Nuevo Cine Español de los 90
Durante los 90, una nueva (y no tanto) ola de directores, actores y guionistas renovaron el panorama del cine español, abordando nuevos temas, géneros y puntos de vista. Estos son los films más representativos de la década en este sentido.
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- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsÁlex AnguloSaturnino GarcíaJosé Antonio ÁlvarezA man comes into a bar in which there's only one other customer and asks the bartender to serve him a Mirinda (a Spanish orange drink). But then he refuses to pay for it, saying that the bartender had never warned him that he would have to; when the bartender insists, the man takes out a rifle and kills him. Then he asks the other customer to keep serving him more Mirindas, and therefore this other man sees himself forced to replace the bartender, for fear of what the killer will do to him if he doesn't...
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsFrancesca NeriÓscar LadoireMaría BarrancoThe story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.
- DirectorJosé Luis GuerínStarsMichael KillaninPadraig O'FeeneyBartley O'FeeneyDocumentary in which the camera of Jose Luis Guerín returns, almost forty years later, to the same places where the mythical film of John Ford 'The quiet Man' was shot. The locality of Innisfree still keeps alive the memory of the filming among the survivors, full of historical references in the other inhabitants, as well as the particular way of seeing the life of the deep Ireland that Ford wanted to portray.
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsMulie JarjuEulàlia RamonAhmed El-MaaroufiAlou, an illegal African inmigrant, send letters to his parents talking about his new life in Spain.
- DirectorRosa VergésStarsViktor LazloSergi MateuFernando Guillén CuervoSofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met or even seen each other. Disenchanted with love, both have sworn never to fall in love again, until they finally meet.
- DirectorEnrique UrbizuStarsMaría BarrancoKiti MánverAntonio ResinesEveryone will literally do "Anything for the Dough" after a casino heist investigation uncovers dirty maneuvers that even cover political assassinations. Gradually the search for the loot money will tangle up until an ultra-violent climax.
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsSilvia MuntTito ValverdeSusana García DíezThe bitter life of a girl whose mother wants a boy.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsMaría BarrancoJoaquim de AlmeidaLaura del SolAfter spending a night with a sensual prostitute, the King of Spain decides that he wants to see his wife naked. His decision causes a real revolution amidst his subjects.
- DirectorFélix RotaetaStarsCarmen MauraMario GasÀlex CasanovasZabu is a hooker living with her daughter in a little dirty industrial town. Both live in the house of a small time crook while dreaming of going to Australia, where a relative who owns a restaurant is waiting for them. One day a cop shows up claiming to be the girl's father and wanting to retire both of them from their current life.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsFernando Fernán GómezJorge SanzPenélope CruzA 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsPenélope CruzStefania SandrelliAnna GalienaWhen a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsPere PonceAriadna GilCassenPedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsEmma SuárezCarmelo GómezAna TorrentSet in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsAntonio LópezMaría MorenoEnrique GranThe artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.
- DirectorSantiago SeguraStarsSantiago SeguraIsabel GuaspCarmen ArbexEvilio, a deranged, knife-wielding maniac abducts three pretty young women and drags them to an abandoned building. He tells his bound and helpless captives that he will call their families one by one - if someone answers the phone, that captive will live; if not, a gruesome death awaits.
- DirectorChus GutiérrezStarsIcíar BollaínAwilda RiveraJohn Kelly
- DirectorManuel IborraStarsJorge SanzAntonio ResinesSantiago Ramos
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsAntonio ResinesÁlex AnguloFrédérique FederIn a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsJavier BardemMaria de MedeirosMaribel VerdúA construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsEmma SuárezNancho NovoMaría BarrancoA suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsKarra ElejaldeAna ÁlvarezLioA criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home.
- DirectorÁlvaro Fernández ArmeroStarsAriadna GilCoque MallaLate at night, a boy and a girl are waiting for the last train in a subway station, which is deserted but for them. They are thinking to themselves about their problems, and we hear their thoughts as voice over monologues. Soon they start exchanging casual glances; they find each other very attractive, and, separately but simultaneously, they start to fantasize about what would happen if they got together that night. They get really excited with this game in their minds; It's almost like they've fallen in love at first sight. And then they hear the train coming... they have to take a decision: Will they dare to say to each other what they're feeling before it's too late?
- DirectorManuel Gómez PereiraStarsVerónica ForquéJorge SanzRosa Maria SardàA woman who performs live sex shows goes into business with a gambling junkie.
