El amor no es como lo pintan is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan David Burns and Elisa Salinas for TV Azteca. It was broadcast on Azteca 13 from November 6, 2000 to April 27, 2001 for 165 episodes.

When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.

A gay couple adopts a child as they find out about the issues with gay adoption and the gay lifestyle.

Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray and boring existence. And all three are looking for something: a love affair in an exotic country. The destination is Tunisia, land of contrasts, from the deserts and beaches. But far from land into a paradise unprecedented journey undertaken with a group of quirky characters.

It narrates the sentimental adventures of five great friends, who must face compromising situations with their respective partners, with disastrous consequences, but no less fun.

After a disastrous attempt of marriage proposal, Juan Manuel's life has collapsed. But his friends try to help him with the aid of an unconventional therapist.

A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.

After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.

Love, music and entanglements: a showgirl tries luck in tragedy, but she will be surprised by the arrival of her son from Bombay, with ideas very different from those of Spain; while the successor of this one - and neighbor - gains a plus doing "favors" to the gentle admirers.

In Argentina there were clandestine human experiments covered by the military dictatorship in order to investigate the existence of life after death. Today Julian Roy escapes from prison to cover up past events. The price of this mission: Sitar, manipulate and hold incommunicate the whole town.

Marcos is a 35-year-old cadet, cynical, unbelieving, passive and pessimistic, with a completely individualistic philosophy of life, who after being involved in a bank robbery meets a mysterious man who gives him a new lease on life. To get his life back, Marcos must prove his innocence and decides to investigate what really happened in the robbery. When Marcos finally gets what he needs for his acquittal, he must make a decision: to remain the center of his life or to put the other person first.

When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him.

An esteemed piano tuner and repairer, Jacobo leads an apparently happy life with his wife, Helena. His serene existence is thrown into a state of confusion when insomnia creeps in, and pianos that previously repaired miraculously overnight remain unfixed. Jacobo plunges into paranoia and madness, hearing noises during the night and having ephemeral visions of a stranger roaming the house in a dressing gown. Helena reassuringly denies anything out of the ordinary, and suspiciously insists he is hallucinating. Is the life we think safe and secure true, or is there a second reality lurking? THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS NOT BEING DEAD is a tale of betrayal and forgiveness in a rich musical universe, set against the Franco era, a period of political deceit and distorted reality in Spain. Playfully, the tragicomedy questions our perception of reality and the vulnerability of our human condition.