Movies of my Country I want to watch (or I watched already)

In 14th-century Barcelona, a serf's determined climb to wealth and freedom incurs the disdain of the noble class and the suspicion of the Inquisition.

Julian, content, meets friend Pablo's fiancée Elena. Obsessed with free-spirited Elena who rejects him. Pursues meek nurse Ana, tries molding her like Elena.

Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Aurora Rodriguez confesses to murdering her daughter Hildegart to mold her into a feminist philosopher, set during Spain's Second Republic. Her efforts to stop Hildegart's marriage led to the brutal killing.

In the celebration of the International Day of the Political Prisoner, the victims of the Franco repression convene in the Model Prison of Valencia. Among them are parvenus, mafiosi, bankers, and a communist priest, with two separate objectives.

In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?

A fascinating study of the poet Saint John of the Cross, and his spell in solitary confinement. Set in the convent of Toledo, this film explores the temptations that surrounded him, the dreams that afflicted him, his sanctity and his sanity.

Elisa hasn't seen her father Luis in nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister at a time of crisis in their marriage informing her that her father is sick and decides to travel to Madrid to visit Luis for his birthday.

A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.

In the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.

Joan Mares' obsession for the luscious Norma takes epic proportions because he can't let go of her. After he is injured by some skinheads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devises a plan to get to her.

Jaume Canivell, Catalan manufacturer of mechanical porters, accompanies his lover on a hunt to relate to important people. The farm where it is organized is full of strange characters.

Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they both grow apart. Eventually Michel falls in love with the most unexpected "perfect woman": a mannequin.

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Did Franco have a double? The story is set in the late 40's, in Spain... The humble owner of an orthopedics shop in Madrid is abducted by a misterious group... He disappears for the external world... What happened to him? Due to an uncanny similarity with the dictator, Franco, he has been "selected" for the highly secret "Operation Janus", to provide a double for Franco for dangerous moments.

Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, lives a monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in an architecture company. From that moment on, a new life opens before his eyes. He befriends Lorenzo, one of his co-workers. Lorenzo has more experience than Antonio and shows him a new, more sophisticated life in which Antonio feels out of place. In addition, Antonio falls in love with Lorenzo's sister Montse.

A suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.

Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935

In Lapland's cold Arctic Circle, under the eternal midnight sun, unfavourable circumstances reunite two kindred spirits. And governed by circular motifs woven by faith and love, they must answer a pivotal question. Can they deny destiny?

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

A middle age construction tycoon is wheelchair-bound and amnesiac from a car accident in the company of his mistress. He alone had access to all his business's secrets, including the combination to the safe and his Swiss bank account.