Fernando Fernán Gómez

A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired... (imdb)

Explores the extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho (Lozano), and his incredibly compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio (Gomez), who teaches Moncho to find his way in a world that is increasingly frightening. (Miramax Films)

Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor is desperately asked for help by Max. What seems in the beginning mere delusions of an old man losing his mind, begin to show traces of some sort of real 'secret' that is troubling Max's last days.

Set at the turn of the century, The Grandfather tells the story of love, friendship, honor and betrayal within one powerful Spanish family spanning three generations. (Miramax Films)

Set in rural Spain in 1940, Victor Erice's acclaimed 1973 film was simultaneously a sensitive evocation of the poignancy of childhood and, by implication, an elegy for the legacy of the Civil War. (Film Forum)

In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of her and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love (imdb)

As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco regime, permitting Saura to use his greedy family as a microcosm of all that had gone bad in Spain since the Civil War. (All Movie Guide)

It is 1620, and the young King of Spain (Gabino Diego) is technically a married man, because the great churchmen have conducted a grand public wedding ceremony joining him with a wife. However, as the real rulers of the state, they have perversely kept him completely innocent in matters of sex, so that his marriage remains unconsummated... (All Movie Guide)

Juan works as an electrician in a Film Studio and his wife Carmen takes care of domestic tasks, therefore forming a marriage in a precarious economic situation. Their fortune seems to change when they are chosen by a soap company for a commercial and during a day they are labeled as ''The Happy Couple'', receiving various gifts to improve their living conditions.

This Spanish drama verges on parody as it explores the convoluted, repressed personalities of a family dominated by a powerful mother. The mother's frustrations have warped the men. The three men's foibles are revealed during the visit of a young English woman. (AllMovie)

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well... (imdb)

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? (imdb)

A teenage girl lives with her father who steals her money to satisfy his vices. Luckily for her, her godparents are there to help.

Despite being educated professionals, a doctor and lawyer, Antonio and Josefina find it tough to get a jobs and a place to live.

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace. (imdb)

God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesus Christ disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute they decide to organise the apocalypse. (Miguel A. Andrade)

Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean love affair and adventure in his youth. (allmovie.com)

A powerful story about relationship; love and family including three generations: a young architect; his mother; his grandfather and the architect's not welcomed girlfriend. An unexpected turn will put them all to test. (DVD Cover)

The story of two sisters who hate each other.

Adapted from a popular play set in the medieval era.

In the empty house of his family, Ramon, a poet, remembers the last day of the life of his master: the last time he went out with his friend don Latino de Hispalis, his talk with a minister and his dinner with Ruben Dario. (Written by Miguel A. Andrade (imdb)

Adapted from a novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina. A police inspector is assigned to a small provincial town. He must face a difficult case: a girl has appeared brutally murdered. (Filmaffinity)

Fernando just finished his military service in the cavalry. He decides to buy Bucephalus, the horse that has been his companion during this time (Filmaffinity)

Cantinflas adds his own unique brand of comedy as Sancho Panza in a very loose adaptation of Cervantes' novel.

Set right after the Spanish Civil War, a young woman moves from her home town to Madrid and starts her own restaurant.

Javier Mendoza, a Catholic missionary working in Alaska, remembers his youth as he is about to die.

Miss Flora Sandoval, in Madrid in 1895, takes a heroic resolution: instead of looking for a boyfriend to maintain her, as advised her own family, decides to be official of the Ministry of Public Works. The scandal is so great in a deeply patriarchal society, that even the Government is forced to intervene, having it no choice but to accept the claim of Florita, if only by way of experiment. (imdb)

The story of a man who has been living in voluntary seclusion in his own bathroom for 11 years. The only contact he keeps with the rest of the world are the occasional visits of his friends and a few messages he sends through the toilet, hoping that somebody will answer. One day, a woman who claims to have read one of his messages appears.

The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family formed by Florentina, her daughter Encarna, her son Hilario and the children of the marriage, Juanita and Manolín. At the same time, Florentina informs the rest of the family of a much more important announcement than the dictator's death: her husband Emiliano, who had been given up for dead in the Spanish civil war, is alive. During Franco's regime he has remained hidden in the family home itself. (imdb)

The story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film (imdb).

The story of a group of traveling comedians who find their way of life coming to an end.

A comedy about a kind and innocent man that after being fired snaps and tries to become a criminal (cinecromos).

Manolo has discovered in Lola not only the great artist that the public is captivated for but an obsession, a love that transcends the limits of reason and that will make him fall into disgrace. Following the success of their company, Lola is contracted to export flamenco art to the biggest cities in the world. The triumph of Lola finds his correspondence in Manolo's failure and addiction to alcohol (imdb).

Josefina and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after their marriage.

Having grown up around cinema a young filmmaker proposes to his love in a movie theater. However, at the outbreak of the civil war he leaves her to film what's going on.

Leopoldo Contreras, an emeritus professor of Roman law, has serious economic problems. His translations of the classic authors do not give him enough money to live and he has had to sell even his flat. To remedy their situation is offered as a slave to an old student in exchange for house and food. (imdb)

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the hardest times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players tries to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. (Paco Delgado)

In Madrid in 1968, the sad daily life of a family whose parents fought for the Republic is interrupted by the appearance of a brother who had to go into exile in Argentina. (FILMAFFINITY)

A taxi driver and his co-workers try to cheer up a girl after she tries to commit suicide by getting herself driven over (imdb).

The sun speaks, a woman frolics.

Spain, 16th century: The brave captain Alonso Contreras is menaced by the inquisition, but he is not guilty. An alchemist, trying to help, gives Alonso a powerful potion in order to make him sleep until the danger flies. The potion is too much powerful and Alonso wakes up in the 20th century (wikipedia).

A group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. (imdb)

Andrés Martínez Segura is a mature and single man who has never left Murcia. After inheriting a bookstore and three hundred thousand pesetas in cash from his aunt Eugenia, he decides to take a trip to Paris, where his friend Armando lives (imdb).

Adaptation of a 19th century story, in turn based on the popular story Juan sin Fear. It tells the story of a soldier who, after sharing his food with some pilgrims, receives a magic rucksack as a reward (Filmoteca Española).

Surreal happenings in a Spanish square.

A boy has an accident and wakes up from a coma a grown man with the mind of a child.

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality (imdb).

A Spanish gentleman in exile, is unable to accept the idea that Vera, his wife, has died. He is so concerned that everything in the house continues to function as if she were still alive.

¿A dónde vas? ¡Y yo qué sé! (filmaffinity).

Two night watchmen take a man sleeping on a park bench to the police station (filmaffinity).

A peculiar family who owns a nougat factory decides to set out on a trip to Madrid to advertise their products in a Food Fair (imdb).

A frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes is reunited with a fellow student and falls in love with his wife.

Ángel is an aging professor, a lonely widower without purpose. His lovely, spirited neighbor, Teresa, interrupts his suicide attempt when she comes to borrow wine. She invites him for dinner and he meets her lover, Alberto, and their young child. Teresa captivates him, he develops a school-boy's crush, and when Alberto invites him to write something for their theatre troupe, called the Stilts, he jumps at the chance. (imdb)