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Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.
Nov 2023
Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.
Nov 2019
After a tragic turn of events at the new home he's fixing up, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a famous paranormal expert.
Jul 2020
A beloved parish priest, Manuel, is ready to leave the clergy and start anew. But when his past threatens to surface, he must face the consequences, beginning a journey that leads him to challenge the institution that protected him.
Jun 2026
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.
Oct 2013
Daniel, a homeless, scrapes by Madrid streets. Aina, a young NGO worker, tries to help him, without success. Insistent, she will discover Daniel’s past, a top executive who got fired leaving his family. Daniel will be able for the first time, to face to his old life.
Aug 2025
Oct 2004
Javier comes from the future to recover María's lost love. Together, they relive the magic of the day they met and repeat the journey they made from a sunrise in Madrid to a sunset on the Andalusian coast. Everything to get María to be the full of life girl he once fell in love with.
Oct 2018
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?
Jan 2002
Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.
Nov 2010
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
Oct 2019
Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.
Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.
Jan 2023
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
Nov 2017
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.
Dec 2018
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Aug 2023
While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."
Oct 2011
Emma is 50 years old and twenty who acts corrections officer. Her life revolves around the jail where he works and her home. Without leaving his loneliness, her order and her almost obsessive routine, lives locked in a reality that has been built for she.
Sep 2008
Morir revolves around the couple Luis and Marta, whose lives are paralyzed by the outbreak of a disease that is accompanied by guilt, lies and fear, testing the stability and love between them.
Oct 2017
An eccentric millionaire becomes obsessed with the idea of constructing a new Noah's Ark. He hires a hunter to kidnap untoward numbers of animals to make this happen. The group of animals amid their valiant attempt to escape from the hunter's clutches, foil his nefarious plans, and free their captured friends.
Dec 2008