SPAIN IS PAIN!
From the early pioneers to the mostly unknown new spanish cinema, the Barcelona School of Film, the new Basque cinema and some other recent films unfairly underseen/undervalued or although less known to the regular viewer.
Not forgetting some of the all-time best spanish films and other classic titles that evaded censorship with subtle intelligence.
This list was updated on May 3rd, 2024.
All films arranged chronologically.
Not forgetting some of the all-time best spanish films and other classic titles that evaded censorship with subtle intelligence.
This list was updated on May 3rd, 2024.
All films arranged chronologically.
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- DirectorSegundo de ChomónThree friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónStarsSegundo de ChomónJulienne MathieuAn enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorFlorián ReyStarsCarmen ViancePedro LarrañagaAmelia MuñozIn an impoverished Castilian village live Juan, his wife Acacia, their son and Juan's blind father. The harsh weather conditions force the peasants to emigrate to a better land. Acacia goes to the city instead. Time goes by and they will meet again.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de LaberdesqueA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarCompilation of images belonging to three independent documentaries that were believed to be lost, following the festivities and rituals of the Holy Week in Lorca, Cartagena and Murcia, as well as the Murcia Spring Festival.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorJosé Val del Omar
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesFernando Fernán GómezGuillermo MarínThe story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesRafael DuránGuillermo MarínRecent widow Mercedes nostalgically recalls her years of marriage with deadly-dull Ramón and concludes that she was unhappy. While traveling by train to Madrid, a psychic makes her see that there was a time she could have chosen another partner and shows her what life would have been like with the other suitor, Miguel Ángel.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesFosco GiachettiMaria DenisBarcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsAmparo RivellesAntonio VilarManolo MoránMauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a pension in Chinatown (today called Raval) and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. Soon after, a murder is committed in the neighborhood and Mauricio, whose past is dark enough, it becomes the prime suspect.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsFernando Fernán GómezConchita MontesJosé Luis OzoresFernando (Fernando Fernan Gomez), is a young man who has just completed military service in a cavalry regiment. This regiment has received the order of motorize and therefore must sell all their horses to a manager of the bullring that provides horses to the picks. Hence, Fernando decides to buy a "Bucéfalo", the horse that has been his partner during this time and returns to Madrid taking away the animal. Everything has changed, the city is no longer the same does not find stables, and, not even have time to assist it.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsSusana CanalesFernando ReyLuis PrendesA woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsAntonio El BailarínPilar LópezLuz María LarraguivelTitle changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA version has an English narrative written by Walter Terry, the dance critic of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. Heading the cast are Antonio (I), Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz, three of Spain's foremost dancers of the time, accompanied by members of the Ballet Espanol. Filmed in Cinefotocolor in which orange and blue dominated, a combination that should appeal to the fans of Auburn University athletic teams. Distributed in the USA by Martin J. Lewis.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsAurora BautistaCarlos LemosJosé SuárezAurelia is a Mancha's peasant who can barely keep up her husband's estate while he's in prison for murder. When Juan enters her service as a farmhand, the land begins to regain its former glory--and the boy feels increasingly attracted to his mistress. Although nobody in the village wants to work in the lands of "the damned"--Until one day José regains freedom and returns home, and a fierce rivalry begins between the two men as they vie for Aurelia's heart.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsLucia BosèAlberto ClosasBruna CorràA couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsPepe AlbaicínJuan Gómez LealSeñorita ChonAs stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsMarisa PradoAlberto RuschelEnrique DiosdadoThe story of rivalry between the Mendozas and the Alzagas recommences as the two heirs fall in love.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsEmma PenellaEnrique DiosdadoVicente ParraEstrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsAlberto ClosasFolco LulliJosé Marco DavóAfter serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsEdmund GwennValentina CorteseJuan CalvoProfessor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest's eminence, local residents spend their time engaged in their modest daily chores. The affable Professor Hamilton not only integrates perfectly into the small town, forging deep friendships with his neighbors, but he might also be finding the happiness he craves.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsBetsy BlairJosé SuárezYves MassardA couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsJosé María RoderoManuel Díaz GonzálezAntonio AndradaSeveral stories in which different characters face an existential void that has been left prostrate in a lack of vital consistency.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsRichard BasehartJosé IsbertPaolo StoppaIn the village of Fuentecilla is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but has now been forgotten by the public. To bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas, the local patron saint, which will take place every Thursday night. At first it works, but trouble begins when a stranger appears, claiming that he knows what's going on and making peculiar demands in exchange for his silence.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsFrancisco Rabal
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsHeinz RühmannSigfrit SteinerSiegfried LowitzHaving doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
- DirectorManuel Mur OtiStarsOlga ZubarryAlberto de MendozaLuis PrendesA former singer's nephew and personal attendant plan to poison her.
