Directory of World Cinema: Spain
by PeacefulAnarchy | created - 25 Dec 2015 | updated - 25 Dec 2015 | PublicVol 7
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1. Un hombre va por el camino (1949)
92 min | Drama
Tall, strong vagabond Luis rejects the work an old gentleman offers him, causing his outrage. In his erratic walk, Louis reaches the top of Mounte Oscuro, where Julia, widow of a writer, ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Mur Oti | Stars: Ana Mariscal, Fernando Nogueras, Pacita de Landa, Julia Pachelo
Votes: 42
2. Jamón, Jamón (1992)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego
Votes: 15,098 | Gross: $0.94M
3. Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)
145 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Eduard Fernández
Votes: 13,894
4. All About My Mother (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 102,948 | Gross: $8.26M
5. Solas (1999)
R | 101 min | Drama
While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Antonio Dechent
Votes: 3,883 | Gross: $0.37M
6. Amanece, que no es poco (1989)
110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: José Sazatornil, Carmen de Lirio, Francisco Martínez, Ovidi Montllor
Votes: 4,241
7. Anguish (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové
Votes: 4,308 | Gross: $0.23M
8. Robbery at 3 O'clock (1962)
92 min | Comedy
Galindo 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José María Forqué | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Cassen, Gracita Morales, Katia Loritz
Votes: 1,351
9. Oh, Carmela! (1990)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Armando De Razza
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.30M
10. Belle Epoque (1992)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca
Votes: 11,405 | Gross: $5.97M
11. Bilbao (1978)
89 min | Drama, Thriller
A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Àngel Jové, María Martín, Isabel Pisano, Francisco Falcon
Votes: 654
12. El cant dels ocells (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Three wise men embark on a journey to see the newborn Jesus Christ.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat, Montse Triola
Votes: 615
13. Biutiful (2010)
R | 148 min | Drama, Romance
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella
Votes: 94,643 | Gross: $5.10M
14. Cielo Negro (1951)
113 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Manuel Mur Oti | Stars: Susana Canales, Fernando Rey, Luis Prendes, Teresa Casal
Votes: 365
15. Las tres gracias (1936)
124 min
Director: José Leitão de Barros | Stars: Alfredo Corcuera, Francisco Costa, Fuensanta Lorente, Carmen de Lucio
16. Butterfly Wings (1991)
108 min | Crime, Drama
The bitter life of a girl whose mother wants a boy.
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Stars: Silvia Munt, Tito Valverde, Susana García Díez, Laura Vaquero
Votes: 907
17. Carmen fra i rossi (1939)
96 min | Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a Falangist assigned to the University City is ordered to tour Madrid disguised as a Republican militiaman to deliver a message to a leader of the Resistance. ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Rafael Rivelles, Conchita Montes, Juan de Landa
Votes: 55
18. Chaotic Ana (2007)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7... until 0, like in hypnosis, through which Ana proves that she does not live alone.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Manuela Vellés, Charlotte Rampling, Bebe, Nicolas Cazalé
Votes: 4,808
19. En la ciudad sin límites (2002)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama
Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Hernández | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernández
Votes: 2,093
20. Contactos (1970)
70 min | Drama
A man and a woman living in the same pension, but different rooms, grow intimate behind the landlady's back.
Director: Paulino Viota | Stars: Guadalupe Güemes, Eka García, José Miguel Gándara, Camino Gárriz
Votes: 61
21. Cows (1992)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Torrent, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 3,935
22. Morena Clara (1936)
105 min | Comedy
Trini (Imperio Argentina) and her brother Regalito (Miguel Ligero) are two gypsy siblings stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique (Manuel Luna) accused them of the ... See full summary »
Director: Florián Rey | Stars: Imperio Argentina, Miguel Ligero, Manuel Luna, José Calle
Votes: 122
23. The Day of the Beast (1995)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bent 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?
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez
Votes: 23,807 | Gross: $0.02M
24. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla
Votes: 4,503
25. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,037 | Gross: $0.75M
26. El desencanto (1976)
97 min | Documentary, Biography
This 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.
