Manolo Solo
Also Known As: Manuel Fernández Serrano
Biography: Born in Algeciras in 1964, he was raised in neighbouring Los Barrios until age 6, later moving to Seville with his family. Part of the Sevillian musical scene in his youth, he was bassist-singer of Hacienda Somos Todos and Libertad Provisional. He later joined Arden Lágrimas and became the vocalist of rock band La Turmix/Relicarios, sharing stage with Santi Amodeo. Relicarios managed to release a full album, Detentebala. Solo earned a licentiate degree in Education Sciences from the University of Seville and trained his acting chops at the Seville's Instituto de Teatro. After debuting as a stage actor in 1989 and making a number of television appearances, he landed his feature film debut in the drama Everything in Place, released in 2002.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain
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Birthday: January 01, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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Official Competition
Overview: When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-04
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Pan's Labyrinth
Overview: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-11
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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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Wild Flowers
Overview: Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more Julia asks herself if Óscar is the person she really needs by her side, prompting her to set out on a personal journey to find happiness for herself and for her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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Girl Unknown
Overview: Carolina and Leo, who have met through a chat room, agree to meet in person in a secluded city park.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Cell 211
Overview: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Cannibal
Overview: Carlos is a respectable man, the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Modesty
Overview: Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-13
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The Consul of Sodom
Overview: Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-08
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Impávido
Overview: Ray, a man without family addicted to the game, dedicated to steal cars and for love will end up in jail.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-07-27
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The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth
Overview: Explores the Spanish origins of the character's story, where he is a tuberculosis patient from Almeria who will do anything to get well, even consuming the blood of the kids he kidnaps in a sack.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Lightborne
Overview: A family faces the last night of its eldest member, showing their different ways of dealing with a life's ending. In a surprising manner, overcoming fear and taboo, one of them will guide the passing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Llenos de gracia
Overview: Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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Wounded
Overview: The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Personality Disorder. The situation pushes her to outbreaks of self-destructive behaviour, alcohol abuse and self-harm. Ana is incapable of getting what she wants most: to be happy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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The Zebra
Overview: During the Mexican Revolution, Leandro and Odón, two war vultures, find a zebra. They mistakenly believe this to be an American horse and thus begin a journey in search of General Obregón, who they assume, will appoint them as colonels given their peculiar beast of burden. They partake in several adventures during their journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Counting Sheep
Overview: Ernesto is unappreciated by those around him, but all of that will change when three, peculiar, new friends appear on the scene. They will do anything to help him get his self-esteem back, even if it leads him to prison... or an early grave.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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Carmina and Amen
Overview: After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-30
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La fortaleza
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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El Tren de la Bruja
Overview: A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain seated inside a dark room for a length of time of 15 minutes. If he manages to hold on, he will receive in return a generous sum of money. Is it possible to terrify an individual who knows beforehand that everything is a farce?
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-30
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The Weakness of the Bolshevik
Overview: After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and instead files an injury report, Pablo snaps and begins stalking her. He soon discovers that Sonsoles has a beautiful teenage sister, Maria, with whom Pablo is immediately infatuated -- a lust that soon turns dark. Can Pablo control his obsession, or will it consume him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Biutiful
Overview: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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The Heaven of Animals
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Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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Estocolmo
Overview: Adela has just settled in Madrid with her father, Claudio, a retired concert musician and a hermit. Both teach piano to small children in a quiet, sparsely-furnished flat in the centre of town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-20
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Astronautas
Overview: Daniel is approaching forty. Laura is almost sixteen. From what they say about him he must be a poet or a comic-strip illustrator, or both. He has just overcome a long addiction and, once back home, is trying to recongnize his life based on a strategy which consists basically in DOING EXACTLY WHAT A "NORMAL" PERSON DOES. Everything that happens to Daniel is, more or less, foreseeable because that's what it's all about: he should look after his personal grooming, take care of the small things, immerse himself in the real world... and so on until he has completed the ten small achievements in his manual, a set of COMMANDMENTS devised by an insipid public health system psychiatrist. And, in the midst of all this, an unexpected happening: Laura arrives in the city searching for her brother Andres, Daniel's neighbor. But the brother is not home and she decides to wait for him, while organizing around Daniel what could be his "perfect world".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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God Level
Overview: Laura, a fanciful 16-year old teenager is in love with her young and attractive Religion teacher and will experience an excessive spiritual awakening that will lead her to lose her mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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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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My Love
Overview: Mario is torn between the commitment to do what he wants and the impulse to do what is most comfortable for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Marshland
Overview: The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Innocent Killers
Overview: Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying on a test, he requires him to perform a very unethical task in exchange for passing and thus achieving his goal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-07-03
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To Kill a Child
Overview: It is Sunday. A beautiful dawn on a doomed day. At ten o'clock, a happy child is going to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-02-07
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Who Killed Bambi?
