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La bola negra (2026)

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

Directed byJavier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo

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    El Angel

    Same studio

    2018 · 115 min · Crime · Drama

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    Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

    Why it connects

    • strong recommendation signals
    • shared production studio: El Deseo
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  2. 02

    The Blue Star

    Shared cast

    2024 · 128 min · Drama · Music

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    The 90s. A famous Spanish rock star travels around Latin America in the endeavour to reconnect with his vocation. There he meets an old musician down on his luck, prompting the birth of an unlikely duo with every chance of becoming an epic commercial failure.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
    • shared production studio: Movistar Plus
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  3. 03

    The Endless Trench

    Shared cast

    2019 · 148 min · Drama · History · Thriller

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    A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: spanish civil war (1936-39) and spanish second republic (1931-39)
    • a principal cast member
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  4. 04

    Roma

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 135 min · Drama

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    In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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  5. 06

    The Red Virgin

    Strong movie match

    2024 · 114 min · Drama · History · Thriller

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong recommendation signals
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  6. 08

    Incinerate

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 90 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller

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    Álvaro has long felt that his life has lost all meaning. Just as chaos threatens to overwhelm him, a mysterious young woman appears, offering what might be his last hope.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 09

    The (Silent) War

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 123 min · Drama · Thriller · War

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    Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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