Director: Jaime Chávarri | Stars: Felicidad Blanc, Juan Luis Panero, Leopoldo María Panero, Michi Panero
Votes: 716
27. The Dog in the Manger (1996)
119 min | Comedy, Romance
Having taken a fancy to her secretary, Teodoro, spunky young beauty Countess Diana of Belflor is alarmed to learn of his engagement to one of her maids, Marcela. She intervenes to separate ... See full summary »
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Fernando Conde, Ana Duato
Votes: 1,060
28. Carnival Sunday (1945)
77 min | Crime
The story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film.
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Guillermo Marín, Julia Lajos
Votes: 235
29. Dream of Light (1992)
133 min | Documentary, Biography
The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Antonio López, María Moreno, Enrique Gran, María López
Votes: 2,126
30. The Enchanted Forest (1987)
107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde, Paco Cambres
Votes: 1,641
31. The Executioner (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
An 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.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez
Votes: 7,440
32. Flamenco (1995)
100 min | Documentary, Music
As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés
Votes: 778 | Gross: $0.38M
33. Flowers from Another World (1999)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
In the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Damián, Alfonso and Carmelo will seek to establish a relationship with Patricia, a ... See full summary »
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejía, Chete Lera
Votes: 1,011
34. Surcos (1951)
104 min | Crime, Drama
The struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Luis Peña, María Asquerino, Francisco Arenzana, Marisa de Leza
Votes: 812
35. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,523
36. The Holy Innocents (1984)
PG | 107 min | Drama
Spain, 1960s. The family of poor farmers work hard in the countryside for the rich landowners who exploit them.
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Terele Pávez, Belén Ballesteros, Juan Sachez
Votes: 4,711
37. Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria (2006)
104 min | Drama
In this minimalist take on Cervantes' Don Quixote story, there are no windmills - only wind, trees, grass and sunlight. It is a soulful study of two lone figures against an unspoiled landscape.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat, Jaume Badia, Glynn Bruce
Votes: 738
38. The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)
103 min | Drama
After the death of her husband Bernada Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house for seven years. Adela, the youngest daughter, suffers the most. Pepe el Romano key to all women's despair.
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Irene Gutiérrez Caba, Ana Belén, Florinda Chico, Enriqueta Carballeira
Votes: 482
39. The House That Screamed (1969)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín
Votes: 4,129
40. The Hunt (1966)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 2,457
41. En la ciudad (2003)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Relationships are not easy. A multi-story film with intersecting lives in which adult relationships are closely examined during challenges.
Director: Cesc Gay | Stars: Mónica López, Eduard Fernández, María Pujalte, Alex Brendemühl
Votes: 1,151
42. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Having 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.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon
Votes: 5,588
43. La vida en un hilo (1945)
92 min | Comedy
Recent 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... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Rafael Durán, Guillermo Marín, Julia Lajos
Votes: 353
44. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A 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.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,265
45. Los últimos de Filipinas (1945)
99 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the time of the Spanish-American War, the commandant of a Spanish detachment in Baler, in the Philippines, realizes that the native people of his district are planning an ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Román | Stars: Armando Calvo, José Nieto, Guillermo Marín, Fernando Rey
Votes: 200
46. La vida mancha (2003)
127 min | Drama
Fito, a compulsive gambler, married with a son, has long time without seeing his older brother Pedro. Pedro come back alone to pass some time with his brother. This short and banal visit is going to change their lives.
Director: Enrique Urbizu | Stars: May Pascual, Gabriel Moreno, Alfonso Torregrosa, Martín Mujica
Votes: 542
47. Locura de amor (1948)
112 min | Drama
Queen Juana of Castile go insane as a result of a conspiracy based on the infidelities of her husband, King Philip of Flanders.
Director: Juan de Orduña | Stars: Aurora Bautista, Fernando Rey, Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral
Votes: 171
48. Main Street (1956)
99 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña
Votes: 1,663
49. The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Marcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico, Juan Calvo, José Marco Davó
Votes: 2,666
50. The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
106 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Two extraterrestrial dwarves reside with an Earth couple who want to have a baby.
