Carmen Maura

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him. (imdb)

A coming of age story told through the eyes of a precocious 10-year old boy who lives with his grandmother in turbulent 1969 Argentina. (Miramax)

This hyper-stylized tribute to spaghetti westerns finds a young boy searching for his father after his curiosity is sparked after thumbing through old photographs. (TLA Releasing)

A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she (imdb)

Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit.

A dysfunctional family in Madrid: Gloria is a cleaning lady, hooked on No-Doze, living in a crowded flat with Antonio, her surly husband, a cabby who adores an aging German singer he used to chauffeur; he's also a forger. (imdb)

A film makers sexual disorientation jepordizes his latest project. (imdb)

A whimsical, contemporary ensemble comedy, Queens stars five of Latin Cinema's most celebrated and beloved actresses as hard-hitting mothers coping with the marriages of their sons during Spain's first-ever gay wedding en masse. (Regent Releasing)

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)

Pepi, Luci and Bom are three girls of very different age and condition who live in Madrid in the punk era. A lot of singular situations happen. (imdb)

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. (imdb)

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.

Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent (played by Carmen Maura) now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humour gives way to suspense, closely folowed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium. (imdb)

Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.

Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agressive lawyer, single and very independent. Ana is married to Santi and after a crisis she proposed Marta to be the lover of her husband to save her matrimony. Santi does not suspect anything and the triangle works fine during years... till Santi begins to go out with another person. (imdb)

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

Trying to forge an independent life for herself after leaving her husband, Lola works as a cleaning woman in a bank and nurses hopes for a better future. But things only get worse when Lola is mugged and, soon after, evicted from her house. Deciding it's time she took something back, Lola and her best friend Silvia plot to rob the bank she's been working at. (movies.yahoo.com)

A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Sister Sarah is living in Brazil, 25 years old, a Carmelite, and just about to move back to France. Her twin sister Gaelle has just been released from prison in Paris after serving ten years. Sarah begins experiencing severe abdominal pain, spawning the curiosity of Joachim a priest and doctor of medicine. (Written by k wedgwood)

A housewife has a very strange day.

The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the Sun-king at Versailles. (imdb)

French Jew Ruben works as a village postman in rural Finland, living with hunky blonde boyfriend Teemu in a lakeside cabin. All is idyllic until a misunderstanding over a dead body and a stash of Euros sees Teemu kick Ruben out. (nzcinema.co.nz)

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business. (imdb)

A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Unfortunately, just as they arrive at the home, the girl realizes that it is the place where she had secretly had an illegal abortion some years before. (Written by Ørnås (imdb)

After robbing a pawn shop in the middle of Madrid, recently divorced José flees the city with his partner and his young son. Their escape leads them to the town of Zugarramurdi, where the witches from the famous 17th Century Basque trials are awaiting them to use them for a ritual to exterminate patriarchal society.

Juan and Carmen take advantage of their new freedoms after dictator Franco's death by taking drugs and joining new political parties.

Rosa, divorced and with two children, lives in anguish because her ex-husband is still trying to control her life. Through a friend of hers she discovers a new world in the nightlife of 1970's Madrid.

A famous composer faces a creative crisis due to a painful breakup.

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house [...] (imdb)

After killing her abusive and unfaithful husband, the religious and schizophrenic housewife Gregoria leaves Madrid and travels to Galicia to visit a church where a stranger told her that everyone should go, dead or alive. When Gregoria arrives, she saves the life of the boy Daniel and his mother Dorita in gratitude invites her to have lunch at her house. Gregoria changes her name to Celia and accepts to work as nanny and chambermaid for Dorita and her dysfunctional husband Leandro. (Claudio Carvalho)

A week before its delivery, a baby warns his pregnant mother he doesn't want to come out in this world and prefers to die instead. (imdb)

Perrine is a violin player, living in France. She also has to play at children's birthday parties to make ends meet. One day, as she is on her way to an old age pensioners party, she stops to ask someone her way at a tip. The man is surprised and falls over into the skip. Perrine calls for help, then panics and runs. The man is taken to hospital, in a coma. Perrine soon finds out which one! Struggling with feelings of guilt, she decides to visit him every day. (imdb)

David Miller is sick and has decided to end it all. But despite choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing goes according to plan (imdb)

Julia is a good-natured woman, in her 50s, and a writer. She suddenly gets visited by Eduardo, her younger brother, an up-and-coming and very ambitious politician in Madrid, with his assistant and his two bodyguards. He needs her house because he's going to have a "meeting" with his lover. Julia immediately notices there's something strange going on, something that goes beyond the secrecy of an adulterous affair, and she will soon enough get involved in a web of lies, betrayal, and dark affairs.

A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back. (imdb)

An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision. (imdb)

A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur.

The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own. (imdb)

After finding about the unfaithfulness of her boyfriend with a famous TV reporter and having doubts about her actual job, a woman goes back to her hometown with her family to find herself.

Ex-bullfighter who is getting turned on by killing, lady lawyer with same problem and young man driven insane by over-religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark sides of human nature. (imdb)

Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. You might even describe their lives as dull - especially since the children have been packed off to boarding school. Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all the female staff live. (berlinale.de)

A widow invites a number of guests to stay at her mansion. She reveals that she knows that one of the group killed her husband. Soon they too are being murdered one by one.

In the middle of the Spanish Golden Age, a Castilian convent is about to be closed and the nuns residing there dispersed. Then, one of the sisters comes up with a saving idea that could restore well-being to the community: to pretend that she has stigmata on her hands. (imdb)

9 years old Hugo spends the summer holidays with his cousins and his grandma Sara. When they learn that the wolf is coming to pick her up, the children are mobilizing to save their grandmother and embark on an unforgettable adventure.

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)

In search of her mother, a free-spirited teen and her eccentric companions set out on a whimsical journey while avoiding the clutches of a wicked woman. (Netflix)

Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lisboa? (themoviedb.org)