Three young present-day activists kidnap and interrogate Juan José Pérez García, a former psychiatrist who used “science” to justify political torture during the dictatorship.
Social & External
The people behind it
Valeria Aranguren Sanz
Mujer 1
Mariana Vieira
Mujer 2
Javier Recio
Hombre 1
Valentín Barcia
Juan José 1
Ángel Lozano
Juan José 2
Sixto Cid
Juan José 3
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A young man deals with loneliness and depression.
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Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
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20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
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In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
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