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Will Shaw arrives in Spain for a week long sailing vacation with his family. The situation takes an unexpected turn when his family is kidnapped and Will gets tangled in an intergovernmental web of lies and secrets, with a briefcase in the center of the mystery. Will finds himself on the run and realizes that he must recover the briefcase and take down secret agents in order to get his family back alive.
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Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
5) Wrinkles
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Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid being assigned to the dreaded top floor assisted living...
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The fall of the house of Usher: An English Lord fears that his sister has been buried alive, and sure enough, she is, but she revives, but not without causing much confusion among the other members of the cast. The pit and the pendulum: A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a bizarre and ghastly secret.
9) Falcón
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Falcón is a detective whose home and work life is compromised of secrets from his past.
10) Blancanieves
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"Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White'"--Container.
11) Tasting menu
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Catalan
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One of the greatest restaurants in the world is closing and an eclectic mix of international patrons have arrived in beautiful Catalonia for the final dinner service. As the staff prepare and serve an audacious tasting menu, a young couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago before separating, reunite for this once-in-a-lifetime meal. Can their romance be rekindled?
15) My big night
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"Faltan pocas horas para que empiece el nuevo año. En un plató televisivo se reúnen varias estrellas para esperar las campanadas y celebrar juntos la llegada del año nuevo. Pero en realidad, este programa especial de Nochevieja se está grabando en pleno mes de agosto a las afueras de Madrid, con un calor espantoso. En la grabación están Jose (Pepón Nieto), un hombre en paro que es contratado por una ETT como figurante, y otros cientos de personas...
16) El Cid
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Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
17) Man of la mancha
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English
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The story of Don Quixote, a chivalrous knight who chooses to see life as it should be, not as it is.
18) Barcelona
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A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while remaining a constantly witty delight, featuring a sharp young...