The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Belle Epoque (1992), The Executioner (1963), Mondays in the Sun (2002), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Pain and Glory (2019), DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006), Elisa, My Love (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Spanish Cinema movies.
Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An artist's (Fernando Fernán Gómez) four daughters seduce a willing army deserter (Jorge Sanz) in 1930s Spain.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, spanish cinema, historical, war, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An old executioner in early-1960s Spain, who is a very gentle, nice, caring man proud of traditions, is approaching retirement age. As his profession isn't the most popular, he worries about who might take his place. He worries about his daughter too; she seems doomed to spinsterhood because as soon as any prospective groom learns what her father's trade is, he flees in terror. Enter the local undertaker, a handsome young man with exactly the same problem: no girl wants him given his profession. So, you have the woman whom almost nobody would marry and the man whom almost nobody would marry. Obviously, they are meant for each other. But here the old executioner has something to say: He does not object to his daughter marrying the young undertaker; he seems a decent man--but he will only agree to the marriage if the prospective groom agrees to take the executioner's job when he retires. Father tells the worried fellow: "Don't worry, they sentence people, but they pardon them at the last moment!"—Jose Beltran <pepe@prince.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, spanish cinema, social criticism, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, absurdism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vigo, a port town in Spain, has fallen on hard times. The shipbuilding industry, which was a primary source of jobs, has laid off many workers. Several of these erstwhile shipbuilders spend their newfound free time at a local bar owned by their friend Rico (Joaquín Climent). The group is headed by Santa (Javier Bardem), a steadfast pragmatist who tries to keep the spirits of the men high. Troubles are many, however, including the marital problems of Amador (Celso Bugallo) and José (Luis Tosar).
Plot Keywords: unemployment, working class, social injustice, male friendship, resistance, spanish cinema, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Madrid housewife (Carmen Maura) tries to retain her sanity in a household full of difficult and odd relatives.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, family drama, social satire, spanish cinema, female protagonist, working class, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The protagonist of "Pain and Glory" was at the decline of his career. The man involuntarily looks back into the past, and a stream of vivid memories falls upon him. He recalls such moments from his youth as tender feelings for his mother, love and separation, the search for happiness and success. All this leads the master of cinema to important thoughts about life and art, because this is the most important thing for him.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
Plot Keywords: drama, autobiographical, lgbt, art, director, memory, spanish ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jorge (Quim Gutiérrez) is trying to better his life, and the first step, he believes, is to land a different job. Jorge, who spends his days working as a janitor and his nights watching his ailing father (Héctor Colomé), longs for more. Also facing crossroads in their lives are Jorge's ex-con brother, Antonio (Antonio de la Torre), who is in a relationship with a woman still in prison, and Jorge's best friend (Raúl Arévalo), who is confronting the possibility that he may be gay.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, spanish, prison, family, coming of age, social ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, spanish, 1970s, female director, art film, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors...
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, crime, time travel, psychological, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spain, 1966, a high-school English/Latin teacher, Antonio, drives to Almeria in hopes of meeting his hero, John Lennon. Along the way, Antonio picks up two runaways. The movie title, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed, comes from a line in Lennon's song Strawberry Fields Forever which he wrote while filming How I Won the War in Almeria.—af_by94
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, adventure, music, history, biography, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Best-selling author Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier (Jeanne Moreau). He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara (Virna Lisi). Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, spanish, classic, black and white, psychological, literary adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, spanish cinema, erotic, crime, absurd, female perspective, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The spirits of several women, all murdered at age 22, reside in Ana's mind.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, surrealism, female coming-of-age, sexual awakening, schizophrenia, female director, spanish cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rafael, a Sevillian who has never left Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women whom he has ever known.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, spanish, cultural clash, romantic comedy, identity, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.
Plot Keywords: erotic, comedy, drama, spanish cinema, romance, desire, class conflict ...
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