Inspired by a personal experience with Alzheimer's disease, director Antonio Mercero's low-key family drama details the...
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2007
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2004
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2003
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Spanish director Juan Potau debuts with this wacky screwball romantic comedy. Tomas (Oscar Ladoire), an embittered,...
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1999
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This Spanish comedy set in a Valencia prison, contains political overtones. A promoter decides to organize a gala dinner to...
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1994
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For Astarlos, living in Madrid at the time of the troubled rule of Isabel the Second in 1868, fencing is not an outmoded...
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1992
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In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the...
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1992
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1991
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1989
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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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1988
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1987
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The generals in this comedy probably got their positions the old-fashioned way: through having good connections (and/or lots...
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1987
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In this comedy, a manufacturer of turrón, a candy which resembles the honey-almond confection halvah, wants to promote it...
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Lopez
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1987
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After their wealthy fascist father dies, Ana and her sister Laura have the job of settling his estate. The two sisters have...
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Pepe Luis
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1986
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1986
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1986
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La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared in 1910 (original libretto...
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1985
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1984
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In a well-acted historical drama about clashes between opposite ends of the economic and cultural spectrum, a literal witch...
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Acevedo
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1984
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1984
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1984
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1984
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The title of this movie raises an issue that is never really met head-on in the story, instead, the focus seems to be on a...
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1983
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1983
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1983
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1983
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1983
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Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of...
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1982
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An accountant driven over the edge takes matters into his own hands and shoots his boss dead. During a chase on foot through...
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1981
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This is the third film in a sequence that started in 1978, about the Marquis de Leguineches, his hopeless son Luis José, his...
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1981
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1981
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1980
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1980
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A Marquis (Luis Escobar) suddenly becomes inspired to reclaim his palace, now gone to seed, right in the heart of Madrid. He...
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1980
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In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair...
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1980
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A tragic series of historical incidents is effectively and compellingly revealed in this ugly story about avarice and power...
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1979
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In this standard but toned-down sex comedy, seven different vignettes starring female leads like Monica Vitti,...
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1979
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For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972...
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1979
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In this comedy, a conservative schoolteacher encounters a foul-mouthed boy and a kind prostitute, and in each case, he is...
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Don Agustin
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1979
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Alberto Closas plays a widower who finds difficulty adjusting to retirement and the younger generation after raising 16...
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1979
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Few sacred cows go un-gored in this satirical Spanish movie. In Spain, as in England, instead of getting together over a...
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Luis Jose
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1978
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The Spanish Mil Millones Para Una Rubia whisks the viewer from Vegas to Monte Carlo, then from Paris to Monaco. The scenery...
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1978
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A monosabio or "wise monkey" is one of the many necessary attendants at bullfights, working alongside the picadors and...
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Juanito
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1978
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Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars in Dona Perfecta as a young citizen of Madrid who responds to his aunt's summons to her...
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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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1975
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1975
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A man's failure to help auto accident victims, due to his fastidiousness about getting his brand-new car bloodstained,...
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1975
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In this Spanish comedy, a man who grows curious about his wife's daytime activities discovers that she is a prostitute in...
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1974
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Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez impersonates the famous architect and art theorist Antonio Gaudi i Cornet in this Spanish documentary...
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1974
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With a fairly repugnant basic premise, this Spanish comedy rollicks along to its melodramatic conclusion. In the story, a...
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1974
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While traveling from Barcelona to recover his mother's remains, Luis (Juan Luis Lopez Vazquez) suffers an incredibly vivid...
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1973
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1973
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This Spanish drama explores an encounter between a well-educated mountain-climber and a young shepherdess who has been kept...
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1973
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In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish...
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1972
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This strange film takes the story of a Spanish country matron into new ground. Adela (Jose Luis Lopes Vasquez) lives a...
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1971
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1971
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1970
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1970
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1970
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A bank clerk and his mother visit the beach the day before his wedding to a beautiful Spanish woman. He leaves his mother...
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1968
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1968
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1968
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1968
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Julian
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1966
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1966
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1966
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In this political satire, a bearded Marxist takes over a Caribbean island, and the rest of the democratic world wants him...
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1966
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1966
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1965
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1965
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1965
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1965
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1965
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1964
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The business of death provides the framework for this black comedy about a mortician's assistant who wants to marry an...
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1964
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1963
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1963
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1963
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1962
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1962
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1962
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1962
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1962
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Fernando Galindo
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1962
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1961
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1961
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1961
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1961
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1961
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This is an effective satire directed by Luis Berlanga that pans charity from the head -- the cold, calculated or unthinking...
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Quintanilla
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1961
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1960
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1960
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This was one of the first feature-length films for director Marco Ferreri, known for his interest in the grotesque, macabre,...
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Alvarito
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1960
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1960
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Set in the world of high fashion and played out against the backdrops of Madrid and the scenic coastal resort town of...
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1959
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1959
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Analia Gade plays Mercedes, the Muchachita de Valladolid (Girl from Valladolid) of the title. Newly married to diplomat...
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1958
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1954
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1953
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In this crazy, comic crime caper, someone has purloined $3,000 and now a space-case police chief, a brassy maid, a...
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