Josep Maria Pou
Also Known As: José María Pou, José M.ª Pou, Jose Mª Pou, Josep M. Pou
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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The Carrot Queen
Overview: Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Close Your Eyes
Overview: Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-08-16
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The Sea Inside
Overview: Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Barcelona (A Map)
Overview: Six characters, contemporary archetypes of urban solitude, meet in an old apartment located in the city centre of Barcelona. An elderly married couple, her brother and three tenants: a blonde woman who gives French classes, a young security guard, an ex-football player and a young, pregnant South American girl. The old man, who was formerly a doorman at the opera and who likes to dress up in women's clothes, gets them all together and asks them to leave as he is going to die and wants to be alone for the last stage of his life. In this flat, incest, homosexuality and adultery are intertwined in the life of these characters whilst we simultaneously witness the passing of time in this Mediterranean city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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Beneath Still Waters
Overview: Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-02
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Beloved/Friend
Overview: Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" by Ramon Llull. Feeling near death as a result of illness, he discovers that the ideal person is a young and intelligent student he is in love with and who is dedicated to male prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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A Real Friend
Overview: Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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The Hands
Overview: The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-10
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Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Escape
Overview: A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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A Time for Defiance
Overview: After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Gran Slalom
Overview: A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles happen. Things get complicated as he must dress as a woman to avoid being surprised.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-23
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Blancanieves
Overview: A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Stained-Glass Windows
Overview: The filmmaker visits the house of his ancestors with the invocation of family photographs and the voice of his parents. A journey into memory through everyday objects and spaces which seem to remain untouched by the passage of time.
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Original Language: ca
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El crimen del cine Oriente
Overview: Valencia, Spain, in the early 1950s. Salvador and María, two unfortunate people, meet by chance when she takes shelter from the rain at the Oriente Cinema, where he works as a manager.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-05-15
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Sévigné
Overview: Two friends begin a lesbian relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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Subjúdice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Màscares
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Goya in Bordeaux
Overview: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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Dying Beyond Their Means
Overview: Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Concha Velasco: memoria viva
Overview: Spanish actress Concha Velasco shares with actor Josep Maria Pou her many memories, the fruit of a long artistic career, both in film and on stage.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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The Food
Overview: In this black comedy about a man in a surreal restaurant somewhere up in the mountains, where Papandreu the chef makes him enjoy his best dishes.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-13
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Dual
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-21
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El gabinete del doctor Armengot
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-28
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Stories from the Kronen
Overview: Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Adolescencia
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Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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The Most Beautiful Night
Overview: Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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Proyecto Dos
Overview: When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, scientist Diego Durand realises that the flashes of déjà vu that torment him are part of a sinister secret past that he must uncover.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Overview: Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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Tot assajant Flotats
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2024-05-28
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The Butterfly Effect
Overview: Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-12-20
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Abracadabra
Overview: A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Boy Missing
Overview: When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-19
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El Tránsfuga
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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Star Knight
Overview: A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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The Stolen Years
Overview: Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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La espada negra
Overview: Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-02
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The Laws of Thermodynamics
Overview: Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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El complot dels anells
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Overview: May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-05-24
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El sueño
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Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-05-22
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Semiosis
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-06-19
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Regalo de Navidad
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Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-07
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La bañera
Overview: A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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The Realm
Overview: Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Miss Dalí
Overview: Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy the great progressive atmosphere of republican Spain, fraternizing with great creators, García Lorca, Buñuel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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The Tree of Blood
Overview: Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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Pepe Guindo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-20
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Warsaw Bridge
Overview: A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another, but he is unable to come up with a synthesis of the plot of his book. They will simply have to read it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Els papers d’Aspern
Overview: In this free adaptation of the Henry James novel set in the early 19th century, a writer/critic dedicated to the life of poet Jeffrey Aspern, receives a mission in London. He is to sail to the Balearic Islands, the only place any information about Aspern may possibly be found. Unpublished texts by the poet are thought to be there; in the hands of an excentric old lady and her supposed niece, who live as recluses in an old palace on a remote small island off one of the Baleares. In his search, the writer becomes involved in their lives, while trying to obtain untangle the web of mysteries surrounding Alpern, his last work, and his relationship to these two women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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Oh, quina joia!
Overview: Berenguer wants to be an actor. He fights with all his strength, but it’s not an easy profession for youngsters. His grandfather, an authoritarian patriarch, is against Berenguer's "misguided passion": he only enjoys bringing home young mulato girls. An accident will knock him down. In Los Angeles, Berenguer will search for a secret buried during many years. Will this trip change his fate, his way of understanding the world and the land where he was born, and his own life? It will be a short and powerful emotional journey full of smiles and some tears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Zero/infinito
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Overview: This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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La duquesa roja
Overview: An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-17
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Una mujer prohibida
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-13
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Puro veneno
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-06-18
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Rowing with the Wind
Overview: In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
Genres: Horror Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-19
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El segundo poder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Hay que deshacer la casa
Overview: Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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DEJEME QUE LE CUENTE
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-07-17
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Parenostre
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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Berlin Blues
Overview: In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose Coronado). Their romance is cut short when David must return to his native East, and Lola soon begins an affair with Huessler (Keith Baxter), the bandleader. But any guilt Lola may feel for betraying David is assuaged when Huessler saves her from unexpected misfortune.
Genres: Music Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-03
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Escape
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Original Language: es
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Chronicles of the Hidden Truth
Overview: An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Desig
Overview: Desig is the haunting story of a married couple whose routine life is interrupted. Anonymous calls and a car with flickering lights on the side of a road. The mysterious connection with two strangers. Memories of a night that had almost been erased.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
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