9.00 / AMC Networks International
women, protagonists
Hollywood Channel, HISTORY Channel, DARK, Odisea and the streaming service AMC+ offer special programs with women as protagonists. A large part of these titles will not only be broadcast on the channels, but will also be available on demand from the main television operators, for a total of more than 200 hours of content and 88 different titles. Among the standout content, SundanceTV shows the mini-series Sex with several young people of the age of sexual experimentation, as well as the cycle They star in March with great films like Precious, Mataharis or God is a woman and her name is Petrunya; Odisea premieres Season 2 of Jane Goodall: The Chimpanzee’s Hope, which focuses on the future of the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary, from the hand of famed environmental activist and her right-hand man, Rebeca Atencia of Spain; Canal HISTORIA presents the documentary Enigma de los huesos: La revolución de género, in which researchers discover archaeological flaws that challenge traditional gender roles; and Canal Hollywood and DARK are committed to two film series that focus on women.
3:30 p.m. / Comedy Central
‘Sex and the City’
Sex and the City. United States, 2008 (148 minutes). Directed by Michael Patrick Koenig. Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall.
After six seasons and a four-year hiatus, the glamorous girls of the hit TV series take their first and needless trip to the cinema to commit to something akin to a lengthy TV episode. The result was a huge box office success, which was followed up with another sequel to the big screen two years later. Despite everything, and if he’s unconditionally of this quartet, he can have his grace.
15.45 / Be crazy
‘Hidden Figures’
Hidden Numbers. USA, 2016 (127 minutes). Directed by Theodore Melfi. Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner.
Up until the tense decade of the 1960s, marked by the Cold War, the space race and the struggle for civil rights in the United States, filmmaker Theodore Melfi (also co-author with Allison Schroeder) moved to set the scenes for it interesting adaptation from the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. With a tight cast and well-knit plots, it tells the true story of three African-American women (real human calculators) who are vital in NASA’s space race against the Soviet Union.
17.30 / Movistar premieres 2
‘Blue Bayou’
United States, 2021 (119 minutes). Directed by Justin Chon. Cast: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien.
A few years after casting the blockbuster Twilight, Justin Chon directs, writes and stars in this well-intentioned drama about rootedness and belonging in the face of harsh immigration laws. While the well-rehearsed cast’s performances are believable and emotional at times, the ensemble lacks glamor and excess when it comes to capturing the drama of immigration.
18.15 / WE ARE
“The longest sentence in the world”
Spain, 2005 (101 minutes). Director: Roberto Santiago. Cast: Fernando Tejero, Maria Botto, Marta Larralde.
After winning the Goya for best newcomer for Días de fútbol, Fernando Tejero is the absolute protagonist (for better or for worse) of this sympathetic portrait of society, not without bitterness, which achieved a good collection at the Spanish box office. A traditional comedy by Roberto Santiago (The Suicide Club) without much pretense, but overall very entertaining.
21.30 / Movistar CineÑ
“Five Little Wolves”
Spain, 2022 (104 minutes). Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. Cast: Laia Costa, Susi Sanchez, Ramón Barea.
After struggling in the world of short films, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa takes the plunge to direct this intense generational drama based on his own experience. A visceral portrait of motherhood starring a Laia Costa who exudes credibility and gives life to a woman who has just become a mother and decides to return to her parents’ home. What she doesn’t know is that even if she is a mother now, she will never stop being a daughter. Winner of the Golden Biznaga for Best Film at the Malaga Festival 2022 for a story in which the roles in the family are reversed as the footage progresses.
21.45 / antenna 3
Laura Pausini returns to “El Hormiguero”.
A good friend from the program returns tonight for a chat with Pablo Motos, Laura Pausini, Italian singer Laura Pausini. As well as previewing her new single, which will be released on March 10th, at El Hormiguero the artist will talk about the spectacular celebration of her 30th music anniversary, which saw Pausini perform three concerts in 20 years in New York, Madrid and Milan -four hours.
21.50 / The 2
Passion and devotion in ‘Las tres puertas’
This week, Las tres puertas, the program of in-depth interviews hosted by María Casado, will be visited by three distinguished personalities in their different fields. Tonight the program is immersed in three different universes, by the hand of unique people who are in a moment of fullness in their respective careers: the actress Mónica Cruz, who, based on work, sacrifice and discipline, has found the formula for success that Researcher and neuroscientist Nazareth Castellanos, who will reveal the close relationship that exists and has been demonstrated between the brain and other organs of the body, and bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, whose unique way of understanding and capturing bullfighting has helped revolutionizing a discipline that wasn’t going through its most beloved moments.
22.00 / Movistar premieres
“The Passengers of the Night”
Les Passagers de la Nuitaka. France, 2022 (111 minutes). Director: Michael Hers. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita,
A warm, existentialist portrait of the life of a Parisian family in the 1980s, a time its director Mikhaël Hers transports himself to through archival footage, shot gritty and sometimes with a Super 8 camera, by the well-rehearsed cast, the effective Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), who gives life to a woman who has just separated and must face her new situation: support her two growing children and fend for herself. In between, a late-night radio show, a homeless teenager, and a pivotal moment of uncertainty and confusion. Best Screenplay Prize at the Seminci in Valladolid.
22.30 / Neox
‘Knock Knock’
Spain, 20170 (96 minutes). Directed by Vicente Villanueva. Actors: Paco León, Rossy de Palma, Alexandra Jiménez, Adrian Lastra.