Overview: The story of two young friends, a lawyer, a rich man and a group of kidnappers end up in a series of strange circumstances all to discover; Who Killed Bambi?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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It's for Your Own Good
Overview: Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Heterosexuales y casados
Overview: My sister and Charly met as children. We lived on the floor above and them downstairs...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-13
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B
Overview: July 15, 2013 Luis Barcenas - Old party treasurer was transferred from prison to National Court to testify. Previously, he had denied everything. Today he will tell the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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The Great Vazquez
Overview: Is it possible to live aside of the system, thinking only about the present and oneself? A feature film about Manuel Vázquez, the best comic book author in Barcelona during the sixties, but, mainly, a man with a very particular way of living his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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A la cara
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
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Map of Memories of Madrid
Overview: A Documentary seeks the encounter between people, the collective memory of the city of Madrid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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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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The Tunnel
Overview: The thirteen survivors of a catastrophe by a tunnel's collapse tries to balance their experience trapped along 15 days inside it with their day-by-day outside it.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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The Fury of a Patient Man
Overview: Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Tarkovsky
Overview: A man enters a video rental store where some arcane beings as Goran Paskaljevich, Michael Cacoyannis, Ferzan Ozpetek or Andrei Tarkovsky stalk him from the shelves, while the shop manager is reading a book by James Joyce; but he just wants to rent a blockbuster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
Overview: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Some Time Later
Overview: Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-12-28
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Gun City
Overview: Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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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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522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father
Overview: George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a personal tragedy forces her to embark on a journey from Spain to her native Portugal. Along the way, George's whole world begins to widen…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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Elsa & Fred
Overview: When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-28
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Computer assault
Overview: Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. Their messages and attacks are political, socially demmanding but also playful. Each of them have reasons to have moved to that virtual side, where they can be who they can't in real life. However, the sudden implication of authorities (pressed by goverment to be tougher against hackers)and of a wise and dangerous cracker will cause a turn in their crusade. Will they use the enemy's means or their ideological motivations imply a respect for law and human life?
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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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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Three
Overview: After many years, three childhood friends meet casually on the street and decide to have a beer to celebrate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-18
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Face to Face
Overview: Lina doesn't mind people insulting her. But if they do, they should do it face to face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-25
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Recambios
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Me
Overview: For our hero, every day looks the same. Or maybe they are too much alike: the same routines repeated over, and over again. One day, a simple wooden sign written "Park" will shake everything up.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-15
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Los Díaz felices
Overview: Every morning, during each breakfast, the Díaz family celebrates by singing of the extreme happiness they enjoy, even on those days that are sinister and stormy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Verbo
Overview: Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Josephine
Overview: Josefina depicts Middle Age Juan's love angle, Juan was a prison guard and the lady he loved's son Sergio was a prisoner in prison, and he loses his job because of his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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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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When Brooklyn Met Seville
Overview: Young Ana, a Sevillian girl sick of her family and her neighborhood, starts a relationship with the African-American boy her mum is hosting to avoid eviction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Everything in Place
Overview: Ignacio and Paul are father and son. The first is fifty-five, and the second is about thirty. In recent months, none of them have lived in the family home in which the two were the only occupants, Ignacio because emigrated to another city in search of employment, his son, who was admitted to a detoxification center. The chance that father and son wants to return to the people the same day. A Ignacio, in their new company, we have taken early retirement and has run out of excuses to prolong his absence the people and what was his family home. To Paul, meanwhile, have been discharged in the center and, from now on, you can continue your treatment in the outpatient own people
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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The Portuguese House
Overview: The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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The Portuguese House
Overview: The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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The Fortress
Overview: The heirs of a mansion are thrust into a spectacular game planned by their late patriarch that will uncovrt something more brutal than their ambition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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