In 1944 Spain, a girl is sent to live with her ruthless stepfather. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks.
FR #670 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Spain, UK | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Victor Erice
Writer
Ngel Fernandez-Santos De Blazquez, Victor Erice
Cast
Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Plot
In 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.
FR #1332 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Spain, Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
J.A. Bayona
Writer
Sergio G. Sanchez
Cast
Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep
Plot
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
FR #1620 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Julio Alejandro
Cast
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lvarez Felix
Plot
Simon, 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.
FR #1838 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Spain, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Alejandro Amenabar
Writer
Alejandro Amenabar, Mateo Gil
Cast
Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera
Plot
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
FR #2631 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Italy | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Julio Alejandro, Luis Bunuel, Benito Perez Galdos
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Plot
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
FR #4578 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | USA, Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Mandoki
Writer
Luis Mandoki, Oscar Orlando Torres
Cast
Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus
Plot
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
FR #4713 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, Russia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast
Pedro Infante, Blanca Estela Pavon, Maria Eugenia Llamas
Plot
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near t...
FR #5322 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | Spain, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Nacho Vigalondo
Writer
Nacho Vigalondo
Cast
Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga
Plot
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to "give birth" to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the body, only to end up unintentionally spreading chaos.
FR #5716 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Fernando Mendez, Carlos Orellana
Cast
Sara Garcia, Pedro Infante, Abel Salazar
Plot
Ruled by a tough grandma (Sara GarcÃa), the GarcÃas (Infante, Salazar and Mendoza) are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita (Marga López) and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
FR #5824 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Peru, Colombia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Javier Fuentes-Leon
Writer
Javier Fuentes-Leon
Cast
Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona
Plot
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
FR #6975 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Japan | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Carlos Gonzalez Duenas, Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast
Pedro Infante, Evita Munoz 'Chachita', Blanca Estela Pavon
Plot
Sequel to Nosotros los Pobres (1947). This time, Pepe "El Toro" (Infante) is married with "La Chorreada" (Pavon) and they have two children. Chachita (Munoz) knows her real grandma: Charito (Derba), a rich woman who takes Chachita...
FR #7368 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Egypt | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Pedro Almodovar
Writer
Pedro Almodovar, Jesus Ferrero
Cast
Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez
Plot
A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It is just one of the problems of one of the characters that unexpectedly collide in this film.
FR #7723 | Movie | War, Drama | Mexico, Japan | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Juan Bustillo Oro, Mauricio Magdaleno, Fernando De Fuentes
Cast
Alfredo Del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto
Plot
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend...
FR #8483 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Spain, India | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Edgar Neville
Writer
Emilio Carrere, Jose Santugini, Edgar Neville
Cast
Antonio Casal, Isabel De Pomes, Guillermo Marin
Plot
In 19th-century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number on which the ball will fall; the protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious ma...
FR #8724 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Emilio Fernandez
Writer
Emilio Fernandez, Mauricio Magdaleno
Cast
Marga Lopez, Miguel Inclan, Rodolfo Acosta
Plot
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz does...
FR #9225 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Italy | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Alejandro Galindo
Writer
Alejandro Galindo
Cast
Fernando Soler, David Silva, Martha Roth
Plot
A strict patriarch exercises almost absolute control over his family and uses it to impose his vision of order and conservative family values. However, the budding sexuality of some of his children causes the union to unravel.
FR #9392 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, India | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bunuel
Cast
Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas
Plot
A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.
FR #10078 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Argentina | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Adolfo Aristarain
Writer
Adolfo Aristarain, Kathy Saavedra
Cast
Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela
Plot
19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend D...
FR #10644 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Mexico, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Carlos Enrique Taboada
Writer
Carlos Enrique Taboada
Cast
Marga Lopez, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet
Plot
Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.
Manuel Ruiz Castillo, Pedro Beltran, Luis Garcia Berlanga
Cast
Carlos Larranaga, Tota Alba, Lina Canalejas
Plot
Paquita 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 intenti...
FR #11225 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Fernando De Fuentes
Writer
Jorge Pezet, Fernando De Fuentes, Juan Bustillo Oro
Cast
Marta Roel, Enrique Del Campo, Carlos Villatoro
Plot
Alfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, speci...
