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- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsIsrael Gómez RomeroFrancisco José Gómez RomeroJesús Olvera MotaA documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsClaudio RodríguezVicente CopeteAntonio LópezExploration of a particularly dark zone of the Francoism along with three executioners of death sentences still active in the Spain of the early seventies. Beyond the allegation against capital punishment, the documentary explores the personal story of the three men and their ways of understanding the trade they perform, those executed by them in the garotte or the crimes that are punished. An implacable reflection on power and an atrocious portrait of the society in which those hangmen operate.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorEnrique UrbizuStarsDafne FernándezAntonio ResinesMiriam MontillaOne day, some robbers forcely open some safe deposit boxes of a bank and leave the owner trapped inside. Looking into the "507" box, he discovers that the death of his daughter some years ago was not accidental.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsLina CanalejasFernando Fernán GómezGemma CuervoTwo sisters who have a tumultuous sibling rivalry each try to find success, love, and status in 1960s Madrid.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorIván ZuluetaStarsEusebio PoncelaCecilia RothWill MoreA low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsFelicidad BlancJuan Luis PaneroLeopoldo María PaneroThis film is a documentary about the poet 'Leopoldo Panero'. His widow and his sons talk about death in general and in this special case and also about their own family problems.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsJosé IsbertPedro PorcelJosé Luis López VázquezSeventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
- DirectorAndré MalrauxBoris PeskineStarsAndrés MejutoNicolás RodríguezJosé Santpere1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malraux, who joined the Republicans in 1936.
- DirectorLorenzo Llobet GraciaStarsFernando Fernán GómezMaría Dolores PraderaIsabel de PomésHis director's only film, Vida en Sombras tells the story of a man who from his childhood falls in love with cinema and grows to be a director and cameraman. While struggling to make pictures he gets married and is seriously struck by the Spanish Civil War. Life events with lights and shadows mix with a deep love for movies which will prevail in the end.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsCassenJosé Luis López VázquezElvira QuintilláIn a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in its midst is Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because they lack the money to pay rent, and who must pay the second bill on his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsCarmen MauraEduardo AntuñaMaría AsquerinoThe accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsLucia BosèAlberto ClosasBruna CorràA couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsCarlos LarrañagaTota AlbaLina CanalejasPaquita and her brother Venancio, both single and childish, live in a small town near Madrid. Their bossy eldest sister Ignacia, also an old maid, dominates them. One night, Paquita hears her sister tell somebody about her intention to sell all the family wealth. Once the money is gathered, she wishes to travel to Paris with the mysterious person and get rid of her brother and sister. Paquita and Venancio are terrified...
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsHeinz RühmannSigfrit SteinerSiegfried LowitzHaving doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraGonzalo SuárezLuis HostalotThe vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsLola GaosOvidi MontllorAlicia SánchezAngel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanne MoreauMargaret RutherfordWhen King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of Henry V.
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsJavier BardemLuis TosarJosé Ángel EgidoThis is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsLuis CigesJanusz ZiemniakPablo PinedoTwo extraterrestrial dwarves reside with an Earth couple who want to have a baby.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsPepe AlbaicínJuan Gómez LealSeñorita ChonAs stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsJosé Val del OmarShort documentary featuring sculptures of Alonso de Berruguete and Juan de Juni in the Valladolid National Museum.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsArturo BaltarEzequiel MendezAn experimental film by José Val del Omar using various imagery based upon clay.
