Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Widow’s Game’ on Netflix, a...

The premiere of The Black Widow in Netflix has risen from night to morning one of the most addictive true crime of the last decades in Spain. The murder of engineer Antonio Navarro in a garage in the Valencian neighborhood of Patraix, ordered by his wife, María Jesús, and executed his lover Salvador, hooked an entire country to a story, never better said, of film. Meanwhile, in the Unit of Mothers Irene Villa of the prison center of Fontheate, w…

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Widow’s Game’ on Netflix, a...

This Spanish true-crime story seems to be whacking at a thematic pinata to see what falls out.

This May 30, Netflix launches the film The Black Widow, a thriller based on real facts about the murder that took place in the Patraix neighborhood in 2017. The film, which promises to catch viewers with its real story and full of twists, features Carmen Machi, who plays Eva Torres, a police officer in charge of solving the mystery behind the crime of Antonio Navarro Cerdán. The case that gives life to the thriller began in 2017, when Antonio Na…

A Widow's Game Review (2025, Netflix)

A Widow’s Game Review: When a man is found with several stab wounds, the suspicion falls on the grieving widow. As the investigation goes on, the detectives make more and more shocking discoveries that change everything that they could have ever expected. A Widow’s Game Movie Cast Carmen Machi, Ivana Baquero, Tristán Ulloa, Pablo Molinero, Pepe Ocio, Pau Durà, Pedro Casablanc, Álex Gadea, Ramón Ródenas, Joel Sánchez A Widow’s Game Netflix Dir…

Netflix's film The Black Widow narrates Patraix's crime with Ibana Baquero and Carmen Machi.

'A Widow’s Game' True Story And Real-Life Maje, The Black Widow Of Patraix

Netflix’s A Widow’s Game is based on the real-life murder case of Antonio Navarro Cerdan, a 36-year-old engineer who was found brutally stabbed to death. On 16th August 2017, the police found Antonio’s body in a parking garage located on Calle Calamocha Street, Patraix, a neighborhood in Valencia, Spain, where Antonio lived with his wife, Maria Jesus Moreno. He had multiple stab wounds on his chest with none of his personal belongings missing, w…