FR #11226 | Movie | Drama | Mexico, Sweden | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Joselito Rodriguez
Writer
Felix B. Caignet, Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Fannie Hurst
Cast
Pedro Infante, Emilia Guiu, Rita Montaner
Plot
Angelitos Negros is a story of prejudice and sacrifice; the plot centers around a woman who does not realize her heritage, brought up as the "white"wealthy patron's daughter, she is actually the daughter of the black maid.
FR #11313 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Spain, South Korea | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Fernando Gonzalez Molina
Writer
Federico Moccia, Ramon Salazar
Cast
Mario Casas, Clara Lago, Maria Valverde
Plot
The sequel of Three Meters Above The Sky, starts with the return of H to his hometown where reconnecting with the past means struggle and also a new love.
FR #12123 | Movie | Documentary, History | Chile, Cuba | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Patricio Guzman
Writer
Patricio Guzman, Pedro Chaskel, Jose Bartolome
Cast
Abilio Fernandez, Salvador Allende
Plot
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Aurelio RodrÃguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
FR #12321 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, Finland | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Fernando Eimbcke
Writer
Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch
Cast
Diego Catano, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola
Plot
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks an...
FR #12986 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Julio Bracho
Writer
Max Aub, Julio Bracho, Xavier Villaurrutia
Cast
Andrea Palma, Pedro Armendariz, Alberto Galan
Plot
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, wh...
FR #13074 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Brazil | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Achero Manas
Writer
Achero Manas, Veronica Fernandez
Cast
Juan Jose Ballesta, Pablo Galan, Alberto Jimenez
Plot
Alfredo is a kid who begins in a new new school where he makes a friend, Pablo. Alfredo realizes that Pablo is a victim of home abuse by his father, and decides to involve his own family in order to help his friend.
Galindo 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.
Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa Maria Gutierrez, Leonor Llausas
Plot
A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
FR #13575 | Movie | Action, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Jorge Fons
Writer
Guadalupe Ortega, Xavier Robles
Cast
Hector Bonilla, Maria Rojo, Jorge Fegan
Plot
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop n...
FR #13902 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Mexico, Iran | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Carlos Enrique Taboada
Writer
Carlos Enrique Taboada
Cast
Marga Lopez, Joaquin Cordero, Norma Lazareno
Plot
A governess Julia comes to work in a bourgeois family that live in an afforested property that they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family g...
FR #14063 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Spain, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Writer
Isabel Pena, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Cast
Antonio De La Torre, Monica Lopez, Josep Maria Pou
Plot
A Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye.
FR #14084 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Colombia, Italy | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Sergio Cabrera
Writer
Sergio Cabrera, Humberto Dorado, Jorge Goldenberg
Cast
Fausto Cabrera, Frank Ramirez, Delfina Guido
Plot
A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken, but decide to unite and come up with a strategy.
FR #14368 | Movie | Adventure, Crime | Mexico, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Felipe Cazals
Writer
Tomas Perez Turrent
Cast
Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sanchez, Ernesto Gomez Cruz
Plot
A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to ly...
FR #14644 | Movie | Documentary | Venezuela, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Margot Benacerraf
Writer
Margot Benacerraf, Pierre Seghers
Cast
Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Plot
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, t...
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, Pedro Rivero, David Desola
Cast
Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena
Plot
A thrilling physical journey that allows an approach to the darkness, where it is scary to look. It appeals to the viewer's civil responsibility and forces them to face the limits of their own solidarity.
FR #14831 | Movie | Drama | Spain, Canada | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Benito Zambrano
Writer
Benito Zambrano
Cast
Maria Galiana, Ana Fernandez, Carlos Lvarez-Novoa
Plot
While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's pas...
FR #15729 | Movie | Drama | Argentina, China | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Cesar Amadori
Writer
Joracy Camargo, Tulio Demicheli
Cast
Arturo De Cordova, Zully Moreno, Florindo Ferrario
Plot
A player wife, Nancy, who holds elegance to disguise their poverty while waiting for a wealthy man appears and deal with it, talk to the old man begging at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious suitor offers a life of lux...
