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1. La plaça del Diamant (1982)
111 min | Drama
The life of a young woman in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
Director: Francesc Betriu | Stars: Silvia Munt, Lluís Homar, Joaquim Cardona, Elisenda Ribas
Votes: 143
2. Caresses (1998)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: David Selvas, Laura Conejero, Julieta Serrano, Montserrat Salvador
Votes: 524
3. Virus of Fear (2015)
75 min | Drama
A young swim trainer integrity is questioned when one of the kids says something about him
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Roser Batalla, Rubén de Eguia, Albert Ausellé, Santi Ricart
Votes: 93
4. Actresses (1997)
100 min | Drama
A young drama student interviews three great actresses: an international diva, a television star and a dubbing director, and she discovers, in their memories, the grandeur and the misery of theatre: a real metaphor of life.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Núria Espert, Rosa Maria Sardà, Anna Lizaran, Mercè Pons
Votes: 146
5. Beloved/Friend (1999)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Jaume, a sick professor of literature, decides to leave his heritage "an essay on the book of Ramón Llull" to his best student David, a hustler.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas
Votes: 477
6. Merlí (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Meet the renegade philosophy teacher who's not afraid to speak his mind and break the rules to revolutionize his students' lives, including the son he barely knows and a student with a severe social phobia.
Stars: Francesc Orella, Pere Ponce, Carlos Cuevas, Marta Marco
Votes: 9,907
7. The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
TV-MA | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.
Director: Mar Targarona | Stars: Mario Casas, Richard van Weyden, Alain Hernández, Adrià Salazar
Votes: 12,561
8. Lowlands (1954)
99 min | Drama, Romance, Musical
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe, where a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between 2 men; a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Bernhard Minetti, Leni Riefenstahl, Aribert Wäscher, Karl Skraup
Votes: 470
9. Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait (1978)
85 min | Documentary
Portrait of Ocaña, a multi-artist who exploded the prevailing conventions in Barcelona during the last years of Franco's dictatorship.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Ocaña, Camilo, Guillermo, Nazario
Votes: 149
10. Informe sobre el FAGC (1979)
12 min | Short
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Miquel Cors, Pepa Palau, Joan Pera, Ernest Serrahima
11. El vicari d'Olot (1981)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy
In a small village in the heart of Catalonia, advantage is made of the holiday visit of an ecclesiastical authority to organie a series of talks on the subject of religion and sex in the present day.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Enric Majó, Enric Cusí, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Marina Rossell
Votes: 55
12. What's It All About (1995)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
An amusing minimalist frieze in fifteen episodes about human behavior (Desire, Submission, Love, Jealousy, Wisdom, Honesty, Sincerity, Passion, Faith...) situated between two fantastic stories about Willpower and Doubt.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Lluís Homar, Pepa López, Àlex Casanovas, Mercè Arànega
Votes: 271
13. To Die (or Not) (2000)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
Seven individual stories ending with each character meeting their doom are replayed with alternate endings, showing how one slight shift of events can change their fate.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Carme Elias, Lluís Homar, Roger Coma, Marc Martínez
Votes: 330
14. El mar (2000)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, War
Two young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Roger Casamajor, Bruno Bergonzini, Antònia Torrens, Hernán González
Votes: 1,570
15. El gran Gato (2003)
105 min | Documentary, Biography, Musical
A musical documentary that rummages around in the memories left by the extraordinary composer, lyricist and singer Gato Pérez, while attending his songs performed by popular voices of the Spanish current musical scene.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Luis Eduardo Aute, Maria del Mar Bonet, Tonino Carotone, Àngel Casas
Votes: 29
16. An Afternoon in Geneva (2013 TV Movie)
91 min | Biography, Drama
In 1971, Mercè Rodoreda met the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva and invited him to her house for a snack. Although she was a very reserved woman, that afternoon she surprisingly opened up and shared many secrets with him.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Vicky Peña, Joan Carreras, Cristina Plazas, Òscar Rabadán
Votes: 24
17. The Blonde at the Bar (1986)
90 min | Comedy
Mario is dominated by his castrating wife, and is also suffering from writer's block. He goes to a local (very mixed) bar where he meets an exhuberant blonde prostitute, through her room ... See full summary »
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Enric Majó, Núria Hosta, Ramoncín, Pepe Martín
Votes: 61
18. Puta misèria! (1989)
Comedy
Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in: kidnap the rich guy of the town.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Paco Morell, Antonio Ferrandis, Ángel Burgos, Amparo Moreno
Votes: 31
19. Aquesta nit o mai (1992)
R | 95 min | Comedy
The film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting ... See full summary »
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Lloll Bertran, Ángel Burgos, José María Cañete, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 64
20. Rosita, please! (1994)
91 min | Comedy
Rosita, a voluminous and temperamental diva of the opera, precipitately abandoned the shoot of "Tristan and Isolde" in Hollywood on hearing that the producer isn't going to offer her the leading role in his next film, "Romeo and Juliette".
