Directory of World Cinema: Spain

Tall, strong vagabond Luis rejects the work an old gentleman offers him, causing his outrage. In his erratic walk, Louis reaches the top of Mounte Oscuro, where Julia, widow of a writer, lives with their daughter Blanca. Despite his initial resistance, Luis ends up staying with Julia to help her work the land--which sows gossip in the neighboring village. Then Blanca falls ill, and when Luis goes to town for the doctor, it is none other than the old gentleman that Luis offended long ago.

When a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.

Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity.

A village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens.

A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.

Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.

A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.

A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.

Three wise men embark on a journey to see the newborn Jesus Christ.

A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.

A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.

The bitter life of a girl whose mother wants a boy.

During the Spanish Civil War, a Falangist assigned to the University City is ordered to tour Madrid disguised as a Republican militiaman to deliver a message to a leader of the Resistance. Once the order is fulfilled, he takes the opportunity to visit his girlfriend, who lives under the protection of the father of his maid, a faithful Republican. But when the Falangist returns to the University City, he is seriously wounded and takes refuge in a hollow in which a wounded militiaman is also hiding. Together they will spend the last hours of their lives, understanding the futility of a fratricidal war.

A countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7... until 0, like in hypnosis, through which Ana proves that she does not live alone.

Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor is desperately asked for help by Max. What seems in the beginning mere delusions of an old man losing his mind, begin to show traces of some sort of real 'secret' that is troubling Max's last days. Victor decide to help his father to find that something (maybe just peace) he is searching for.

A man and a woman living in the same pension, but different rooms, grow intimate behind the landlady's back.

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

Trini (Imperio Argentina) and her brother Regalito (Miguel Ligero) are two gypsy siblings stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique (Manuel Luna) accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.

Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?

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

After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.