Movies about Spanish Civil War
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1. The Endless Trench (2019)
TV-MA | 147 min | Drama, History
1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara, José Manuel Poga
Votes: 7,294
2. Red Joan (2018)
R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Votes: 14,417 | Gross: $1.58M
3. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,000 | Gross: $0.75M
4. The Tree of Blood (2018)
TV-MA | 130 min | Drama
Rebeca and Marc make a travel to discover their mutual family pasts in Rebeca's grandparents house.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Úrsula Corberó, Patricia López Arnaiz, Joaquín Furriel
Votes: 3,433
5. The Time in Between (2013–2014)
853 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The life of Sira, a dressmaker consumed by the love of a man, left the turmoil of Madrid prior to the Civil War at Tangier, where she inadvertently becomes part of an espionage scheme.
Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Mari Carmen Sánchez, Tristán Ulloa, Francesc Garrido
Votes: 4,657
6. Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017)
70 min | Drama, War
In the Spanish city of Melilla, during the Rif War of the 1920s, Spanish volunteer nurses of Red Cross with no experience adapt to their new lives.
Stars: Amaia Salamanca, Álex García, Verónica Sánchez, Álex Gadea
Votes: 3,287
7. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 10,413
8. While at War (2019)
107 min | Drama, History, War
Writer Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego, Nathalie Poza
Votes: 6,941
9. Head in the Clouds (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 15,779 | Gross: $0.40M
10. Ship of Fools (1965)
Not Rated | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin
Votes: 6,957
11. Little Ashes (2008)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Votes: 9,624 | Gross: $0.48M
12. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
Votes: 20,664
13. Land and Freedom (1995)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, War
David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy
Votes: 12,096 | Gross: $0.23M
14. Guernica (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 2,496
15. The Official Story (1985)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
Votes: 10,858 | Gross: $0.03M
16. Espérame en el cielo (1988)
100 min | Comedy
Did Franco have a double? The story is set in the late 40's, in Spain... The humble owner of an orthopedics shop in Madrid is abducted by a misterious group... He disappears for the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: Pepe Soriano, José Sazatornil, Chus Lampreave, Manolo Codeso
Votes: 547
17. There Be Dragons (2011)
PG-13 | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 5,101 | Gross: $1.07M
18. The Camomile Lawn (1992)
258 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1939, young Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter visit friends and family in Cornwall. Spanish Civil War is over and WW2 has begun, so they enjoy their love life while they can. Decades later, they gather again, this time for a funeral.
Stars: Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle, Richard Johnson
Votes: 939
19. Butterfly (1999)
R | 96 min | Drama, War
Based in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte
Votes: 9,750 | Gross: $2.09M
20. Out in the Open (2019)
103 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In a tyrannical and oppressive Spain of misery and poorness, a child starts a runaway looking for freedom.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: Luis Tosar, Luis Callejo, Jaime López, Vicente Romero
Votes: 1,589
21. Josep (2020)
71 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.
Director: Aurel | Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais
Votes: 2,144
22. El mar (2000)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, War
Two young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Roger Casamajor, Bruno Bergonzini, Antònia Torrens, Hernán González
Votes: 1,570
23. Uncertain Glory (2017)
115 min | Drama
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Marcel Borràs, Núria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí
Votes: 1,032
24. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,516
25. The Sleeping Voice (2011)
128 min | Drama, War
Just after the Spanish war, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: Inma Cuesta, María León, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín
Votes: 2,607
26. The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
112 min | Drama, History
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie Noëlle, Peter Sehr | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, María Valverde, Alba Barragan, Ainoa Ruiz
Votes: 591
27. Los girasoles ciegos (2008)
98 min | Drama, History
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Roger Príncep
Votes: 2,274
28. The Chessplayer (2017)
98 min | Drama, History, War
Leaping from Spain's civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
Director: Luis Oliveros | Stars: Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews, Alejo Sauras, Lionel Auguste
Votes: 873
29. Freedomfighters (1996)
125 min | Drama, History, War
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Apilánez
Votes: 2,209
30. Broken Silence (2001)
TV-PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco ... See full summary »
Director: Montxo Armendáriz | Stars: Lucía Jiménez, Juan Diego Botto, Mercedes Sampietro, Álvaro de Luna
Votes: 705
31. Painless (2012)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In the 1930s, a group of children are born with a rare condition: they feel no pain. After being locked away for life for their own safety, the children are subjected to rehabilitation away from society.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart, Mot Harris Dunlop Stothart
Votes: 3,575
32. Oh, Carmela! (1990)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Armando De Razza
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.30M
33. Death in Granada (1996)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Director: Marcos Zurinaga | Stars: Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Naim Thomas, Gonzalo Penche
Votes: 1,015 | Gross: $0.23M
34. El viaje de Carol (2002)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol ... See full summary »
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Álvaro de Luna, María Barranco
Votes: 1,085
35. Black Bread (2010)
Unrated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to ... See full summary »
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor
Votes: 5,068
36. In Praise of Older Women (1997)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Director: Manuel Lombardero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Miguel Ángel García, Faye Dunaway, Carme Elias
Votes: 417
37. Talk of Angels (1998)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Irishwoman becomes governess to 3 daughters of a rich family in Spain in 1936, just before the civil war. The mom likes Franco - the dad doesn't. She becomes family. She befriends 5 Irishwomen.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Frances McDormand
Votes: 897 | Gross: $0.02M
38. The Whore and the Whale (2004)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Pep Munné, Mercè Llorens
Votes: 1,033
39. The Hunt (1966)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 2,455
40. Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
119 min | Drama
When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of ... See full summary »
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontserè, Joan Dalmau, María Botto
Votes: 1,740
41. Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
103 min | Drama
The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.
