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Fuga de Cerebros

Actors: Mario Casas, Alberto Amarilla, Amaia Salamanca, Canco Rodríguez

Synopsis: This zany, Spanish-language teen sex comedy concerns a group of young social outcasts and misfits, including a blind boy, a wheelchair-confined metalhead and a shy, backward type who decide to "crash" Oxford University in England to win over a gorgeous girl. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

4/24/09
14, Fabian Road

Actors: Ana Torrent, Julieta Cardinali, Cuca Escribano, Ángela Molina, Omero Antonutti

Synopsis: A woman losing her grip on her sanity discovers that the caring stranger who comes to her aid may ruin her life in this thriller. Fernanda Segovia (Cuca Escribano) and Enrique Gonzalvo (Fele Martinez) are a pair of editors and literary agents who have guided the career of writer Camila Ponte Read More

2008
Other Days Will Come

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Antonio Resines, Fernando Guillén, Nacho Aldeguer, Nadia de Santiago

Synopsis: A divorced schoolteacher's life begins to unravel as her young daughter watches in horror. Alicia (Cecilia Roth) lives with her daughter Vega (Nadia de Santiago), and just can't seem to get her act together. Not only is she drinking too much, but her insomnia often finds her up at night and Read More

2005
Palabras Encadenadas

Actors: Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén, Eric Bonicatto

Synopsis: Laura Mana's psychological thriller Killing Words concerns a test of words and wills between a serial killer and the woman he is keeping as his prisoner. Laura is tied up in the killer's basement, but he agrees to release her if she can beat him at a word game. However, if she loses, she will Read More

2003
Año Mariano

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo, Manuel Manquina

Synopsis: Religion has been called the opiate of the people, but one hapless soul finds his spiritual life turned upside down by too much marijuana in this comedy. Mariano (Karra Elejalde) is a traveling salesman who falls asleep while driving late at night, sending his car off the road and into a field Read More

2000
All About My Mother

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Eloy Azorín, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to adulthood on her own and has come to emotionally depend on him. One Read More

11/19/99
Operación Fangio

Synopsis: Alberto Lecchi's Spanish-language docudrama-cum-thriller Operación Fangio travels back to the 1958 Formula One Championship in Cuba, and dramatizes the events surrounding Argentine racecar driver Juan Manuel Fangio's (Dario Grandinetti) abduction by a cadre of violent guerillas. Laura Ramos and Read More

1999
Un Buen Novio

Actors: Fernando Guillén, Natalia Verbeke, Adolfo Fernández

Synopsis: A Madrid police officer's dangerous obsession with a local murder known as "The Batiscafo Crime" sets him on a path that may lead to destruction in director Jesús R. Delgado's humorous crime thriller. When a trio of determined crooks mastermind what seems to be the perfect bank robbery, their Read More

1998
Mas Alla del Jardin

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Spanish author Antonio Gala, this romantic melodrama centers on the struggles on a Seville rancher's dissatisfied wife. Poor Palmira; her husband Willy has not slept with her in ages, her teenaged son is sexually confused, her sister a lesbian, and her daughter is Read More

1997
La Herida Luminosa

Actors: Fernando Guillén, Mercedes Sampietro, Julia Gutierrez Caba, Maria Massip, Beatriz Santana

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Spanish director Jose Luis Garci (the 1982 To Begin Again) filmed this adaptation of the Josep Maria Sagarra novel, set during the '50s in a provincial town, about cardiologist Enrique Molinos (Fernando Guillen), highly regarded as both an academic and a doctor. At home, however Read More

1997
Los Corsarios Del Chip

Synopsis: A blind detective finds that a game show champion has a talent for deception in this Spanish suspense drama. Andreas (Jorge Monge) is a seemingly bright young man who has become an overnight star thanks to his appearances on a popular TV quiz show. However, the producers of the show begin to have Read More

1996
La Vida Privada

Synopsis: In this Spanish art-film, which won a prize at the Valladolid Film Festival in 1996, is most notable for its daring cinematography and atmosphere than its actual narrative. The last of a succession of housekeepers who have gone mad working for a reclusive author (Fernando Guillen), Lola (Carmen Elias Read More

1996
La Nave de Los Locos

Synopsis: When a respected Native American chief is taken to trial for burning down a large multiplex adjacent to an ancient Mapuche burial ground, a seasoned lawyer comes to his defense in the courtroom. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Gran Slalom

Synopsis: In this comedy from Spain, Manolo (Juanjo Puigcorbe) is a police lieutenant who has asked to speak to a group of law enforcement officials who will be having a meeting at a popular ski resort. Manolo's car breaks down en route, and while trying to hitch a ride, he gets a lift from a free spirited Read More

1995
Tirano Banderas

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Ignacio Tarso, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately shot in Havana and Mexico. The story is set in an unspecified Latin country and chronicles the daily life of the tyrannical dictator. One of his day's highlights is the signing Read More

