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In a wildly original, intertwining story that almost defies classification, Carnage traces the bizarre, often magical effects a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull has on a disparate group of characters. (Wellspring)

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. (imdb)

Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...

Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again. (imdb)

Winner of the "Golden Shell Grand Prize" at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival, the absurdist tale is set during the '70s. Young Buenos Aires cabdriver Soledad (Vera Fogwill), tired of fending off molesting passengers and dealing with her exploitative boss, keeps driving her cab straight out of the city and into the mountains, arriving at a remote and dusty Patagonian village, Rio Pico (All Movie Guide)

The film tells the parallel, conflicting trajectory of five women: Anita, Isabel, Adela, Leire, and Maricarmen. All are endeavoring to remove the stones (piedras) that insistently appear in their path or, worst, that are in their shoes. They are five Cinderellas in search of prince charming and a new chance in life. (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.

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption. (imdb)

n 1919, demobbed, Gerald Brenan rents a house for a year in Yegan, a village in Alpujarra. He has little but a love of reading and writing. He's soon the center of attention from his maid, María, who has a marriageable daughter, Ángeles; from Paco, a man who decides to guide Gerald in the ways of the village and of love; from the town's priest, his landlady, her friend who loves St. Teresa, and, from Juliana, a teen beauty who's the daughter of a witch... (imdb)

Set in the 17th century in northern Spain. A priest recalls the case of a young girl, Gabrielle who is imprisoned for murder and witchcraft after trying to poison her lover for deserting her when she became pregnant.

A group of Basque separatists is determined to kidnap Spain dictatorship's number two, Admiral Carrero Blanco. Long and dangerous preparations are carried out, but when everything seems to be ready, the political situation changes abruptly, and so do the Basques' plans. (poictesme)

Two boys (Ramallo and Manuel) and a girl in the Spanish Civil War are involved in the death of other two boys, one killed, the other suicided. This terrible secret will be with them for all their lives. Years pass and they meet in a hospital for tuberculosis treatment. She is now a nun, Ramallo is a thief and Manuel is obsessed by religion. (imdb)

Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born. (imdb)

In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation (imdb)

Story of an Armenian family in Anatolia during the First World War and tragic events of genocide.

An American father travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the Route Napoleon. (imdb)

The vicious drug-related killings of young pre-teen boys are the fuel that moves this mystery-actioner into high gear. After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. (allmovie.com)

Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. (imdb)

Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets two young amateur boxers. As their coach, he trains them for glory. (imdb)

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor. (imdb)

Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself. (imdb)

The political climate in the Federal Republic, which is dominated by anti-terrorist measures and the resultant distrust anyone who behaves otherwise. Within three weeks he loses his job, his family and his life. And nobody seems to be responsible. (film1.nl)

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

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 gorgeous, black-and-white homage to the Golden Age of Europe's silent cinema, the intoxicating Blancanieves relocates the tale of Snow White to a sweepingly romantic vision of 1920s Spain, where a young girl escapes from her wicked stepmother to find fame as a matador. (tiff.net)

During archery in a wood, Fantaghiro is discovered by the hostile king's son Romualdo. He takes a short look at her before she escapes and falls in love with her. When he challenges her father for a duel to end the bloody war between their people Fantaghiro is send out to fight him due to a prophecy. Romualdo sees her dressed as a man so he tries to discover wether she is a man or a woman. She starts to fall in love with him, too, but her sense of duty is strong. Will love bring them together? (imdb)

After the death of his brother Pippo, Giovanni meets Vanda, Pippo's widow, at his funeral. They soon become atracted and start a new relationship, surrounded by the ghost of Pippo.

