Francesc Orella
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: June 11, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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La silla
Overview: A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-02
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Shiver
Overview: Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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The Good Boss
Overview: Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Frozen Silence
Overview: Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.
Genres: War Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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The Wild Children
Overview: Alex,Gabi and Oki, three teenagers living in a big city, are completely unknown to their parents, to their teachers and for themselves. Their emotional isolation, led to the limit, will have unexpected and terrible consequences that will shake society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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Tres dies amb la família
Overview: Three Days with the Family deals with the relationship between three brothers and one sister, and with their wives and children, whose father has just died. They don't see each other often, and their different opinions about common problems soon become a problem itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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Clara y Elena
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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From Good to the Hood
Overview: Cheating the tax man was just too tempting for Andrés. Besides, what are the chances of him getting caught? Well, as it turns out, pretty high! And that’s exactly what happens when a couple of tax inspectors turn up at his company to inform him that he owes the IRS a lot of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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Smoking Room
Overview: The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed mainly of men, decides to begin collecting signatures against what he considers unfair. What Ramirez intends is to be use an unoccupied office as smoking room
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-27
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The Pianist's Hands
Overview: In the town of Breda, a construction company wants to build a luxury urbanization development in the suburbs. The body of one of the partners appears on one of the newly built houses. A failed pianist, who makes his living killing animals and pets uncomfortable, becomes the prime suspect. To defend itself, hires the detective Ricardo Cupido for that crime exculpe
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-05-05
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Terra baixa
Overview: The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primitive, Marta wants to marry a girl from the Low Country that until then had been forced to be intimate with his master, Sebastian.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Radiacions
Overview: Thirty years after exile, Francesc Lamban journalist returns to the city where he was born to reunite with an old friend, attorney Ernest Salesa. The event takes place on the beach that saw the end of their relationship, and this fact is not accidental: Salesa has a business at hand transcendental and mysterious and has to convince Lamban to be part of it, at whatever price . While that behave remove ghosts from the past and the terrible memory of a love lost tragically common.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2012-05-14
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La moños
Overview: Barcelona in the 1930's: with extreme makeup and outlandish clothes, "La Moños" (Julieta Serrano) is a mysterious character of Las Ramblas. Pepi, a girl of nine years, is fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Using her imagination, and collecting the stories she has heard, passionate Pepi reconstructs the life of "La Moños".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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Checkmates
Overview: Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Lasa & Zabala
Overview: In October 1983, members of ETA Lasa and Zabala disappear in Bayonne. Twelve years later, their bodies, tortured and buried in quicklime by the GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups) are identified. Then begins a process in which the lawyer for the two families (Unax Ugalde) and his assistant try to justice and that the murderers sit on the dock.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Teoria dels cossos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Bye Bye Boy
Overview: Following his parents' divorce, Enzo goes to the village to spend the weekend with his mother. The house has to be emptied and sold, as Chantal can no longer afford it. A weekend to reconnect with their past and pack up all the memories they want to keep. The time they share, after a long period without living together, will demonstrate its passing. The suffocation caused by a slavish nostalgia and a change of pattern in their mother-son relationship. Old age, sexuality and empty nest syndrome appear at a turning point in their lives that will mark the direction of the road they have to travel together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Julia's Eyes
Overview: Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-08-16
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Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
Overview: Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.
