Hèctor Hernández Vicens – El cadáver de Anna Fritz AKA The Corpse of Anna...
El cadáver de Anna Fritz (2015) Quote:Anna Fritz, a beautiful Spanish actress and one of the most desired women in the world, has suddenly died. Her body is transferred to a city morgue, where a...
View ArticleJosé Luis Borau – Furtivos aka Poachers (1975)
Quote:In 1975 Borau made the film for which he is best remembered Furtivos (Poachers) (1975). The plot, set in the woodlands of Segovia, is a stark story of violence incest and matricide. Co-scripted...
View ArticleAmando de Ossorio – La endemoniada AKA The Possessed AKA Demon Witch Child...
La endemoniada (1975) An old witch seeks vengeance through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl’s head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to...
View ArticleJuan Miguel del Castillo – Techo y comida (2015)
Techo y comida (2015) A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son. Juan Miguel del Castillo - (2015) Food and Shelter.mkv General Container: Matroska...
View ArticleJon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga – Loreak (2014)
Loreak (2014) A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the...
View ArticleJulio Medem – La ardilla roja AKA The Red Squirrel (1993)
La ardilla roja (1993) Quote:Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and...
View ArticleJaime Rosales – Hermosa juventud AKA Beautiful Youth (2014)
Hermosa juventud (2014) SynopsisNatalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to....
View ArticleAntonio Naharro &Álvaro Pastor – Yo, también aka Me Too (2009)
Yo, también aka Me Too (2009) Quote: Thirty-four-year-old Daniel is the first European with Down syndrome to have graduated from university. He starts a social services job in Seville, where he meets...
View ArticleJosé Luis Borau – La Sabina (1979)
La Sabina (1979) English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a...
View ArticleCarlos Saura – Carmen (1983)
Carmen (1983) Quote:In an early episode in Carmen, Carlos Saura’s second dance film with renowned flamenco artist Antonio Gades (in what would inevitably prove to be the second film of their...
View ArticleFernando Franco – La herida AKA Wounded (2013)
La herida (2013) Ana is 28. She feels useful and satisfied in her routine work helping others. Nevertheless, outside of her working day, Ana has serious problems relating to people. She is socially...
View ArticleFernando Fernán Gómez – El viaje a ninguna parte AKA Voyage to Nowhere (1986)
El viaje a ninguna parte (1986) The spirit, hopes, and failures of a troupe of itinerant performers in the 1950s create a poignant, humorous leitmotif in this drama by Fernando Fernan-Gomez. The story...
View ArticleJosé Luis Cuerda – Tiempo después (2018)
Tiempo después (2018) Quote:In a post-apocalyptic future, the whole world has been reduced to one official building where the establishment lives and a few outskirts counting thousands of unemployed....
View ArticleJordi Cadena & Judith Colell – Elisa K (2010)
Elisa K (2010) At eleven, everything in Elisa’s life will lose its innocence. One day whilst her father is asleep and her brother is on a swing outside, her father’s friend will rape her, as she cries...
View ArticleIsabel Coixet – Cosas que nunca te dije AKA Things I Never Told You (1996)
Cosas que nunca te dije (1996) Ann’s boyfriend leaves her in Prague after suddenly announcing that he doesn’t love her anymore. Lonely, Ann calls a helpline and meets another man, depressed and...
View ArticleJosé Antonio de la Loma – La redada AKA Barcelona Kill (1973)
La redada (1973) The story of a female journalist and her boyfriend who inadvertently get involved with murder and mayhem and must run for their lives pursued by the Barcelona Mob. Barcelona Kill...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar – Extraña forma de vida aka Strange Way of Life (2023)
Strange Way of Life (2023) After twenty-five years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason...
View ArticleMargarita Alexandre & Rafael María Torrecilla – Cristo (1954)
Cristo (1954) Sonia García López (via DeepL) wrote:Cristo is the first feature film directed and produced by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael Torrecilla. Evoking the work of Luciano Emmer, this art...
View ArticleEdgar Neville – El crimen de la calle de Bordadores (1946)
El crimen de la calle de Bordadores (1946) On a dark night, the body of a well-known society woman is found; the investigators immediately suspect that the killer was the woman’s maid. For her part,...
View ArticleItsaso Arana – Las chicas están bien AKA The Girls Are Alright (2023)
Las chicas están bien (2023) Quote:Four actresses and a writer spend a summer week in an old mill to rehearse a play. During those days, the girls will get to know each other and measure themselves...
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