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- Report produced by Laya Films (production company belonging to the Propaganda Commissioner of the Republican Generalitat) on material and human damages caused by the bombing that German and Italian fascist aviation carried out in several Catalan cities such as Barcelona, Granollers or Lleida during the Spanish Civil War. The script and the talk were directed by Jaume Miravitlles.
- At the beginning of the century, the son of the overlord of a village, a young law student, falls in love with the daughter of his father's greatest political enemy, a famous doctor. Both young people have to suffer in silence the familiar incomprehension towards the love that has taken possession of their hearts.
- An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.
- A businessman arrives to the Spanish Sahara with the mission of building a landing field. The political conditions in Europe cause this field becomes a military objective that the Spanish troops will have to defend no matter what it costs. Andrade, a Spanish officer in love with the territory and its people, commanded by an indigenous harka and Lieutenant Ochoa, a military officer, will confront the enemy whose mission is to destroy the airfield and its landing field.
- Film director and critic Augusto M. Torres makes a long interview with Barcelona's novelist Juan Marsé, in which he reviews his trajectory, without shying away from controversial issues such as his resignation from the Planeta Prize jury or the controversial adaptations to the cinema of some of his Novels. Shot in a long fixed plane, during the interview Juan Marsé talks about a multitude of themes and anecdotes related to his life and his work.
- 1987–19886.6 (7)TV EpisodeFederico García Lorca evokes his childhood in Fuentevaqueros and his memories at school. He also has the opportunity to meet Antonio Machado. His father opposes Federico studying music in Paris. In 1918 he publishes his first book, titled Impressions and Landscapes.
- Two cadets from the General Air Academy of the Spanish Army, Daniel and Luis, dispute the love of Elena, the Colonel's daughter. Daniel tries to impress the young woman by executing difficult pirouettes on her house, which provoke the ire of the high command. Luis, who feels deep envy towards his friend, challenges him. But while they are in flight, a terrible storm breaks out, so Luis's plane catches fire and he has to parachute. The only chance to survive from him is to be rescued by Daniel.
- "A extravagant and provocative comedy film about the religion and madness, politically incorrect"
- In the Barcelona of the late sixties, the massive arrival of emigrants from the countryside to the city causes situations of uprooting, poverty or unhealthiness. The shortage of homes, the precarious employment situation and the misery come together to provoke that long journey towards anger.
- The story begins in 1900 with the imminent marriage between Orosia Garcés de Abarca and Eloy Sancho de Embún. But their happiness will be truncated when the future husband dies stabbed as a result of the rivalries of the night serenaders before the balcony of the bride. The neighbors suspect the quarrelsome Venancio; but, above all, of an old suitor: Joselón de Urríes.
- After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 pesetas for reports about his ex-company with the intention of doing a rob. When the lawyer's gang goes to give the coup, Ana reports them to the police, with the idea of taking the loot and fleeing with Pablo. But all of them are arrested and end up together in prison, where the intrigues and skirmishes between them will continue.
- Rosario and Manuel have gotten married, but Paco is jealous because of the marriage, since he is also in love with Rosario. Driven by rage, Paco commits a murder and leaves the evidence of the crime, a knife, at Manuel's house. The police arrest him and lock him in prison. Rosario doesn't stop crying and Paco tries to win her over, although without success. Nobody believes that Manuel is the murderer and all suspicions begin to point to Paco. Rosario plans a strategy to get Paco to confess and, with the help of wine, he ends up confessing everything. The police enter the house and arrest him, so Manuel is released.
- A world swimming record holder, two newlyweds who are shipwrecked and a man who swims away from his wife disembark on an apparently deserted island. But as soon as they find refuge in a cabin, a series of unusual events, each more strange, begin to happen incessantly.
- After the victory of the Popular Front of left-wing parties in the elections of February 1936, the rumors about a possible military coup d'etat are more and more insistent. Federico García Lorca, who has just written his theatrical drama La casa de Bernarda Alba, moves to Granada to celebrate his name day with his family. The military uprising of July 18 will be the prelude to a bloody civil war.
- Agustín and José María, two young friends who are fans of the bullfighting world, dream of achieving the greatest success and glory as bullfighters. But the vast difference between their personalities, one calculating and selfish, and the other sentimental and generous, causes each of them to follow very different destinies.
- Francisquita is in love with student and would-be poet, Fernando. He, however, is infatuated with the fiery actress Aurora la Beltrana, who in turn is the lover of Lorenzo Pérez. When Francisquita tries to flirt with Fernando, he ignores her. His friend Cardona takes him to task and suggests that he would be happier with her than Aurora. At first, Doña Francisca mistakenly believes that she is the object of don Matías' affections. Francisquita pretends to accept the elderly man's advances, hoping to make Fernando jealous.
