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2025 continues to present new notable Spanish language productions.  Here are some current ones that I enjoyed enough to recommend as well as a few more  from the past few years. 

VIX/YOUTUBE: LAS ESTRELLAS  CHANNEL 

Sólo para mujeres (Only for Women) is a documentary (Episode one: "Los pantalones de quitarse los pantalones" free  onYouTube: Las Estrellas Channel/ remaining three episodes on VIX. ) Episode one is worth seeing on its own. 

Sólo para mujeres is an in depth examination of the founding and creation of the Mexican male strip show Sólo para mujeres  by Alexis Ayala and Sergio Mayer back in 1998.  You will be surprised to see who some of the performers were including Jorge Salinas. When I saw the ladies in  the telenovela  "La fea más bella" (2005) go to see "Sólo para mujeres" in the novela and Sergio Mayer showed up as a dancer (he played Luigi the art director in LFMB), I had no idea that "Sólo para mujeres" was a real-life phenomenon of its own.

Labels: Las Estrellas, MAX, Netflix, ROKU, streaming, Televisa, Univision, VIX, YouTube

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2024 was a remarkable year for a variety of Spanish language productions across streaming services. We saw the adaptation of Juan Rulfo's "El gallo de oro" that aired on broadcast channel Univision but produced by VIX (streaming service owned by Univision/Televisa).  That being said, that wasn't the only excellent production of stories new and old.

Here are some offerings from last year and the start of 2025 that I was impressed with and enjoyed enough to recommend.  

NETFLIX

Pedro Páramo 

This movie (about 2 hrs.) is based on the novel of the same title published in 1955 by Mexican author Juan Rulfo (El gallo de oro). It is the story of  Juan Preciado (played by Manuel García of Lincoln Lawyer fame and  a distant descendent of Juan Rulfo) who goes searching for his long lost father Pedro Páramo in a small deserted rural town cloaked in mystery, death and magical realism. 

Cien años de soledad  (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

This stunning adaptation of the 1967 landmark Colombian novel by García Márquez is a series divided into two seasons of eight episodes each.  Only the first has been shown. It was shot in Colombia with a Colombian cast.   It follows the Buendía family in their legendary town of Macondo over several generations  in a world ruled by magical realism. 

Labels: MAX, Netflix, ROKU, streaming, VIX

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