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José Manuel Poga has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Arón Piper, María Pedraza, Luis Tosar

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.
Dir. Jose Mari Goenaga, Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi · With Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara

Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.
Dir. Dani de la Torre · With Luis Tosar, Michelle Jenner, Vicente Romero Sánchez
Angel, a young intelligent and kind, aims to be a police inspector. Rafael instead is an expeditious, forceful and arrogant policeman. Meanwhile, Miguel and Mateo are part of Group 7, a group of rogue cops ready to do anything to achieve their goals.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Antonio de la Torre, Mario Casas, Julián Villagrán
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade...
Dir. Kike Maíllo · With Mario Casas, Luis Tosar, José Sacristán
As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern.
Dir. Patxi Amezcua · With Isak Férriz, Iria del Río, Antonio Buíl

When a police officer is murdered and set on fire, all eyes focus on two other agents: his girlfriend and her lover.
Dir. Laura Sarmiento · With Úrsula Corberó, Quim Gutiérrez, José Manuel Poga
Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.
Dir. Nacho G. Velilla · With Alexandra Jiménez, María Adánez, Francesc Orella