Honorato's Spanish Film Recommendations
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- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsAntonio CasalIsabel de PomésGuillermo MarínIn 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 only one able to see him. The mysterious man turns out to be the ghost of an archaeologist and asks the young man to defend his niece from a gang of hunchbacks.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsLucia BosèAlberto ClosasBruna CorràA couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- DirectorMarco FerreriIsidoro M. FerryStarsMary CarrilloJosé Luis López VázquezConcha López SilvaRodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old hovels. Rodolfo's co-workers start encouraging him to marry the frail old Doña Martina, the main tenant in his apartment building; according to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsCassenJosé Luis López VázquezElvira QuintilláIn 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 person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in its midst is Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because they lack the money to pay rent, and who must pay the second bill on his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsJosé Luis López VázquezCassenGracita MoralesGalindo 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 just before the fake ones.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn 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.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIsmael MerloAlfredo MayoJosé María PradaThree 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.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 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.
- DirectorNarciso Ibáñez SerradorStarsLewis FianderPrunella RansomeAntonio IranzoA couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsRafael AlonsoLuis EscobarAntonio FerrandisJaume 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.
- DirectorIván ZuluetaStarsEusebio PoncelaCecilia RothWill MoreA low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaAna BelénEncarna PasoIn a small Spanish village, Gloria, the imperious head of a troubled family, is devoted to her two sons. The brothers, Óscar and Juan, have frequent violent disputes. Óscar, the oldest, and his steel-willed mother run the family's grocery store called el Jardín (The Garden), which does a brisk business in the black market. Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When Oscar marries his lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. He also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, their son, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Years later, Óscar and Ana remain childless. Gloria wants to bring her illegitimate (and incestuous) grandson and only heir, into the family circle. As Juanito recovers, Juan returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsOmero AntonuttiSonsoles ArangurenIcíar BollaínA woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAlfredo LandaTerele PávezBelén BallesterosSpain, 1960s. The family of poor farmers work hard in the countryside for the rich landowners who exploit them.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsFanny CottençonBruno CremerFrancisco AlgoraViolence and delinquency are Fanny's only way of life. An ex-cop known as "el Gallego" was expelled from the police force because of his irregular methods, particularly for cruelly abusing Fanny. They're looking for one another, both with the idea of murder. However, a feeling that is very different from hatred begins to occupy their respective minds. When they meet, they won't know how to react.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsAlfredo LandaGuillermo MontesinosSantiago RamosA platoon of mismatched soldiers crosses the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is to fight on the village's patron-saint's day. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration, they want to butcher the animal to feed their famished troops. They get caught in the procession and must go through a series of funny and not-so-funny incidents before they can return to their side.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsJosé SacristánLaura del SolJuan DiegoThe 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. We assist to the end of an era.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsAlfredo LandaAlejandra GrepiTito ValverdeIn 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.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta SerranoA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsJosé SazatornilCarmen de LirioFrancisco MartínezA village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsCarmen MauraAndrés PajaresGabino DiegoDuring 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.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsVictoria AbrilJorge SanzMaribel Verdú1950s Madrid: After military service, Paco looks for work to save up and marry his fiancée. She rejects his sexual advances. So when he rents a room with a cute widow making advances, he caves in.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsFernando Fernán GómezJorge SanzPenélope CruzA 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsEmma SuárezCarmelo GómezAna TorrentSet in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsÁlex AnguloArmando De RazzaSantiago SeguraBent 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?
- DirectorAgustín Díaz YanesStarsVictoria AbrilPilar BardemFederico LuppiEscaping 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 tries to find work and earn some money...
- DirectorJosé Luis López-LinaresJavier RioyoStarsLaura MercaderElena PoniatowskaSara MontielThis is a documentary about the assassination of Leon Trotsky on August 21, 1940 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico by a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader.
