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Rafael Cobos has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant, awaiting trial for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Miguel Herrán, Javier Gutiérrez, Jesús Carroza

A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Eduard Fernández, Carlos Santos, Jose Coronado
It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Carroza, 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
Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez, Rafael Cobos · With Sergio Castellanos, Cecilia Gómez, Pablo Molinero
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