María Barranco
Also Known As: María de los Remedios Barranco García
Biography: María Barranco, born María de los Remedios Barranco García, is a Spanish actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Birthday: June 11, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Red Squirrel
Overview: Jota's suicide attempt is interrupted when a motorcyclist crashes off a bridge. After he rescues her, he decides to invent a life story for her — one of love and shared memories — creating a fragile web of deception that intertwines their fates.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-21
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Overview: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-22
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Overview: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Mouth to Mouth
Overview: For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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Anita Takes a Chance
Overview: Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Crazy Carnival
Overview: In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a prostitute with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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Moscow Gold
Overview: In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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The Ages of Lulu
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Lulu has never known any affection from her family. But when she goes to a rock concert with Pablo, a friend of the family, he introduces Lulu to her first sexual experience. Years later, Pablo and Lulu have married; Pablo has created a sheltered, private world for Lulu, into which nothing intrudes. However, Lulu tires of her cloistered existence, and begins hanging out in shady bars, looking for vicarious thrills and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-12-03
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The Seducer
Overview: Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay home from school and uses his free time to ogle her while she sunbathes outside. His efforts to sustain a relationship that leads to the bedroom are hampered by his amusing family, sabotaged by the maid, and jealously noted by his high school girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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América
Overview: In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
Overview: Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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El juego de los mensajes invisibles
Overview: Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man who twenty years before had been his secretary. Soon after, a boy, the son of the man, moves to the house. The return of the past will have unforeseeable consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Bwana
Overview: Antonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: namely, Ombasi and Yambo, two illegal African immigrants, apparently thrown back to the ocean from where they came, in search of a better life in Spain. The sun sets, and the evening, night and morning which follow see other bizarre characters entering the scene, before the Africans' and the other characters' fates are finally decided.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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The Dumbfounded King
Overview: Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Zafarinas
Overview: International Award Winning Actor Jorge Sanz, star of the Academy Award© winning picture, "Belle Epoque", stars in this action packed film in which a corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a world of drugs, deceit and passion where they find that all is not what it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-20
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Long Life Together
Overview: Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their discussions with Matthias are constant, but she is careful not to ever lift his voice. He, however, does not care who tell and shouts without hesitation. The neighbors, who are some gossips are at the end of the street everything that happens in the house of Petra and Matthias.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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Tu novia está loca
Overview: Amaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well and is enmaorada of her boyfriend, a lawyer of lost causes somewhat confused. Its stable and happy life is shattered with the appearance of a famous movie star, party animal and womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-21
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Todo por la pasta
Overview: After a robbery at a bingo hall, the girlfriend of one of the robbers escaped with the help of another woman tries to recover the loot from the raid. The problem is that some cops also want to do with the loot, to finance political assassinations.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-08-14
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Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
Overview: Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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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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El baile del pato
Overview: Spanish comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Stormy Weather
Overview: The lives of a designer and an alcoholic colide after they both try to kill themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Life Begins Today
Overview: A group of seniors attends a workshop on sex. Olga, their teacher, try to make them see that their bodies are still alive giving them homework such as learning to look at themselves in the mirror or dedicate twenty minutes a day to some pleasant activity. The problem is that neither society nor their own relatives are always willing to accept that elderly people have their own sexuality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-06-25
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Witching & Bitching
Overview: A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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Uma Vida Normal
Overview: Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Sálvate si puedes
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Gaudi Afternoon
Overview: Barcelona hasn’t turned out to be the romantic dreamland fledgling translator Cassandra thought it would be. She’s about to return to America when the mysterious Frankie offers her a large sum of money to track down Frankie’s missing lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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99.9: The Frequency of Terror
Overview: Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Don Mendo Rock ¿La venganza?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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El rosario de la Aurora
Overview: Aurora lies in bed and suddenly receives a divine call revealing the unknown whereabouts of a relative. The old woman enters a brothel called 'El Buen Camino' (The Good Way), frequented by folkloric and religious transsexual prostitutes. At the end of the joint she finds her relative and after a chase she shouts: Mateo! He stops and starts a tense discussion where religion and transsexuality will be united with an Andalusian folkloric touch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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Franky Banderas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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The Lame Pigeon
