Antonio de la Torre

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Examines the feeling of entrapment that arises when needs and desires are subjugated to family obligations. It is also an astute exploration of generational politics in Spain, where the young are generally expected to carry on traditions and values. (torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca)

Abel is a therapist who works with obese people. Enrique is an actor, spokesman for weight loss products who loses his job now that he is fat again; he is also wrestling with his sexuality when he begins dating Pilar, the wife of his business partner, after identifying as gay most of his life. Sofia is engaged to Alex, a committed Christian who ignores her sexual needs. She is able to awaken her fiancée's libido, when she begins losing weight she finds he's most attracted to heavy women...

A woman loses her brother in an illegal immigration attempt and must return his body to their homeland.

80's, Borjamari and Pocholo are the kings of the night in the disco. 20 years later, they are still the same, but the world around them has changed, and they are the target of people jokes. More than that, their cousin Pelayo appears in their life again, and takes revenge for years of suffering because of their jokes, and tells them the group Mecano is together again and playing in a secret concert. Travelling there, they meet Paloma, a nice and romantic girl they both love. (Filmaffinity)

In the last years of Franco's dictatorship, two clowns (Carlos Areces and Antonio de la Torre) fight for the love of an attractive trapecist (Carolina Bang).

Diego's fiancée dumped him five days before their planned wedding. What's a guy to do? Show up at the church anyway, hoping she'll change her mind in the last minute? Get wasted and bitch about how much life sucks? Try to win back his first love? All the above? (mubi.com)

UNIT 7 has a tough assignment: to clean the most dangerous drug trafficking networks out of the city and bring an end to the corrosive power that has taken hold of the streets. A detail of four, the unit is led by Ángel (Mario Casas), a young officer aspiring to detective, and Rafael (Antonio de la Torre), a violent, arrogant yet efficient cop. But UNIT 7s modus operandi is slipping outside the bounds of the law through their use of violence, coercion, lies and half-truths. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens. (imdb)

The adventures of two women, Rosario and Milagros, which work as street sweepers.

The author tells us how are the characters of his new story. (Filmaffinity)

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies. (imdb)

Three women will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters. (Written by La Iguana 2007 (imdb)

Shot with no budget and camera in hand, "People in places" is a "kaleidoscopic narrative" that runs the comedy, the drama, the social story, horror and surrealism with the common denominator of "irreducible poetry of the human condition against the onslaught of the bizarre and chaotic ".

The Spanish deep South, 1980. Two adolescent sisters dissapear in a remote and forgotten town in the marshland. Two detectives, with deep divisions in their ideology and ways, came to investigate the case. Detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully discover what happened to them and what else is happening in the town where more girls have dissapear, apparently following something better out of that town.

Elia wins the lottery (140 million euros) in her 40th birthday and her family secretly plots to get her money.

Gaby suffers the constant bullying at school by Guille and his gang. In a world with no room for the weak, Gaby's only solution is to resort to violence in order to get rid of his torment. He learns a painful lesson: it's easier to live like a coward. (filmaffinity.com)

Five brothers reunite for a wedding at the family estate on the day that Spain plays in the 2010 World Cup final. (imdb)

A man who loses his wife during a vicious robbery at a jewelry store quietly plans to find and exact revenge against the robbers responsible while the anger grows within him. (imdb)

Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer, This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they'd never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.

A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.

After almost getting killed in a terrorist attack during an international mission, Pablo, a Spanish military doctor returns home to heal his wounds with his family. Soon Pablo starts suspecting that the army is withholding information about the attack and starts receiving pressure from the military high command to verify the official army version of the events. His refusal to comply and his search for the truth will endanger his life and his family. (imdb)

A man obsessed with the idea of writing "high literature" starts to cause conflicts around him to write about it.

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad." The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe Mujica - later to become president of Uruguay. (Written by Tornasol)

Systemic governmental corruption is at the heart of this fast-paced thriller, which follows a crooked Spanish politician whose lavish lifestyle-made possible through nefarious kickbacks and bribes-threatens to bring down his entire party. (imdb)

After living in Madrid for many years, Lucia (Cuca Escribano), a young teacher, returns with her daughter Clara to her hometown changed by a wave of immigration. While fighting the community's racism toward the new illegal workers, Lucia falls in love with Curro (José Coronado), a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the racism of the town and as tensions come to head, they will have to make some decisions that could cost them everything. (FilmAffinity)

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.

Newlyweds Higinio and Rosa face the outburst of the Spanish Civil War, which represents a life threat for Higinio. With the help of his wife, he decides to use a hole dug in their own home as a hiding place. The fear of potential retaliation, and the love they feel for each other, condemn the married couple to a 30-year confinement. (wikipedia.org)

A drama centered on a soccer referee whose reputation is threatened by his controversial decisions. (imdb)

A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and the pathway toward understanding and forgiveness. (imdb)

A contemporary urban thriller about the bloody journey of a Brussels subway driver. (imdb)

Alfonso (Álvaro de Luna) is retired and still lives in the house where he spent his childhood. He often visits Nanda (Mary González), an old woman who was his neighbor and something similar to his mother when he became an orphan. On one of these occasions, he crosses paths with Martín (Óscar Abad), a young aspiring cyclist. Alfonso then projects his dreams on him and does everything possible to turn him into a professional.

The story of a film-loving sister in a family of three unique brothers and a miner and a homemaker in a mining town in rural Chile.

Based on the birth of Basque terrorists group ETA and their first terror attack, of which military police member José Antonio Pardines was a victim. (imdb)