess of Belfor and leading character, is an attractive, imaginative and sharp-witted  young woman, who deviates from the ideal female comedy archetype: the submissive and docile lady. Diana falls in love with her secretary, Teodoro (Carmelo Gómez), who is engaged to Marcela (Ana Duato), one [...]

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Tu nombre envenena mis sueños

Angel Barciela (Carmelo Gómez) y Francisco Valduque (Ángel de Andrés) meet again after a long time at the funeral of engineer Buendía. They both expect to meet Julia (Emma Suárez), Buendía’s daughter and principal suspect of the criminal investigation, there. Barciela met Julia for the first time years before, in the course of the criminal investigation of a [...]

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El pájaro de la felicidad

Carmen, a strong and attractive woman in her late 40′s, goes to dinner at his son’s. It is not a warm evening, as he reproaches her conduct towards him since he was a child. In her way back home , when Carmen is about to get in her car, she suffers an humiliating attack at the hands of [...]

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Beltenebros

1962, a Winter’s Night. Captain Darman (Terence Stamp) accompanied by Rebecca (Patsy Kensit), recall recent developments on the train that takes them to Lisbon . A few days before in England they had been given a secret mission: to fly to Madrid and to execute a traitor infiltrated the clandestine apparatus of the Party. Darman recalled [...]

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Hablamos esta noche

The Nuclear Power Plant in Zapater is about to open. Víctor is a nuclear engineer who works there and who, besides the usual problems and the stress generated by the inauguration, has to deal with a difficult family situation: a failed marriage, a teenager son, a current unsatisfactory sentimental relationship and the appearance of a new woman. [...]

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El crimen de Cuenca

In 1913, two men, friends and neighbours of Osa de la Vega (Cuenca), are arrested for the murder of a colleague, the town shepherd. The town authorities accuse them. They confess and are convicted, and go to court in 1918 in the Provincial Audience of Cuenca, who, after modifying the laws concerning capital punishment, condemn them to 18 years [...]

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