Director: Jaime Chávarri | Stars: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustín González, Victoria Abril, Alicia Hermida
Votes: 878
42. Pájaros de papel (2010)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The lives of a comics and artists group in the hard times after of Spanish Civil War.
Director: Emilio Aragón | Stars: Imanol Arias, Lluís Homar, Roger Príncep, Carmen Machi
Votes: 792
43. The Long Winter (1992)
135 min | Drama, History, War
In this sequel to "Long Vacations of 36", the son of a large bourgeois family returns to Barcelona to find out what happened after he fled the country in '39. He learns the details of the fascist takeover from his former butler.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Penot, Elizabeth Hurley, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 117
44. En la ciudad sin límites (2002)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Hernández | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernández
Votes: 2,093
45. Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War (2002 Video)
58 min | Documentary
In 1936, a right-wing military coup tried to overthrow the new, legally elected, democratic government of Spain. Hitler and Mussolini quickly joined the fight on the side of the fascist ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Newman | Stars: Martha Gellhorn, Celia Greenspan, Evelyn Hutchins, Salaria Kea
Votes: 28
46. Para que no me olvides (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
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.
Director: Patricia Ferreira | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Emma Vilarasau, Marta Etura, Roger Coma
Votes: 335
47. Shadow of a Hero (2015)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
A grandchild sets out to discover how the death of his grandfather in the Spanish Civil War could split up the entire family for three generations.
Director: Laurits Munch-Petersen | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Laurits Munch-Petersen, Daniel Dencik, Ruth Brejnholm
Votes: 121
48. To Die in Madrid (1963)
85 min | Documentary
To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Director: Frédéric Rossif | Stars: Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon, Germaine Montero
Votes: 423
49. Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976)
102 min | Drama, History
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.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Analía Gadé, Ismael Merlo, Ángela Molina, Vicente Parra
Votes: 183
50. Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
The life of actor and activist Paul Robeson.
Director: Saul J. Turell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Margaret Webster
Votes: 500
51. La hora de los valientes (1998)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: Gabino Diego, Leonor Watling, Adriana Ozores, Luis Cuenca
Votes: 361
52. El destierro (2015)
87 min | Drama
Two Spanish soldiers are guarding an outpost during wartime and discover a Polish woman, hurt and unconscious. They nurse her back to health and must decide if they should turn her in to their commanders or keep her hidden.
Director: Arturo Ruiz Serrano | Stars: Joan Carles Suau, Eric Francés, Monika Kowalska, Chani Martín
Votes: 180
53. Los jinetes del alba (1990)
250 min | Drama, War
Set in a spa hotel during the Spanish Civil War, Marian is the niece of the proprietress. When her mother dies, her hopes of owning the place are fullfilled. During the revolution in ... See full summary »
Stars: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Fernando Guillén, Joan Miralles
Votes: 88
54. The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984)
98 min | Documentary
The story of an American Communist militia that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the 1936-39 Civil War.
Directors: Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills | Stars: Bill Bailey, Ruth Davidow, Colleen Dewhurst, John Houseman
Votes: 138
55. Supervivere (The Escape) (2017)
11 min | Short, Horror
1937, Spanish Civil War. Three Republican soldiers desert, escaping the horror. Or at least, that's what they believe.
Director: Paco Arasanz | Stars: Jose Cartón, Antonio Esquinas, Julio Hidalgo, Juan Lopez-Guardamino
Votes: 27
56. Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The profile of controversial journalist George Seldes and a piercing examination of America's news media. Narrated by Susan Sarandon, with readings of writings by Ed Asner, this Academy ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Goldsmith | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Edward Asner, Ben Bagdikian, Jeff Cohen
Votes: 149
57. La forja de un rebelde (1990)
600 min | Biography, Drama, War
This series is based on the autobiographic trilogy of Arturo Barea, from his childhood in Madrid to his enrollment in the Moroccan army, his steps in the Spanish Civil War, until exile.