- DirectorJosé Luis GuerínStarsMichael KillaninPadraig O'FeeneyBartley O'FeeneyDocumentary in which the camera of Jose Luis Guerín returns, almost forty years later, to the same places where the mythical film of John Ford 'The quiet Man' was shot. The locality of Innisfree still keeps alive the memory of the filming among the survivors, full of historical references in the other inhabitants, as well as the particular way of seeing the life of the deep Ireland that Ford wanted to portray.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsBetsy BlairJosé SuárezYves MassardA couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
- DirectorFelipe VegaStarsRafael DíazJorge de JuanTeresa Madruga
- DirectorNarciso Ibáñez SerradorStarsLewis FianderPrunella RansomeAntonio IranzoA couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
- DirectorEusebio Fernández ArdavínNemesio M. SobrevilaStarsMaría AnayaRicardo BarojaFaustino BretañoTwo couples are having problems. To be happily married, they need to overcome the problems. One of them is an optimist, and his friend is pessimist. The philosopher Camus, surrealistic movie-maker, should awaken in friends a sixth sense.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsCelia GámezImperio ArgentinaMiguel de MolinaThis documentary is frame in the spanish hyper realism. A journey through the legendary songs of Franco dictatorship. With the colaboration of the wonderful singer Imperio Argentina.
- DirectorFrancisco Rovira BeletaStarsCarmen AmayaSara LezanaDaniel MartínA boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.
- DirectorJacinto EstevaStarsManuel CanoMarta MejíasAntonio GadesA compilation, in the form of a black and white documentary, of very diverse aspects of Spanish regional folklore, formed by peculiar customs of a still underdeveloped and primitive Spain and in which many of these rituals are related to death.
- DirectorFrancisco Pérez-DolzStarsJosé SuárezLuis PeñaCarlos OteroIn this noir film, two outlaw men, Martín and Antoine, get in touch with Román in order to obtain machine guns and a fourth men for a robbery, in the Barcelona of the 60s.
- DirectorJoaquim JordàNúria VillazánStarsValentí AgustíFrancisco FrancoJoaquim JordàWhile the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in 1935, filmmakers Jordá and Villazán (who were mental patients once in their lives) reflect on modern psychiatric therapies. The title refers to the chimpanzee Becky, whose frontal lobes were removed by American physiologists John Fulton and C.F. Jacobsen, to modify her aggressive conduct in the 1930s.
- DirectorMarc RechaStarsCorinne AlbaSalvador DolcOna Planas
- DirectorSalvador García RuizStarsÀlex CasanovasJorge AlcázarPepa PedrocheUna historia de dos vidas qie convergen: la del adolescente Ramón y la del abogado Marcelo. El chaval sufre las consecuencias de unas muertes fortuitas que lo obligan a ingresar en un centro de acogida. El letrado, amigo de la família del crío, se ocupa de su caso, lo que lo devuelve a un barrio, Vallecas, del que huyó y que ahora le trae recuerdos de su pasado. La amistad de Aníbal y la relación matrimonial con Sara salvan a uno y a otro de sus demonios.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsLolita SevillaManolo MoránJosé IsbertAfter finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
- DirectorEnrique BrasóStarsGeraldine ChaplinJosé Luis GómezEusebio PoncelaAfter spending several years in England, the writer Luis Bosch returns to Spain in search of Paulina, a woman whose love he once scorned for being too focused on his career and himself. In the course of his search, Bosch will discover that Paulina gave herself to another man out of desperation, dying a short time later.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsRosario FloresJavier CámaraDarío GrandinettiTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsVicente ParraEmma CohenEusebio PoncelaA meat factory worker accidentally kills a taxi driver, and begins gradually killing people close to him in order to cover up his original crime. He starts getting rid of the mounting corpses stored in his bedroom through his day job.
- DirectorJosep Maria FornStarsAntonio IranzoMarta MaySilvia SolarMass inner migration in Spain from Andalusia to Catalonia in the 60s is portrayed in two stages: first the husband, who must adapt to his new country, find work and a place for his family to live. Then his wife and children. Any shock must be overcome by their vital needs.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsChristopher LeeHerbert LomSoledad MirandaAn analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsOmero AntonuttiSonsoles ArangurenIcíar BollaínA woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsVictoria AbrilJorge SanzMaribel Verdú1950s Madrid: After military service, Paco looks for work to save up and marry his fiancée. She rejects his sexual advances. So when he rents a room with a cute widow making advances, he caves in.
