19 Feb 1975
The Family Nobody Wanted
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
Criando ratas
Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship. Destructured families of low social classes are the perfect environment for delinquency, drugs, violence and broken lives.
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Ramón Guerrero José Antonio Francés Mauricio Manzano Carlos Victoria
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