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- DirectorNoel BucknerMary DoreSam SillsStarsBill BaileyRuth DavidowColleen DewhurstThe story of an American Communist militia that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the 1936-39 Civil War.
- DirectorMarta ArribasAna PérezStarsJosefina CembreroLeonor MediavillaVictoria ToroJosefina's personal journey back to Nuremberg, Germany, where she arrived as an immigrant from Spain being only 18, along with other 2 million Spaniards who left to Europe in order to find a future.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsPilar López de AyalaVerónica SánchezGabriella PessionThe true story of 13 totally normal young women who suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made-up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite their innocence, the 13 were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrongdoing.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsJordi MollàErnesto AlterioHedy BurressTwo students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsDiego Abad de SantillánFrancesc BenagesEduardo de GuzmánDocumentary 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, José María Gil Robles and Dolores Ibárruri, among others.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsKarra ElejaldeEduard FernándezSanti PregoWriter Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat.
- DirectorÓscar BernàcerStarsEulogio BordasTeófilo CandelasSergi CastilloBetween reality and legend, this documentary explains the history of the founding of the tourist Benidorm (Spain) thanks to Pedro Zaragoza, the mayor of the scooter: an unrepeatable character, able to create from nowhere a modern city dedicated to the leisure of the middle class and to sell it from London to Lapland with strategies of marketing that, even today, are completely incredible.
- DirectorAntonio Giménez RicoStarsAntonio FerrandisAmparo Soler LealMónica RandallCecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of bathtubs and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of his only child Cecil, a spoiled boy growing up not respecting his parents, forces him to face reality and cold facts. The film jumps back and forth in time to show his past and present through his wife Adela and Paula, the mistress of father and son.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsConcha VelascoJosep Maria FlotatsFernando Fernán GómezMadrid, in the forties. In the post-war period, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to enter the Celia Gámez Company, returns to Madrid after a provincial tour. In the same train travels Luis, undocumented young person to whom Paca allows him to spend the night in the room where she lives with her sick father. Paca's relationship with Julio, a mogul without remorse, offers her financial support, but Luis gives her the tenderness and love she does not have with Julio.
- DirectorAitor ArregiJon GarañoJose Mari GoenagaStarsAntonio de la TorreBelén CuestaVicente Vergara1936. 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.
- DirectorLaura MañáStarsMàrcia CisteróEmilio Gutiérrez CabaÒscar MuñozDuring 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.
- DirectorAlfonso Par
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsAnalía GadéIsmael MerloÁngela MolinaIn the summer of 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a bourgeois family with many children, spending their holiday near Barcelona, tries to remain neutral between the Republicans and the supporters of General Franco.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsInma CuestaMaría LeónMarc ClotetJust after the Spanish war, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.
- DirectorJuan Vicente CórdobaA look at the transformation of the Spanish city, Pozo del Tio Raimundo.
- DirectorGuillermo García-Ramos
- DirectorAlbert SoléStarsManuel Benítez 'El Cordobés'The history of Spain, since civil war until our days, told through the life of Manuel Benitez, 'El Cordobés', the most famous bullfighter of the second half of the twentieth century, and for decades Spain's symbol outside our borders.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJosé Luis GómezDiana Pérez de GuzmánPaca OjeaEarly Spain of the 20th century. Bad luck, misery and tragedies are a trend in Pascual Duarte's family. But when the weight of the things are too heavy to bear, a reckless man who only follows his impulses, will fall into a descent to madness that slowly alters the course of his life and of others as well.
- DirectorRamón Lluís BandeBetween October 1937 and November 1952 hundreds of Republican supporters took to the mountains of Asturias with two main objectives: to save their lives, and to continue their armed resistance against Franco. Many of them would die in those mountains. This film is centered on filming the places in the present where the major figures of the Asturian Guerrilla Group were killed.
- DirectorÓscar AibarStarsMaria MolinsAlex BrendemühlPere Ponce1936. The Spanish Civil War broke out and the Anarchist militia occupy the Lower Aragon. A Matarranya, Ramon and his wife Dora hide a secret ancestral to all other villagers. Near the farmhouse where they live, twice a year become visible some mysterious lights that come from the surrounding forest. According to family tradition, the lights illuminate a door leading into another world, where no one can bring back. What is truth in the legend when they find out an anarchist in love with Dora seeks a solution with Ramon and disappears through the light.
- DirectorGerardo OlivaresStarsJuan José BallestaSancho GraciaManuel CamachoA child is sold to a tribe in the remote mountains. However, he manages to survive and lives among a pack of wolves for 12 years.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsImanol AriasVictoria AbrilCharo LópezAdaptation of the novel by Martin Santos, which describes the society of the late 1940s, where humans lived like rats.
