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.