Movies: Spanish cinema

At the end of the 90s, Granada is in the middle of a cultural boom. Los Planetas, the cult Spanish rock band, is about to break up. Mario, a young music-loving student, is the privileged witness of this imminent break-up. Plunged into the heart of th...

The horror film [REC] — directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007 — was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milest...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Spanish film director Isabel Coixet and an analysis of her particular world and her sensibility as a creator: her fictional universe, her career and her life through the words of actors, technicians, family...

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being ...

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate....

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)...

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021)....

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema....

Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion....

An account of the life and work of Spanish actress Penélope Cruz: a long journey that began in the working-class neighborhoods of Madrid and ended in the hills of Hollywood....

A group of friends have to survive a weekend in a hotel with a huge amount of virtual money to guard, putting their ingenuity to the test....

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances....

Rafi sneaks into the Marchioness's hunt, which brings together all the Spanish high society, to sell them his business. He and Fali will discover that hunting is not what it seems, and that the future of Spain is being decided on the farm....

A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011)....

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person beh...

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her ai...

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How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred year...

In an unexpected encounter, the life of an experienced writer takes an unforeseen turn when he meets Fernando Lara, a peculiar hotel receptionist with an unusual medical condition. Fernando suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, a disease that basica...

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