- DirectorManuel SummersStarsRosita PinedoGran GilbertGuillermo GorostizaSummers portrays with his camera several characters very popular at another time, but completely forgotten in their old age: a bullfighter, Nicanor Villalta; a retired football player, Guillermo Gorostiza, and an old animator, El Gran Gilbert, among others. All of them show the reality of abandonment and the decay of oblivion. They really are 'Broken toys'.
- DirectorPaco OrtizStarsManuel de AngustiasBambinoEnrique Bunbury
- DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsAdrien BrodyPenélope CruzSantiago SeguraThe film starts in the trip from Sevilla to Linares, where Manolete stops in Córdoba to see his mother. He will be remembering some passages of his life.
- DirectorHelena LumbrerasLisa MarianoThis film portrays the exploitation and misery of the Spanish peasants, but also their class-consciousness and their will to fight for their rights and freedom.
- DirectorMagda Calabrese
- DirectorOlivier van der ZeeAn intimate portrait of the dreams and aspirations of the last fishermen who fished in Newfoundland, their hardships and sufferings. A personal history that will show what life was like on board a trawler, while revealing what went wrong during those years, how and why.
- DirectorLucía PalaciosDietmar PostStarsJuan Diego BottoFelipe GonzálezJosé Utrera MolinaFranco's Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past.
- DirectorRoi Cagiao
- DirectorAntonio GonzaloStarsMaría Luisa San JoséJoaquín HinojosaMaría AsquerinoIn the early 30s, prior to the formation of the II Spanish Republic, a group of day laborers and sharecroppers from Andalusia fight and unionize for their rights. After the fascist coup that lead to the Spanish Civil War, some of their leaders are chased one by one by the landlords and the new Establishment forces that took control of the post-war Spain.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsÁngel AbadJordi CunillLola FerreiraFive former political prisoners gather to discuss about the political situation in Spain under Franco ruling.
- DirectorRobert BaharAlmudena CarracedoStarsMaría MartínFrancisco FrancoAdolf HitlerThe Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking 'Argentine Lawsuit' and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy. Seven years in the making, The Silence of Others is the second documentary feature by Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). It is being Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García.
- DirectorAndrea G. BermejoMiguel LarrayaStarsAlfonso GuerraJoaquín LeguinaCruz NovilloArtist and designer Jose María Cruz Novillo reshaped the image of Spanish private and public institutions after Franco's dictatorship. The film travels along with him through his career as it reflects the modernization of a country.
- DirectorGerardo Olivares
- DirectorLuis AvilésCésar Souto
- DirectorJulio Sánchez VeigaStarsMohammed AlfarganiAndrèe BachoudMustapha Ben MarzoukThis documentary deals with a corner of history which until now scarcely has been illuminated. Drawing on first-hand sources as well as the latest research on this area, it thus establishes new information on the Moroccan role in the Spanish Civil War and follows the personal trajectories of some of the remaining survivors.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsXabier ElorriagaMario PardoChema MuñozIn the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsJosé María AsínPatxi BisquertEnrique GoicoecheaThe childhood, love adventures, and ordinary life of Tasio, a coal maker in rural Navarre.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsGian Maria VolontèÁngela MolinaSaverio MarconiAs 1973 winds down, Francisco Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden, labor movements are repressed, and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an impeccable track record of dealing with enemies of the State: admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down. Daring plans are made, requiring a meticulous execution.
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsLucía JiménezJuan Diego BottoMercedes SampietroWinter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMarisa ParedesEduardo NoriegaFederico LuppiAfter 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.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaNorman BriskiLuis PolittiIn 1952 Spain, young Juan embarks on a quest through the Basque mountains to locate the renowned guerrilla El Andarín, hoping to uncover from him the fate of his father.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAna BelénVictoria AbrilAriadna GilAt the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsÓscar JaenadaVerónica SánchezMercè LlorensThe movie will cover the life of Camarón de la Isla (Jaenada), the legendary Spanish flamenco cantaor, from his beginning until his death. It tells around the relationships Camarón de la Isla struck up with people such as his wife La Chispa (Sánchez) and guitarists Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero.
- 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.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsMaribel VerdúJavier CámaraRaúl ArévaloOurense, 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 dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense.
- DirectorAndré MalrauxBoris PeskineStarsAndrés MejutoNicolás RodríguezJosé Santpere1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malraux, who joined the Republicans in 1936.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsVictoria AbrilAna BelénConcha VelascoAs in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorCarlos IglesiasStarsCarlos IglesiasNieve de MedinaJavier GutiérrezThe sequel to "One Franco, 14 Pesetas" - the Spanish migrants return to Switzerland in 1974 as tourists.
