In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
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In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Verónica Arizméndi (Edith González) gets the opportunity of a lifetime: A chance to study "The Descuartizador" (Jorge Reynoso), a vicious serial murderer who has gained notoriety thanks to the press and his sadistic crimes.
A research android travels through space to build reports on alien life forms. As he explores an unknown planet, his circuits begin to show oddities and malfunctions, jeopardizing the space traveler’s mission.
The first fiction feature by Spanish director Manuel Menchón reconstructs the banishment of writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) from Bilbao to Fuerteventura by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, as punishment for his openly dissident statements against the military regime, the King and the monarchic system.
Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in Argentina where the books that were forbidden during the military dictatorship are kept. After the exhibition of the books is suspended, she'll try to open it again.
Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.
The highest peaks of the mountains rage rise above the clouds. The high mountains rage of the mountains rise above the clouds. Sometimes they seem to merge with the sky. There is no god and neither there is devil. We are in the heights of the Peruvian Andes, more than 5000 meters above sea level, where Celestino a peasant hermit undertakes a healing journey with his cow Samichay, from the loneliness and height of the Andes to the chaos of urbanization and villages.
The shepherd boy Besame is lucky, with the help of the old maestro he becomes a student at the conservatory and begins to learn to play the flute. But the governor and other envious people lock Besame in a correctional cell to learn the ruthless rules of life. Here he is tortured, deprived of music, accustomed to money, and turned into a strong animal. Besame's metamorphosis frightens even the bullies, but the maestro saves the young man again - the sound of the flute washes away all the filth from Besame, returning love and freedom.
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
Just two days before the regional swimming championship for which she has trained for years, an unexpected event threatens Adri’s participation and she will have to take an important decision.
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.
Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.
One Thursday a month Lucas, Río and Marcos play cards at Xabi's house, the perfect host. It seems like a regular game until Xabi tells them what he has been doing during the last month
The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.
The story centers on Dougie, a teenage boy with an intense fear of animals. When he encounters the long-lost family parrot, Polly, he discovers he has inherited the special ability to talk with animals from his famous grandfather, Doctor Dolittle. At first, this ability feels like a curse to critter-phobic Dougie, but he overcomes his fear to help his new animal friends fight an unscrupulous feed company and save the city.
Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines of different nature. The result is four pieces around the creative process of these artists. Lois Patiño film their parents working on their paintings in their studio in Vigo, Jaione Camborda films dancer Janet Novás rehearsing for one of her pieces, Xisela Franco follows film director Margarita Ledo revisiting the location of her latest film Nation and Alfonso Zarauza reflects on the relationship between actress-director by putting together the work of Melania Cruz in two of their collaborations.
Alejandra, a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man. The note only shows a number, but Alejandra seems to understand its meaning. That night, Alejandra walks directly to a creepy downtown hotel, climbs the stairs and finds the man waiting for her in a room. The strange rendez-vous is not what it seems to be.
It’s saturday night and Pilar just wants to stay alone at home without being bother. But when the doorbell rings, her plans will soon change.
A young couple in 1973. Iria is a migrant worker from Spain; Hajo is a student from Germany. When Iria’s mother becomes terminally ill, they decide to leave Köln and take her back to Galicia. Their road trip leads them through a variety of social and political systems that existed in the 1970s, while their relationship comes to reflect the zeitgeist.
Marc, like every weekend, goes to his best friend's house to watch a football game. But this time the meeting is different, an involuntary finding will make him look at his colleague with different eyes.
When a family is murdered by bandits, the eldest son returns home and infiltrates the gang responsible without revealing his identity. He's playing a long game...
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
A young man Walks around the city with a mirror. He crosses paths with a blind woman and hurts her a little bit...
After a long night of drinking, Rigoberto (Armando Hernandez) and his best friend Nestor (Alan Ciangherotti) decide to prove their friendship in a truth or dare game. Determined to win, Rigo reveals a family legend about an old fortune buried in the desert by his ancestors. Nestor challenges Rigo to prove the legend is true and both men embark on a treasure hunt that will put them in the middle of a lethal vicious circle. En una noche de borrachera Rigoberto y su mejor amigo Nestor deciden poner su Amistad a prueba jugando "verdad o reto". Decidido a ganar, Rigoberto revela una leyenda acerca de una fortuna enterrada por sus ancestros. Nestor reta a Rigoberto a probar que la fortuna existe, así que los dos se embarcan en una expedición que los pondrá en medio de un círculo letal.