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Amparo Moreno, Pavel Angelov, Mercè Arànega, Ángel Burgos
Votes: 7
21. Anita no perd el tren (2001)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Anita has been working at a cinema box office for almost three decades, but the building is demolished to give way to a cinema complex, and she is forced into early retirement because she does not fit into the new company's image.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Rosa Maria Sardà, Isak Férriz, Jade Pradas, Arlem Pradas
Votes: 346
22. Be Happy! (2019)
105 min | Musical
The MGMC presents a great show in London. Between the audience: Peter, a freudian psychiatrist married to a Finnish actor, Mika, David, a young British gay living in Banyoles, addicted to ... See full summary »
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Billy Cullum, Gary Wilmot, Matthew White, Juha Sorola
Votes: 86
23. Idiot Love (2004)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
One night, Pere-Lluc heading home drunk, hits his head on the aluminum ladder a girl is using to hang banners from the streetlights. As the days go by, he becomes more and more obsessed with her.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Santi Millán, Mercè Pons, Marc Cartes, Jordi Dauder
Votes: 523
24. Wounded Animals (2006)
94 min | Drama
Animals, when they've been wounded, lick themselves where it hurts. Nonetheless, they also pick themselves up and keep going; wounded, but still alive.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Jose Coronado, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Cecilia Rossetto, Marc Cartes
Votes: 164
25. Life in the Abyss (2007)
87 min | Drama, Thriller
As a flashback, a young man, living with his parents and with vague aspirations to find a better life, is fascinated by the confidence of a professional gambler, in 1972 Valencia.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Óscar Jaenada, José Sospedra, Antonio Valero, Juli Mira
Votes: 98
26. Barcelona (A Map) (2007)
90 min | Drama
6 characters--contemporary archetypes of urban solitude--in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Núria Espert, Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Jordi Bosch
Votes: 232
27. Forasters (2008)
105 min | Drama
A family experiences two traumatic events in a lapse of forty-odd years: the loss of one of the family members and how this affects the others; and the arrival of new neighbors, strangers, who upset the family and supposed social harmony.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Anna Lizaran, Joan Pera, Joan Borràs, Dafnis Balduz
Votes: 93
28. A la deriva (2009)
95 min | Drama
Anna returns from Africa where she had been working as a nurse for an NGO on the front line in an area of conflict. She gets a job as a security guard at an exclusive health center where she meets a troubled young man.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Maria Molins, Radoczy Arpad, Miquel Sitjar, Rosa Vila
Votes: 130
29. Mil cretins (2011)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Fifteen stories, some contemporary and some historical, where through humor, sarcasm and bravery accounts pain, old age, death and love but above all the human stupidity.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Jordi Bosch, Aleix Albareda, Mar Ulldemolins, Joan Crosas
Votes: 118
30. Year of Grace (2011)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
David is 20 years old and newly arrived in Barcelona in search of an opportunity. Gràcia, a lonely 60-year-old woman, offers him free room and boarding in exchange for his companionship.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Rosa Maria Sardà, Oriol Pla, Santi Millán, Amparo Moreno
Votes: 175
31. Ignasi M. (2013)
87 min | Documentary
Ignasi M. is a documentary about an eccentric HIV positive, gay, Catalan man, who goes about his daily life in a humorous manner. He meets with friends and family members and discusses with them politics, sex, art, and much more.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Ignasi Millet, Mercè Bonaventura, Jusep Boya, José Moltó
Votes: 71
32. Mecanoscrit del segon origen (1985–1986)
30 min | Sci-Fi
Stars: Àgueda Font, Guillem d'Efak, Moisés Torner, Maife Gil
Votes: 18
33. Second Origin (2015)
106 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alba (age 20) and Dídac (age 10) are the only survivors of a catastrophe that has devastated the planet. Their survival will mark a new beginning for humanity.
