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A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.
Loosely based on the tale “La Espera” by Jorge Luis Borges.
Angel, a university student who doesn’t like getting into troubles. Jorge, a ministerial police officer, returns to work after a time of absence due to a personal loss. Their paths are crossed in the violence of the night.
On October 4th, 2007 Arantza, the director of the film, was detained and taken to prison. She remembers a few things about those days: endlessly walking around the prison exercise yard, swimming competitions, Rasha's prison journey... After 918 nights locked up, Arantza is set free. From then onwards, she recorded her memories and doubts, which are heard throughout the documentary as a kind of fragmented memoir.
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history is told through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.
Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the inimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.
In the middle of a road, Adriano and Nina push a car until they reach a gas station. The couple has broken up after the events of a wedding, but while Nina wants to solve things out, Adriano takes refuge in the trunk and reality fragments as we enter in his mental chaos, in a space where past, future, magic and reality interconnect.
Film essay that narrates the coexistence between a young filmmaker and his grandfather, Jaime de Armiñán. The grandson writes him a letter that will take them on a journey through vital places in both of their lives.
The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother Julián, a newspaper columnist. Condal is an influential lawyer, who has great commercial projects of national interest. A foreigner coerces him to stop oil exploration through him. Julian learns of the plan through his sister, but keeps silent. On the other hand, Condal's daughter has fallen in love with Julian, to whom she has given her blood in a transfusion. In the end everything ends well, including the wedding.
Having turned 60, Adela is living a life she never wanted. She has no children, a husband who walks all over her and, worst of all, nothing to look forward to. Then one day she has the chance to win 300,000 euros and leave her old life behind. All she has to do to get it is kick a ball into an open goal from the halfway line at half-time in a Spanish league match. Accepting the challenge, Adela starts training for the big day.
26-year-old Amalia sets out on a voyage with nine-year-old Cristóbal through the remote landscapes of southern Chile with the intention of finding the boy's father. The search will turn into a journey through each of their personal histories.
Francisco, Isabel, Fco. Javier and David are captured in different parts of the world when they worked as "mules" to overcome the crisis. They tell their stories from the deal that turned them into traffickers to their release from prison.
Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary voice. Michael will be involved in the events of the troupe and incorporated into the show, going from town to town.
A secret organization of ex-sailors in Valparaíso hires a Frenchman to eliminate a rapist. Meanwhile Florencia, a young woman in the organization, is in charge of unwanted pregnancies. Forced to hide for a while at the house in Florencia, the Frenchman discovers the city and falls in love with his hostess. Escaping from prison and his feelings, he leaves the country clandestinely leaving Florencia pregnant.
A man takes his friend's place at a wedding in New York and falls in love with the bride.
In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.
The Momonsters are spending their first vacation in a campsite in the middle of the forest! Exploring the nature, doing outdoor activities, telling stories around a campfire… Any child’s dream vacation. However, over their first night there, they find the diary of a previous camper stating that there’s a treasure hidden in the woods. “Super cool!” but it’s guarded by a scary ghost. “Not so cool…”
Sara, a university student, is carrying an unwanted pregnancy and decides to have an abortion, but her boyfriend disagrees with that decision.
The story of the 1987 aviation accident in which the members of soccer team Alianza Lima died. The film goes through some of the theories and tales around the tragedy which marked a defining moment in Peruvian soccer.
Five strangers wake up locked in a strange building. They don't know who took them there or for what purpose. Throughout a night they will discover with surprise that an invasion is taking place outside that complex. And this motley group of strangers, for a reason they will have to figure out, are the ones chosen to try to stop it.
This grand opera, complete with ensembles and ballets, large choruses and orchestral set pieces, is given an appropriately grand treatment in this production by the renowned Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus" recorded at Valencia's Palau de les Arts. In the first part of the work, Padrissa plays with the present-day meaning of "Trojans" as computer viruses: his Trojan horse carries within it the infection that will cause system failures and, ultimately, destruction. In the second part, Carthage is presented as the mysterious seat of a future civilization, where human life is heading towards self-destruction through environmental disasters.
In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the resignation of travelers, and the landscape. The events are increasingly bizarre; there is no destination, only the journey as metaphor.
After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution
It tells the story of women who, because they are victims of desire, do not dare to denounce the violations to which they are subjected by the milkman. The only thing left for them is for the police commander to catch him and not end up falling like they do every night, a victim of desire.
Lucas, a young lawyer obsessed with crime novels, turns a chance encounter with a beautiful woman into a date ending in his bed. But when he wakes up alone, missing a secret stash of cash, the game’s afoot. Inspired by his favorite gumshoes, Lucas looks for clues. What was once a love story becomes the caper to end all capers.
A group of university students decide to act against a powerful and corrupt businessman.
