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- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsÓscar LadoirePaula MolinaAntonio ResinesBoy meets girl. Matias meets Violeta, his cousin ("prima") one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetarian. He loves meat. Many things separate them, but he moves into her apartment.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsÓscar LadoireSilvia MuntFrancisco RabalNatalio R. Petrof is the composer most quoted of the market. His songs are all number one on the sales charts. But in recent times things do not go very well. His label has commissioned ten songs for Zanna's next LP, but Natalio does not even have the titles. His girl, a psychiatrist, has left him to go live with another psychiatrist. Her mother is hysterical, since her father, who seduced her while fighting in the Russian campaign with the 'Blue Division' and who abandoned her when Natalio was five years old, threatens to return from Bolivia, after collapsing their mafia business with the arrival of democracy. But who really is in the limit is "Chuck" Camacho, the right arm of Natalio, his friend, producer and manager. If Natalio does not deliver the songs in a week, his brilliant career will eclipse. "Chuck" must do something. And he does it.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsAna BelénCarmen MauraAntonio ResinesPablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJorge SanzMaribel VerdúVerónica ForquéPolitical and religious prejudices are destroying the relationship between two teenagers in wartime Spain.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJeff GoldblumMiranda RichardsonAnémoneAmerican writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsFernando Fernán GómezJorge SanzPenélope CruzA 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.It's fairly inoffensive and intermittently charming.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsAntonio BanderasMelanie GriffithDaryl HannahA young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin brother.Two Much to endure.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsPenélope CruzAntonio ResinesJorge SanzA company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsFernando TielveAida FolchAriadna GilBarcelona, 1948: An old man living with 14 y.o. Dani and his mom, arranges for Dani to draw the cute 15 y.o. Susana, bedridden with TB. Her dad's friend visits Susana and her sexy mom and tells about her dad and Shanghai.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJavier ColinaDiego El CigalaNiño JoseleOnly Trueba's imagination could have conceived bringing together flamenco singer Diego "Cigala" and the Cuban-born Bebo Valdés to make this interesting concert, recorded live
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsRicardo DarínAbel AyalaMiranda BodenhoferWith the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, goes in search of the famous bank robber Vergara Grey, whose robberies have earned him a reputation he'd leave back. His plan for a daring robbery is complicated by the magical presence of Victoria, a mysterious young dancer.
- DirectorTono ErrandoJavier MariscalFernando TruebaStarsEman Xor OñaLimara MenesesMario GuerraChico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.It's entertaining to watch, and I enjoyed the way they slipped in such real-life figures as Dizzy Gillespie beside the fictional leads.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJean RochefortAida FolchClaudia CardinaleIn 1943, a sculptor is inspired by a young woman who has escaped from a refugee camp.This film has its own nature, almost its own reality. The sudden finish almost seems meant to make it our responsibility to comprehend the whole.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsPenélope CruzAntonio ResinesNeus AsensiNearly twenty years after the events of "The Girl of Your Dreams." in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.Trueba is having so much fun revisiting characters from 1998's "The Girl of Your Dreams" that he's forgotten how to build a story out of multiple strands and make it all work.