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1. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Passed | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova
Votes: 10,227 | Gross: $17.80M
2. The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
112 min | Drama, History
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie Noëlle, Peter Sehr | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, María Valverde, Alba Barragan, Ainoa Ruiz
Votes: 591
3. 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: 5,068
4. La buena nueva (2008)
108 min | Drama
A young priest arrives in his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness of the military uprising that precipitates ... See full summary »
Director: Helena Taberna | Stars: Unax Ugalde, Bárbara Goenaga, Gorka Aguinagalde, Guillermo Toledo
Votes: 283
5. 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: 702,992 | Gross: $37.63M
6. Pájaros de papel (2010)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The lives of a comics and artists group in the hard times after of Spanish Civil War.
Director: Emilio Aragón | Stars: Imanol Arias, Lluís Homar, Roger Príncep, Carmen Machi
Votes: 792
7. 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: 4,516
8. Head in the Clouds (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 15,780 | Gross: $0.40M
9. The Whore and the Whale (2004)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Pep Munné, Mercè Llorens
Votes: 1,033
10. Triple agent (2004)
115 min | Drama, Thriller
France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Katerina Didaskalou, Serge Renko, Cyrielle Clair, Grigori Manoukov
Votes: 1,664
11. Fiesta (1995)
108 min | Drama
The title "Fiesta" is that chosen by Villalonga for his book, which this film closely follows; but it is a deliberate misnomer: "Fiesta" is about civil war and its horrors. An aristocrat ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Boutron | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégoire Colin, Marc Lavoine, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 318
12. El viaje de Carol (2002)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol ... See full summary »
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Álvaro de Luna, María Barranco
Votes: 1,085
13. The Baby's Room (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When ... See full summary »
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino
Votes: 5,745
14. Angel of Death (2001)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Olivier Martinez, Féodor Atkine, Alida Valli
Votes: 799
15. Los girasoles ciegos (2008)
98 min | Drama, History
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Roger Príncep
Votes: 2,274
16. 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: 1,740
17. 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
18. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,230 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Frozen Silence (2011)
106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In this World War II murder mystery, a series of bodies signal a serial killer on the loose. A cop turned soldier goes on a personal mission to find the sadistic, cunning killer.
Director: Gerardo Herrero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Carmelo Gómez, Víctor Clavijo, Jordi Aguilar
Votes: 693
20. Guernica (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 2,496
21. The Endless Trench (2019)
TV-MA | 147 min | Drama, History
1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara, José Manuel Poga
Votes: 7,295
22. The (Silent) War (2019)
TV-MA | 121 min | Action, Drama
A rebel revolutionary against Franquist's dictatorship who turns deaf after a failed sabotage tries to escape from the military forces who prosecute him.
Directors: Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, Esther Jiménez, Aníbal Ruiz-Villar | Stars: Asier Etxeandia, Marian Álvarez, Hugo Silva, Aitor Luna
Votes: 787
23. Psevdonim: Lukach (1977)
100 min | Biography
The last months of life of Hungarian writer Máté Zalka who joined the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Directors: Manos Zacharias, Sándor Köõ | Stars: András Kozák, Oleg Vavilov, Konstantin Zakharov, Vladimir Vikhrov
Votes: 14
24. Barkhatnyy sezon (1979)
102 min | Drama, War
A thriller about Russian participation in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.
Director: Vladimir Pavlovich | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Tatyana Sidorenko, Aleksandr Lazarev, Valentina Ignatyeva
Votes: 51
25. The Spanish Civil War (1983– )
315 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
Stars: Frank Finlay, Enrique Lister, Ramón Serrano Súñer, Narcís Julián
Votes: 196
26. Los Canadienses (1975)
58 min | Documentary, History, War
A film about the Canadians who participated in the Spanish Civil War.
Director: Albert Kish | Stars: Donald Brittain, Lib Spry, Kate Bader, Hugh Garner
Votes: 11
27. Land and Freedom (1995)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, War
David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy
Votes: 12,096 | Gross: $0.23M
28. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
29. Bethune (1964)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
The biography of Canada's most famous humanitarian doctor.
Director: Donald Brittain | Stars: Michael Kane, Lister Sinclair, Ted Allan, Sylvia Ary
Votes: 27
30. Bethune (1977 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, David Gardner, James Hong
Votes: 103
31. Ballade vom roten Mohn (1965 TV Movie)
58 min | Drama, War
Director: Kurt Jung-Alsen | Stars: Gunter Schoß, Günther Simon, Enrique Almirante, Alejandro Lugo
32. Lorca, muerte de un poeta (1987–1988)
118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of the Spanish poet and playwright Lorca, who was executed by followers of Franco in 1936.
Stars: Nickolas Grace, Antonio Iranzo, Francisco Jarque, Mario Pardo
Votes: 138
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