José Luis Gómez

Joaquín (Alfredo Landa) comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galápago (Nino Manfredi), who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquín takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galápago as Federico García Lorca. (Imdb)

The story of two feuding families as written by screenwriter Ray Loriga, is one of family rancour more than family honour and is, sadly, based on a true story. It took place on 26th of August 1990 in north Spain.

Hormigas en la Boca follows Martin from a 10 year stint in a Spanish prison for robbery to pre-Castro Cuba to recover the loot from his ex-girlfriend. While their he runs afoul of Navarro, a dangerously corrupt politician who happens to be married to Julia. Martin tries to recover his money and pursues Julia while trying to avoid Navarro's thugs. (imdb)

A man writes, lives and loves in the darkness. He was the victim of a brutal car accident fourteen years ago in Lanzarote. Not only did he lose his sight, but also the woman of his life, Lena.

Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. (imdb)

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. (imdb)

In the middle of the Sixteenth Century, in Castilla, the daughter of a nobleman Teresa de Ahumada joins a convent administrated by the Superior Mother seeking a spiritual life. After a period of prays and sacrifice, she claims that she has visions with Jesus attracting the attention of the church in times of religious pursue, changes and Inquisition. (imdb)

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair with the criminal's daughter, and also spends some time in bed with his editor's wife. (allmovie.com)

While attending an international conference which seeks to reduce the incidence of the use of torture by nations around the globe, a movie director (Jose Luis Gomez) encounters a woman (Geraldine Chaplin) whom he decides to cast in a play about state torture. As events proceed, he and the woman, the wife of a dentist, become lovers. All along, however, right-wing types have been persecuting, and the whole endeavor goes sour. (allmovie.com)

With dialogue spoken in the dialect of Spanish used in Estremadura, this drama examines the life of a man who, in a psychopathic frenzy, kills his dog, his horse, his mother, and local citizens, before being captured by soldiers and executed. (allmovie.com)

Lieutenant Pereira is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a prostitute: it's the second time a woman has been found with her nose cut off, and a special plant known as a "goosefoot" placed beneath her corpse. Suspecting that the killer is basing his actions on the medieval board game of the Oca Brothers, Pereira asks Professor Rinaldi for help. His insight comes too late however: Tea, a young girl on a pilgrimage with a group of young offenders and their minder Leyva, is found murdered. (imdb)

Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor. (imdb)

Someone is out to get Constantino Zegarra, a judge with an impressive conviction rate -- and any number of enemies. So why is it so hard for others to believe he's the victim of a conspiracy? This black comedy and offbeat crime procedural combines elements of a paranoid thriller and with social commentary. (tiff.net)

Leandro, a unemployed construction worker, and his friend Tocho try to rob a tobacco shop in the Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, prevents it by alerting the neighbors who notify the police. Meanwhile, inside the tobacco shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece, is relaxing and an incipient sympathy arises between them.

An ape, which in just five years has evolved to become human, is summoned by the Academy of Sciences to explain his experience.

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

A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film (imdb).