- DirectorSantiago SeguraStarsRomy AbradeloLuis AlegreCarmen Arbex
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJuan Luis PaneroLeopoldo María PaneroMichi PaneroTwenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie.
- DirectorGonzalo SuárezStarsJavier BardemMaria de MedeirosCarmelo GómezAn aged and powerful magnate is dying. He offers Laura, his young and beautiful mistress, a birthday gift; a sophisticated display of virtual reality in which he will "come to life" for her after his death. But Laura much prefers that her mother, the Duchess, who has taken her place in the magnate's heart and bed, dies instead.
- DirectorÁlvaro Fernández ArmeroStarsPenélope CruzCoque MallaJordi MollàPablo hates everything. When Lucia comes into his life, he thinks she's the woman he dreams of, and sees the solution to all his problems. But Lucia, who is rather manipulating, is just what will make Pablo explode. Nobody believes in the ideal couple, not even Pablo's friends, who live all in couples, and all with problems: Between Ariel and Lola there is a professional rivalty they don't know how to cope with; Claudio lives on Natalia, and none of them feels good about it; what's wrong with Alejandro and Beatriz is just the big age difference between them two. Nobody is happy with his partenaire, but everyone will let it be, maybe for conformism, maybe for fear, maybe for lazyness, or maybe because Everything is false.
- DirectorManel EstebanStarsJuan EchanoveJordi MollàAchero MañasSergeant Arensivia is in charge of a group of soldiers from when the military was compulsory and he must face a simple mission that, due to a small mistake, becomes something else. The young recruits will be immersed in a secret NATO mission. What they and their superiors don't know is that the Alliance is using them as bait for terrorists.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsPenélope CruzPere PonceÓscar LadoirePablo knows already, in his twenties, what he wants from life: to become a musician, be likeable to his mother, and find a lovely, faithful and nice boy to share the rest of his life with. Pablo suffers a difficult emotional crisis when his boyfriend leaves him, bored of his tenderness and so a demanding behaviour, that it's near jealousy. Driven by a high unsecurity, he applies to an exam to become trump player in the Youth Spain National Orchestra. But the one who examines him is his father, which lives for years apart from his wife and voluntarily forgotten by his son, whose sexual behaviour doesn't find exactly marvelous. As one can guess, Pablo's exam is not brilliant, and that depresses him yet more. Anyway, a trump player from Valencia which has made the exam with Pablo hasn't a place to sleep. Pablo takes this colleague home to spend the night. But, next morning, Salome appears. And she appears inside of Pablo's bed.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsGabino DiegoAriadna GilJorge SanzAlberto lives with his parents and his brother Roberto, quite attractive, who tells him there are lots of girls. Alberto is a romantic guy, and doesn't find a girl for his own. He knew he was in love as soon as he saw Maria, although he was not very sure of what she thought. His brother told him he would help with her, but things get difficult when Roberto also likes Maria.
- DirectorJaume BalagueróStarsAna LunaElena LunaPedro Antonio SeguraAfter her first menstruation, Alicia is kidnapped and led by fly-men to a dirty and unhealthy underworld ruled by a disgusting being.
- DirectorManuel Gómez PereiraStarsImanol AriasAntonio ResinesJuanjo PuigcorbéThree divorced men share a flat. They live together without trouble till they hire a cleaning lady with whom the three flirt.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsCarmelo GómezRuth GabrielJavier BardemA member of the ETA terrorist organization belongs to a commando which is preparing an outrage in Madrid. But he sets other priorities when he meets a girl who is addicted to drugs and for whom he feels a strong attraction.
- DirectorChus GutiérrezStarsÁngel BaltasarGloria BerrocalAldo del CeccoSixty people, including those who have worked making the film, talk about sex: what's it, how was their first time, when did they masturbate for the first time, what do they think about pornography, relation between sex and love, and so on.
- DirectorSantiago AguilarLuis GuridiStarsSaturnino GarcíaJuanjo PuigcorbéCarlos LucasJustino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsJuan Diego BottoJordi MollàNúria PrimsCarlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsRamón LangaPablo PinedoPietro OliveraOn the run from the police in a desperate attempt to escape a pair of Civil Guardians, a peaceful gas-station worker embarks on a frenzied road adventure.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsFrancisco RabalFernando Fernán GómezJesús BonillaWhen God decides to send another Son to Earth to save the world, Jesus Christ disagrees, because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute, they all decide to organize the apocalypse. Can anyone or anything stop them?