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsJuan Luis GaliardoAmparo MuñozÁgata LysSantiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsAntonio ResinesMaribel VerdúJordi MollàRafael witnesses Marina, a woman with a glass eye, being attacked on the street by Daniel, whom she has known since childhood they both spent in the orphanage. Rafael rescues Marina from Daniel and takes her to his home, where a relationship develops between them. Marina is pregnant but Daniel doesn't want the child, so Rafael offers to be the father, being physically unable to sire his own. He and Marina stay together as a couple, then as a happy family. But once everything seems to be settled, Daniel--newly released from prison--shows up again.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsNajwa NimriFele MartínezNancho NovoIn Lapland's cold Arctic Circle, under the eternal midnight sun, unfavourable circumstances reunite two kindred spirits. And governed by circular motifs woven by faith and love, they must answer a pivotal question. Can they deny destiny?
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsLuis CigesJanusz ZiemniakPablo PinedoTwo extraterrestrial dwarves reside with an Earth couple who want to have a baby.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsMaría GalianaAna FernándezCarlos Álvarez-NóvoaWhile 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.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCecilia RothMarisa ParedesCandela PeñaA comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNicole KidmanChristopher EcclestonFionnula FlanaganIn 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.
- DirectorEnrique UrbizuStarsDafne FernándezAntonio ResinesMiriam MontillaOne day, some robbers forcely open some safe deposit boxes of a bank and leave the owner trapped inside. Looking into the "507" box, he discovers that the death of his daughter some years ago was not accidental.
- DirectorEnrique UrbizuStarsMay PascualGabriel MorenoAlfonso TorregrosaFito, 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.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSarah PolleyScott SpeedmanMark RuffaloA young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSarah PolleyTim RobbinsSverre Anker OusdalA 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.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzCarmen MauraLola DueñasAfter her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
- DirectorDaniel Sánchez ArévaloStarsQuim GutiérrezRaúl ArévaloMarta EturaJust as his childhood sweetheart Natalia returns, his infertile brother Antonio asks Jorge to impregnate Paula, Antonio's imprisoned girlfriend.
- DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsBelén RuedaFernando CayoRoger PríncepA 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.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsNerea CamachoCarme EliasMariano VenancioThe young daughter of sectarian religious fanatics faces a deadly illness soon after falling in love for the first time.
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsLuis TosarAlberto AmmannAntonio ResinesThe story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsFrancesc ColomerMarina ComasNora NavasIn 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 be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
- DirectorTono ErrandoJavier MariscalFernando TruebaStarsEman Xor OñaLimara MenesesMario GuerraChico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
- DirectorIgnacio FerrerasStarsTacho GonzálezÁlvaro GuevaraMabel RiveraAn astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.
- DirectorDavid TruebaStarsJavier CámaraNatalia de MolinaFrancesc ColomerIn Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.
- DirectorJon GarañoJose Mari GoenagaStarsItziar ItuñoNagore AranburuItziar AizpuruAne's life turns around when, week after week, she receives a bunch of flowers at home. Always at the same time and always without a senders note.
- DirectorDenis Rovira van BoekholtStarsManuela VellésMaggie CivantosAlain HernándezAfter moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.remove mistake
- DirectorAlberto RodríguezStarsJavier GutiérrezRaúl ArévaloMaría VarodTwo cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsLuis TosarJesús CastroEduard FernándezA small-time trafficker working in the Gibraltar Straits.
- DirectorPaula OrtizStarsInma CuestaÁlex GarcíaAsier EtxeandiaAs the Bride and the Groom prepare for the wedding in the pale desert, a tale of unappeased desires, forbidden yearnings, and conflicted choices unfolds. Now, three lovers stand powerless before the true nature of man. Is fate unavoidable?
- DirectorRaúl ArévaloStarsAntonio de la TorreLuis CallejoRuth DíazA hard-working single mother and wife of a getaway driver who is about to be released is approached by an unassuming and gentle man, completely unaware though of his inscrutable and utterly impelling motives.
- DirectorCarla SimónStarsLaia ArtigasPaula RoblesBruna CusíAfter 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.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsJavier GutiérrezAthenea MataJuan MargalloA basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsAntonio de la TorreMónica LópezJosep Maria PouA Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsBlanca PortilloLuis TosarMaría Cerezuela11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.