The Odds

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as...

Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his...

July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames....

Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.

July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, police finds that the victim's associate, his...

Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is...

Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter's teacher hires an assassin to kill his wife.

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia....

A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.

On her deathbed, the sister tries to help her brother who, burdened with his poor background, can't figure out his life's directions after completing...