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsCoque MallaMaría BarrancoRosa Maria SardàA young Spanish student travels to London; where he falls in love with his Aunt. This has repercussions for the relationships of those around him.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsÁlex AnguloArmando De RazzaSantiago SeguraBent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNieves HerranzEduardo NoriegaAlejandro AmenábarA young man hitchhikes on a full-moon night and a young woman picks him up. The woman is a little crazy and gets angry. She takes a gun and shoots him. Next night she picks up another hitchhiker.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsAriadna GilCarlos FuentesJosé Manuel LorenzoA rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsAlfredo LandaCarmen MauraGustavo SalmerónAn air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsAriadna GilArielle DombasleEvelyne DidiAna bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris (in her wedding gown) to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. The great Parisian director Italo Medici is filming an operatic Cinderella, but will Ana "fit into the glass slipper" before she is deported back to Caracas? The evil, plotting, self-absorbed Celeste tries to thwart Ana, but Ana has a great team in her corner: her Russian voice coach, a wealthy lesbian psychoanalyst, a prescient gay waiter/astrologer, and a voodoo witch doctor. Fun and adventurous.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsSilkeCandela PeñaÁlex AnguloNina is a 20-year-old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, a conservative authoritarian. Trini is the same age and has lost her mother. Their families and hometown have nothing to offer, so they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol in southern Spain and stop in Madrid to search for work and independence.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián BollaínStarsAchero MañasJesús BonillaLautaro MurúaThe life of famous Spanish bullfighter Juan Belmonte (1892-1962).
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsJorge SanzJavier AlbaláMaría BarrancoA corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a world of drugs, deceit and passion where they find that all is not what it seems.
- DirectorÓscar AibarStarsPere PonceJoaquín HinojosaIggy PopIn the near future, the areas between major cities are lawless wastelands. Atolladero is a town run with an iron fist by a corrupt tyrant named The Judge and his murderous enforcer, Madden. One decent cop decides to leave town, but the powers that be don't want that and go after him.
- DirectorDaniel CalparsoroStarsNajwa NimriRoberto ChaluAlfredo VillaAlex is a 20 year old girl that keeps financially all her family through illegal arms trafficking, always with the risk of dying or killing. She's the only girl on a men's group, torn between his need to love and a life based on violence.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsPere PonceAitana Sánchez-GijónAchero MañasBarbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.
- DirectorAgustín Díaz YanesStarsVictoria AbrilPilar BardemFederico LuppiEscaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money...
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsLluís HomarPepa LópezÀlex CasanovasAn amusing minimalist frieze in fifteen episodes about human behavior (Desire, Submission, Love, Jealousy, Wisdom, Honesty, Sincerity, Passion, Faith...) situated between two fantastic stories about Willpower and Doubt.
- DirectorManuel Gómez PereiraStarsJavier BardemAitana Sánchez-GijónJosep Maria FlotatsFor financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
- DirectorAzucena RodríguezStarsPenélope CruzCristina MarcosMaría PujalteMadrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.
- DirectorJoan GràciaPaco MirCarles SansStarsCarles SansJoan GràciaPaco MirThe three sons of a hotel owner want to bring their Palace-Hotel back to the glamour of former times. But an official in charge of health in the department of hostelery wants to close the hotel down. This film is without words as it is usual for Tricicle, a Spanish group of comediants.
- DirectorPilar MiróStarsEmma SuárezCarmelo GómezFernando CondeHaving taken a fancy to her secretary, Teodoro, spunky young beauty Countess Diana of Belflor is alarmed to learn of his engagement to one of her maids, Marcela. She intervenes to separate them by steering Marcela's affections to another court flunky, Fabio, and Teodoro's admiration in her own direction. While the extent of her designs on him wavers uncertainly, Diana's attentiveness to Teodoro nonetheless provokes jealousy from her noblemen suitors. They enlist the upstart's resourceful confidant Tristan to bump him off. But he instead hatches a plot to pass Teodoro off as the long-lost son of an ailing count Ludovico, thus elevating his friend to Diana's level.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsCarmelo GómezEmma SuárezKarra ElejaldeAngel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deceased townspeople?
- DirectorMónica LagunaStarsNancho NovoPedro AlonsoSilke
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsAndrés PajaresMaría BarrancoEmilio BualeAntonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: namely, Ombasi and Yambo, two illegal African immigrants, apparently thrown back to the ocean from where they came, in search of a better life in Spain. The sun sets, and the evening, night and morning which follow see other bizarre characters entering the scene, before the Africans' and the other characters' fates are finally decided.