Director: Javier Fesser | Stars: Luis Ciges, Janusz Ziemniak, Pablo Pinedo, Pepe Viyuela
Votes: 4,332
51. Mondays in the Sun (2002)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
This 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.
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina
Votes: 15,411 | Gross: $0.15M
52. Mutant Action (1993)
93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Juan Viadas
Votes: 5,787
53. My Life Without Me (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling
Votes: 25,850 | Gross: $0.40M
54. The Nail (1944)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A rural magistrate tries to solve the mystery of a man's death that turns to murder in the light of new events, while searching for his lost love, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who suddenly disappeared.
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Rafael Durán, Juan Espantaleón, Milagros Leal
Votes: 224
55. La escopeta nacional (1978)
95 min | Comedy
Jaume Canivell, Catalan manufacturer of mechanical porters, accompanies his lover on a hunt to relate to important people. The farm where it is organized is full of strange characters.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Rafael Alonso, Luis Escobar, Antonio Ferrandis, Agustín González
Votes: 2,226
56. Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she ... See full summary »
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi, Ángel Alcázar
Votes: 2,211
57. ¡Ay, pena, penita, pena! (1953)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Lola Flores, Luis Aguilar, Antonio Badú, Fernando Soto
Votes: 32
58. The Old Memory (1978)
Documentary
Documentary that revolves around the Spanish Civil War and the postwar period. It interchanges archive images with statements by Abad Santillán, Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, Frederic Escofet,... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Diego Abad de Santillán, Francesc Benages, Eduardo de Guzmán, José Luis de Vilallonga
Votes: 47
59. The Orphanage (2007)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 163,679 | Gross: $7.16M
60. The Other Side of the Bed (2002)
R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two couples entwine on their search for love.
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo, Natalia Verbeke
Votes: 5,846
61. The Others (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
Votes: 393,481 | Gross: $96.52M
62. La señora de Fátima (1951)
90 min | Drama
The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girs and one boy.
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Ines Orsini, Fernando Rey, Tito Junco, José María Lado
Votes: 110
63. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,367 | Gross: $37.63M
64. La cabina (1972 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Horror
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Agustín González, Goyo Lebrero, Tito García
Votes: 4,579
65. Placido (1961)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 3,773
66. Poachers (1975)
82 min | Drama
Angel 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.
Director: José Luis Borau | Stars: Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez, Ismael Merlo
Votes: 905
67. Poniente (2002)
96 min | Drama, Romance
After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. While fighting the community's ... See full summary »
Director: Chus Gutiérrez | Stars: Cuca Escribano, Jose Coronado, Mariola Fuentes, Antonio Dechent
Votes: 168
68. Historias de la radio (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Three 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Margarita Andrey, José Isbert, Ángel de Andrés
Votes: 582
69. Arrebato (1979)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 3,393
70. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,869
71. Red Fish (1955)
100 min | Crime
One night of storm, Hugo and Ivón arrive at a hotel in Gijón (Spain) accompanied by the son of the first one. They go out to see the sea raging and, shortly after, Ivón returns asking for ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Emma Penella, Félix Dafauce, Pilar Soler
Votes: 327
72. The Red Squirrel (1993)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, María Barranco, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 4,845
73. Los restos del naufragio (1978)
98 min | Drama
Mateo, a young man who has just suffered a love affair, finds work as a gardener in a nursing home. There he establish a good relationship with an old man called El Maestro (The Master), an... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Franco | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ángela Molina, Ricardo Franco, Alfredo Mayo
Votes: 63
74. The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara
Votes: 13,157 | Gross: $0.02M
75. 7 días de enero (1979)
124 min | Drama
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Manuel Ángel Egea, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Madeleine Robinson, Jacques François
Votes: 193
76. Shirley Temple Story (1976)
240 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Antoni Padrós | Stars: Rosa Morata, Dolors Duocastella, Monserrat Fontova, Carmen Rambla
Votes: 33
77. L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)
112 min | Drama, War
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, Maria Denis, Rafael Calvo
Votes: 233
78. The Silence Before Bach (2007)
G | 102 min | Musical
Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument ... See full summary »
Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Christian Atanasiu, Féodor Atkine, George-Christoph Biller, Christian Brembeck
Votes: 694
79. Skyline (1983)
83 min | Comedy
A Spaniard photographer (Antonio Resines) goes to New York in an attempt of selling his work. Despite his broken English and his shyness, he meet two editors that could be interested in ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Colomo | Stars: Antonio Resines, Beatriz Pérez Porro, Roy Hoffman, Jaime Nos
Votes: 176
80. Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
119 min | Drama
When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of ... See full summary »
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontserè, Joan Dalmau, María Botto
Votes: 1,741
81. La soledad (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama
Through 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.
