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Cyrano Fernández
5.3

Cyrano Fernández

Jan 01, 2007
Cyrano, Roxana and Cristian star in a love triangle that takes place in one of the most shocking urban scenarios in the world: the labyrinthine sides and stairs of a Venezuelan neighbourhood. The story of Cyrano Fernández is in some way that of all people: that of the abyss between what we really are and what we dream of.
Juegos de familia
3.2

Juegos de familia

Jun 09, 2016
In this Spanish comedy-drama, a man befriends his wife's lover in an attempt to understand what has happened to their marriage and win her back.
Comedy
Dockers
1

Dockers

Jan 01, 1970
In the night, the unloading of a ship carrying timber from Borneo, alters the functioning of a port when something alive is discovered down in the hold. Alan, a young agent on duty, must find a solution in an environment of profound moral crisis.
Electroshock
4.8

Electroshock

Mar 19, 2006
Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.
Drama
Mentiras
1

Mentiras

Feb 25, 2005
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.
La vida abismal
4.2

La vida abismal

Jan 26, 2007
This film evokes Valencia illegal gaming back in the seventies. A young peasant -Ferran- plays cards not much to make a living but as a distraction of his daily routine. Ferran meets a larger-than-life character -el chino- who happens to play cards for a living. This other guy is depicted as a Toni Manero look alike but his charisma an arrogance lead the innocent Ferran to join him in his schemes to make money to end up betting all on the next card table. At some point the action moves to Madrid and Ferran steps down losing track of El chino who takes on more dangerous games making a living out of Russian Roulette until the round gets loaded. Based on real events this is no Hollywood epic but it captures the desperation of the characters very effectively.
Drama
Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!
6.5
Rehearsals for a play about Maradona in Naples, with Italian actors and an Argentine director. Nothing about Maradona except anecdotes about his figure from the Neapolitans; one of the actors had come to play football. They were all 'touched' by Maradona, as is logical. Pennac is very intelligent, but he has never seen a ball in his life: his fascination comes from the public figure of Maradona, from the totem, from the stupor that invaded him when many friends confessed to having cried at his death. The spectator, Maradonian or not, has an irrepressible desire to travel to Naples and join the song that he sees towards the end of the film, which is moving and overwhelming in its beauty and simplicity. Ideal for theater lovers, or Maradona lovers, or both.
Documentary
Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!
6.5
Rehearsals for a play about Maradona in Naples, with Italian actors and an Argentine director. Nothing about Maradona except anecdotes about his figure from the Neapolitans; one of the actors had come to play football. They were all 'touched' by Maradona, as is logical. Pennac is very intelligent, but he has never seen a ball in his life: his fascination comes from the public figure of Maradona, from the totem, from the stupor that invaded him when many friends confessed to having cried at his death. The spectator, Maradonian or not, has an irrepressible desire to travel to Naples and join the song that he sees towards the end of the film, which is moving and overwhelming in its beauty and simplicity. Ideal for theater lovers, or Maradona lovers, or both.
Documentary
Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!
6.5
Rehearsals for a play about Maradona in Naples, with Italian actors and an Argentine director. Nothing about Maradona except anecdotes about his figure from the Neapolitans; one of the actors had come to play football. They were all 'touched' by Maradona, as is logical. Pennac is very intelligent, but he has never seen a ball in his life: his fascination comes from the public figure of Maradona, from the totem, from the stupor that invaded him when many friends confessed to having cried at his death. The spectator, Maradonian or not, has an irrepressible desire to travel to Naples and join the song that he sees towards the end of the film, which is moving and overwhelming in its beauty and simplicity. Ideal for theater lovers, or Maradona lovers, or both.
Documentary
Cuéntame cómo pasó
7.2

Cuéntame cómo pasó

Nov 29, 2023
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Comedy