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In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
All About My Mother (1999)
Pedro Almodóvar · 21 critic votes
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Viridiana (1961)
Luis Buñuel · 19 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, Darkroom
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Dream of Light (1992)
Víctor Erice · 15 critic votes
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
Tristana (1970)
Luis Buñuel · 10 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Cineverse · Streaming on Kanopy, Cohen Media Amazon Channel
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Talk to Her (2002)
Pedro Almodóvar · 10 critic votes
Streaming on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Campanadas a Medianoche (1965)
Orson Welles · 8 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
Not on Your Life (1963)
Luis García Berlanga · 7 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, Britbox Apple TV channel
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Arrebato (1979)
Ivan Zulueta · 7 critic votes
Streaming on Shudder, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.
Living in Seville (1978)
Gonzalo García Pelayo · 6 critic votes
Miguel is in love with Rosa, a special woman. The relationship did not work at all and decide to break. Rosa then falls for a Sevillian painter who has returned after forty years of exile.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Pedro Almodóvar · 6 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Land without Bread (1933)
Luis Buñuel · 4 critic votes
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
Plácido (1961)
Luis García Berlanga · 4 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Cría Cuervos (1976)
Carlos Saura · 3 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
El desencanto (1976)
Jaime Chávarri · 3 critic votes
This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems.
Volver (2006)
Pedro Almodóvar · 3 critic votes
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Sirāt (2025)
Óliver Laxe · 3 critic votes
Streaming on Hulu
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
Granada Mirror-Water (1955)
José Val del Omar · 2 critic votes
Experimental, cinematic symphony of Granada, José Val del Omar's birthplace.
Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) (1960)
José Val del Omar · 2 critic votes
A short, experimental documentary featuring sculptures by Alonso de Berruguete and Juan de Juni. Shot within the Valladolid National Museum, the film is an excercise in what Val de Omar called "Tactile vision".
Manuela (1976)
Gonzalo García-Pelayo · 2 critic votes
In Seville during the 1970s, Manuela, a furtive hunter’s daughter, marries the servant of rich Don Ramón, who is in love with her. With her natural beauty and sensuality, she attracts all sorts of passions, along with the conflicts that derive from them.
The South (1983)
Víctor Erice · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
Albert Serra · 2 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy, MUBI Amazon Channel
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.
Fire Will Come (2019)
Óliver Laxe · 2 critic votes
Free on Cineverse · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Hoopla
When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.
Pain and Glory (2019)
Pedro Almodóvar · 2 critic votes
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Life in Shadows (1949)
Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia · 1 critic vote
The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also blessed with the love of Ana, which he has longed for; but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 changes everything for both of them.
Different (1962)
Luis María Delgado · 1 critic vote
A young man from the gentry rejects all the values his family upholds while they rejects his own; so that, despite his efforts to please and the fact that he works in the family business, he ends up finding out that his uptight and competent brother calls him useless and effeminate.
Miss Death (1966)
Jesús Franco · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Fawesome
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Peppermint Frappé (1967)
Carlos Saura · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.
...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970)
José Antonio Sistiaga · 1 critic vote
An experimental film: dozens of pictorial techniques applied directly on celluloid; a work of impressive aesthetics that recovers certain ideas of abstract expressionism: endless chromaticism, constant mutations, the music of the cosmos, mysticism, synesthesia… and an enigmatic title that, although it imitates the phonetics of the Basque language, means nothing.
Rite and Geography of Song (1971)
Mario Gómez · 1 critic vote
Spanish television's landmark flamenco series (1971–73) films singers, guitarists and dancers where they live and perform, from Antonio Mairena to Camarón and Paco de Lucía.
Far from the Trees (1972)
Jacint Esteva Grewe · 1 critic vote
Streaming on GuideDoc
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.
Girón (1972)
Manuel Herrera · 1 critic vote
On 15th April 1961 the anti-revolutionary forces bombed the airports of San Antonio de los Baños, Ciudad Libertad, and Santiago de Cuba in an attempt to eliminate the Cuban air force. This incident portended an imminent invasion. On the next day, while the victims of the bombing were being buried, Fidel Castro proclaimed the state of war. On the morning of 17th April mercenaries went ashore at Bay of Pigs, and proceeded to occupy two centrally situated places: Playa Larga and Playa Girón. Meanwhile, paratroopers landed north of this area in order to control the only access roads to these two beaches, which ran through the Zapata swamp. Thus, the occupiers created a centre of force in Bay of Pigs and appointed a provisional government. They intended to take over power by fighting a war of attrition, with the aid of the U.S.
The Lattice (1972)
Isidoro Valcárcel Medina · 1 critic vote
The film is the book and at the same time it is not. The transposition of the work on paper to the screen is, in this case, the occupation of the conceptual artist Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. Through on-screen texts and a succession of voices that read different passages, Medina presents the filmic adaptation of Alain Robbe-Grillet's book. The novel is a tremendously optical reading of objects and landscapes made by a jealous husband who deforms and subjectivizes reality. The film objectifies the texts in the same way by putting them as they are on the screen, but so is the reading of free texts and languages and associations. As the poster that the artist himself made says: “In 1957 Alain Robbe-Grillet published La Celosía. In 1972 Isidoro Valcárcel has taken it to the cinema.” A film that is an exercise on dissociation and the duration of the shot.
Rocío and José (1983)
Gonzalo García Pelayo · 1 critic vote
One of the oldest pilgrimages known to European Christianity is the pilgrimage to El Rocío, where prayers are said to the benevolent Blanca Paloma. Year after year, pilgrimage trains of more than a million believers set out to visit the small, remote andalusian village, which is normally inhabited by less than a thousand souls. In this film, the story of shy infatuation developing between two young people is little more than García Pelayo’s pretext to shooting this event in each and every detail. - Viennale
Law of Desire (1987)
Pedro Almodóvar · 1 critic vote
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
High Heels (1991)
Pedro Almodóvar · 1 critic vote
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Pedro Almodóvar · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV
Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Alejandro Amenábar · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, VIX , Plex · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Criterion Channel
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Train of Shadows (1998)
José Luis Guerin · 1 critic vote
Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.
Bad Education (2004)
Pedro Almodóvar · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004)
José Luis Garci · 1 critic vote
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
The Red Death (2006)
Víctor Erice · 1 critic vote
Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. The remembrances of such a formative cinematic experience leads him to recall the dark days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, to confess the many fears stalking children and to reflect on the nature of memory itself.
In the City of Sylvia (2007)
José Luis Guerin · 1 critic vote
A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
Broken Embraces (2009)
Pedro Almodóvar · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Light Being (2009)
Diana Toucedo · 1 critic vote
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll
Little Indi (2009)
Marc Recha · 1 critic vote
In addition to an incipient fondness for greyhound racing, the young Arnau has two inseparable companions: a songbird and a fox. Both accompany him in his journey to adolescence, a difficult transition due to some hard circumstances: the mother of the boy is locked in prison, and he is forced to live with his uncles.
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
Miguel Llansó · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on ARROW
CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them.
Close Your Eyes (2023)
Víctor Erice · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Film Movement Plus
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Afternoons of Solitude (2024)
Albert Serra · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.
