The Ministry of Time (2015)
El Ministerio del Tiempo
A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.
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A soldier from 1569, a female college student from 1880 and a modern-day paramedic must prevent two Frenchmen in 1808 from altering a war's outcome.
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The patrol travels to Lisbon in 1588 to stop Lope de Vega from dying before he writes his greatest works.
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The Ministry sends agents to 1940 after a man being chased by Nazis promises to show Heinrich Himmler how to travel in time if he'll spare his life.
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Ordered to pay millions for the death of the rabbi who wrote the Book of Doors, the Ministry sends the trio to 1491 to prevent his execution for heresy.
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The patrol must go to 1981 Madrid to find a copy of a missing bill of sale for Picasso's "Guernica" to ensure the masterpiece is returned to Spain.
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The patrol meets the novella-inspiring Lazarillo de Tormes while visiting 1520 Salamanca to capture a fugitive hiding from the law via time travel.
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The patrol travels to 1844 to stop the assassination of Isabel II at the hands of a Ministry rebel, and the disappearance of the Ministry altogether.
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When the Ministry learns a young Salvador Dalí has designed a film poster in 1924 featuring a tablet computer, the patrol is sent to investigate.
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The Ministry travels to the 11th century to solve a mystery involving the burial remains of El Cid. Julián faces the consequences of his actions.
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Pacino, a police officer who's been missing since 1981, reappears in the present and finds out he's now a suspect in the crime he was investigating.
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Pacino joins the team for the first time as they work to ensure that Miguel de Cervantes publishes "Don Quixote" in 1604.
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Spain's transition from a dictatorship to a democracy is in jeopardy when the life of a crucial Spanish politician's ancestor is threatened.
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Irene contracts the Spanish flu while on a mission in 1918. Susana insists she be brought back to the present, putting the entire Ministry at risk.
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The team travels to 1920s New York, into the world of magic and Houdini, as the Ministry's own existence is placed in peril.
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While hiding out in the Philippines in the 19th century, Julián makes a promise to a dying soldier that gets him into a dangerous situation.
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Salvador sends Alonso on a mission to save Julián from a lengthy battle during the Siege of Baler in the Philippines.
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A Velázquez painting is auctioned off in 2016. The only problem is it burned in a 1734 fire. The team heads to the Alcázar of Madrid to investigate.
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Irene looks into a mystery involving a group of avant-garde women artists who've been forgotten. The Ministry discovers the Vampire of Raval is free.
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On a tour of the Ministry, redesigned to look like a regular office, a suspicious paranormal expert barges past a barrier and through one of the doors.
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Ortigosa and Natalia's wedding is complicated by a hidden time portal and a romantic legend from the 13th century.
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Phillip II of Spain decides he wants the Spanish Armada to win in 1588. He gets a taste for time travel and sets his sights higher, focusing on 2016.
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Mourning a loss, the patrol is sent to foil a plan to kidnap Alfred Hitchcock during the premiere of "Vertigo" at the 1958 San Sebastián Film Festival.
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A Spanish spy's capture in Nazi-occupied France in 1943 jeopardizes Britain's Operation Mincemeat, critical to the Allied victory of World War II.
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When Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer writes one too many "Letters from My Cell," the patrol travels to 1864 Trasmoz, where a woman is accused of witchcraft.
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In the present-day Prado Museum, an invisible force slashes Goya's "Nude Maja," sending the Ministry to 1799 to convince the artist to repaint it.
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The trio travels to 1605 Valladolid after the attempted poisoning of a British envoy threatens the signing of a peace treaty between Spain and England.
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An 1881 assassination attempt on Alfonso XII pulls the agents into Spain's slave-trading past, forcing one to choose between family and the Ministry.
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When Luis Buñuel's "Viridiana" fails to pass Francoist censorship, Irene travels to 1961 with Pacino and Alonso to ensure the film wins at Cannes.
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The disappearance of a Spanish priest key to Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico sends Alonso and Pacino to the 16th-century Yucatán Peninsula.
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To find a portal to the future, the Exterminating Angel abducts Abraham Levi, who escapes to 1417 Peñíscola and begs Antipope Benedict XIII for help.
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Moorish refugees from 1609 inundate the Ministry headquarters. Alonso and Pacino must stop an assassination plot against Simón Bolívar in 1828 Bogotá.
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A cancellation of the premiere of "La Verbena de la Paloma" sends three Ministry workers to 1894. Alonso interrogates Arteche, who tells his life story.
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The patrol is dispatched to 1976 after learning that Adolfo Suárez is not among the candidates for prime minister of Spain.
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The 1966 debut of a TV series about the Ministry of Time threatens to prevent Chicho Ibáñez Serrador's "Historias para no dormir" from ever premiering.
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The patrol is reunited after three years to investigate a debuting actor who looks exactly like Julián, who was believed to have been killed in action.
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Alonso and Irene travel to the 1600s to the royal court of Philip IV. Meanwhile, Pacino and Lola must ensure that Pedro Almodóvar casts Antonio Banderas in his film "Labyrinth of Passion" in 1981.
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As the patrol makes its way to England to prevent Elizabeth I from being murdered before ever being crowned queen, Amelia returns to the Ministry to help Julián.
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Two teams are sent to 1937: Julian and Lola go to Madrid to investigate possible theft of Velazquez's Las Meninas. Pacino, Irene, and Velazquez go to Paris to ensure that Picasso paints Guernica.
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After Lola is kidnapped, Pacino decides to alter the past to save her - but messing with the timeline comes at a high price.
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When Albert Einstein is murdered in Madrid and his friend and fellow scientist Emilio Herrera is the prime suspect, Salvador takes matters into his own hands.
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In 1832, King Ferdinand VII is being poisoned. The Ministry takes him to 2020 for medical treatment and replaces him with a stand-in, but they must ensure no one discovers the switch.
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A dead body of a one-year-old is found near the Ministry's headquarters. As Salvador confesses to the crime, he offers an explanation by telling a tale of how Julian found himself in the year 2070.