FR #15730 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Argentina | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Hugo Fregonese
Writer
Raimundo Calcagno, Israel Chas De Cruz, Tulio Demicheli
Cast
Jorge Salcedo, Sebastian Chiola, Tito Alonso
Plot
A bank employee utilizes a legal loophole to conduct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement following a six-year prison sentence.
FR #15900 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | Cuba, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Humberto Solas
Writer
Julio Garcia Espinosa, Nelson Rodriguez, Humberto Solas
Cast
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez, Adela Legra
Plot
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named LucÃa, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
FR #15902 | Movie | Comedy | Mexico, China | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Manuel Altolaguirre, Luis Bunuel, Juan De La Cabada
Cast
Lilia Prado, Carmelita Gonzalez, Esteban Mayo
Plot
A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?
FR #16124 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Argentina | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Hector Olivera
Writer
Daniel Kon, Hector Olivera, Maria Seoane
Cast
Alejo Garcia Pintos, Vita Escardo, Pablo Novak
Plot
This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the government of Isabel Peron, their protests ...
Torrente now lives in Marbella; after losing all his money, he returns to private investigation. One case puts him in the middle of a villain's missile plot to destroy the city and his own uncle's blackmail operation--and he knows...
FR #17393 | Movie | Drama | Argentina, Poland | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Leonardo Favio
Writer
Leonardo Favio, Jorge Zuhair Jury
Cast
Diego Puente, Tino Pascali, Cacho Espindola
Plot
Abandoned 11-year-old Polin sent to state orphanage, faces abuse by staff. Inmates plan escape amid adolescent struggles. When opportunity arises, Polin learns freedom's price.
FR #17621 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Spain, Russia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Fernando Fernan Gomez
Writer
Fernando Fernan Gomez
Cast
Jose Sacristan, Laura Del Sol, Juan Diego
Plot
The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. We assist to the end of an era.
FR #18331 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Mexico, France | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Francisco Vargas
Writer
Francisco Vargas
Cast
Ngel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama
Plot
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunitio...
FR #18900 | Movie | Drama, Musical | Mexico, Russia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Alberto Gout
Writer
Lvaro Custodio, Carlos Sampelayo, Alberto Gout
Cast
Ninon Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma
Plot
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs h...
FR #19141 | Movie | Mystery, Thriller | Argentina, Russia | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Carlos Hugo Christensen
Writer
Cornell Woolrich, Alejandro Casona
Cast
Nestor Zavarce, Blanca Del Prado, Floren Delbene
Plot
Lucio Santana's prankster friend reveals a man's suspicious behavior with lollipops. When she's murdered, Lucio must decide between keeping his vow or informing his detective father about the potential killer.
FR #19528 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Spain, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Pedro Almodovar
Writer
Pedro Almodovar
Cast
Javier Camara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth, Antonio Banderas
Plot
When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.
FR #20082 | Movie | Drama | Colombia, Taiwan | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Victor Gaviria
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen, Victor Gaviria, Carlos Henao
Cast
Leidy Maria 'Lady' Tabares, Marta Correa, Mileider Gil
Plot
13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the ...
5 years after a mom's 6 y.o. girl is murdered, she gets a phone call from someone claiming to be the daughter. An ex cop and a reporter help. A secret group called The Nameless may be behind it all.
FR #21662 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Miguel M. Delgado
Writer
Cantinflas, Miguel M. Delgado, Carlos Leon
Cast
Cantinflas, Roberto Soto, Gilberto Gonzalez
Plot
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is le...
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.
FR #22661 | Movie | Horror, Mystery | Mexico, Hong Kong | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Rafael Baledon
Writer
Fernando Galiana, Rafael Baledon
Cast
Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo
Plot
After fifteen years of being away, a woman returns with her husband to her aunt's hacienda in the Mexican countryside, without realizing that her relative is a sorceress who wants to use her to bring an evil witch back to life.
Despite their parents' efforts to separate them, Noah and Nick's love seems unbreakable. However, work and college open their lives to new relationships.
FR #23075 | Movie | Drama, Mystery | Argentina | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Mariano Llinas
Writer
Mariano Llinas
Cast
Mariano Llinas, Walter Jakob, Agustin Mendilaharzu
Plot
In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