Genres: Thriller History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-12-15
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Assault at Central Bank
Overview: Film adaptation of a real event that occurred on May 23, 1981, in which a TV broadcaster, director of a major newspaper, and a deputy were involved
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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L’enigma Verdaguer
Overview: Jacint Verdaguer, poet and priest, had an exciting life, lived literary glory and became the most prestigious poet of his time. But circumstances and his indomitable and proud character caused his downfall.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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Interior. Familia
Overview: A couple of loving parents wake up his son in the middle of the night. They must talk about something urgent and horrifying that will change his life forever.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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Tocant el mar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Boom boom
Overview: Sofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met or even seen each other. Disenchanted with love, both have sworn never to fall in love again, until they finally meet.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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The Good Boy
Overview: The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing to give up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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The Invisible Guest
Overview: Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Nudos
Overview: Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The lifeless is Pep Grau, an old fisherman found drowned and subject to his boat by a complicated knot sailor. The Pep voiceover Grau, portrayed with affection and humor the curious characters he met in life, recounts the difficult moments of his childhood during the Civil War, and finally, we are introduced to Lola, the woman of his life , which has a fish stall in the Boqueria Market beautiful and, after the death of Pep, begins receiving anonymous gifts. Silvia, a teenage ambitious and attractive, is the attorney for the insurance company. Mario, her boss and lover, asked to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the death of the fisherman. Silvia's inquiries aa allow us to know other characters, like the maverick Dr. Cipriano Mera, Pep old comrade, and his son Gabino Mera.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-07
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Land and Freedom
Overview: David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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The Invisible Guardian
Overview: When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Brava
Overview: Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-07-07
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Killing God
Overview: When Carlos invites his father and his brother to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana. But what promised to be a quiet family dinner, suddenly is interrupted by the presence of a peculiar vagabond, dwarf and very bad man, who claims to be God.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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The Pianist
Overview: Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Overview: In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1983-09-09
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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Laia, el regal d’aniversari
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Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Sleeping luck
Overview: Amparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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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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Mirage
Overview: During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Love Me Not
Overview: A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-01-26
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Elisa & Marcela
Overview: The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
Overview: The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Mi dulce
Overview: Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to Holland to meet her, in need of answers and alternatives to the hostile environment that surrounds her. For that, he will have to face Angela, his older sister, a young policewoman who, as a child, was forced to take the reins of the family when she was orphaned. Angela will try, by all means, to keep Laura with her and not be alone. Little by little the violence that surrounds him will make him lose control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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The Legacy of the Bones
Overview: Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1984-02-03
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Offering to the Storm
Overview: Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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The Best Option
Overview: Koto is a restless and impulsive young African, born in a refugee camp. His life in Catalonia among the paddy fields of the Delta passes by with few changes, always under the protection of his foster parents. He has left behind the tough childhood he had in the Saharan refugee camp where he was born. One day life takes a sudden turn: the doctors tell him that he urgently needs a kidney transplant. The best choice as a possible donor would be his biological mother. The sudden arrival of his Saharan family is a shock for Koto, who watches as the life he has been living for the past 10 years falls apart around him. Far removed from the beliefs and customs of his people, the young man must deal with his origins to try to save his own life. The film is based on a real story and played by Koto himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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Truman
Overview: Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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The Journey of Arián
Overview: Arián, a young Basque girl, idealistic but naive, joins a ruthless terrorist gang and, hoping to prove her commitment, volunteers to participate in the kidnapping of the daughter of an important businessman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Yoyes
Overview: Yoyes, the first woman to hold responsibility positions within ETA, returns from exile in Mexico and try to rebuild her life. But her return is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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The Barcelona Vampiress
Overview: Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Subjúdice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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To Die (Or Not)
Overview: If one person's destiny were altered (in this case, not dying), how might that event change the lives of numerous other people, or in this case, prevent seven others from dying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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La teranyina
Overview: In 1909, the Rigau brothers are the owners of the most important textile factory in Feixes. When Francesc dies, Julià, a dark and ambitious ex-military man, takes over the steamer and confronts everyone to make uniforms for the Spanish army that is fighting the war in Morocco.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1990-10-30
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Falling Star
Overview: During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-26
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I Know Nothing About You
Overview: During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Caravaggio
Overview: The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-07-03
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A Thousand Fools
Overview: Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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What's It All About
Overview: Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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Toscana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Mentiras
Overview: The life of Fabian, an attractive and famous magistrate, is cut short by some strange circumstances. Since then a series of incidents follow. His apparently happy and successful life turns out to be a spiral of deceptions and appearances. All the people who are around him during his last years, take part, in one way or another, to destroy him. They are the important pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that will show the feelings, weaknesses, frustrations and the real personality, not only of the magistrate, but also of all the characters around him who, while trying to search their hapiness, they only found lies and decptions. Lies that will be revealed as the story goes on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Where the pines lament
Overview: A rural community awakens to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Gradually, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that occurred in the same place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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El año del diluvio
Overview: In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-28
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Emergency Exit
Overview: It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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