Vicente Villanueva adapts the successful and entertaining play of the same name by Frenchman Laurent Baffie for the big screen. It does so with a cast with names such as Paco León, Alexandra Jiménez and Adrián Lastra, who give life to six obsessive-compulsive disorder patients who are summoned to the practice of a renowned psychologist on the same day and at the same time. But the psychologist doesn’t come. Based on this idea, the nonsense of insane characters, urges, obsessions and rituals are lined up non-stop. So he builds an erratic (but funny) comedy of manners with a touch of absurd humor.
22.30 / Be crazy
‘soft’
Sisi, the young empress. Austria, 1956 (101 minutes). Director: Ernst Marischka. Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Boehm, Magda Schneider.
After the success of the first part, this sequel comes with the same director and the same actors. Now the heroine, already married to Francisco José I, with her usual sweetness will devote herself to solving diplomatic tasks. After completion Empress Sissi and Sissi’s fate.
22.30 / The sixth
“The Target” travels to Iran
La Sexta celebrates International Women’s Day with a special edition of The Objective from Iran, paying tribute to the women fighting for equality in that country. Ten years after her interview with Ahmadinejad, Ana Pastor returns to Iran to see firsthand what happens after the murder of young Masha Amini, who refused to wear the veil and completely cover her head. There he will speak to women who refuse to obey discriminatory laws and who will make him visible on the streets. In addition, he will interview, among others, the head of national security in the Iranian parliament about the repression triggered by the protests, the arrests and even the hanging of several young people. In addition, the program team shows the moments of tension experienced in the streets of Iran because they wanted to film without veils in certain areas, the tour of the shops, the conversation with their shopkeepers and also what happens during the central act of the is anniversary of the Islamic revolution where hundreds of thousands of women come with black chadors covering their whole body.
22.45 / antenna 3
New episode of “Celebrity Circle”
In this fifth program of The Circle of Famous, Fernando Morientes, Carmen Jordá, Manuel Díaz El Cordobés, Ona Carbonell, Antonio Orozco, Eva González and Mar Flores will take part in the competition. They will demonstrate their uncommon knowledge of the unique categories that contestants face. Who will become an expert in categories such as skydiving, tortillas, WWII, Mary Poppins, Kennedys or UFOs, among others?
22.50 / Four
Changing roles in ‘Planeta Calleja’
For the first time, Jesús Calleja embarks on a journey to the planet Calleja blind: without knowing his guest, without having been to the destination country before and without being the guide and architect of the expedition. In this episode, the presenter lets himself be carried away by Colombia holding the hand of Laura Londoño, an actress from that country and protagonist of the series Café con aroma de mujer, the last chapter of which Divinity offers next Friday. Together they learn about Amazonian culture by visiting a local community that fights to preserve their traditions. In this exotic place you have the opportunity to witness an ancient ceremony performed by a shaman.
22.50 / The 2
The first “influencer”, Elena Francis
For more than three decades, numerous Spanish women had appointments every day at 7 p.m. with a fascinating figure on the radio: it was Elena Francis’ office time. 72 years after the show was first broadcast and almost 40 years after the last, Elena Francis, the first influencer, takes a tour of the most famous and long-lived office of Spanish radio, used by the Franco regime to indoctrinate the women. Women’s Day will be opened as part of the special program prepared by RTVE.
23.15 / Movistar CineÑ
‘Alcarras’
Spain, 2022 (120 minutes). Directed by Carla Simon. Cast: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xenia Roset.
The Golden Lion of the Berliner Festspiele confirms the undisputed quality of this moving generational drama that breathes truth in all its recordings, thanks above all to the impeccable direction of Carla Simón, a director who surprised the international scene with her debut, the award-winning Summer 1993. Exuding truth and realism, the story is based on the story of a family on the verge of losing the land they have farmed for eighty years. A worrying situation that each of its components faces as best it can.
0.50 / neox
‘3 More Weddings’
Spain, 2013 (95 minutes). Directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera. Cast: Inma Cuesta, Quim Gutiérrez, Paco Leon, Rossy De Palma.
After the blockbuster Spanish Movie and the less fortunate Ghost promotion, filmmaker Javier Ruiz Caldera returns to the fray with a new gangster comedy starring a more than nice Inma Cuesta. Now the actress gives birth to a girl. Because of these things in life and in the movies, she suffers as best she can from the nightmare of being invited to her three ex-boyfriends’ weddings in the same month. Something similar to Renée Zellweger and her Bridget Jones, but always with the pleasant stamp of Spanish comedy.
1.00 / The 1
The challenges of rural women
There are 5 million rural women living in Spain. A third are over 65 and more than half of those aged 20 to 65 are unemployed. Experts say rural women are key to fighting depopulation and ensuring a just ecological transition. In celebration of Women’s Day, Comando actualidad travels through less populated Spain to meet pioneering women who have broken new ground and continue to pave the way for equality. The program also celebrates 15 years on RTVE with a special on rural women.
1.11/AXN White
“The Great American Fraud”
American hustle. USA, 2013 (138 minutes). Directed by David O Russell. Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence.
The director of films like The Bright Side of Things and Three Kings, David O. Russell, now travels to 1970s New York to situate the plot of this calculated (if sometimes over-the-top) mix of drama, comedy, and intrigue A notable con, mafia and political film that received 10 Oscar nominations.
1.55 / Movistar Classic
‘The Decameron’
decameron. Italy, 1971 (106 minutes). Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Interpreters: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Silvana Mangano.
Brilliant Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini Pasolini presents a witty, irreverent and earthy compendium of eight stories about love, pleasure and lust. This critical reading of Boccaccio’s stories was scandalous at the time and has become a classic of Italian and world cinema. A scathing critique of today’s society that makes you think.
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