Directors: Sergi Lara, Carles Porta | Stars: Rachel Hurd-Wood, Andrés Batista, Albert Prat, Philip Hurd-Wood
Votes: 540
34. Cola, Colita, Colassa (Oda a Barcelona) (2015)
Documentary
Documentary about well-known Barcelona photographer Isabel Steva Hernández, known as Colita.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Pilar Aymerich, Colita, Beatriz de Moura, Núria Feliu
Votes: 19
35. Maria Rosa (1916)
50 min | Drama
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, James Neill
Votes: 28 | Gross: $0.10M
36. La febre d'Or (1993)
161 min | Drama
Director: Gonzalo Herralde | Stars: Fernando Guillén, Rosa Maria Sardà, Àlex Casanovas, Chisco Amado
Votes: 20
37. Salvador (2006)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Joel Joan
Votes: 3,450
38. Llach: La revolta permanent (2006)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Lluís Danés | Stars: Carlos Arias Navarro, Maria del Mar Bonet, Juan Carlos de Borbón, Sofía de Grecia
Votes: 50
39. Nosotras (2000)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.
Director: Judith Colell | Stars: Mercedes Sampietro, Eulàlia Ramon, Eva Santolaria, Laura Conejero
Votes: 72
40. Black Bread (2010)
Unrated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor
Votes: 5,069
41. The Red Band Society (2011–2013)
45 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young kids live in a hospital dealing with choices, love, life, and the people who make them stronger.
Stars: Àlex Monner, Joana Vilapuig, Igor Szpakowski, Marc Balaguer
Votes: 1,620
42. La vida lliure (2017)
90 min | Drama
Two little siblings live in the island of Menorca at the turn of twentieth century. Their parents are gone so they live in the countryside with their uncle, "Es Conco", who takes care of them while he cultivates the farm in raw nature.
Director: Marc Recha | Stars: Macià Arguimbau, Blai Bonet, Miquel Gelabert, Mariona Gomila
Votes: 96
43. The Wild Ones (2012)
100 min | Drama
Three rebellious teens test their limits.
Director: Patricia Ferreira | Stars: Marina Comas, Àlex Monner, Albert Baró, Aina Clotet
Votes: 564
44. Viure un somni (2005)
78 min
In the year 2004, the first edition of a new cultural event took place in Barcelona: the Universal Forum of Cultures. During 141 days it brought together people with different interests, ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Huerga
45. Mònica del Raval (2009)
108 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary, sometimes hard and sometimes fun, which pretends to be the self-portrait of Mónica, a peculiar quirky-looking woman who, for more than twenty years, has practiced street prostitution in the Raval district of Barcelona.
Director: Francesc Betriu | Stars: Mónica Coronado, Mariona Millà, Carles Rexach
Votes: 82
46. Vida privada (1987)
55 min | Drama
Vida privada, a 4-episode TV-series based upon the literary work by Josep Mª of Segarra, is first of all the nostalgic chronicle of an era, of a group of different people in crisis. ... See full summary »
Stars: Josep Maria Pou, Nino Castelnuovo, Analía Gadé, Antonella Lualdi
Votes: 7
47. La ciutat cremada (1976)
156 min | Drama, History
The story takes place in Barcelona following the disaster in Cuba until the Tragic Week, approximately from 1899 until 1909, by means of events which befall a family in that city.