- A Spanish diplomat named Patricio Arnáiz is ready for anything to get a job as an ambassador abroad. But once he reaches his goal in a small country, Patricio begins to miss the type of life he was carrying in Spain. As soon as he returns to his country he heeds a friend's advice: to create a scandal with a conjugal infidelity.
- The filmmaker and writer Margot Benacerraf is not only the pioneer of auteur cinema in Venezuela, but one of the most important cultural managers of that country. This documentary shows the life and work of the director and founder of the National Film Library of Venezuela.
- A news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity.
- Spanish version of the German sex education documentaries like "Helga" that were so successful in the late 1960s. In this case, the story of a couple confronting the offspring is dramatized, introducing a series of moralizing considerations.
- Documentary focused in Antonio, a 94 years old man who lives in the city of Córdoba (Argentina), who has made a promise to walk every day to the church door in their neighborhood to stay active. Aided by his cane in one hand and feeling the walls of the facades with the other, Antonio, almost blind, is walking forty-five minutes per day since fifteen years ago. Every single day of the year, hot or cold, as if it were a ritual, he does the same route, for him a little more than a maze of shadows and sounds. Camera in hand, his grandson Pablo follows his daily life.
- Federico García Lorca travels to Cadaqués in the company of Salvador Dalí, where they spend their holidays together. Shortly after, he premiered his play 'Mariana Pineda', starring Margarita Xirgu. In the athenaeum of Seville, the poets of the Generation of 27 read their poems to the general public. Around that time, Lorca experienced some disappointment in love, while Buñuel and Dalí, fervent surrealists, renounced the popular style of the 'Romancero gitano' and moved to Paris to shoot 'Un chien andalou'.
- In 1929, Federico García Lorca traveled to New York to further his studies at Columbia University. During his stay in the city he will witness the consequences of the Wall Street crash. After staying there for 10 months, in the spring of 1930 he will visit Havana, Cuba. He later returns to Spain where he obtains a huge success after the premiere of his plays Yerma and Bodas de sangre. He also performs the function of director of the University Theater group "La Barraca". The death of his friend, the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, produces a deep sorrow in him that will inspire one of his most emotional poems.
- Lorca moved to Madrid to study at the prestigious Residencia de Estudiantes, where he made friends with other young people and future promises of art such as Buñuel and Dalí. In Granada, he became interested in flamenco music under the guidance of maestro Manuel de Falla.
- Susanne is an attractive young French woman who moves to a small town on the Costa Brava (Catalonia, Spain) to spend her summer holidays. Once there, she settles in the beachfront hotel run by Monique, her own mother, who left the family eight years ago due to a serious marital crisis. Susanne's intention is to convince Monique to return to her home. But her mother is romantically involved with a handsome architect younger than her and to whom Susanne is immediately attracted.
- On the Greek island of Santorini, which has become a world-class tourist destination, there are a small community that has one goal: to preserve the tradition of growing grapes as has always been done, with the knowledge accumulated within years and years and battling against a hostile weather. This bunch of characters (which seem closer to a western border rather than an island blessed by mass tourism) grows and drink wine while they speak about tradition, true love or the role of God. An exceptional documentary which was awarded with the Grand Jury Prize at the festival Oenovideo in France.
- A man cried out one day. He pitched for yell to be out there, far until it found a friend.
- A female singer participating in a festival of modern music hired as a driver a guy who turns out to be another singer who also participates in the same festival. Love affairs, mistakes and a robbery will commit in the same hotel where both were staying.
- A group of friends made up of eight children finds one day a homeless dog that is finally locked up in the municipal kennel. The pitiful look of the animal remains engraved on the boys, who, from that moment on, will try, by all means, to release their new friend.
- Three husbands cheat on their respective wives by faking work meetings that prevent them from going home to sleep. But these women end up learning the lies and decide to leave home to enter a unique sanatorium where men are prohibited from entering. With the intention of recovering them, the husbands will pretend to be Arab women dressed in burqas.
- On November 7, 1893, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the anarchist Santiago Salvador Franch carried out a terrorist attack that involved the release of two explosive devices from the fifth floor against the bourgeoisie who attended at that time to the performance of the opera 'William Tell'. With such action he would vindicate his companion and friend, the also anarchist Paulino Pallás Latorre. Over a hundred years later, intellectuals and historians experts in the subject are participating in this documentary to help recreate those facts with the help of their testimony.
- Celia and María are two attractive young women who survive by stealing wallets from tourists who visit the Prado Museum. However, her true dream is to become flight attendants one day. When they meet the handsome Alberto Suárez, both will fall in love with his charms, to the point of following the man to Málaga.
- In Cimera de los Infantes, a peaceful and imaginary Castilian town, the youngsters are bored because they hardly have fun to vent the ardor of their youth. That's why they meet every day in a bar called The green frog, where, between games of dominoes, they plan to seduce girls from wealthy families who stay during the summer in a residence located in the town's castle.
- Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things.
- A group of scientists transform a type of strange animal into a very beautiful woman programmed to behave in silence. The conditioning that the consumer society imposes on the individual, the slavery of bodies and spirits, and the ruthless lack of sensitivity of humans are condensed in this film shot in natural scenarios.
- Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Adapted from the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, located in a small Italian peasant village with its inhabitants as protagonists.
- A peasant flees full of remorse after having murdered an entire family in revenge for the death of his brother. In turn, the father of the sacrificed family pursues him through the rugged landscapes of the mountains and its mighty rivers with the intention of killing him. The voice-over of both men records their respective obsessions.
- In the city of Granada altercations and executions take place. Meanwhile, the García Lorca family continues to be frightened by the events. To prevent Federico from being arrested, they decide that he will spend a few days at the home of his friend Luis Rosales, since both Luis and his brothers are prominent Falangists. Even so, the poet, who is accused of allegedly collaborating with international communism, will be transferred to the police station.
- Sebastián Sánchez-Solanas is a ruined Spanish aristocrat who lives in the ancient mansion of his ancestors and is dedicated to selling his illustrious last names to single mothers who want to legalize the situation of their children. However, with such a large offspring, what would happen if two of those "children" fell in love?
- An important industrialist suffers a neurosis. In a violent argument he strikes his wife and apparently kills her. Then the body disappears. Criminal melodrama inspired by a similar situation set out by Henri Georges Clouzot in 'Les diaboliques'.
- Carmen "La Andaluza" has to choose a husband between two suitors, but since she does not love any, she decides to flee the town in the company of her uncle. Hitchhiking they will meet Fernando, a Mexican businessman who came to Spain to hire bullfighters and fighting bulls. Hearing Carmen sing, Fernando immediately perceives the girl's artistic potential and decides to take her with him to Mexico to become his manager.
- While Ana and Juan are a happy couple satisfied with their eight years of married life, their best friends María José and Federico have not achieved the desired balance in their marriage, so Ana and Juan's happiness provokes their friends' envy. María José and Clara, Ana's "good" friends, try by all means to make Ana believe that her husband is capable of cheating on her if the opportunity arises.
- Isabel and Enrique form a couple that get married after the success that they have obtained with a number of conjuring. But during the wedding night, the woman disappears mysteriously. Enrique gradually becomes convinced that his wife has abandoned him for another man.
- The great emotion of being in the middle of a crowd, of many people or among many things.
- A humble street vendor from a small Japanese island who was abandoned by her father when she was very young has an innate talent for singing. Moved by the hope of succeeding in musical theater and also finding her father, she will travel to Tokyo with her little brothers.
- A film about freedom of expression and repression filmed between 2010 and 2012 in Egypt and Syria. Syrian journalist and writer Samar Yazbek accompanies this film with her thoughts and feelings, from Damascus -during the months preceding the Syrian revolution- until her exile in France, five months after the outbreak of events. On the other hand, some cartoonist and caricaturist from Egypt and Syria testify that their labor is usually arduous.
- Angélica, a girl raised in the slums of Barcelona, joins her brother and his friend Manolo to participate in petty robberies using her sex appeal to hitchhike. Thus, she will facilitate the robbery of unwary drivers who stop at her signal. The problems will come when Angélica falls in love with a trucker named Juan, which will arouse, in turn, Manolo's jealousy.
- Documentary about the years of the Catalan Nova Cançó which includes concert performances such as those offered by Lluís Llach and Raimon at the Palau d'Esports in Barcelona, as well as Ovidi Montllor, Pau Riba, Jaume Sisa, Quico Pi de la Serra or Maria del Mar Bonet, among others. There are also prominent personalities of Catalan public life, such as writers, politicians, activists or simple testimonies of anonymous people passing through the street.
- The son of don Enrique Rivera, a wealthy businessman with immense properties in Equatorial Guinea, Carlos is a young man as handsome as he is carefree. He maintains a romantic relationship with Dora, his father's beautiful secretary. However, don Enrique, unaware of his son's feelings, asks Dora to marry him. The young woman, fed up with Carlos's lack of commitment, accepts the widower's proposal. When Carlos receives the news, he decides to go to Africa trying to forget Dora and the love disappointment that has broken his heart.
- Widower, old retired Literature teacher, Silvestre Sanchís is taken by his son and his daughter-in-law to a nursing home where he fears losing what he loves most: his freedom; for this reason he flees taking advantage of an oversight of his relatives. On the other hand, Carlitos, son of divorced parents, sees himself as an obstacle in their life, so he resolves to escape from home. The old man and the kid live as stowaways in the huge basements of a department store, until one day they meet by chance.