Overview: Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a different story as all the relatives within are a tad strange. There Felipe meets his great-grandmother and her tough nurse Adoracion who patiently listens to grandmama's reminiscence's of the bandoleros who died for her. Felipe is not allowed to leave his bed, but his hours pass pleasantly thanks to the ministrations of the sexy Mari, a virgin, who loves to tease her four strapping aspiring lovers. As the summer progresses, Felipe interacts with all of his relatives and from their strange behavior finds himself learning an awful lot about life and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Anita Takes a Chance
Overview: Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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The Chosen One
Overview: Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group of men that disappear in a car. Federico's life is about to change completely.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-24
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After All These Years
Overview: Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Rubio cobrizo
Overview: Raquel and Maika are two neighbors who have been at war for 10 years. The former has been diagnosed with a mental illness. The second struggles to survive in the face of the ghosts of her past. Neither of them knows which came first: war or madness, repression or freedom, common sense or delirium. Both relate to each other as if they were those two Spains that refuse to disappear.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-09
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Matusalén
Overview: The story of a forty-something rapper considered a boy by his parents and a grandfather by his classmates. They send him to the university to change and he changes everyone else. This is Matusalen's history.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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La maldición de la rejoneadora
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Atún y chocolate
Overview: Tres pescadores barbateños, Manuel (Pablo Carbonell), un hombre bueno al que apodan "Nadando con Chocos"; el Perra (Pedro Reyes), su amigo fiel, y El Cherif (Antonio Dechent), un paria iracundo y orgulloso, intentan sobrevivir como pueden a pesar de la crisis pesquera que vive la costa gaditana.Un día Manolín (Andrés Rivera), el hijo de Manuel, llega a casa con un problema más: quiere hacer la comunión. Algo que provocará más de una sorpresa. Primero porque no está bautizado y segundo porque sus padres ni siquiera están casados. Contagiados por la ilusión de su hijo, María y Manuel deciden ordenar su vida y casarse. María lo organiza todo: arregla con el singular cura del pueblo (Paco Vegara) para que oficie la ceremonia, busca los trajes, invita a los vecinos... Pero claro, no hay boda sin convite. Y eso cuesta dinero. ¿Cómo conseguirlo?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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Una ombra en el jardí
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-10-24
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Rosa Rosae
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Heartlift
Overview: Pep Munné is an aging plastic surgeon who falls for a young female assistant (Mariana Anghileri) while attending a medical conference. Soon he begins inventing new reasons to spend more time with her. His wife Cristina (María Barranco) begins meeting with a psychiatrist (Jean Pierre Noher) in order to figure out what is going on in her marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-11-30
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Jamás me echarás de ti
Overview: Victor hides his face behind a mask. One day he receives something that he had been waiting for a long time, a strange package. Upon receiving it, he will remember the last words his mother said to him, he will remember her obsessions and their peculiar relationship. But above all he will not be able to forget his last wish.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Llueven vacas
Overview: Fernando and Margarita are a peculiar couple who base their lives on a strange and perverse game. He orders everything he wants and modifies reality at will, and she obeys his orders as best she can. This game will take the protagonists to the limit. In the film, both characters are played by various actors and actresses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Cuernos de mujer
Overview: Ana works in an office where the things are going very badly. One night after having dinner with nasty rich people, she has a discussion with her husband. He dissapears and then the life of Ana changes: she has incredible luck in gambling.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays
Overview: This is a hilarious look at contemporary Madrid from the point of view of ten year old Manolito. Witty, funny and moving, the film has crossed-over from Spain to become a classic family entertainment.On this particular occasion, Manolito is in the middle of Chrismas break and ready to celebrate the holidays with his nutty family: his mother, Cata, his father, Manolo, Grandpa and Imbecile. This year holds a big surprise: Uncle Nico, his mother's brother who lives an works in Oslo as a waiter. Uncle Nico shows up in an unbelieveable motor home to spend Christmas Eve with the family. He is accompanied by his flashy Norwegian fiancée, Trudi Bergenkoklass, who is something like part fairy, part Viking and part Pippi Long Stocking. This lady immediately catches Manolito's eye.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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The Night of the Two Moons
Overview: Federica finds out that the baby she's expecting doesn't share her DNA. She goes to the clinic where she underwent an in vitro fertilization treatment and they acknowledge they made a mistake by exchanging her embryo with another couple's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-01
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Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Overview: Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.
Genres: Documentary History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-15
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All Men Are the Same
Overview: Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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Olea… ¡Más alto!
Overview: An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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La mujer inesperada
Overview: A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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La mujer cualquiera
Overview: The whatever woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-06
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The Things of Love
Overview: In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, the young man wants revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance Music Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-09-19
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Carol's Journey
Overview: Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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El refugio
Overview: An actor in low hours and a young interpreter who threatens to displace the former thanks to the tricks of their agent; the owner of the high mountain hotel and her estranged sister, creator of a new and unique discipline that mixes yoga and fengshui; a group of children wanting to have fun, but also to discover hidden secrets; a taciturn bellboy who sees everything; and a tremendous storm that will leave everyone isolated just before Christmas. A weekend in which everything can happen, and in which everything will happen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-11-26
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Historias de Halloween
Overview: It is about Luis's journey, who on a Halloween night ends up in an old antique shop that hides many secrets.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Novios
Overview: Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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