The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…
Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performance, where she meets Zampo, an old clown with whom she becomes close friends.
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.
Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing the air," friends, good partners but rivals and competitive in love. When they see Nati, a beautiful woman who falls in love with Alberto, jealousy will lead to situations that jeopardize their great...
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets...
Don Rodrigo, who lives in America, returns to Spain at the death of his son. Once here he discovers he has two granddaughters, though only one is a fruit of his son's marriage as the other is daughter of his son with a mistress.
Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, who confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to frame the Palomos for a crime he has committed.
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently...
While conducting interviews with women working in local brothels, Fernando, a journalist, meets Elisa. The woman will tell him her dramatic story, which begins at age 14 when she is raped by her godfather.
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is...
After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house of her two nephews. A scenarist in need of inspiration walks on the beach and slowly unravels a series of murders.
An eccentric marquis, for personal reasons, makes a deal with a man to kill him within six months. But some time later, he meets a woman and discovers that his reasons for being murdered have disappeared. Faced with this situation, he decides to go in search of the man he hired. From this point on,...
