My 25 favorite movies from Spain
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- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Movie trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jcHg4LLP_k
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.Short film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=371P8O3hf_8
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAgustín GonzálezGoyo LebreroA man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.Short film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqIMrRiRqhA
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsAna TorrentFele MartínezEduardo NoriegaWhile doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiMDmzE9GQ
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalFrancisco RabalFernando ReyViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hTSjfh7Y0
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsRafael RivellesAntonio VicoJuan CalvoMarcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which actually takes the bread and eats it. Getting a wish granted for his donation Marcelino wishes to see his mother.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVHvDIiZTg
- DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsNaomi WattsEwan McGregorTom HollandThe story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E_oPirzJKM
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsClara LagoDani RoviraCarmen MachiRafael, a Sevillian who has never left Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women whom he has ever known.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfopzNHLp4o
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsEduardo NoriegaPenélope CruzChete LeraA very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtnPuB0x3U
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsDani RoviraKarra ElejaldeCarmen MachiAmaia after breaking up with Rafa, falls in love with a Catalonian. Koldo, her father, goes to Sevilla to persuade Rafa to go to Catalonia and take Amaia's heart back.Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebyALRLNdpA
- DirectorÁngeles González SindeStarsAdriana OzoresFélix GómezPepe SorianoAmparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
- DirectorIgnacio FerrerasStarsTacho GonzálezÁlvaro GuevaraMabel RiveraAn astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7-Bce9e4U
- DirectorAchero MañasStarsJuan José BallestaPablo GalánAlberto JiménezAlfredo is a kid who begins in a new new school where he makes a friend, Pablo. Alfredo realizes that Pablo is a victim of home abuse by his father, and decides to involve his own family in order to help his friend.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqA2MfK7-xU
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNicole KidmanChristopher EcclestonFionnula FlanaganIn 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vON5kiGf1TI
- DirectorSantiago SeguraStarsSantiago SeguraJulián LópezJesulín de UbriqueCrooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.Tráiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEH4G2Qsk2U
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsRosario FloresJavier CámaraDarío GrandinettiTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fl8tyEIXXI
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsCarmen MauraEduardo AntuñaMaría AsquerinoThe accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.Tráiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lgCwdZ_oA
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsBelén RuedaFernando CayoRoger PríncepA woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.Tráiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjHkkffOx8
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsLuis TosarAlberto AmmannAntonio ResinesThe story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.Tráiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1MNb836IGw
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsErnesto AlterioPaz VegaGuillermo ToledoTwo couples entwine on their search for love.Tráiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LYvBIOvgh4
- DirectorEva LesmesStarsAdriana OzoresMalena AlterioMaribel VerdúLola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, discovers she's penniless but wants to maintain appearances and give her daughter a fancy wedding, and Pecholata, a punk kid living in a youth center, will soon be turned out on the streets. Lola, who cleans a bank every morning, decides to rob it, convincing the others to join her: they'll use replica guns, dress as men, take Silvia hostage, and all will be smooth. But things go awry, including the fact that Lola's ex, Gustavo, is a cop. Desperation may be the mother of invention - and a corrupt bank manager its father.
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJuan José BallestaLuis Ángel PriegoGorka MorenoGrowing up together. All emotions pass the review. Friendship and hope survive all.Tráiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEL0xidOiA8
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsLolita SevillaManolo MoránJosé IsbertAfter finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsEthan HawkeDavid ThewlisEmma WatsonA detective and a psychoanalyst uncover evidence of a satanic cult while investigating a young woman's terrifying past.Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pBwIsVGaL4