Released Date:
1996-03-22
Languages:
English, Spanish, Catalan
Countries:
UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (7292 Reviews)
Director:
Ken LoachSpring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificacièn Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters. They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band.
Released Date:
1998-02-20
Languages:
English, Irish, Spanish
Countries:
UK, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Japan
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (295 Reviews)
Director:
Robert DornhelmRonan Bennett (screenplay)
Stephen Rea (idea by)
Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. When a good deed gets him stabbed, one of the restaurant employees takes him in and finds him medical care. As Dowd recovers in the flat of Tulio and Tulio's sister Monica, he realizes that these Guatemalan exiles share his rebellious principles. When he learns they are planning a political assassination, he offers to help. His attraction to Monica contributes to his willingness to volunteer. However, the cops are closing in on him: can he make the hit, protect his new friends, and escape with Monica?
Released Date:
2002-08-30
Languages:
Spanish
Countries:
Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2981 Reviews)
Director:
Vicente ArandaVicente Aranda (screenplay)
Antonio Larreta (screenplay)
Manuel Tamayo y Baus (play)
Juana is married off by her pious parents, the Catholic kings Ferndinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, to ally Spain, united by their marriage, to the Burgundian and other Habsburg heritage of archduke Maximilian's son Philip. When they meet, it's love at first sight, for her all-consuming, for him one of many happy bed partnerships as she later discovers. Deaths in her family soon make Juana Isabella's heir, but Ferdinand suggests she inherited her grandmother's madness and supports Philip's ambition to rule instead, which becomes the stakes of political maneuvering in the Cortes (nobility-dominated parliament). Combined with Philip's incurable infidelity, which includes a Moorish whore-princess, multiple drama is inevitable, and worse follows.
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