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- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJeff GoldblumMiranda RichardsonAnémoneAmerican writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.
- DirectorIván ZuluetaStarsEusebio PoncelaCecilia RothWill MoreA low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónDaniel Giménez CachoMaría BottoA month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsDavid CarradineScott WilsonVictoria AbrilA Border Patrol Agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal people across the border from Mexico.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsVictoria AbrilLautaro MurúaHilda VeraLuis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted to him.
- DirectorSalvador García RuizStarsAdriana UgarteNilo ZimmermanBiel DuranIn an attempt to help his friend with his impotence, Jaime sets up two friends together. But after the failure, he comes in to help. What first appeared to be just a sexual experience evolves to a full romantic relationship of 3 people.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJosé Luis AlonsoMaría Luisa PonteÁngela MolinaTatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsAntonio FloresRosario FloresJosé Luis ManzanoThe relationship betwee two best friends from the outskirt of Madrid. When one of them gets the other one's sister pregnant they have to find a way to pay an abortion in order to avoid a conflict with their parents.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEmma SuárezAdriana UgarteDaniel GraoAfter a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsRafaela AparicioPepe SorianoFernando Fernán GómezJesús, a Spaniard who went into exile to Argentina after the Civil War, returns to Madrid in 1968 with the illusion of spending his last years in the longed-for settings of his youth. However, time has not passed in vain and he meets another city and another family that he no longer knows.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsGian Maria VolontèÁngela MolinaSaverio MarconiAs 1973 winds down, Francisco Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden, labor movements are repressed, and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an impeccable track record of dealing with enemies of the State: admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down. Daring plans are made, requiring a meticulous execution.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsPatxi AndiónVictoria AbrilConrado San MartínA meeting of the Communist Party is taking place when suddenly the lights go off and the head of the Party is murdered. The government runs an official investigation and the Communist Party hires Pepe Carvalho, a private investigator. As both investigations unfold, they soon come to very different conclusions.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsBerta SocuéllamosJose Antonio Valdelomar GonzálezJesús AriasAngela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsHugh GrantLizzy McInnernyValentine PelkaLord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.
- DirectorGonzalo García PelayoStarsCharo LópezFernando ReyMáximo ValverdeDeep Andalusia: Manuela, the daughter of a Sevillian poacher who supports his family with the proceeds of their raids and killed shot by order of the chief of the village, marries Antonio, a servant of the rich landowner don Ramón, although the latter is in love with her. Manuela, with its natural beauty and sensuality on edge attracts the most diverse passions, with subsequent conflicts.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaAna BelénEncarna PasoIn a small Spanish village, Gloria, the imperious head of a troubled family, is devoted to her two sons. The brothers, Óscar and Juan, have frequent violent disputes. Óscar, the oldest, and his steel-willed mother run the family's grocery store called el Jardín (The Garden), which does a brisk business in the black market. Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When Oscar marries his lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. He also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, their son, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Years later, Óscar and Ana remain childless. Gloria wants to bring her illegitimate (and incestuous) grandson and only heir, into the family circle. As Juanito recovers, Juan returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIñaki AierraAssumpta SernaÁlvaro de Luna
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsArturo FernándezAmparo MuñozPaca GabaldónDue to his sex addiction, Mauricio voluntarily enters a clinic. Taking care of him is doctor Verónica, who subjects him to a treatment that annuls his excessive virility and turns him into an effeminate. In order to repair her mistake, the doctor decides to call three of Mauricio's former lovers to help him recover.
- DirectorGonzalo García PelayoStarsJavier García PelayoNatalia RodríguezRosa ÁvilaThe movie is a road movie where Triana's spirit is recalled across his friends, musicians, managers and admirers. The success of the band was mixing the magic of Rock Music with the deep musical roots of Andalusia. Gonzalo García-Pelayo,the director, and his brother Javier, friend, discoverer and manager of TRIANA, have created this cinematographic project with the intention of honoring the mythical band. Their original songs will be use used as background to represent the spirit of 40 years ago when freedom and music were an important way of life.
- DirectorFernando BauluzRicardo FrancoStarsAriadna GilFele MartínezElena Anaya"Black Tears" tells a tragic love story. Andres' life is completely shaken after he meets Isabel. She is not really crazy, simply different. Isabel is suffering, and Andres follows her wherever it might be necessary, whatever the consequences.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsEduard FernándezSilvia AbascalJoaquim de Almeida"La Voz de su Amo" is a contemporary film noire set in Bilbao in 1980, an environment marked by corruption and terrorism. The lead character is Charlie, a taciturn individual in his thirties. He works as the trusted man of Mr. Oliveira, an entrepreneur of Portuguese origin who engages in dark businesses. Alarmed by a series of threats and attempts on people's lives, Oliveira decides to put his teenage daughter, Marta, under Charlie's protection. From that moment on, everything becomes complicated: love appears without prior warning, violence generates more violence, friends turn out not to be what they seemed to be and money changes hands.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsAntonio BanderasAsier EtxeandiaLeonardo SbaragliaA film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsFrancisco RabalFernando Fernán GómezJesús BonillaWhen God decides to send another Son to Earth to save the world, Jesus Christ disagrees, because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute, they all decide to organize the apocalypse. Can anyone or anything stop them?
- DirectorMariano OzoresStarsAndrés PajaresAntonio OzoresMaría CasanovaManolo has to work non stop to make sure his daughter can study at a prestigious school in Madrid.
- DirectorManuel Gómez PereiraStarsJavier BardemAitana Sánchez-GijónJosep Maria FlotatsFor financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.