Stars: Antonio Valero, Carmen Rossi, Lydia Bosch, Paco Catalá
Votes: 70
58. Searching 4-Tabernero (2020)
72 min | Documentary
This is the documented story of Peter Paul Weinschenk, who fled Berlin in 1933 to become Pablo in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and Tabernero in the Argentina of Perón and Evita.
Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley | Stars: Ricardo Aronovich, Fernando Martín Peña, Felix Chango Monti, José María Hermo
Votes: 6
59. La patrulla perdida (2009)
20 min | Short, History, War
1936. Somewhere in Andalusian countryside, a patrol of Spanish Republican soldiers cross the enemy lines to destroy a very important railroad for enemies communications.
Director: Guillermo Rojas | Stars: Jaime Martín, Esteban Garrido, Félix Gómez, Fernando Gómez
Votes: 21
60. Living Utopia (1997 TV Movie)
95 min | Documentary
Anarchism in Spain; the Spanish social revolution during the civil war 1936-39.
Director: Juan A. Gamero | Stars: Federico Arcos, Juan Giménez Arenas, Marcelino Bailo, Maria Batet
Votes: 157
61. Los niños de Rusia (2001)
93 min | Documentary
Documentary about the evacuation in different countries, during the Spanish civil war, of thousands of Spanish children to remove them from the conflict. Approximately three thousand ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Araceli Sánchez, Francisco Vega de la Iglesia, Piedad Vega de la Iglesia, Josefina Iturrarán
Votes: 76
62. Hollywood contra Franco (2008)
92 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Spanish Civil War made a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of the 20th Century. Lots of films were made in Hollywood referring to this event, and the defeat ... See full summary »
Director: Oriol Porta | Stars: Lluís Soler, Brendan Price, Alvah Bessie, Moe Fishman
Votes: 63
63. La guerrilla de la memoria (2002)
Documentary
A brief portrait on the organized anti-fascist guerrillas that fought Franco while hiding in the woods and mountains since 1939 to 1948
Director: Javier Corcuera | Stars: Florián García, Esperanza Martínez, Remedios Montero, Eduardo Pons Prades
Votes: 48
64. Los otros Guernicas (2011)
72 min | Documentary
Traveling through the life and work of the painter Luis Quintanilla Isasi, with his great quantity of experiences and his presence in singular moments of our recent history, "The Other ... See full synopsis »
Director: Iñaki Pinedo | Stars: Woody Allen, Santiago Carrillo, Almudena Grandes, Alfonso Guerra
65. Extranjeros de sí mismos (2000)
86 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary on different foreign youths that fought in the Spanish Civil War, and of Spanish men that fought in the Eastern Front during WWII under the so called Blue Division.
Directors: José Luis López-Linares, Javier Rioyo | Stars: Luis Ciges, Giuseppe Corddeda, Giuseppe De Minico, Luis García Berlanga
Votes: 58
66. Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Robert Capa has been the icon of a whole generation of photo journalists and embodies the very spirit of adventure: a romantic hero, a legendary photographer with a tragic end. Yet, very ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Jeudy | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Capa, Clark Gable, Christine Gagnieux
Votes: 21
67. No pasarán, album souvenir (2003)
70 min | Documentary
As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Twenty years later, he went in search of the missing cards.
Director: Henri-François Imbert | Stars: Casimir Carbo, Lucien Torjeman, Henri-François Imbert, Jo Vilamosa
Votes: 51
68. Cardelinas (2020)
20 min | Short, Drama
During the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War Concha Monrás is thrown into prison, where she bonds with young cellmate Adela. Their future is uncertain, and all they can do is to hope for the best.
Director: Tomás Generelo | Stars: Carmen Barrantes, Josan Gimeno, Elisa Hipólito, Fernando Ramos
Votes: 5
69. España en dos trincheras. La guerra civil en color (2016)
Documentary
Directors: Luis Carrizo, Francesc Escribano
Votes: 48
70. Radio Dolores (2017)
19 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.
Director: Katariina Lillqvist | Star: Jotaarkka Pennanen
Votes: 30
71. Antidisturbios (2020)
306 min | Thriller
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Stars: Vicky Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Álex García, Hovik Keuchkerian
Votes: 5,067
72. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 702,950 | Gross: $37.63M
73. La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1980)
120 min | Drama
Barcelona between the years 1917 and 1923. It is the time of the gun law, during which the confrontation between anarchist gunmen and hired assassins paid by the employers gave a scandalous... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Drove | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Charles Denner, Omero Antonutti, Ovidi Montllor
Votes: 215
74. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,370
75. El viaje a ninguna parte (1986)
134 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: José Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,858
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