1994
Havanera

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Abel Folk, Jordi Dauder, Patrick Bauchau

Synopsis: This action-filled Spanish melodrama takes dramatic license with the facts surrounding the illegal slave trade in early nineteenth century Cuba. It is 1820 and Amelia has recently been wed to Ton, a Cuban plantation owner whom she barely knows as part of a business contract. With Ton's sinister Read More

1994
Tres Palabras

1993
El Aliento Del Diablo

Actors: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Valentina Vargas, Fernando Guillén, Fernando Valverde

Synopsis: Ambiguous symbolism and minimalist storytelling imbue this pantomime-like film with some fine imagery. In the story, a medieval family group has traveled for quite some time when they arrive at a hut on the shores of a mysterious lake. Their arrival is accompanied with omens such as a swarm of Read More

1993
Acción Mutante

Actors: Antonio Resines, Frederique Feder, Alex Angulo, Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Accion Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, gaining a fearsome reputation before their activities are stalled with the jailing of their leader and mastermind, Ramon. Soon reunited with their newly released Read More

1993
El Invierno en Lisboa

Actors: Christian Vadim, Helene De St. Pere, Dizzy Gillespie, Eusebio Poncela, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a jazz pianist working the summer at the exclusive Lady Bird Club in Portugal as an accompanist for legendary trumpet player (portrayed by Dizzy Gillespie!) has a passionate affair with an enigmatic, ultimately conniving woman, who turns out to be married to a brutal mobster Read More

3/6/92
Don Juan En Los Infiernos

1991
Cuentos De Borges I

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Pastora Vega, Hugo Soto, Miguel Dedovich

1991
La Telarana

1990
La Luna Negra

Actors: Lydia Bosch, Fernando Guillén, Jose Coronado, Emma Suarez

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Eve is a woman whose nine-year old daughter gives every evidence of having strange occult powers. Within two days of giving birth to her, Eve hit a strange woman while driving, and at the same time lost her husband. Some have asserted that the movie's story bears Read More

1989
La Noche Oscura

Actors: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas

Synopsis: Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan Read More

1989
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, Maria Barranco, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura Read More

11/11/88
L'Amor Es Estrany

Actors: Mario Gas, Eulalia Ramon, Muntsa Alcañiz, Pepe Munne, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: Reviewers were scathing in their assessment of this exploitation film, made in the Catalan language. The vague story, set in Barcelona, has something to do with an executive who has a taste for prostitutes and the trouble this gets him into. The first part of the film chronicles his bedroom Read More

1988
Barcelona Connection

1988
Demasiado Viejo Para Morir Joven

1988
Barcelona

Actors: Alfredo Luchetti, Ovidi Montllor

Synopsis: Ona (Ovidi Montllor) is a young woman who has a love affair with the guitar player Manolo in this romantic drama. Despite having a ticket on a departing steamer, he elects to stay in Barcelona with the woman he loves. The two share a memorable day with each other and pledge their mutual love in Read More

1987
La Estanquera de Vallecas

1987
La Rusa

Actors: Didier Flamand, Muntsa Alcañiz, Eusebio Lazaro, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: This plodding romantic drama concerns two people trying to cope with the political changes in post-Franco Spain. Begona (Angeli Van Os) is a beautiful law professor who meets the prosperous government official Juan (Didier Flamand) at a left-wing political rally. He pursues her, and Begonia Read More

1987
The Law of Desire

Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Manuela Velasco

Synopsis: Popular film director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) has found a new love in the form of handsome blue-collar Juan (Miguel Molina). Not altogether comfortable with his lifestyle, Juan decides to leave Pablo for a while to contemplate his future. Pablo insists that Juan keep in touch by sending Read More

1986
Redondela

Actors: Patrick Newell, Carlos Velat, Fernando Guillén, Carlos Larranga, Marina Saura

Synopsis: José Maria Gil Ramos (Patrick Newell) is a noted attorney who agrees to defend a minor government official accused of stealing 4,000 tons of oil. As Ramos investigates, the trail leads to possible wrongdoing orchestrated by the brother of military dictator Franco. High government officials try to Read More

1986
El Caso Almeria

Actors: Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Guillén, Manuel Alexandre, Margarita Calahorra, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: In the ancient Phoenician city now known as Almería on the southeastern coast of Spain, three Civil Guards were convicted in 1981 of torturing and then murdering three men that were suspected Basque terrorists. This well-paced and suspenseful docudrama is about that case and how the courageous Read More

1984
La Gran Quiniela

1983
El Vicario De Olot

Actors: Enric Majo, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: An attractive, "modern" vicar and his uncle who is also a cleric, get involved in organizing a conference dedicated to "Catholic Sexology." The young vicar is drawn into the project against his will - he has his hand on the pulse of the marginated community in one way or another so that when the Read More

1981
Cebo Para Una Adolescente

1973

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