Género: Non fiction
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Sara Montiel: From One Secret to the Next, My Life Uncovered (Sara Montiel: Secreto a secreto, mi vida al descubierto)
The unseen side of the diva from La Mancha (Spain) who conquered Hollywood. Diva in film and music, the queen of kitsch, a woman of overwhelming personality and heart-stopping beauty, and capacity for self-parody, Sara Montiel was the great icon of 20th century Spain. Ernest Hemingway taught her to smoke cigars, she married…
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Prisons, Whores and Guns (De prisiones, putas y pistolas)
Divide and conquer: The great strategy to put an end to ETA. In the early morning of December 2nd, 1991, Cadena SER broadcasted an exclusive: for the first time in history, ETA prisoners criticized the leadership of the band for their latest terrorist actions and expressed their opposition to the attacks that had children…
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Death on a Playing Card (La muerte en un naipe)
Nine victims, a deck of cards, and a criminal who is just playing for fun. On January 24th, 2003, Alfredo Galán Sotillo leaves his house with the intention of going for a walk in Madrid and killing someone. Anyone. The first victim is a man who is feeding his young son. He asks him to…
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Dismantling the Perfect Crime (Desmontando el crimen perfecto)
Angi: The identity thief. María Ángeles Molina Fernández, nicknamed “Angi” and former boss, millionaire, and alleged friend of Ana Paez, spent a lot of time planning the perfect crime. In an apartment in Barcelona, the cleaning lady finds Ana Páez's lifeless body on the sofa, naked, with her hands tied and a plastic bag…
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The Mice of God (Los ratones de Dios)
Where there is cheese, there will always be mice. In July 2011, the clergy of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in the north of Spain reported a notable absence: The Codex Calixtinus, the 12th century's illuminated manuscript (valued at eight million euros) considered to be the world's first travel guide and a reference…
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The Hole. The Story of a Killer (El agujero. Historia de un asesino)
Fake Shaolin monk by day, murderer by night. He called himself Huan, but his real name was Juan Carlos Aguilar Gómez. He used martial arts as a tool to control emotions. Self-proclaimed as the first Western Shaolin monk, three-time world kung-fu champion and eight-time world champion of Spain, he traveled to China and returned…
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A Sensitive Subject (Un asunto sensible)
Three Cuban stories of crime and betrayal. The emotionally thrilling true crime story and its trial that struck the Cuban society and negatively shifted their opinion about the Castro regime. After having recently survived the failed invasion of officer Fulgencio Batista´s Presidential Palace, four children from the Revolutionary Directory were gunned down by the Havana…
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Front Page (Primera página)
The birth of a great period in the most turbulent years of the Spanish 20th century. Front Page are Juan Luis Cebrián’s memoirs, the first managing director and co-founder of El País newspaper. It is also the detailed story of the turbulent and bloody years that took Spain from a dictatorship into democracy. Born in…
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