- DirectorGonzalo HerraldeStarsJosé Luis CervetoFernando ChamorroAntonio GarcíaDocumentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto
- DirectorFlorián ReyStarsFlorencia BécquerJulio Rey de las HerasDelfín JerezIn a measly Castilian village, the farmer Juan Castilla, his wife Acacia, a son and a blind grandfather, live the lives of poor farmers. Because of a litigation with the local petty tyrant, Juan ends up in jail. Then his wife leaves the village, in which seems to weigh a curse. When, three years later, Juan meets her with another man in a tavern, he forces her to return home and maintain appearances until grandfather's death.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsÀngel JovéMaría MartínIsabel PisanoA disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsSusana CanalesFernando ReyLuis PrendesA woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesRafael DuránGuillermo MarínRecent widow Mercedes nostalgically recalls her years of marriage with deadly-dull Ramón and concludes that she was unhappy. While traveling by train to Madrid, a psychic makes her see that there was a time she could have chosen another partner and shows her what life would have been like with the other suitor, Miguel Ángel.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsAntonio CasalIsabel de PomésGuillermo MarínIn 19th-century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number on which the ball will fall; the protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious man turns out to be the ghost of an archaeologist and asks the young man to defend his niece from a gang of hunchbacks.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsGuillermo ToledoMónica CerveraEnrique VillénAn ambitious salesman will do anything for that big promotion he's been chasing, but inevitably, he will learn that there is no such thing as the perfect crime.
- DirectorMiguel PicazoStarsAurora BautistaCarlos EstradaIrene Gutiérrez CabaTula, a 31-year-old single woman whose sister has just died, decides to live in the home of her bank-employee brother-in-law Ramiro and his two children. She takes control of their lives, playing wife/mother without the sexual commitments or maternal responsibilities. Ramiro likes her because she adores his children, but she rejects his courtship. Desperate Ramiro tries to rape her and the priest advises her to marry the man. Tula insists on maintaining platonic relations and decides to take them to her village and, in the presence of relatives, redirect Ramiro's feelings to the memory of her deceased sister. Ramiro rapes Tula's young cousin Juanita at the earliest opportunity, but the rest of the family does not know until months later when it's obvious that she's pregnant. Ramiro is forced to marry her, and he takes her and the children back to the city.
- DirectorJosé Luis GuerínStarsJuana Rodríguez MolinaIván Guzmán JiménezJuan López LópezAn author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities of raising a building than the impact the project has on those who live in the neighborhood, including a teenage couple squatting in a nearby building, an illegal alien looking for work for himself and his son, and a neighborhood girl who becomes infatuated with one of the construction workers. The death of a stray cat and the discovery of a mass grave during construction also points to the tragic losses that are sometimes part and parcel of progress.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAmparo Soler LealAntonio CasasBenito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that he is possessed by a demonic spirit. And it will be precisely the stories that people are telling about him what start to make him go crazy.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsAna BelénFrancisco RabalJavier EscriváA man returns to Spain after getting rich in America. He falls in love with a woman who works as a servant in his cousin's home. Before marrying her, he finds out that she's had a torrid affair with a priest.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta SerranoA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsSerena VerganoRosa María MateoJosé CalvoBlanca, the director of the Municipal Library of a Spanish provincial city, receives a letter from Antonio Gómez, a partner she does not remember, in which he confesses his passionate love, alluding to the relationship between his secret feelings and the terrible crime that he just committed in a tavern shooting, in cold blood, on four customers who drank quietly at the bar. The whole city talks about the murder and, although the murderer is unaccounted for, Blanca has the feeling that he appears in her reveries.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaNorman BriskiLuis PolittiIn 1952 Spain, young Juan embarks on a quest through the Basque mountains to locate the renowned guerrilla El Andarín, hoping to uncover from him the fate of his father.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsJosé SazatornilCarmen de LirioFrancisco MartínezA village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsJosé Luis López VázquezLina CanalejasFernando DelgadoAfter being given permission to re-inter his mother's body in their family vault, a middle-aged man who survived the Spanish Civil War as a child returns home and relives old memories.