Director: Jaime Rosales | Stars: Sonia Almarcha, Petra Martínez, Miriam Correa, Nuria Mencía
Votes: 1,483
82. Songs for After a War (1976)
115 min | Documentary
This 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.
Director: Basilio Martín Patino | Stars: Celia Gámez, Imperio Argentina, Miguel de Molina, Lalo Martel y los Reyes
Votes: 267
83. Habla, mudita (1973)
88 min | Drama
Grandfather Ramiro is on vacation at a mountain inn in the company of his family. He decides to send his people to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying that his health needs it. But the reason is another one.
Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Kiti Mánver, Francisco Algora, Hanna Haxmann
Votes: 168
84. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
Votes: 20,701
85. Embrujo (1948)
80 min | Drama, Musical
Manolo has discovered in Lola not only the great artist that the public is captivated for but an obsession, a love that transcends the limits of reason and that will make him fall into ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Serrano de Osma | Stars: Lola Flores, Manolo Caracol, Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera
Votes: 73
86. Strange Voyage (1964)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
Paquita 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Carlos Larrañaga, Tota Alba, Lina Canalejas, Rafaela Aparicio
Votes: 1,671
87. Los tramposos (1959)
88 min | Comedy
Two clever scoundrels somehow manage to live quite well without working--by using thousands of tricks, fakes, and schemes. But they gradually change their attitudes, and their devious ways,... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Lazaga | Stars: Tony Leblanc, Concha Velasco, Antonio Ozores, Laura Valenzuela
Votes: 317
88. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,507
89. Things I Never Told You (1996)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ann, a cute video camera store clerk, calls a suicide hotline when her boyfriend breaks up. She speaks with Don, who volunteers there when he's not selling real estate for his dad. By chance, he finds out who Ann is.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Lili Taylor, Peggy West, Leslie Mann
Votes: 1,589
90. Timecrimes (2007)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo
Votes: 68,822 | Gross: $0.04M
91. The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944)
85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín, Félix de Pomés
Votes: 871
92. Tren de sombras (1997)
88 min | Drama
A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
Director: José Luis Guerín | Stars: Juliette Gautier, Ivon Orvain, Anne Céline Auche, Céline Laurent
Votes: 637
93. Umbracle (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Absurdist protest movie set in Francoist Spain.
Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre, Miguel Bilbatúa, Román Gubern
Votes: 254
94. Un chien andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Pancho Cossío
Votes: 53,825
95. Un rayo de luz (1960)
110 min | Comedy, Musical
A man and woman have secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor, struggling actress and singer. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Lucia | Stars: Marisol, Anselmo Duarte, María Mahor, Julio Sanjuán
Votes: 227
96. Vida en sombras (1949)
90 min | Drama
His 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomés, Fernando Sancho
Votes: 312
97. Las voces de la noche (2003)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Salvador García Ruiz | Stars: Laia Marull, Tristán Ulloa, Vicky Peña, Juli Mira
Votes: 84
98. El viaje a ninguna parte (1986)
134 min | Comedy, Drama
The 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: José Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,860
99. Viridiana (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo
Votes: 26,148
100. Water-Mirror of Granada (1955)
21 min | Documentary, Short
As stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
Director: José Val del Omar | Stars: Pepe Albaicín, Juan Gómez Leal, Señorita Chon, Julián Goya
Votes: 396
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