LASTING is an emotional love story about Michal and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos. (imdb)

Set in strife-ridden, 20th-century Colombia, the film is a modern-day interpretation of Sophocles' classical Greek tragedy: "Oedipus Rex". (Wikipedia)

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

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident is ordered to turn in to the authorities.. (imdb)

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

This is a mad satire about five individuals living in a mental institution. While inside, they come up with a plan to save the global economy and at the same time punish those responsible. The first step is to get out of the institution and on the yacht of the bank president. (Fanny)

In the summer of 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a bourgeois family with many children, spending their holiday near Barcelona, tries to remain neutral between the Republicans and the supporters of General Franco. (imdb)

José, a gay magician 50, spent his childhood in Granada. His father was a gardener in the house of the Buendía. There he sometime saw Federico Garcia Lorca. An evening of July 36, a group of fascists murdered the father of José at the garden doors. Today José feels the need to return to the place of his childhood. Perhaps to recover the memory, perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to reveal to Miguel, his current lover, the depths of his feelings. (Filmaffinity)

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. (Filmaffinity)

A television official indifferent to everything around him meets with a childhood friend. These days, the friend seems plagued by persecution mania, saying that he receives anonymous letters and death threats, but the protagonist does not believe him.

Maria and Carmela are two married women, but their husbands have emigrated to Germany for many years in the hope of finding a fortune. Many are the men who left the country, but unlike the others, both Mary's and Carmela's husband no longer give news of them; also gossips have led to the hypothesis that Mary's husband has created another family in the place where he is.

Story of the traumas and problems of two immigrant German families who live in a remote area of south west USA. (imdb)

Cetarti, a recently fired public employee, travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a lonely town in the Chaco province. He must take care of the corpses of his mother and brother who have been murdered, and with whom no bond of affection binds him. The only thing that mobilizes Cetarti to undertake the trip is the possibility of charging a modest life insurance to be able to settle in Brazil. There he meets Duarte, with whom he establishes a strange society to manage and collect that money. (imdb)

Abraham Bursztein, an 88 years old Jewish tailor, goes back to Poland where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II.

Rebeca and Marc travel to an ancient family house to discover a collective history over the last 25 years of love, passion, insanity and infidelity behind which lies one mystery which threatens to destroy their own relationship (imdb).

Lola leaves her abusive boyfriend Mario and moves to Barcelona, where she meets wealthy French businessman Robert, with whom she begins a relationship. Four years later, Mario returns on the scene and Lola is caught in a conundrum: should she leave the security of Robert, or return with Mario, for whom she still has considerable affection? (imdb).

A day in the life of a girl who works as a cashier in a supermarket, from the time her alarm goes off until she goes to bed.

The film recounts several miracles by Sant Vicent Ferrer, a Christian ecclesiastical of the fourteenth century and patron saint of Valencia (imdb).

This time, horror comes fron the other side. (imdb)

A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.

1848, Paris under Siege: Victor Hugo is torn between his family, his mistresses and political turmoil - never mind finally completing his classic novel Les Miserables. Although Hugo is a confirmed Royalist, he supports the Republic and Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, who is soon to become president, convinced that he will initiate social reforms. But when the new government is formed and Hugo is overlooked for office, he realizes that he has been used. (...) —Happy_Evil_Dude

It is the road trip of a mother and her daughter through strange worlds. The daughter wants to kill herself and the mother will try to talk her out of it. (festivalscope)

Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality. (imdb)

Via Paradiso deplicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theater through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance that flourishes on a tranquil Christmas evening and disrupts everything, only to disappear as quickly as it arrived. (imdb)

The film narrates the reunion with the life of a forty-year-old woman who has lost her husband and who decides to go to the reunion of her roots, on a paradisiacal Greek island. There, while reflecting on the decision of whether or not to sell the house of his Sephardic family, the past emerges with increasing intensity. (FILMAFFINITY)

Follows the toxic relationship between a mother and her son, drawing a parallel between the dictatorship in North Korea and the people.

In 2045, Spain like the rest of the western world has been driven into a dictatorial regime by the lack of natural resources. Life in the countryside is impossible, and in the city a fence divides peoples into the powerful, and the rest.

A young woman travels from the 60s to the present day, via the 80s, crossing the thresholds of femininity and history, until she meets Carla next to the blue sky of the Catalan coast. (imdb)

A group of friends meet up every year at a villa for a birthday party. This year, they discover there may be only a few hours left before the end of the world. (imdb)

Marina Quiroga, a daring upper-class girl with a detective's soul, sets off to catch the serial killer that has been terrorizing her town with her faithful butler Hector's help. (imdb)

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent and handsome Count Vronsky. Tolstoy's novel adaptation. (imdb)

After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association.