- DirectorMarco FerreriIsidoro M. FerryStarsMary CarrilloJosé Luis López VázquezConcha López SilvaRodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old hovels. Rodolfo's co-workers start encouraging him to marry the frail old Doña Martina, the main tenant in his apartment building; according to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsÁlex AnguloArmando De RazzaSantiago SeguraBent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveFernando ReyFranco NeroShortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
- DirectorJaime RosalesStarsSonia AlmarchaPetra MartínezMiriam CorreaThrough Adela and Antonia's lives, we have a glimpse of those brief moments of joy and sorrow common to anyone who lives in a big city.
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAgustín GonzálezGoyo LebreroA man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsPenélope CruzStefania SandrelliAnna GalienaWhen a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsCarmelo GómezRuth GabrielJavier BardemA member of the ETA terrorist organization belongs to a commando which is preparing an outrage in Madrid. But he sets other priorities when he meets a girl who is addicted to drugs and for whom he feels a strong attraction.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsAlfredo LandaAlejandra GrepiTito ValverdeIn the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsLuis TosarAlberto AmmannAntonio ResinesThe story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzCarmen MauraLola DueñasAfter her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsJosé SacristánLaura del SolJuan DiegoThe movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. We assist to the end of an era.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsAna TorrentConchita PérezMayte SanchezIn the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsFrancisco RabalMargarita AndreyJosé IsbertThree different stories whose central axis are radio listeners: several contestants have to get to a radio station studio dressed as Eskimo, a thief answering a call in the house which is stealing and a school teacher who participates in a contest to get money to cure a child of his village. The stories are linked by the love story of a speaker and his fiancée and through interviews of real celebrities from the time of film.
- DirectorGracia QuerejetaStarsLalita AhmedKenneth ColleyKarl CollinsLoosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsEmilio Gutiérrez CabaMary CarrilloElsa BaezaLorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsHugh GrantLizzy McInnernyValentine PelkaLord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.
- DirectorAchero MañasStarsJuan José BallestaPablo GalánAlberto JiménezAlfredo is a kid who begins in a new new school where he makes a friend, Pablo. Alfredo realizes that Pablo is a victim of home abuse by his father, and decides to involve his own family in order to help his friend.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
- DirectorNarciso Ibáñez SerradorStarsLilli PalmerCristina GalbóJohn Moulder-BrownA strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
- DirectorJorge BlancoJavier AbadMarcos MartínezStarsDwayne JohnsonSeann William ScottJessica BielAn alien civilization is invaded by Astronaut Chuck Baker, who believes that the planet was uninhabited. Wanted by the military, Baker must get back to his ship before it goes into orbit without him.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsJosé SacristánJuan EchanoveBarbara AuerMadrid in the 40s: in an old neighborhood tavern, every first Friday of the month at nightfall Moor Hauma organizes a unique and secret card game. The Caudillo, Francisco Franco, meets with several friends of Africa's campaign for a game.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaAna BelénEncarna PasoIn a small Spanish village, Gloria, the imperious head of a troubled family, is devoted to her two sons. The brothers, Óscar and Juan, have frequent violent disputes. Óscar, the oldest, and his steel-willed mother run the family's grocery store called el Jardín (The Garden), which does a brisk business in the black market. Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When Oscar marries his lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. He also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, their son, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Years later, Óscar and Ana remain childless. Gloria wants to bring her illegitimate (and incestuous) grandson and only heir, into the family circle. As Juanito recovers, Juan returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsAntonio FloresRosario FloresJosé Luis ManzanoThe relationship betwee two best friends from the outskirt of Madrid. When one of them gets the other one's sister pregnant they have to find a way to pay an abortion in order to avoid a conflict with their parents.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsGian Maria VolontèÁngela MolinaSaverio MarconiAs 1973 winds down, Francisco Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden, labor movements are repressed, and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an impeccable track record of dealing with enemies of the State: admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down. Daring plans are made, requiring a meticulous execution.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsMiguel ArribasCarmen MauraJoaquín HinojosaDuring Spain's general elections of June 1977, Carmen and Juan are a divorced couple, parents of a 14-year-old son; despite their circumstances they maintain a very close relationship.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsHéctor AlterioXabier ElorriagaMaría Rosa SalgadoJosé, a homosexual magician of 50 years, lived his childhood in Granada (Spain). His father was a gardener in the Buendía house. There he once saw Federico García Lorca. One night of July 1936, a group of fascists assassinated the father of José at the doors of the garden. Today José need to return to the place of his childhood. Maybe to recover the memory or perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to unveil Miguel, his current lover, the most hidden of his feelings.
