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The Courier on Spanish Netflix boasts a talented cast including Aron Piper, Maria Pedraza, and Luis Tosar. Director Daniel Calparsoro brings gripping storytelling to life with The Courier, a crime-drama that delves into corruption. Follow the journey of a hustler rising to the top of a money laundering scheme in Spain during the transition to the Euro.

The Spanish Netflix film The Courier features a well-rounded cast and characters that make the thriller far more interesting. The upcoming crime-drama follows the story of a hustler who rises to the top of the corruption of the real estate bubble after the euro arrives in Spain. The Courier hit Spanish Netflix at the beginning of the year on January 16, 2024.

The Courier is from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro, who directed his first feature film, Salto al vaco, in 1995. In addition to this film, Calparsoro has gone on to direct films such as Blinded,...

Airing on Prime Video from Feb. 25, “Operation Black Tide” puts faces and character backstories to one of the most epic of feats in the annals of narco-trafficking.

The four-part Spanish-Portuguese drama-thriller also says much about the ambitions of the U.S. streamer: Its energetic targeting of local markets, and pursuit of tried and tested talent to explore new genres with notable production ambitions. Following, four key pointers to the latest Amazon series from Spain:

Capturing an Epic Narco Feat

Drug sub actioner “Operation Black Tide” is certainly one example. It hews closely to a dramatic real-life event: the detection on Nov. 24, 2019, off the fjord-indented coast of Galicia, North-West Spain, of a flimsy 70-foot fiberglass semi-submersible, fabricated in a clandestine shipyard deep in the Amazon rainforest.

On board were three tons of cocaine, worth an estimated street value of €123 million ($138 million), and three crew members who had piloted the drug sub...

Lisa Banes, an actor who appeared in “Gone Girl,” “A Cure for Wellness” and more, died on Monday after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident 10 days earlier in New York. She was 65.

On June 4, Banes was hit by a person driving a scooter in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to Variety. The driver was traveling north on Amsterdam Ave. and ran a red light. The scooter struck Banes as she was crossing Amsterdam Ave. near Lincoln Center with the pedestrian signal in her favor. She was transported to Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s Hospital in critical condition, suffering a traumatic brain injury.

The driver fled the location, continuing northbound, an NYPD spokesperson said. No arrests have been made in connection to the accident, and the investigation remains ongoing.

Since the 1980s, Banes performed in various films, TV shows and stage plays. She starred as Marybeth Elliott,...