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- DirectorJosé María González SindeStarsEmilio Gutiérrez CabaMaría CasanovaEnriqueta CarballeiraDrama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.
- DirectorAzucena RodríguezStarsPenélope CruzCristina MarcosMaría PujalteMadrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.
- 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.
- StarsÀlex MonnerAnna CastilloPatrick CriadoBased on the birth of Basque terrorists group ETA and their first terror attack, of which military police member José Antonio Pardines was a victim.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsCarmelo GómezMaribel VerdúAntonio ResinesRamiro Forteza, a goalkeeper in the Spanish Premier League, is forced by the rigors of the Civil War and the postwar period to earn a living in small villages, challenging the locals to score him a penalty. One night, he arrives in an Asturian village and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives by sewing for Úrsula, the wife of Andrade, the sergeant of the Civil Guard. But the exhibitions of Forteza and his relationship with Manuela attract the attention of Andrade, who will make a proposal related to the resistance movement that will involve the goalkeeper in the conflict.
- DirectorJulio Sánchez ValdésStarsSantiago RamosAntonio ResinesÁlvaro de LunaAt the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), some Republican fighters continue to harass the victors with guerrilla operations. One of the zones of resistance were the mountains of León. In the region of Riaño, half a dozen maquis maintain a very unequal fight against the Civil Guard. Ramiro, Santiago and Gildo, three militiamen, are persecuted by a patrol of the Benemérita under the control of a sergeant who is in love with the same woman that Ramiro. To get enough money to get them to France, the militiamen kidnap the owner of a mine and demand 150,000 pesetas in exchange for their freedom.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsDaniel BrühlTristán UlloaLeonardo SbaragliaA profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
- DirectorPilar MiróStarsTerence StampPatsy KensitJosé Luis GómezMadrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
- DirectorRubén BurénStarsFátima PlazasZaida AlonsoIsabel Romero de León1949, Spain. 10 years after Civil War, the partisans continue in the mountains fighting against the fascists, women suffer repression. There is a conflict that nobody wants to talk about; some prefer to forget, others continue fighting.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsMarisolAntonio GadesManuel AlexandreA woman arrives in town to work as a teacher during the time of the 'maquis,' the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship's future is impossible because of the past.
- DirectorMargarita AlexandreRafael María TorrecillaStarsCosetta GrecoFausto TozziMaría Dolores PraderaRafael, an ex-exiled republican of the Spanish Civil War, returns to his native city after the years and in the company of his fellow maquis (members of the Resistance) with the mission of carrying out an armed action against Franco's regime. But the mission fails and, in his desperate attempt to escape, Rafael kidnaps a beautiful high class woman.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGregory PeckAnthony QuinnOmar SharifFamous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile, but Spanish cop Vinolas sets a trap for him.
- DirectorAlfonso Cortés-CavanillasEsther JiménezAníbal Ruiz-VillarStarsAsier EtxeandiaMarian ÁlvarezHugo SilvaA rebel revolutionary against Franquist's dictatorship who turns deaf after a failed sabotage tries to escape from the military forces who prosecute him.
- DirectorBaptiste MenageStarsTobias Christian MayerAnthony CohenHenri CohenBir-Hakeim, the renowned maquis was formed with spanish republicans, german antifascists, french patriots of all religions and ages. On the 27th of may 1944, the Kommandatur in Mende, Lozere department, is warned that rebels are in the town of La Borie.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsYves MontandIngrid ThulinGeneviève BujoldA middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
- DirectorSancho GraciaStarsTito ValverdeSara MoraUxía Blanco
- DirectorJavier AguirreStarsEsperanza RoyBárbara ReyTota AlbaAutobiography of a woman who spent much of her life in prison.
- DirectorAlfonso UngríaStarsCarlos OteroYelena SamarinaJulieta SerranoA republican, former combatant of the Spanish Civil War, remains hidden in a room of the family home during the years of the Franco dictatorship. By dint of being isolated from the outside for so long, and despite receiving the visit of friends and family, the man ends up developing a behavior full of oddities.
- DirectorJosé Luis García SánchezStarsJuan EchanoveCarmen ConesaGabino DiegoFifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsAdolfo MarsillachConcha VelascoCarmen de LirioA group of Falangist friends dreams of transforming Spain shortly before the Civil War while they are dedicated to spreading their ideas among the population. One of them, López, is about to die shot by firearm, but saves his life and joins the national side. At the end of the war, an old comrade encouraged him to participate in a secret operation to end the maquis of Asturias. Although he is already married and has children, he accepts the proposal and infiltrates the guerrillas.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsFernando Fernán GómezMaría AsquerinoAgustín GonzálezThe news of the Franco's death has a special resonance in the family formed by Florentina, her daughter Encarna, her son Hilario, and the children of the marriage, Juanita and Manolín. At the same time, Florentina informs the family of a much more important announcement than the dictator's death: her husband Emiliano, who had been given up for dead in the Spanish civil war, is alive. During Franco's regime he has been hidden in the family home itself.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsJosé SanchoJosé BódaloManuel TejadaThe evolution of Jesuit priest Juan Camí, from his early years of great faith and Falange-supporting patriotism, to the moment he loses his faith, becomes a Communist and marries a stripper.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsJosé BódaloMary BegoñaFrancisco CecilioOn November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is.
- DirectorJavier CorcueraStarsFlorián GarcíaEsperanza MartínezRemedios MonteroA brief portrait on the organized anti-fascist guerrillas that fought Franco while hiding in the woods and mountains since 1939 to 1948
- DirectorAitor FernandezOver 100 testimonies from survivors of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) and the Francoist repression (1936-1976) they narrate their own history and speak directly to young people. Vencidxs (Defeated) is the biggest project of recovery of historical memory ever made in Spain and it's made without institutional financial aid. The Spanish genocide is still a taboo subject in Spain and thousands of families cannot recover the bones of their ancestors. But the Franco era ended with the lives of more than 113000 people and Spain is the second country in the world with more mass graves, after Cambodia.
- DirectorLaura MañáStarsMàrcia CisteróEmilio Gutiérrez CabaÒscar MuñozDuring the spanish civil war, Frederica Montseny, an anarchist leader, becomes ministry of health. She was the first woman in Spain to be part of a government.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsIban GarateBlanca SuárezKarra ElejaldeHenry grows tired of witnessing injustices, and he engages in risky actions.