Director: Antoni Ribas | Stars: Ángela Molina, Pau Garsaball, Jeannine Mestre, Montserrat Salvador
Votes: 137
48. The Death of Guillem (2020 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
In 1993, 18-year old Guillem Agulló, an antifascist, antiracist boy, is murdered in cold blood by an extreme rightwing gang. Based on a true story, his parents have to struggle hard in their quest for justice.
Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet | Stars: Pablo Molinero, Gloria March, Jany Collado, Mar Linares
Votes: 251
49. Frederica Montseny, la dona que parla (2021 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography
During the spanish civil war, Frederica Montseny, an anarchist leader, becomes ministry of health. She was the first woman in Spain to be part of a government.
Director: Laura Mañá | Stars: Màrcia Cisteró, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Òscar Muñoz, Miquel Gelabert
Votes: 58
50. Cançó per a tu (2018 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
A love story set out from the 1960s to the 1980s in Catalunya; a convulsive period of strong political views and convictions.
Director: Oriol Ferrer | Stars: Candela Serrat, Nao Albet, Félix Herzog, Paula Malia
Votes: 50
51. Summer 1993 (2017)
97 min | Drama, Family
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
Director: Carla Simón | Stars: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer
Votes: 8,464 | Gross: $0.18M
52. Story of My Death (2013)
148 min | Drama
Famous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Vicenç Altaió, Lluís Serrat, Eliseu Huertas, Noelia Rodenas
Votes: 843
53. El cafè de la Marina (2014 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Adaptation of a very popular Catalan play by Josep María Sagarra, El Cafè de la Marina (The Marina Cafe) is set in a fishing village in the early 20th century, where life is tough and ... See full summary »
Director: Silvia Munt | Stars: Marina Salas, Pablo Derqui, Miquel Gelabert, Marina Comas
Votes: 46
54. Barcelona Summer Night (2013)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Multiple stories unfold in Barcelona during Midsummer's Eve.
Director: Dani de la Orden | Stars: Francesc Colomer, Jan Cornet, Joan Dausà, Laura de la Isla
Votes: 1,395
55. El complot dels anells (1988)
90 min | Thriller
Director: Francesc Bellmunt | Stars: Stephen Brennan, Ariadna Gil, Mònica Huguet, Josep Maria Pou
Votes: 53
56. The Barcelona Vampiress (2020)
103 min | Drama, History, Horror
In early 20th century Barcelona, little Teresa goes missing shocking the country. When police start investigating Enriqueta Martí, the "Vampiress of Raval", they cover a much more sinister affair.
Director: Lluís Danés | Stars: Roger Casamajor, Nora Navas, Bruna Cusí, Sergi López
Votes: 551
57. Els papers d'Aspern (1991)
Drama
In this free adaptation of the Henry James novel set in the early 19th century, a writer/critic dedicated to the life of poet Jeffrey Aspern, receives a mission in London. He is to sail to ... See full summary »
Director: Jordi Cadena | Stars: Hermann Bonnín, Silvia Munt, Rosa Novell, Amparo Soler Leal
Votes: 26
58. Julia Is (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Julia goes to Berlin to study but once there, completely alone, she realizes that she doesn't know herself as well as she thought and that she has no idea what she wants to do while living in a completely new city.
Director: Elena Martín | Stars: Elena Martín, Oriol Puig Grau, Laura Weissmahr, Jakob D'Aprile
Votes: 545
59. A Stormy Night (I) (2020)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama
Marcos lands in New York only to find out his layover flight to San Francisco has been canceled. Having nowhere to go, he ends up in his friend's apartment with a complete stranger: Alan.
Director: David Moragas | Stars: Jacob Perkins, David Moragas, Jordan Geiger, Marc DiFrancesco
Votes: 649
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