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the street and a journalist who is going to kill himself because he made public his penchant for crossdressing.
Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.
Sara lives in a foster-care facility. Her youth days seem to slip through her fingers while she awaits for her father to come back.
Luisa’s washing machine has stopped working. After the initial misfortune this will represent, it will actually become her perfect alibi to slip away from her slow daily routine. To her husband, the absence of the washing machine will become a greater absence, Luisa is not home anymore dutifully fulfilling her housewife’s chores.
At a party in Barcelona, Helena hopes to meet an old lover from who she is still in love. While the night moves forwards, her initial sensuality becomes disdain.
Science is capable of predicting the path of a wave from its origin to its end. However, the complex relationships that human beings have established with nature escape its reflection. The moment the surfer and the wave meet, the explainable becomes inexplicable, and science is no longer able to decipher that passion.
A businessman whose company is bankrupt decides to fake his own death with the complicity of his wife and her lover, a doctor who will be responsible for signing the death certificate. So he can collect a life insurance of five million pesetas, and the lovers will have the free way to get married.
Tomas wants to reestablish his relationship with his ex partner and first love Juan José. Throughout the conversation, Juan José confesses something unexpected for Tomás who enters into a dilemma between good and evil, love, the judgment of the other's feelings, the consent of the acts, the law and the church. This dilemma leads him to a decision without turning back.
One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
A modern take on the classic Cinderella tale.
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004).
In the night, the unloading of a ship carrying timber from Borneo, alters the functioning of a port when something alive is discovered down in the hold. Alan, a young agent on duty, must find a solution in an environment of profound moral crisis.
Tulipa, an old strip-teaser from a traveling circus, is replaced by a younger, more wild woman. She must teach the job to her successor or cling to an act that she values as true art.
Pure and honest, this intimate glimpse of future parenthood. Not least because protagonists Maria Rodríguez and David Verdaguer surrender themselves entirely to the process: during shooting, they really are expecting their first child. 'Els dies que vindran' captures all the beautiful and difficult moments of pregnancy.
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.
"The wound and the knife" is several things, or at least three: a documentary, a fiction and an essay. A documentary about the creative process of the last 5 years of the artist Emilio García Wehbi, a series of fictional scenes that dialogue with his work and a kind of essay on the body. In this sense, the staging is situated in the fragment, not only in the fragments of Wehbi's works, but also in the fragments of the bodies that make up those works. Thus, a little adrift and with a puzzle structure, in "The wound and the knife" I manifest a constant will to jump into the void, in this way the film denies itself as a closed work, but rather, what what it tries to be is a draft, the single notes that survived my own process.
A routine exorcism performed by a novice priest takes a terrifying turn where he must deal with evil in person.
Cecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of baths and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of Cécil, his only child, a spoiled boy who grows without respect their parents, will forced him to face the cruel reality of the facts. Jumping back and forth in time, we are shown his present and his past through his wife Adela and Paulina, the mistress of father and son.
A vicious maniac has claimed the life of gorgeous exotic dancer Paula and it isn't likely before police single out her lover Paula as the likely killer. As the investigations get underway, detectives find themselves thrust into a treacherous world of lust and perversion
When a troubled female detective investigates the group suicide of a class of Catholic School Girls, she stumbles upon a demonic plot to usurp the world of Man.
A young swimmer with sleep disorder deals with the sudden disappearance of her mother and the arrival of Rebeca, a mysterious girl who rents a room in her home. Unaided from the police and confused by paranoia, she finds herself engulfed in a struggle to maintain her sanity and get her life back.
In a northern Galicia coastal town, after losing her granddaughter, Marisa becomes consumed by revenge — hunting for a gun and the man responsible — as grief, guilt and long-buried secrets pull her family into a tightening spiral of violence.