A documentary that reconstructs the struggle of the female workers of a ceramic factory in Vigo (Galicia), closed in 2001.
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A documentary that reconstructs the struggle of the female workers of a ceramic factory in Vigo (Galicia), closed in 2001.
In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's lady-in-waiting.
The devil performs his magical powers.
A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.
In a second-rate variety company, a strange Hungarian fortune teller, a magician with a criminal record, a ventriloquist who uses a dummy named Freddy, a singer, and a group of girls who can no longer find work in top-tier theaters all live together.
Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
A coffee grower, still single at 40, decides to finally start his search for love by going to the capital city on the Dominican Republic.
The production by Calixto Bieito extracts all the potential from this work in a most convincing and spine-chilling way. The action takes place in a closed society of the 1950s, taking this story of witchcraft, sex and religion to the realism of imitation leather sofas, crochet cardigans, medical abuse and child molestation.
After graduation, five friends set out to make a difference in the world for God. Their ambitions are high and their passions are strong, but will they have the courage to fulfill their calling no matter what comes their way? The sacrifice they are asked to pay may just be too high. Through Godly council from an outside source, the group realizes that this is not their time after all, it's all His.
4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a demand develops into political challenge. Concha Velasco, Ana Belén, Tina Sainz, Juan Diego and José Sacristán are some of the artists who risked their careers and their freedom. This is the story, narrated by its protagonists, as it has never been told before.
A mental patient in a psychiatric hospital is escorted into an operating room, where electrodes are attached to her scalp. The doctors dissect his brain and we enter the brain with a loud, jarring cry. In this space detached from reality, a group of actors perform elaborate interpretive dances. They jump, land on top of each other, place their hands on their bodies and form various shapes.
30 years after Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone is still stigmatized for her role as a sexual psychopath. But the Oscar nominee has always fought against domination. She embodies the independent woman of the 21st century, who refuses to be invisibilized and a "passive" object, subjected only to the male gaze.
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?
The making of Iván Zulueta's film Arrebato (1979). Interviews with cast, crew, and producers.
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
The bonds of trust that unite two friends hang by a thread. They get drunk in a bar away from everything. Isolated and surrounded by strangers, we discover what that relationship of trust is like through small gestures. Who finishes the olives on the table can be decisive in tipping the balance.
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
A young boy lives out his dream, but with a heartbreaking twist.
Two's company, three's a dream come true.
Mario has prepared something for Cristina, but she doesn't seem very interested in knowing what it is.
Luzaida Cuevas spent years doubting that her infant daughter Delimar had died in a fire. When she spots a girl resembling Delimar, Luzaida battles skeptics to prove the child is hers.
We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don’t represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the anti-austerity movement in the Puerta del Sol square, who in 2011 shared their desire to create an original space of direct democracy. Like Irene Muñoz Martín. In this personal essay, she returns to this experience that has not yet found its “expression”: a canonical image that she attempts to capture, in vain.
Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festivals.
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.
Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.
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.
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r
Sole is cooking for her husband and her son. But that night something changes in her family.
Three brothers with no rowing experience take on the world's toughest row: a 3,000 mile race across the Atlantic with 50ft waves, exhaustion, seasickness and your two siblings - how hard can it be?
The owner of a luxurious yacht seduces attractive women to deliver them to a black crew member.
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.
A lesbian couple on vacation ends up staying with a sinister woman and her strange son in this Spanish giallo.
After a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.
Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. Juan also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, the lad, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Ángela, Ana, and his grandmother comply. As Juanito recovers, his father 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.
In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
Javi is a teenage student so shy and clumsy that he does not know how to attract the attention of his classmate Sara, a geeky girl who is only interested in a literary saga about vampires.
Esperanza and Maria Jesús are two orphans because their father, Don Fernando, dies. He shared his buissines with Martina Echave, an old lover, who hated him because she has always wanted to marry him. Esperanza and Maria Jesús fall almost into ruin for Matinas' handling. They had to take refuge with their aunt. Esperanza is Martinas' soon's girlfriend against her will, and they have a stormy relationship because José Antonio is also in love with her.
A divorced man tries to win over a lesbian, his new roommate, by becoming a transvestite.
The nephew of a Republican exiled during the Spanish Civil War is pushed to discover the fate of his uncle by a forgotten letter. Meanwhile, a researcher tries to discover what happened to another deportee after reading the novel "El impostor" by Javier Cercas. When the two coincide, they discover that the lives of their two ancestors are intertwined and end up unearthing the story of František Suchý and his son, who risked their lives and defied the Nazi regime from the Prague crematorium to save the ashes of more than 2,000 victims.
Josué's routines are violently altered the night his insane brother manages to escape.
Carmen is about to turn 100. She went blind 67 years ago when her husband accidentally poisoned her after giving birth. Since then, she has lived by the sea in the dark. The director explores the special world of Carmen Sanchez - a world full of zest for life and love for dance.
A man desperately searches for his girlfriend on the Costa del Sol.
San Sebastian, the year 2000, the Basque conflict continues. While writing a letter to her absent brother, Sara, a 15-year-old climber, is training for the most difficult climb of her life.
Alejandro has to discover what it is that keeps him in limbo.
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.
Is the seed of happiness planted during childhood? The early years of our lives, the ones we no longer remember, leave a deep imprint on us. But is that imprint permanent? Or does it perhaps evolve? This is the voyage to that place forgotten by the memory, a journey from the mother I have become today to the baby I once was.