Julián Pérez Ávila

Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.

El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres

La orquídea

La indeseable

The attitudes of different people to the fact of going to the movies.

A man living in a remote area of India has an affair with a local woman who he leaves in order to marry another. His lover commits suicide after cursing him and his family. Upon returning from London with his new wife he begins to experience strange hallucinations.

Many years ago, a young aristocrat wanted to marry a famous singer, but his father destroyed the marriage before twediing, believing that singer is not suitable wife for future diplomat. After several years their adult children now met in the theater of Buenos Aires.

Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

1910's. A young notary is unfaithful to his fiancée and their engagement is about to finish...

A teacher tries to save a school in danger of demolition.

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

The young and inexperienced godson of a millionaire falls for a singer who is married. The millionaire opposes the relationship because he feels a "strange tenderness" for the boy.

A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcast at the time by TVE.

A shopkeeper who dreams of singing songs and her bosses dispute it, believing her heir to a fortune.

Cubitos de hielo

Carmen and Ángel are in love but her mother doesn't approve their relationship. When Carmen gets pregned, Ángel decides to to go the city to star a career as a singer and earn enough money to take Carmen with him, but he never returns and Carmen, scared of her parents, decides to run from home and embrace a disolated life as a prostitute.

A bank employee changes his life radically after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident along with a widower industrial.