Directory of World Cinema: Spain

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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

87 Metascore

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

75 Metascore

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

58 Metascore

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

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

70 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

82 Metascore

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

64 Metascore

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

57 Metascore

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

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

74 Metascore

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

47 Metascore

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

74 Metascore

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

98 Metascore

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

80 Metascore

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

71 Metascore

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

68 Metascore

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

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

70 Metascore

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

87 Metascore

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

68 Metascore

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

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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