- DirectorMarco FerreriIsidoro M. FerryStarsMary CarrilloJosé Luis López VázquezConcha López SilvaRodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old hovels. Rodolfo's co-workers start encouraging him to marry the frail old Doña Martina, the main tenant in his apartment building; according to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsCarmen SevillaRaf ValloneJorge MistralIn rural Spain, sister of an ex con convinces him to take revenge against the local who tipped off the authorities about the man's whereabouts, which led to his subsequent arrest. Unfortunately, she soon falls in love with the snitch.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFrancisco RabalMarga LópezRita MacedoA priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsManuel ZarzoLuis MarínÓscar CruzA bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsJosé IsbertPedro PorcelJosé Luis López VázquezSeventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsArturo BaltarEzequiel MendezAn experimental film by José Val del Omar using various imagery based upon clay.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsCassenJosé Luis López VázquezElvira QuintilláIn a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in its midst is Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because they lack the money to pay rent, and who must pay the second bill on his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsJosé Val del OmarShort documentary featuring sculptures of Alonso de Berruguete and Juan de Juni in the Valladolid National Museum.
- DirectorVicente EscriváStarsMillie PerkinsFolco LulliWalter SantessoA young lady named Aldonza receives a communication from the famous Don Quixote, via Sancho Panza, and takes on the identity of the Cervantes character Dulcinea, which gets her into trouble.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsJosé Luis López VázquezCassenGracita MoralesGalindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique RambalThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsSimón AndreuMarta del ValEnriqueta CarballeiraA couple of young university students decide to spend the day in Toledo, in order to forget a little of the routine in which they are. At nine o'clock in the morning, José Luis waits at the Atocha station for his girlfriend, Mari Carmen. The couple has deceived their families, who have told that they will eat in the Faculty. The journey is eternal and the stay in the city, rather than surprise them, as they expected, immerses them, even more, in the monotony in which they live. Without friends, without relatives and without university partners, the couple will spend twelve hours in Toledo, half a day of tenderness in the rain and the December sun that will help them to know themselves better.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsCorinne MarchandAntonio CasasJean-Pierre CasselA young French cabaret showgirl spends a few days in a provincial Spanish city recovering from an operation, altering with her brash self-confidence the narrow-minded customs of the place and awakening passion in the local physician and in a young teacher as well.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorJesús Fernández SantosStarsManuel San FranciscoMaría José AlfonsoManuel ZarzoDespite his youth, Daniel is not happy with his luck. He works in an auto repair shop and his job does not offer him any prospects of progress. Influenced by the large number of workers who are leaving Spain for Germany, he decides to emigrate as well.
- DirectorJorge GrauStarsFrancisco RabalMaría CuadraUmberto OrsiniBarcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several still young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festival.
