Released Date:
2002-09-27
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France, Italy
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (9231 Reviews)
Director:
Fernando Leèn de AranoaFernando Leèn de Aranoa (screenplay)
Ignacio del Moral (screenplay)
2001: men without jobs, in the port city of Vigo. Six men worked in a shipyard, now shuttered. They pass the time at La Naval, a bar opened by one of them after the yard closed. They face their futures in makeshift ways: Rico has his bar and a sharp 15-year-old daughter, Reina has become a watchman and a moralizer, Lino fills out job applications, Amador drinks heavily and talks of his wife's return; Josè is married to Ana, who works at a cannery and tires of being the breadwinner amidst Josè's emasculated moodiness; Santa, the group's conscience and troublemaker, occasionally fantasizes about Australia. In truth, all are joined like Siamese twins, adrift.
Released Date:
2003-10-10
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (4585 Reviews)
Director:
Iciar BollainOne winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Released Date:
2003-01-17
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, Portugal
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
NC-17
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (358 Reviews)
Director:
Xavier VillaverdeGenres:
ThrillerJuan Vicente Pozuelo
Curro Royo
Xavier Villaverde
Suso del Toro (novel)
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
Released Date:
2004-08-27
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1719 Reviews)
Director:
Joaquèn OristrellDominic Harari
Joaquèn Oristrell
Teresa Pelegri
Barcelona, 1913. Alma is perhaps one of the most modern women of her day.Her husband, Dr. Leon Pardo, is a psychiatrist. This summer, he visited Vienna and became a follower of the revolutionary Dr. Sigmund Freud and his advanced theories about hysteria and sexuality. It all starts the afternoon Alma comes home and finds her husband in tears, about to disappear from her life and everyone else's. Giving no more explanation than a few incoherent mumbles, Leon runs off, leaving Alma alone and about to give birth. Salvador is Alma's brother-in-law and a psychiatrist as well. He is much more conservative man than Leon, is deeply in love with Alma. The only clue they have is a manuscript about hysteria and female sexuality based on four patients: An actress with a persecution complex; a psychotic woman who tried to murder her husband; a woman with a serious crisis concerning her sexual identity; a stranger who has discovered a terrible secret about her past. Following those signs, Alma and Salvador start a Sherlock Holmes kind of adventure, where hypnosis, love, danger, and every imaginable taboo are all intertwined.
Released Date:
2011-06-03
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
UK, Spain
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (5462 Reviews)
Director:
Bernard RoseBernard Rose (screenplay)
Howard Marks (based on the book by)
The life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.
Released Date:
2009-11-06
Languages:
Spanish, Basque, English
Countries:
Spain, France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (45740 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel MonzènJorge Guerricaechevarrèa (adaptation)
Daniel Monzèn (adaptation)
Francisco Pèrez Gandul (novel)
Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. His destiny is forever changed by this fateful decision, as during his tour of the prison, an accident occurs that knocks him unconscious. He is rushed to the empty but visibly haunted walls of cell 211. As this diversion unfolds, inmates of the high security cell block strategically break free and hijack the penitentiary. Aware of the violence that is to come, the prison officers flee, leaving Juan stranded and unconscious in the heart of the riot. When Juan awakens, he immediately takes stock of the situation; in order to survive, he must pretend to be a prisoner. Juan develops a dialogue with the violent leader of the riot, Badass, and the two begin a partnership, Badass fully believing that Juan is a new inmate. Negotiations go smoothly until the rioters take three ETA (the militant Basque separatist organization) prisoners hostage. When this hits the news, it triggers a stream of prison riots throughout the country as well as demonstrations in the Basque Country. Juan quickly realizes that he is on his own as the situation becomes more politicized and the government gets involved, afraid of potential ramifications in the Basque community. As the drama heightens, unexpected shifts in character both within and without the prison occur.
Released Date:
2011-01-05
Languages:
Spanish, Quechua, English
Countries:
Spain, Mexico, France
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8926 Reviews)
Director:
Iciar BollainSpanish director Sebastièn, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.
Released Date:
2011-10-14
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (19924 Reviews)
Director:
Jaume BalaguerèApartment concierge Cesar (Luis Tosar) is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara (Marta Etura) proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos (Alberto San Juan), shows up.
Released Date:
2010-11-19
Languages:
Spanish, Gallegan, English, Macedonian
Countries:
Spain, Argentina
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (372 Reviews)
Director:
Jorge CoiraJorge Coira
Araceli Gonda
Diego Ameixeiras
In the city of Santiago de Compostela, the meals are more important than just eating. The important conversations, socially and for all other reasons, are done around food. This happens one day with intertwined lives in the historic city.
Released Date:
2014-08-29
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France
Runtime:
136 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (3399 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel MonzènEl Nièo is a young boy who lives in La Lènea de la Concepcièn, close to Rock of Gibraltar, repairing and testing motorboats. After a night of party with his friend El Compi, they meet Halil, a young Muslim who has an uncle, Rachid, a drug dealer. Convinced by El Compi, El Nièo accepts to be a drug mule, crossing it from èfrica to Spain in a motorboat. In the opposite side of the law is Jesès, a veteran police officer who, helped by his partner Eva, is looking for El Inglès, an important drug dealer who operates in the Rock of Gibraltar.
Released Date:
2014-05-09
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Spain, USA
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (2379 Reviews)
Director:
Emilio AragènForced to give up his land and his only home, cantankerous Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to go quietly to the dismal trailer park that's all he can now afford, and instead goes off with his grandson Gally - son of his long-estranged son Jimmy - for one last wild and woolly adventure during a night in Old Mexico.
Released Date:
2014-12-25
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1714 Reviews)
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
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