- DirectorDavid TruebaStarsAriadna GilRamon FontserèJoan DalmauWhen 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 Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about Rafael, who was a writer and journalist that returned to Spain from the Italy of Mussolini and founded the fascist party Spanish Falange, becoming advisor of the leader Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. When the lefts won the election in 1936, the Falange became illegal, and later there was a military coup d'stat. Rafael miraculously escaped from the shooting and was spared by an unknown soldier. Lola decides to write a book about the historic event and to disclose the identity of the unknown soldier. But her acquaintance Conchi advises that her work is affected by her lack of passion. When Lola reads a work of a student about the heroic former soldier Miralles, Lola becomes obsessed to find him and see of he is connected to the event.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsManuel LozanoFernando Fernán GómezUxía BlancoBased in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsXabier ArzalluzBernardo AtxagaTxiki BenegasDocumentary about the Basque nationalist movement in Spain.
- 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.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsMaría AdánezFrancisco AlgoraManuel AndrésMadrid, the capital of Spain in the 50s, it is still in a latent postwar period. A carousel of several survivors try to make a living in a gloomy country.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsLydia BoschJulia Gutiérrez CabaJuan DiegoSpain, late 1940s. Julia leaves Madrid after falling into a deep depression when his lover, José Miguel, a prominent painter and opponent of the Fascist regime, is incarcerated.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsManuel ZarzoLuis MarínÓscar CruzA bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsJulián MateosLuis RomeroCarlos OteroIt is the portrait of the life of an amateur boxer who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning into professional.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAntonio GadesMaría José AlfonsoVicente EscuderoThe girlfriend of a young gypsy tries to guide her life in a proper way but does not achieve it. When she gets difficulties because of a fight everything changes.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsIan HartRosana PastorIcíar BollaínDavid 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.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsCelia GámezImperio ArgentinaMiguel de MolinaThis 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.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsPenélope CruzAntonio ResinesJorge SanzA company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsImanol AriasVictoria AbrilAntonio ValeroFirst part of the history of "El Lute", a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60's, converting himself in a popular legend.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAlfredo LandaTerele PávezBelén BallesterosSpain, 1960s. The family of poor farmers work hard in the countryside for the rich landowners who exploit them.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsPaco Martínez SoriaJosé Luis López VázquezIngrid SpaeyAfter a vacation at a seaside resort, a Spanish mayor attempts to modify his small rural town for tourists in an attempt to make money.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsAlfredo LandaTina SáinzJosé SacristánPeralejos de Arriba, a quiet Spanish village, is a place where nothing ever happens. One day an emigrant called Angelino returns to the village to spend the holidays, driving a magnificent Mercedes and explaining beautiful things about Germany and its women. Pepe, fascinated by the stories of his friend, decides to emigrate also to Munich, but his dream begins at five in the morning, cleaning windows, and ends at midnight by sticking posters or washing dishes.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsJosé Luis GarcíaJoaquín Cascales ZarzoAlberto JiménezFour boys meet at a kiosk during a rainy afternoon. One of them must study and the other three go to the cinema, although they're too young to see the film. Andrés works as a hotel bellman and dreams of being a bullfighter, "El Chispa" runs his father's kiosk, Carlos is a student, and "El Negro" is a shy boy. The group of friends just wants to have fun, but reality forces them to deal with the problems of the adult world.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- DirectorAzucena RodríguezStarsPenélope CruzCristina MarcosMaría PujalteMadrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsPaco Martínez SoriaDoris CollEduardo FajardoAgustín Valverde is an old widower peasant who has always lived in the village of Calacervia, near Zaragoza. One day, he decides on a whim to go settle down in Madrid. When he arrives in the capital he is caught in the vortex of the Gran Vía's busy traffic. With great difficulty he manages to reach the apartment of Agustin hijo, his son, who has become a renowned doctor. His 40-year-old son lives a luxurious life there with his wife Luciana and their daughter Sara. But things are far from ideal: the three are annoyed by his uninvited presence, and he is troubled by the lack of moral values that seems to govern his relatives: frivolity, duplicity, and conceit reign supreme among them.
- DirectorJacinto EstevaStarsManuel CanoMarta MejíasAntonio GadesA compilation, in the form of a black and white documentary, of very diverse aspects of Spanish regional folklore, formed by peculiar customs of a still underdeveloped and primitive Spain and in which many of these rituals are related to death.
- DirectorAntón ReixaStarsTristán UlloaLuis TosarMaría AdánezA love story between Republican Dr. Daniel Da Barca and a rich businessman' s the daughter Maris Mallo during the Spanish civil war.
- DirectorGonzalo García PelayoStarsCharo LópezFernando ReyMáximo ValverdeDeep Andalusia: Manuela, the daughter of a Sevillian poacher who supports his family with the proceeds of their raids and killed shot by order of the chief of the village, marries Antonio, a servant of the rich landowner don Ramón, although the latter is in love with her. Manuela, with its natural beauty and sensuality on edge attracts the most diverse passions, with subsequent conflicts.