El ángel de Budapest (Angel of Budapest) is a Spanish 2011 television World War II-Holocaust miniseries based on the book "Un español frente al Holocausto" (A Spanish against the Holocaust) written by journalist and radio executive director Diego Carcedo. The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II who helped to save the lives of thousands of jews from the Holocaust by lodging them in Spanish safe houses in Budapest.
In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. Camille, a nine year old girl wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombies and the armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone who might be infected. However, the little girl will find other kids like her that share a recurring dream of: they all have visions of the ocean as their destiny. Together they will try to survive the journey to the ocean in search of an escape from the military who seem to be as determined on their destruction as on the zombies. Written by David Pollison/Solos Website
The journey of a seed that departs from the archives of the Botanical Garden in Madrid, and ends in El Guayabo, an Afro-Peruvian village in the south coast of Peru, where the seed was originally collected in a colonial expedition around 1800. Believed to be extinct, the seed has been described in the diaries of a colonial botanist to be related to curative uses by pre-Columbian cultures, as well as to induce altered states of consciousness. Three female characters will carry the seed in a three chapter structure. Suspended in time, the seed is the medium that activates dialogues between the pre-Columbian world, colonial ruins, the unfnished project of modernity and a post-capitalist future.
Two fishermen and pelotaris, Josechu and Mikel, compete for Mirentxu's love.
Documental about the Second Independence of Chile. Images and videos from the period before and after September 11th, 1973
Bruno has a teenage son, Damián. In front of his house there is an abandoned factory where Cartucho, a squatter, lives. Bruno buys a used car and parks it on the factory lot and is forced to tip Cartucho to take care of it.
Tubérculo gets elected President of the Dominican Republic, with his friend Tirson as Vice-President and counselor.
A short by Diego Puertas.
Lola, who is obsessed with the fact that her late husband's grave is the most beautiful in the entire cemetery, faces competition for the first time: Antonio, a very gallant widower.
Spanish director Ventura Pons returns to documentary filmmaking with this study of world-renowned museum expert Ignasi Millet. HIV-positive yet promiscuous, accustomed to opulence yet now struggling to endure Spain’s economic crisis, Ignasi is a fascinating set of contradictions — and Pons’ film is a portrait of both the man and his times.
José Manuel and the other members of the ufology association Ovni-Levante meet weekly to exchange information about extraterrestrial messages and abductions. Julio, their leader, dies unexpectedly, leaving José Manuel as the only person who knows about the cosmic secret that could alter the human future.
Moira, a beautiful cabaret dancer, is hired to impersonate another woman — who turns out to be a secret agent who must receive an important message that contains the hidden whereabouts of a very important character from World War II who once absconded with a vast fortune in gold.
Tebraa is the song of the women of the Sahara desert. Songs of love or lamentation that they sing when they are alone. This collective documentary made by a group of Andalusian women tells the life and injustices that Sahrawi women experience in the adverse conditions of exile and in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
Lucía and Marta are a couple that are going through a crucial and difficult moment in their respective lives. They avoid opening up to each other, but both of them will have to face their own conflict and work out their future together.
It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperm is "few, vague and abnormal" and your woman is premenopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.
Carla receives a disturbing call from her mother, Anne. Her grandmother, Mamie, wants to die. With this news, they decide to travel to be together one last time and say goodbye to Mamie. The reunion, initially affectionate, becomes muddied as old grudges buried under a history of family abandonment come to light.
Bruno Corazzari and his gang are in jail awaiting trial. They hire Fernando Sancho's gang to kill the only witness who then take all the passengers of a stagecoach hostage, in Richard Harrison's inn, because they are unsure which of them is actually the witness.
Lorenzo is a market operator, who has just separated from his French wife. He is feeling very lonely, and his partner and friend decides to `bring him back to night life', going to nightclubs and meeting some women. However, this behavior does not fit with the personality of Lorenzo, and his friend shows him a place where he could buy an Asian wife after a trial period. Lorenzo gets enthusiastic with the idea, and brings a gorgeous woman, who does not speak Spanish, but is an excellent housekeeper, cook and lover. Lorenzo falls in love with her, and before they get married, he starts suspecting she has a lover. He decides to follow her, when many secrets are revealed.
The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.
Fino “El Michoacano” is betrayed by Chakas, a member of a rival cartel determined to seize control of his territory. Framed and imprisoned, Fino loses everything — his power, his freedom, and his place in the criminal hierarchy. After serving time, he is released with one goal in mind: revenge. Determined to reclaim what was taken from him, Fino sets out to hunt down the man who betrayed him and dismantle the empire built on his downfall. In a violent world where loyalty is fragile and power is everything, Fino will stop at nothing to settle the score — and rise as the new Chaka.