- DirectorAlfonso UngríaStarsImanol AriasJulie CarmenZoe BerriatúaMartín plans the murder of his father, Arturo, after he suspects him of murder.
- DirectorGerardo HerreroStarsAriadna GilMarta BelausteguiCarlos LópezMalena's life from adolescence to adulthood, unraveling the history of her family and her own while she is strongly influenced by her older sister.
- DirectorÁlvaro Fernández ArmeroStarsPenélope CruzAna ÁlvarezBeatriz CarvajalThree women from three different generations and walks of life find themselves in a very hot, semi-deserted Spanish town. Patricia is a 17 year old roaming Spain in search for a certain man; Sol is 27, a door-to-door salesgirl in dire economic straits who has just been thrown out of her apartment; and Virginia is a middle aged housewife, who after 20 years decides to start a new life. These three spend a very unique 24 hour period together, often acting, as the title suggests, as modern day "witches."
- DirectorEnrique UrbizuStarsJorge PerugorríaSancho GraciaAmara CarmonaAfter her grandmother dies, a young woman decides to find her mother who abandoned her when she was a baby.
- DirectorAlfonso AlbaceteMiguel BardemDavid MenkesStarsNancho NovoCayetana Guillén CuervoIngrid RubioNot Love Just Frenzy is a fast, funny adventure through the wild Euroclub scene in the style of the scandalous Pedro Almodovar. A group of hot, horny twentysomething friends looking for love at Madrid's hottest disco get tangled up in a maze of wild sex, drugs, and gunfights as they encounter flashy drag queens, self-absorbed gigolos, and a host of other outrageous characters. Accompanied by a dynamite soundtrack and starring many of Spain's top young actors, including appearances by Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky), Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls), and Bibi Andersen (Kika) as a high-class lesbian pimp, "Not Love Just Frenzy" is too hip to miss.
- DirectorMiguel BardemStarsPilar BardemJavier BardemAlicia Agut
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAna BelénVictoria AbrilAriadna GilAt 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 group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
- DirectorChus GutiérrezStarsAmara CarmonaPedro AlonsoPeretA young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these differences...
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsJuan Luis GaliardoAmparo MuñozÁgata LysSantiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more.
- DirectorMariano BarrosoStarsJavier BardemFederico LuppiSilvia MuntThree friends, two young men and a young woman, are bored by the normal world of their parents and want to flee in order to start living somewhere else. Thus they make a pervert plan: rob their own families. After that they flee without any destination and without having really planned where to go to.
- DirectorChumilla-CarbajosaStarsCarmen MauraJuanjo PuigcorbéLucina GilConsuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who spends a lot of time gardening (?) One fine morning, Consuelo is compelled to find an excuse to speak with her neighbor. She asks him for some sugar, and then starts discussing gardening. During the rest of the film we find out what may be below the well-manicured flowers, and what secrets involving everyone, these may conceal.
- DirectorGracia QuerejetaStarsLalita AhmedKenneth ColleyKarl CollinsLoosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
- DirectorManuel Gómez PereiraStarsAna BelénJuanjo PuigcorbéGabino DiegoTwo young people meet in the 60's as a result of their devotion to John Lennon, and have a recurring relationship during the next thirty years at the oddest of moments, in the most diverse places, and during very important moments that defined several decades. Pay attention as one couple of younger actors alternate with the other couple of older actors to recreate this 30 year span in this Spanish-French comedy.
- 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...
- DirectorDunia AyasoFélix SabrosoStarsJordi MollàPepón NietoRoberto CorrecherA man is murdered and his roommates are suspects.
- DirectorCarmelo EspinosaStarsPere PonceIsabel OrdazEmilio Gutiérrez CabaAnica runs an agency called Animia, which offers company to lonely people. When a new client shows up (Turkin), she is surprised to recognize a fellow Alcoholics Anonymous, for whom she feels more than just fondness. So she try to get his love.
