A grieving father makes a pilgrimage to the Pyrenees in honor of his late son, and experiences a major epiphany during his...
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2011
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A follow-up to Spanish enfant terrible Pedro Almodóvar's 2006 arthouse sensation Volver, Los Abrazos Rotos finds the...
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2009
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Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in a small town in Sicily. The...
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2009
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Alberto Da Giussano builds a fierce though small fighting force in Milan and sets out to defeat the German emperor...
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2009
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As the title implies, Christian Molina's no-prisoners erotic drama takes a head-on plunge into the complex world of a...
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Cristina
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2008
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2008
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A woman losing her grip on her sanity discovers that the caring stranger who comes to her aid may ruin her life in this...
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2008
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As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The...
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2007
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The story of Spain's most infamous family is brought to the screen with surprising subtlety in this historical drama. Near...
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2006
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For her sophomore feature, El Triunfo (aka El Triunfo: The Beat of the Streets), filmmaker Mireia Ros (La Moños, 1997) crafts...
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2005
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Carnage, an example of what the French call un film chorale, tells several intertwining stories. In the central tale, a young...
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Alicia
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2003
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Dona Felicidad
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2003
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Stones is a film about shoes which functions on the old Native American proverb, "Never judge a man until you've walked a...
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Isabel
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2002
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2001
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An attorney's reckless personal life catches up with him -- or does it? -- in this whodunit. Valerio Grau (Lino Capolicchio)...
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Lauretta
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2001
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A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat...
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Rosa
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2001
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Agusti Villaronga directs this intensely morbid love story about fascist executions, disease, bloody animal abuse, and...
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2000
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Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as...
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2000
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The troubled career of blacklisted director Herbert Biberman, who endured a considerable struggle to make the 1954 pro-Labor...
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Rosaura Revueltas
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2000
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Argentine director Alejando Agresti directed this surreal, allegorical Argentine-French-Dutch- Spanish comedy-drama. Winner...
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Dona Maria
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1998
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This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by...
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Clara
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1997
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One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set...
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1996
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1996
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This gentle Italian drama is based upon the 1919 autobiographical novel by Federico Tozzi. The film tells the story of...
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1995
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Ema
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1993
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Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way...
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Lisa
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1992
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Bear witness to the rise of the most corrupt and ruthless ruler ever to preside over the Roman Empire as filmmaker Paul...
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1992
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This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros....
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Beatrix
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1992
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Paul (Dominic Guard) is a journalist who is up to date on the latest horrors of the modern world and is heartsick about them....
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María
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1991
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The name of mystery writer Edgar Neville may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but his novels have been the source for quite...
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Mercedes
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1991
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Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with...
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Desposoria
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1991
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Aunt Vannina
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1990
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In 1912, the Rio Negro in the northern part of the Amazon was one of the places where ambitious men went to try and get rich...
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1990
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Guerilla wars against the major powers have been a factor in Central American politics for a long time. This biographical...
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Teresa Villator
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1990
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1989
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The Savage in this film is Sophie (Aurelie Gilbert), the 17-year old girl who comes into the lives of Michael and Alice...
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Alice
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1989
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Dora (Angela Molina) is a music-hall type singer who is more than a bit of a floozy. She goes out with lots of men, has sex...
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Dora
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1989
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Rosa (Angela Molina) has one burning desire: to escape the grinding poverty in which she was born. To this end, Rosa takes a...
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Rosa
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1988
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This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the...
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Charo
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1988
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After the death of Carlos II in 1700, the throne of Spain was up for grabs, and all the European powers got involved. Even...
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Fernanda
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1988
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Laura (Angela Molina) is caught in a love triangle with her husband Tomas (Juan Diego) and his half-brother Adrian...
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Laura
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1988
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To seek work, Maria's husband was forced to leave their Sicilian village for Germany after the birth of their son. That was...
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Maria
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1987
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Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet Union. While he was one of...
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Elena Gitman
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1986
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The vicious drug-related killings of young pre-teen boys are the fuel that moves this mystery-actioner into high gear. After...
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Annunziata
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1986
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This is an enigmatic tale of a man's attempt to regain a lost period of youthful happiness. Peter (Bruno Ganz) and his...
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Laura
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1986
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1986
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Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former...
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Camille Delancourt
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1985
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This suspense thriller about a bad relationship concerns Lola (Angela Molina), who is working hard for a living but becomes...
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Lola
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1985
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This routine story of love, murder, and witchcraft is set in 17th century northern Spain (in Basque country). A priest is...
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1984
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In this inconclusive, confusing story about an aristocratic Majorcan family with connections to the Pope and much more...
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Xima
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1983
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Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for...
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Vanda
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1982
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Demons in the Garden (Demonios En El Jardin) dwells upon three generations of an agrarian Spanish family. Most or all the...
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Angela
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1982
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Mayhem and tangled love knots in the Southwest U.S. desert are the scourge of a group of stranded German immigrants living in...
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Rosa
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1982
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Injustices and misdemeanors in agencies like the local police and the National Security Bureau (West Germany's equivalent of...
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Franziska
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1981
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Wife
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1979
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This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir...
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Amajur
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1979
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Told in a manner more common during the Franco era, this movie tells the story of a man who fought with the Republican forces...
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Amparo
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1979
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A British writer goes to live in a Spanish village while he looks into the mysterious life of a 19th century wanderer who...
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Pepa
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1979
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Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an...
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Adelaida / Maria
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1978
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The Spanish Saint from Valencia, Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) was a Dominican priest whose life was marked by extraordinary...
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Maria
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1978
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This shocking film would have been impossible to make just two years before, in 1975. It tells the story of a group of...
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Rosa
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1977
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In this bizarre Spanish film, a kindly 73-year old spinster finds herself fixated with a newlywed couple in the apartment...
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Teresa
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1977
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Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from...
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Conchita
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1977
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Circumstances surrounding the tragic death of famed Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) emerge in...
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Soledad
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1977
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Political circumstances draw the people in this film into the ill-fated Spanish rebellion of 1909, which sought the...
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1976
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Set near Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, this epic drama explores the adventures...
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1976
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Based on a novel by Jose Cruset, and packed with violence and riotousness, this film tells the story of a humanitarian...
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1976
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