- DirectorJulio DiamanteStarsJulia Gutiérrez CabaAgustín GonzálezLina CanalejasThree independent stories that reflect some of the many faces of love. Elvira and Alfonso have been engaged for ten years in courtship, during which they have kept their chastity zealously, while waiting for him to pass public examinations. María (a department store employee) meets a handsome rich man with whom she decides to lose her virginity, but the true nature of the blue prince will soon be uncovered. Pilar and José, a young couple, struggle to keep alive the flame of their love despite the daily difficulties they encounter.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsCarlos LarrañagaTota AlbaLina CanalejasPaquita and her brother Venancio, both single and childish, live in a small town near Madrid. Their bossy eldest sister Ignacia, also an old maid, dominates them. One night, Paquita hears her sister tell somebody about her intention to sell all the family wealth. Once the money is gathered, she wishes to travel to Paris with the mysterious person and get rid of her brother and sister. Paquita and Venancio are terrified...
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsClaudio BrookSilvia PinalEnrique Álvarez FélixSimon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsLina CanalejasFernando Fernán GómezGemma CuervoTwo sisters who have a tumultuous sibling rivalry each try to find success, love, and status in 1960s Madrid.
- DirectorJulio DiamanteStarsLuigi GiulianiElena María TejeiroMaría del Carmen AbreuAfter graduating in Economics, Luis is seeking to burst through in life. His partner Ana sees how his way of being is changing by the standards of his company into a different person. Ana tries to draw his attention in a failed suicide attempt.
- DirectorManuel SummersStarsSonia BrunoMaría MassipJosé Antonio AmorPablo, a young draftsman, falls in love with Angela, a co-worker, while Blanca, his wife, is with the children outside Madrid.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsTeresa GimperaMarianne BenetMarcos MartíThe inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsEmilio Gutiérrez CabaMary CarrilloElsa BaezaLorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsSerena VerganoEnrique IrazoquiRafael ArcosA boy and a girl, both depressed, meet in a bar. Although they do not know each other, they start a tour at night through the bars in the city. As the night progresses, both are getting to know better.
- DirectorManuel SummersStarsRosita PinedoGran GilbertGuillermo GorostizaSummers portrays with his camera several characters very popular at another time, but completely forgotten in their old age: a bullfighter, Nicanor Villalta; a retired football player, Guillermo Gorostiza, and an old animator, El Gran Gilbert, among others. All of them show the reality of abandonment and the decay of oblivion. They really are 'Broken toys'.
- DirectorAngelino FonsStarsJacques PerrinEmma PenellaSara LezanaA young man comes to Madrid in 1900 and fights poverty. He tries to avoid becoming part of a gang of thieves but in a fight with the leader fatally wounds him and is arrested.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIsmael MerloAlfredo MayoJosé María PradaThree men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsMario CabréJosep CentellesNatacha GounkevichThe film is based on the suggestions may caused to the viewer by the relationship of images and things that seemingly are isolated, having nothing in common and that emulate the conventions of film and television advertising. The poet Joan Brossa worked on this script and also puts some maliciousness on the gray and oppressive atmosphere of Franco's Spain, which foreshadow the theme more explicitly on Portabella's 'Nocturno 29'.
- DirectorAntonio EceizaStarsManuel ManzanequeSonia BrunoFernando LigerHistory of love between a pilot of a pleasure craft and a French girl on vacation in Spain. Unfortunately, once the holidays are over, she will have to return to France to start her classes at the university.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinJosé Luis López VázquezAlfredo MayoJulian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena...
- DirectorAntonio EceizaStarsAntonio GadesMaría CuadraLa PolacaAntonio Esteve is a boy of humble origin who has managed to become a famous flamenco dancer. Now he moves in a comfortable environment, married to the beautiful Elena (a bourgeois to whom he does not pay much attention), and wants to erase his origins and the bitter betrayal he committed against his best friend, Juan.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsMarta MejíasCarlos OteroMaría QuadrenyAlternative, libertarian and underground film about the networks that connect the political struggle with loving anxiety. Its story-line are the reactions of an older man and a young girl at the news that in 1968 are published in the press: The French May, the war in Vietnam, Biafra.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsEsperanza RoyRobert PackerBeverly AtkinsonTom and Matilde and Jim and Emily are two friendly married couples united by the fact that the men are assigned to the base of Torrejón (Spain). The husbands are in crisis because of the possibility of licensing and returning to the United States in order to prevent Tom from going to Vietnam. Matilde is afraid to go to an unknown country full of racial prejudice.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinJuan Luis GaliardoFernando CebriánAn industrialist drives to the sea with his wife and best friend, who he thinks are starting an affair. As the two flirt, he becomes increasingly paranoid. Will he end his agony by killing the would-be lover, the inconstant wife or himself?
