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Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
2) Elsa & Fred
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Elsa & Fred is a story about two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love-- or dream. Elsa is 82 years-old, while Alfredo is a bit younger than her. After losing his wife, Alfredo feels disturbed and confused, so his daughter suggests it would be best if he moved into a smaller apartment. There he'll meet Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined to teach...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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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.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
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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...
5) Perras
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"...[U]n thriller, una montaña rusa emocional que revela la ética, la estética y la erótica de diez jóvenes sospechosas de una falta imperdonable...Descubre el universo femenino adolescente al microscopio"--Container.
Ten girls are being detained in their high school under suspicion that one of them committed an atrocious crime. Until someone confesses, none of them can leave.
Pub. Date
2012.
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Español
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Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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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.
Laura y sus hijos viajan desde Buenos Aires hasta su pueblo natal en Espąa para festejar una boda de...
9) Barrio
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
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Three teenagers trapped in the summer heat of a Madrid working-class neighborhood must face their inevitable futures. A powerful coming-of-age story.
Pub. Date
2004.
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Español
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During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
11) Guadalupe
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Interweaves the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego, the Indian peasant she appeared to in sixteen-century Mexico, with the present-day story of a brother and sister, both archaeologists from Spain, who decide to travel to Mexico to investigate the case of Our Lady of Guadalupe for themselves.
Pub. Date
2005.
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Español
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In a land steeped in the tradition and competition of dairy farming, the inevitable happens--a murder among neighbors, a mystery unsolved and a familial rift that leads to love and hatred.
En una tierra inmersa de tradición y competencia, lo inevitable ocurre: un asesinato entre vecinos, un misterio que no se resuelve y una ruptura familiar que conduce al amor y al odio.
14) The vault
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World Cup Final. With thousands of soccer fans cheering in the streets, and security forces closing in, the crew have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime.
15) The Vault
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When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World Cup Final. With thousands of soccer fans cheering in the streets, and security forces closing in, the crew have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
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, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...
18) Pain and glory
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.
Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) es un aclamado...
19) Volver
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
20) Blood and sand
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. He soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful aristocrat seduces him, Juan sees his own happiness and success crumble.
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