The Great Swindle

Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to collect the donations for himself.

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.

A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims establish the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela.

Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night.

Begoña and Pedro are stuck. Despite having been married for many years, now the only thing they have in common is a son obsessed with basketball. A new conjuncture will cause love to resurface.

One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties.

In June 1994, Nicholas Barclay, a Texan boy of 13, disappeared without a trace. Three years later, surprising news about the case received: the boy has been found in Spain and claims to have been tortured by his abductors. After the initial joy of the family to recover, an inexplicable problem: how is it possible that the blond son of Barclay is now dark?

Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends.

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.