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsCristina GalbóAndrés ResinoGonzalo CañasDuring the Easter holidays of 1967, three friends arrive in Torremolinos, Spain to flirt and party. New to this hip environment they discover the goings-on behind the facade of luxury and splendor.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsNúria EspertJosé María BlancoRomyMaría López, a 30 years old married woman, has an old appendectomy scar and another fresh scar produced by cesarean section. María is a character created in a drunken afternoon through the neighborhoods of the port of Barcelona.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsLucia BosèMario CabréRamón JuliaA woman walks by her home and finally takes a shower - She buy colored fabrics in a trade. A man visiting a post office - Succession of scenic pictures and semi-autonomous fading almost always unexpected. A series of situations or suite, though apparently unrelated, revolve around a thematic development that gives body and drive the story without resorting to the use of an anecdote as plot continuity.
- DirectorJosé Luis EgeaVíctor EriceClaudio GuerínStarsDean SelmierFrancisco RabalAsunción BalaguerThree different episodes with the common nexus of expressing how a situation that seems normal ends up in an outbreak of violence: a father, actor of renown and owner of a luxurious mansion, who fears losing his daughter to an American officer; an adulterous husband, owner of an extensive estate where he breeds fighting bulls, who feels cheated to find that his wife has also been unfaithful to him; a young American traveler across Spanish lands who decides that his trip and that of his companions should not continue.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinPer OscarssonTeresa del RíoIsolated from the rest of the world in their countryside mansion, an unhappily married couple engages in a series of increasingly violent role playing games in an effort to heal their relationship.
- DirectorAntonio EceizaStarsJean-Louis TrintignantHaydée PolitoffTeresa del RíoMiguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAmparo Soler LealAntonio CasasBenito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that he is possessed by a demonic spirit. And it will be precisely the stories that people are telling about him what start to make him go crazy.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsJosé Luis López VázquezLuchy SotoFrancisco PierráA middle age construction tycoon is wheelchair-bound and amnesiac from a car accident in the company of his mistress. He alone had access to all his business's secrets, including the combination to the safe and his Swiss bank account.
- DirectorIván ZuluetaJosé Luis BorauStarsPatty ShepardJudy StephenMercedes JusteA group of Spanish fans of the best British pop music from the late sixties owned an odd record store, which only sold what they like. They decide to boycott the song "Lie, lie" that will represent Spain in a contest called 'Mundocanal' (parody of the music festivals of the time, as Eurovision). In order to accomplish the aforesaid, they will put in practice several stratagems to avoid that the selected bands would participate in the festival, whose performances will be happening throughout the film.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsGeraldine ChaplinTony IsbertViveca LindforsCountry boy Daniel arrives in the big city looking for a job. He meets an old man who hires him to find Laura, a girl who has been abducted by an organization called 'The House Without Frontiers.'
