Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three.
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Dean Selmier
Bill/Allan/Charley
Francisco Rabal
Carlos
Daisy Granados
Floricita
Asunción Balaguer
Fernanda
Teresa Rabal
Cuqui
Alfredo Mayo
Germán
Julia Gutiérrez Caba
Lola
Barbara Deist
Bonnie
Fernando Sánchez Polack
Benito
Luis Suárez
Julián
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Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
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Six couples who do not know each other are brought together by destiny, fate and love
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Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
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A couple leaves a city to go the village where a lot of conflict waiting to tear them completely.
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This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
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The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
After being falsely accused of a terrible crime, Hector, a man with a neurological disability, goes to a secret prison. His goodness conquers the prisoners, who plan to prove their innocence.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
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When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
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