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Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-winner Milos Foreman, "Goya's Ghosts" is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars as the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
5) Jamón, jamón
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia; José Luis, the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul, underwear model, seducer, and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita, José Luis' doting mother, family matriarch, and Raul's lover.
Publisher
Distribuido por Distrimax
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Cierta noche de invierno, Pilar sale huyendo de su casa. Llevado consigo apenas cuatro cosas, y a su hijo Juan. Antonio, su marido, no tarda en ir a buscarla. Pilar es su sol, dice, y además "le ha dado sus ofos."
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes."
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"One of the most personal film by Guillermo del Toro ... is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later...
9) El Bola
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Pablo (El Bola) is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he retreats from his classmates, engaging them only through a dangerous game.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Faltan pocas horas para que empiece el nuevo año. En un plató televisivo se reúnen varias estrellas para esperar las campanadas y celebrar juntos la llegada del año nuevo. Pero en realidad, este programa especial de Nochevieja se está grabando en pleno mes de agosto a las afueras de Madrid, con un calor espantoso. En la grabación están Jose (Pepón Nieto), un hombre en paro que es contratado por una ETT como figurante, y otros cientos de personas...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, Lisa and the devil (Lisa e il diavolo) is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. Elke Sommer stars as a tourist in Spain who, upon seeing the image of a bald, grinning devil in an ancient fresco, wanders away from her group and finds herself drawn into a confounding labyrinth of mystery, lured ever deeper by a mysterious...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
13) The beasts
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
While attempting to contact her ex-lover Iván, actress Pepa Marcos is enmeshed in a series of unexpected meetings with and revelations involving Iván, his mentally unbalanced ex-wife Lucía, his and Lucía's son Carlos, Carlos's fiancée Marisa, Lucía's lawyer Paulina Morales, and Candela, Pepa's model friend who has unwittingly become involved with Shiite terrorists.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Una popular eurodiputada, Giannina Ricci, llega de visita a España. Su objetivo, a través de un detallado informe que desvela las ilegalidades e irregularidades de la multinacional Petronosa, es cerrar las factorías de dicha empresa que atentan contra el medio ambiente. El más alto directivo de la compañía soborna a dos mandos de los cuerpos de seguridad encargados de proteger a la señorita Ricci, para que faciliten el atentado que planea...
16) Volver =: Return
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt,...
17) Don Giovanni
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
Filmed on location in Vincenza, Italy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, is translated to film by director Joseph Losey. Set in Seville in the 1600s, a young nobleman Don Giovanni is a well-known philanderer with a long list of conquests. After he attempts to seduce the beautiful Donna Anna, her father's battle to protect her honor ends in tragedy. Anna and her fiance Don Octavio pledge to seek revenge, while Giovanni continues...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Based on a true story, Spaniard Ramon Sampedro fights a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life. The film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Eva is about to turn 33 and her decision to stay in Madrid in August has become an act of faith. The days and nights arise as times for opportunities, and during the open-air summer celebrations, Eva meets other people whom she tries to help, without realizing that she is actually helping herself.
20) Vacas
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Set in Spain's Basque Country, the story of a bitter rivalry and a decades-old feud between three generations of the Mendiluze and Iriguibel families, stretching from the Third Carlist War through the Spanish Civil War.
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