Category: Spanish Language
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She Walks in Darkness, courage undercover
She Walks in Darkness (Un fantasma en la batalla) tells the story of a courageous woman in the Spanish police who goes undercover for 12 years to gather secrets about the the Basque separatist group known as the ETA. Her work led to the eventual dissolution of the ETA.
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When No One Sees Us, mystery series from Spain
When No One Sees Us (Cuando nadie nos ve) comes from Spain. It’s a series about two women investigating several crimes in a small town near a U.S. Air Base in southern Spain.
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Midnight Family, Mexican series about a family of paramedics
Midnight Family, originally titled Familia de medianoche, is based on a documentary of the same name. It tells the story of private ambulances in Mexico City and the part the paramedics riding in them play in life-saving health care. The review is spoiler free. There are many surprises I won’t reveal here.
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National Anthem, a world hidden in plain sight
National Anthem plunks a New Mexico day laborer into a world he never knew existed when he gets a job on a ranch run by a large group of queer rodeo riders.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip from Disney
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip is a cute Disney movie about a family on vacation. Young Alexander (Thom Nemer) is convinced that his constant bad luck is because of a family curse.
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In the Summers, three family summers with Dad
In the Summers is an insight into a family as two siblings grow to adulthood. We see only three summers of their lives as they grow and spend time with their highly imperfect father in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Caught, yet another Harlan Coben mystery series
Caught is another in Netflix seemingly endless supply of mystery series derived from the novels of Harlan Coben. This one is set in a small city in Patagonia, Argentina.
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The Lady’s Companion, period comedy from Spain
The Lady’s Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a little bit Bridgerton, a little bit Jane the Virgin, a little bit Fleabag, and a little bit plain old romcom. Set in Madrid in the 1880s in an upper class world where young ladies had companions who chaperoned their every interaction with the opposite sex, we follow…
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Women is Losers, a look back at women in the 1960s
Women is Losers, from writer and director Lissette Feliciano, tells the story of Celina (Lorenza Izzo), a smart young Latina coming of age in San Francisco in 1968. The patriarchy was entrenched in everything in her life.