- DirectorElio QuirogaStarsGustavo SalmerónMercedes OrtegaMiguel MolinaAzucena is 22 years old and lives with her mother, who, due to a past trauma, can no longer speak. Azucena works in a photography lab with her best friend Paqui, and has just broken up with her latest boyfriend Dani. Azucena lives in fear of sex and physical contact, hiding in her own sheltered world. Cesar, a plastic artist feels an obsessive attraction for Azucena, as a result, making her his inspiration. This obsession is painfully observed by Jacinto, the unstable artist's lover, who is himself involved in a violent and destructive relationship with Cesar. Cesar, blinded by passion for Azucena, tries to force himself on her one day while she is modeling for him. Azucena, feeling violated, flees the studio, leaving Cesar desolate. sees a vision, someone wishes to help her find her way and, in the process some answers. She finds herself going to a nightclub where she meets Narciso, a stripper at the club. The attraction between them is immediate, and for the first time, Azucena bares her body for a man and they make love. But Narciso harbors many secrets in his life, which will soon come to light. He has a sick, even monstrous relationship with his unbalanced parents, who will do all they can to destroy the love between their son and Azucena. She too, hides a dark secret in her past which has shaped her life. Sharing their secrets with each other reinforces the love between Azucena and Narciso, leading them towards a decision which could change their existences, allowing then to live their lives to the fullest. But Cesar, alone and blinded by the pain of being abandoned by Azucena, takes his life, despite efforts by Jacinto to save him. This even will bring unexpected results...
- DirectorJaume BalagueróStarsAleix ForsMaria BiancoPedro Antonio SeguraThe film is narrated by the main character, whom we see as a young boy. He first tells us of the night he was born, during a horrible thunderstorm, probably the worst and darkest ever, and how that already was a bad sign that meant that his days in life would be without light. Then he tells us how he lost both his parents. His mother once went into the cellar and simply never returned - And his father died from biological warfare in some unnamed war. After that he was adopted by a strange woman who often tortured and humiliated her husband while wearing a dominatrix outfit. One day she beats the man so hard that he dies and after that the little boy is forced to take his place.
- DirectorDavid TruebaStarsFernando RamalloLucía JiménezLuis CuencaThis humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don't quite go to plan when, at the crucial moment, the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then, he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he thinks so.
- DirectorEva LesmesStarsCristina MarcosToni CantóPere PonceIn a swimming pool accident, Juan and Belinda somehow exchange bodies. Juan is coaching a football team for an important match and Belinda is getting married. They agree to co-operate and continue in their new bodies.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIngrid RubioCarlos FuentesÁgata LysA young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
- DirectorRafael MoleónStarsAnna GalienaEduardo NoriegaMarta BelausteguiA good-looking young guy living in a village on the Basque coast is set to marry his sweetheart. A series of events pose obstacles. He rents a room from a sexy French widow with a shady past, and finds a crashed vehicle near his new rented room. What impact will these events have on his calm, routine life, and the other villagers?
- DirectorSantiago MatallanaStarsManuel AlexandreZoe BerriatúaAmparo Soler LealMadrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
- DirectorMiguel HermosoStarsSantiago RamosAssumpta SernaEloy AzorínMiguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle class life with his mother (Assumpta Serna), a successful lawyer and former feminist rabble-rouser, but has a gaping hole at the core of his identity: he has no idea who his father is. Preoccupied with the question to the point of obsession, he sets out in search of answers, and finds himself on a trail that leads to the Canary Islands.
- DirectorAlberto SciammaStarsMelinda ClarkeJason DurrMapi GalánThis horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison and also encounters the meteorite, as does a mute Nun who is converted into a sexy drum majorette. Pursued by the prison officials who are after him, the whole group eventually come into conflict.
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsKarra ElejaldeFernando Guillén CuervoAlberto San JuanMamacita's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside a prostitute's body. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends "femme fatale" Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs..
- DirectorHéctor CarréStarsNancho NovoChete LeraRosa Morales
- DirectorRay LorigaStarsDaniel GonzálezNico BidasoloAndrés GertrúdixBased on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga: The lives of a young man and girl are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot in the face a security guard who accused him of stealing at a local mall. When he steals a car to escape, he meets a suicidal girl who is attracted to her new companion. Together they embark on a journey in search of true meaning for their lives.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsLiberto RabalFrancesca NeriJavier BardemAfter leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...
- DirectorErnesto TelleríaStarsDaniel GuzmánNúria PrimsPepón Nieto
- DirectorJosé Luis GuerínStarsJuliette GautierIvon OrvainAnne Céline AucheA silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
- DirectorGerardo HerreroStarsImanol AriasCarmelo GómezCecilia DopazoSpanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsAntonio ResinesMaribel VerdúJordi MollàRafael witnesses Marina, a woman with a glass eye, being attacked on the street by Daniel, whom she has known since childhood they both spent in the orphanage. Rafael rescues Marina from Daniel and takes her to his home, where a relationship develops between them. Marina is pregnant but Daniel doesn't want the child, so Rafael offers to be the father, being physically unable to sire his own. He and Marina stay together as a couple, then as a happy family. But once everything seems to be settled, Daniel--newly released from prison--shows up again.