Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

The documentary looks in the life and work of Mario Benedetti, especially in his poetic work, the keys to an illustrious Montevideo. A man who has had to live several exiles and has received all the awards that this world can give. But above all, the affection of an unconditional, massive and faithful audience that follows him everywhere and pampers him every day with their applause and reading. A sad childhood, a youth full of work and reading, and a maturity full of commitments marked Benedetti. His work testifies the history, that which only artists can tell.

A Pepe Carvalho story.

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.

When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña. She was married to a wealthy owner belonging to a well-known A Coruña family and had traveled to Barcelona to undergo a fertility treatment, but had previously had relations with Ginés Larios, a merchant navy officer and ex-boyfriend, whom he had left to marry the rich heir The suicide of the latter seems to be the case by closed, however Carvalho decides to try to clarify everything.

A finales de la década de los 80, Muriel Colbert, una joven americana, llega a España para trabajar en su tesis doctoral sobre Jesús Galíndez, un político vasco exiliado en Estados Unidos, tras la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939), y desaparecido en 1956 en extrañas circunstancias. Muriel se pone en contacto con un viejo escritor, que le proporciona información sobre las últimas personas que vieron a Galíndez con vida. Arranca así una investigación que pronto pasa del ámbito académico al político, pues los culpables de la muerte de Galíndez intentarán impedir por todos los medios que Muriel esclarezca y denuncie los hechos.

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a prison officer. The police suspect a young delinquent who had threatened to kill the officer. But Carvalho and Biscuter are on the trail of a friend and ex-cell partner of the defendant called "el Navajas" ("the penknife"). He is a pusher in the discotheque Up & Down. Things get worse when "el Navajas" turns out to be the main suspect of the murder in cold blood of a boy from a good family in the discotheque. Carvalho must find the pusher before the police in order to avoid that his client is sentenced to life imprisonment.

Carvalho is hired to investigate the alleged threats to the daughter of the civil governor of Barcelona. Step by step, Carvalho realizes that there is something hidden in core of the mystery that goes back to something that happened in the past and that is related to the governor himself.

Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona leads him to Italy, where she is supposed to have taken a cruise on the Mediterranean.

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man's wife has given him. But he cannot imagine that the issue goes far beyond and is at a much bigger scale than anyone may think. There is a large multinational behind all the deaths that happen while the investigation is taking place, and economic interests will put Carvalho and his friends in danger.

Mister Joaquim Pelletier and his wife request the services of the private detective Pepe Carvalho to find the murderer of their only son, Mariano. As the investigations progress, Pepe finds out that Mariano was not such a model son as his father thought. He had a double life: a banker at daytime, a thug at night; he was cooperating with Jesús Arquimedes, the boss of the underworld, by doing illegal works for him. But Mariano had decided to betray Arquímedes, embezzling $500 000 of the money he was laundering in Bank Pelletier, to start a new life in the USA. Arquímedes puts pressure on Carvalho to find his money. Surprisingly enough for the detective, the guilty one is not Arquímedes, but the father of Mariano. Mister Jaoquim had a passionate relationship with his son since childhood, he wanted to mold his son as he had always dreamed, and never admitted that Mariano was someone different and a rebel who wanted to run away from Barcelona for ever.

Leo Minués, who used to be a classmate of Carvalho, is found dead the same day he had to testify in a case of corruption and someone asks Carvalho to investigate it. He accepts the case and finds out that Leo was collecting illegal funds for his political party. From that moment, a number of signs appear. This allows Carvalho to discover that Mínguez had made a list of the people involved in the case of corruption. Some videotapes appear, which makes things even more complicated, and Carvalho finds himself walking on shifting land, surrounded by celebrities in the highest spheres. Why did Mínguez die? Who has got the list?

To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart? While Catalan pimps and racketeers are being hustled off the streets by crime syndicates from the Middle East, Pepe Carvalho is thinking of retirement, but the need to save the soul of his beloved Barcelona forces him to take on a case that can only end in disaster.

Dos pianistas, amigos de la infancia en Barcelona (Doria y Rossell), coinciden en París en los años treinta, en su juventud, y pasan a formar parte de la vanguardia musical de la época. Los dos están enamorados de la misma mujer y los dos están llenos de talento, pero los sorprende el estallido de la Guerra Civil española y Rossell decide regresar a España y luchar por la causa de la República, mientras que Doria permanece en Paris, aduciendo que la música es la única causa que quiere seguir. Cuarenta años después, vuelven a encontrarse en un sórdido cabaré de Barcelona. Rossell es el pianista que acompaña las actuaciones de los travestidos; Doria llega rodeado por sus admiradores.

Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.

Hace mucho tiempo, el arquitecto Stuart Pedrell le dijo a su familia que iba a los Mares del Sur. Sin embargo, su hija Yes recientemente ha recibido una postal de su padre que viene de un lugar mucho menos exótico: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho va a Bellvitge con el fin de encontrar al padre de Yes y para descubrir por qué le mintió a su familia. Pedrell nunca se fue a los Mares del Sur. Se refugió en Bellvitge donde fue asesinado. Adaptación de la novela de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

A brief account of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

A Pepe Carvalho adventure.

A Pepe Carvalho adventure.

Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.

Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

Carvalho goes to Galicia to meet his daughter.

Carvalho travels to France in search of a missing girl

Pepe Carvalho investigates the murder of a young woman.

In a situation of political crisis, an immobilist group prepares to carry out a coup d'état by assassinating the president of the government, for which an American mercenary is hired.

An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca.

Young Serra , after a boxing match dies falling from the roof of his house. The coach of his opponent that night, and old friend of Young, hire the services of Pepe Carvalho to find the mother of the son of Young so it will not be alone .

El detective Pepe Carvalho debe esclarecer el asesinato del secretario general del Partido Comunista junto a Carmela, una militante de confianza.

Una historia de la Transición española contada en primera persona por los principales protagonistas: por un lado, los políticos, idealistas o meramente oportunistas, que la llevaron a buen término en las tribunas y los despachos; por otro lado, los ciudadanos que, en las calles, la apoyaron sinceramente o la combatieron con ferocidad. (Precedida por «No se os puede dejar solos»).

Esta película es una muestra del cine militante de los años 80. Los protagonistas son de lo más heterogéneo (desde políticos y profesionales de distintos campos hasta ciudadanos de a pie) y expresan sus opiniones acerca de los cambios acaecidos durante la Transición española. La inconveniencia de algunos testimonios y la sensación de crispación transmitida, hicieron que la película fuera “secuestrada” por la Administración, que impidió su estreno hasta noviembre de 1983.

Un joven delincuente de poca monta y una vendedora de libros a domicilio, que ejerce la prostitución ocasionalmente como una derivación de su trabajo, ensayan una forma de convivencia partiendo de unos esquemas de libertad mutua.

En una playa barcelonesa aparece el cadáver de un hombre joven, con la cara comida por los peces y que lleva tatuada en el brazo la frase: "He nacido para revolucionar el infierno". Así comienza un extraño enigma. Para empezar hay que encontrar un nombre a este muerto, averiguar su identidad. Este es el encargo que recibe Pepe Carvalho, detective gallego, ex agente de la CIA y escéptico vocacional, lo que no le impide disfrutar y saborear los placeres de la buena mesa y la buena cama. Entre los bajos fondos de Barcelona y las calles y canales de Amsterdam, Carvalho no tardará en dar con la respuesta.