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsSimón AndreuMaribel MartínAlexandra BastedoNewlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAgustín GonzálezGoyo LebreroA man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
- DirectorJaime de ArmiñánStarsJosé Luis López VázquezJulieta SerranoAntonio FerrandisA 43-year-old woman living in a small town discovers that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsSerena VerganoRosa María MateoJosé CalvoBlanca, the director of the Municipal Library of a Spanish provincial city, receives a letter from Antonio Gómez, a partner she does not remember, in which he confesses his passionate love, alluding to the relationship between his secret feelings and the terrible crime that he just committed in a tavern shooting, in cold blood, on four customers who drank quietly at the bar. The whole city talks about the murder and, although the murderer is unaccounted for, Blanca has the feeling that he appears in her reveries.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJosé Luis López VázquezKiti MánverFrancisco AlgoraGrandfather Ramiro is on vacation at a mountain inn in the company of his family. He decides to send his people to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying that his health needs it. But the reason is another one.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinFernando Fernán GómezJosé María PradaA British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsJosé Luis López VázquezLina CanalejasFernando DelgadoAfter being given permission to re-inter his mother's body in their family vault, a middle-aged man who survived the Spanish Civil War as a child returns home and relives old memories.
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsLola GaosOvidi MontllorAlicia SánchezAngel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsBruce RobinsonMaribel MartínRamiro OliverosAfter completing his high-school studies at age 24, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford to return home for the summer until he manages to convince his young math teacher Carlos to accompany him. Once he does get home, Óscar behaves more and more irrationally, and his family tries to see him as the reflection of their absent father figure.
- DirectorNarciso Ibáñez SerradorStarsLewis FianderPrunella RansomeAntonio IranzoA couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsAna TorrentConchita PérezMayte SanchezIn the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsFelicidad BlancJuan Luis PaneroLeopoldo María PaneroThis film is a documentary about the poet 'Leopoldo Panero'. His widow and his sons talk about death in general and in this special case and also about their own family problems.
- DirectorJuan EstelrichStarsFernando Fernán GómezMartine AudóJosé María MompínEleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and know about his existence. Arabel Lee, a beautiful girl, finds one of those messages.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJosé Luis GómezDiana Pérez de GuzmánPaca OjeaEarly Spain of the 20th century. Bad luck, misery and tragedies are a trend in Pascual Duarte's family. But when the weight of the things are too heavy to bear, a reckless man who only follows his impulses, will fall into a descent to madness that slowly alters the course of his life and of others as well.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsMaría EspinosaJoan MirallesLolita RodríguezTwo lovers, a man and a woman, meet and separate in a timeless space.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsHéctor AlterioXabier ElorriagaMaría Rosa SalgadoJosé, a homosexual magician of 50 years, lived his childhood in Granada (Spain). His father was a gardener in the Buendía house. There he once saw Federico García Lorca. One night of July 1936, a group of fascists assassinated the father of José at the doors of the garden. Today José need to return to the place of his childhood. Maybe to recover the memory or perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to unveil Miguel, his current lover, the most hidden of his feelings.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsVictoria AbrilLou CastelFernando SanchoA seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
- DirectorLiko PérezSantiago San MiguelStarsIsabel MestresCarlos MárquezCecilia VillarrealAlicia is a lonely ten-year-old girl who, due to lack of affection from her family and schoolmates, takes refuge in the photo-novels and in her father's cinema films, creating their own fantasy world that is often mistaken for reality.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinJosé Luis GómezXabier ElorriagaDeeply impressed by the testimony of an anonymous woman at the Russell Tribunal about the torture she suffered, Luis, the theater director, decides to mount a play that will be the adaptation of that testimony.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsÀngel JovéMaría MartínIsabel PisanoA disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsJosé SacristánMaría Luisa San JoséJosé Luis AlonsoSex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsAna BelénNorman BriskiMaría Rosa SalgadoAna, who works on the Committee for the release of some suspected terrorists sentenced to death, suffers a faint. Her uncle Norman, a former doctor who was withdrawn from the drug smuggling license, offers her a remedy that could cure her brain disease, but warns Ana that it can also have consequences: it produces such a dis-inhibition that the patient lies beyond good and evil, ethics and convictions.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinAmparo MuñozFernando Fernán GómezAna is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little girls are grown-up. Further, she discovers that the dysfunctional family is completely broken, and Luchy in embezzling mother's money. When Juan arrives for the celebration, he plots with Fernando and Luchy to kill the mother to get the inheritance. Meanwhile, Antonio has a brief affair with Natalia.