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Crònica negra is a gripping anthology crime series based on the short stories of renowned Spanish author Andreu MartĂn. Inspired by actual, real-life headlines from the crime and mystery sections of local newspapers, each self-contained episode masterfully blends reality with fiction. The series delves into the shadows of everyday life, reconstructing the unexpected events, psychological motives, and human tragedies behind some of the era's most shocking crimes.
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa 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.
411 BC, Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.
Silvia travels to the big city where she meets a married man, with whom she ends up having a romantic relationship.
A young woman marries a rich man and begins a new life in a little town in the Spain of the 20s. Feeling trapped and bored, she begins a relationship with her husband's stepbrother.
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A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in an apartment, tied to a bomb. The police has to find the apartment before the bomb explodes. At the same time, in the same house, two old men are solving a jigsaw puzzle, and a female cellist practices the Bach cello suites.
Eva is 18 years old and decides to go inter railing through Europe after she has finished school. She has decided to meet up with Klaus in Amsterdam but things get more complicated when she meets Bosse on the way.
A decadent musical set in the last days of Franco's dictatorship.
Blanca is never at home. She is a waitress in a Barcelona pub and is overwhelmed by the directionless path her life is taking, caught between the nightlife and the turbulent family relationships she has with her mother and sisters.
A small-time delinquent young man and a book saleswoman at home delivery, who occasionally engage in prostitution as a derivative of her work, try a way of coexistence on the basis of mutual freedom schemes.
Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.
Irene, a former member of the terrorist gang ETA recently released from prison in Catalonia, recalls her past during her return trip to the Basque Country.
Geltra and Pau don't know each other, she's 23 and tired of all the experiences she's gone through. He's 19 and just left home not knowing where to go or what to do. They will meet in this road trip while heading to a place in Delta de l'Ebre called "Casa Blanca".
