Subgénero: Melodrama
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It’s better in October (Mejor en octubre)
Carlos is an irresistible Don Juan, who has already reached maturity. He has just done his greatest feat: Taking a woman – Ana, his friend Alberto’s daughter – away from the altar where, in front of five hundred guests, she was about to marry. Soon enough, Alberto, his wife Elisa and Beatriz, Carlos’ wife, will…
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Tuxedo: Part 1 & 2 (Esmoquin: Parte 1 y 2)
Arturo is a mature, gallant man capable of winning the heart of up to four women at the same time. Married to Laura, he has no inconvenient on seducing Marta, his friend Victor’s wife, making young Gabriela fall in love and also pay the rent for another lover. However, age makes him reflect on this…
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Better times (Tiempos mejores)
Pedro lives in an old house, about to demolish, with his mother (who, for her age, is called grandma), his sister, Lili, just back from America, and a cook. The four of them take turns to hold the house’s main beam. As they cannot pay the bills, collectors gather around the house. The butcher and…
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Twenty years only (Veinte añitos)
Pepe and Faustina are an old married couple that are close to the end of their lives. One day the Devil appears before them and offers them something difficult to reject: to bring back their youth. Having 20 years again, all the vicissitudes of that age make them wish to go back to being old. …
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Morning Transit (Tránsito de madrugada)
This is the story of a couple that meet on a bridge, one step away from suicide. After this encounter, they fall in love with each other. Many years after that, the same couple sees life from another point of view, thinking about their lives from the perspective of an elderly couple. THEMES: Love,…
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Midnight games (Juegos de medianoche)
Santiago and Elena met each other in the cemetery while burying their respective partners. From that point on, they begin a new life together. Married again and after 3 years of passionate love, the marriage starts to fall apart. THEMES: Love, Death, Marriage, Passion, Heartbreak, Widowhood GENRE: Drama RELEVANT FACTS: Love, passion and weariness of…
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No turning back from this girl (La muchacha sin retorno)
A TV announcer that has always been a womanizer suddenly realizes that everything is starting to go downhill towards old age. Leticia, Carolina and Lucrecia, three of his former lovers, get together with him to remember old times and try to help him. But Josefa appears, a young woman who makes him regain excitement. THEMES: Seduction, Love, Existential…
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Forever is not the whole life (Siempre no es toda la vida)
The play looks over three stages in the life of a married couple: The past (adolescence and happy engagement), the present (the problems of the married life) and the future (distant feelings but united by social conventionalism). THEMES: Love, Marriage, Adolescence, Youth, Society GENRE: Dramedy RELEVANT FACTS: Couple’s play between past, present and future…
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Save the dolphins (Salvad a los delfines)
A divorced couple meets after seven years split at their daughter’s wedding. She has built a new life with another man. The play develops the misunderstandings and anecdotic situations of this triangle to which is added the daughter and her fiancée, a Thai man who aspires to go the Faeroe Islands and save dolphins. THEMES:…
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Let’s live today (Vivamos hoy)
In a medical checkup, a middle-aged woman is diagnosed with a brain tumor and only two months to live. Her husband, who had been distanced for some time, tries to make up with her to make her happy for her remaining time and leaves his lover. However, the tests happen to have been from a…
