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Adelfa Calvo has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
Dir. Oriol Paulo · With Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón

After seven years in a Málaga prison, a male stripper is released pending retrial and sets out to prove his lover framed him for her husband's murder.
Dir. César Benítez, Juan Carlos Cueto, Rocío Martínez · With Jesús Mosquera, María Pedraza, Cristina Castaño

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · With Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde

A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before it is too late.
Dir. Juan Diego Botto · With Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
Dir. Daniel Guzmán · With Miguel Herrán, Antonio Bachiller, Antonia Guzmán

Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
Dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca · With Javier Gutiérrez, María León, Adelfa Calvo