Spanish cinema
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Drama
Sex and Lucía
Julio Medem · 2001
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Cell 211
Daniel Monzón · 2009
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pedro Almodóvar · 1988
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar · 2006
Raimunda, a working-class woman living in Madrid, is dealing with the aftermath of a fire that killed her parents in her native village in La Mancha. Raimunda's life is further complicated when her deceased mother, Irene, returns as a ghost to resolve unfinished family business, including a murder and other buried truths.
Jamon Jamon
Bigas Luna · 1992
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Horror
The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar · 2011
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro · 2006
En la España falangista de 1944, una joven aficionada a los libros e hijastra de un sádico oficial del ejército huye a un misterioso pero cautivador mundo de fantasía.
Thesis
Alejandro Amenábar · 1996
Ángela, licenciada en ciencias de la información, prepara su tesis sobre la violencia audiovisual. Su director, Figueroa, se compromete a buscarle películas, mientras que un amigo, Chema, la invita a su casa a una sesión de cine gore y pornográfico. Figueroa descubre en la videoteca de la Facultad unas galerías con cientos de videocintas. Poco después muere en extrañas circunstancias. Ángela descubre el cadáver y se da cuenta de que ha sufrido un infarto mientras veía una cinta de vídeo. Ángela se hace con la cinta y hace un terrible descubrimiento: se trata de una snuff movie, una película ilegal en la que se filma al asesinato real de gente inocente. La joven comienza a sospechar que en la Facultad existe una red de tráfico de este tipo de películas. Pero, ¿quién es el responsable de ella?
The Coffee Table
Caye Casas · 2023
Jesus and María are a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship. Nevertheless, they have just become parents. To shape their new life, they decide to buy a new coffee table. A decision that will change their existence.
[REC]
Jaume Balagueró · 2007
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Thriller
Sirāt
Oliver Laxe · 2025
A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.
The Beasts
Rodrigo Sorogoyen · 2022
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
War
The 13 Roses
Emilio Martínez Lázaro · 2007
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
Comedy
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
José Luis Cuerda · 1989
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
