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A doctor unleashes a nightmare of hypnosis curtailing mad violence on the family of a crippled young woman.Read More »

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Director Jonás Trueba captures the spirit of a group of teens in Spain in an empathic, compelling, and moving way. In 2016, Trueba asked the teens to participate in a five-year project, in which they recreated situations from their lives. They talk about their insecurities, wanting to be accepted, loneliness, and what they are supposed to do with their lives. They demonstrate against school privatisation, debate politics and, like many adults, worry about the planet’s future.Read More »

Despite the title, there ain’t no Victor Von Frankenstein nor his patchwork of a monster in this film! A man suffers from the curse of lyncanthropy and seeks out the aid of a German doctor and his wife who are experts in the occult. Unknowingly, the cursed man has summoned two vampires instead, who have plans of their own for the werewolf.Read More »

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain. Making stop in Madrid they search for inducement, work and independence.Read More »

The Crime of Cuenca is a Spanish drama film, directed by Pilar Miró and based on historical facts from the early 20th century in the Spanish province of Cuenca. On 21 August 1910, in the small town of Osa de la Vega, in the province of Cuenca, Jose Maria Grimaldos, known as «El Cepa», is seen on the road to the nearby village of Tresjuncos and then disappears. His family fears foul play and reports it to the Guardia Civil (rural police). In the subsequent judicial investigation the family and others express their suspicions that two men, Gregorio Valero and Leon Sanchez had killed him for his money. This first case was closed in September 1911 with no convictions.Read More »

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In Paris, a young woman, Louise Haines Pearson, visits her disturbed friend Nena who tells her that she has just written a book on the history of a little girl troubled by her senses, perhaps because of the tyranny of his mother and the absence of her father. Louise recognizes the difficulties of this little girl, being herself deeply affected by the indifference of her husband.Read More »

Rodolfo lives an empty, cold existence next to his second wife. While his first wife Graciela and their teenage daughter Ana go through decisive moments in their lives, Rodolfo will discreetly try to make his way back to them after abandoning them ten years earlier. 3 is a comedy centered on three characters condemned to the same absurd destiny: to be a family.

Not a very ambitious movie, but it’s cute. It was being written by him, Gonzalo Delgado and Juan Pablo Rebella when the latter committed suicide in 2005.Read More »

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This is a documentary about drag queens and transsexuals in Madrid.
This is the story of real people: Lorenzo, Rene, Jose Antonio, Paco, Juan and Jose, told by themselves. Sometimes funny, other dramatic, often pathetic, and how and why they became Lorena, Renee, Mayte, Eve, Tamara and Jhosette.Read More »

If you’ve ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it. There is Xochitl, a female mummy, and her lover Tezomoc who is also a mummy, and he can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreta and the Golden Ruby join forces to battle the evil Prince Fujiyata and his Oriental female Judo wrestlers. The mummy Tezomoc is male and on the good side of the struggle (at least he fights the bad guys). The lady wrestlers earlier appeared in Doctor of Doom.Read More »