- DirectorJacinto EstevaStarsFrancisco RabalMijanou BardotFrancisco ViaderA woman invades the privacy of two men living a secluded life in a forest on the Costa Brava. After becoming the mistress of one of them, she runs off to London with the other one but the two men meet up again and return together to Spain.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsFrancesc ColomerMarina ComasNora NavasIn the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
- DirectorCarlos DuránStarsSerena VerganoDaniel MartínIrma WalligA black and white playful capricious love story set in the modeling world of Barcelona in the 60's. The beautiful but engaged model falls in love with an outsider. She interrogates him about love in an endless and original dialogue during which they get closer and closer. His answers surprise her in a positive way, since they agree that all social limitations and ideas about love are a human misconception. Their outside world is set in smokey clubs, outgoing beautiful, freeminded people, uninhibited by the social norms in Spain in those days. Perfectly styles with dresses from Courège, this movie is also an ode to fashion and Gaudí. Hip, arty, sixties, rock Inspired by the Nouvelle Vague in a cheerful way. Sometimes the mainly black and white film gets interrupted with full color fragments for example when ADAM GRUP the Spanish answer to the Beatles plays a full length clip on the beach. This movie stands as a hallmark for the well known Barcelona School of film. Besides telling the close up story of two people in love, Carlos Durán offers a beautiful view on Spain and Barcelona in the sixties.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsPablito CalvoAntonio VicoJosé Marco DavóJacinto, a retired bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter in which he is informed that, according to an old agreement, he must participate in a mock bullfight that will be celebrated that day in Las Ventas bullring. The letter seems to him a joke in bad taste, since he has not signed any contract; but while Jacinto is picking up cigarette butts around, he checks that his name is on the poster.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEusebio PoncelaCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasA gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsRafael RivellesFrancisco RabalLyla RoccoDiego is taken as a child to Russia to avoid the Spanish Civil War. He will be instructed to spread communism becoming a political agitator. His next mission is returning to Spain and concerns his own father. His inner conflicts arise.
- DirectorArmand GuerraStarsPablo Álvarez RubioMarlène GreyGeorges MarckPablo is a boxer married to Aurora, a variety singer. One day, after walking through the park he returns home and surprises Aurora with her lover.
- DirectorFlorián ReyStarsManuel AlaresLeo de CórdobaLuis InfiestaAngela's brother is the most important bandit in Salamanca and is killed by Angela's husband. She does not say that he is her brother and her husband believes that he was her lover, so the child she is waiting for is abandoned in the house of the village priest.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsJosé Luis López VázquezCassenGracita MoralesGalindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
- DirectorGracia QuerejetaStarsAdriana OzoresNilo ZimmermanJoaquín ClimentAdolescent Hector faces a major lifestyle change after moving into his aunt's flat in a blue-collar suburb of Madrid.