Spain Films 1980-1999s 500-999
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- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsHelga LinéVanessa HidalgoJeffrey HealeyA young woman travels to England after the abrupt death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house, whose rites seem to centre on large-scale sexual congress.
- 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?
- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsClark TuftsGreg RhodesClaudia FranjulA group of young people take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead and they realize that they're not alone in the mansion.
- DirectorPaul NaschyStarsPaul NaschyJulia SalyLola GaosA man moves his ailing wife to his family's ancestral house for a period of recovery. Things are not what they seem to be, when the wife becomes plagued with terrifying visions, which begin to worsen her ailment.
- DirectorGerardo VeraStarsPenélope CruzTerele PávezJuan Diego BottoThe young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks. After Celestina convinces Melibea of Calisto's love and arranges a brief clandestine meeting between them, Calisto gives Celestina a valuable chain of gold. Both servants are not satisfied with the whores supplied by Celestina and demand more from her, thus setting off a dramatic sequence of events.
- DirectorPaul NaschyStarsPaul NaschyJulia SalySilvia AguilarAn evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsJosé Luis ManzanoJosé Manuel CervinoLuis IriondoPaco, son of a conservative Civil Guard commander, and his best friend, Urko, son of a socialist politician, are heroin dealers and addicts. The two teens seem to be gripped by their addiction, but will tragedy be the only conclusion?
- DirectorPaul GrauStarsJosé GrasLaura PremicaAndrea AlbaniA man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his family.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsMaribel MartínLisa GerrardEnrique SaldanaAdopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsKlaus KinskiHarvey KeitelFernando ReyPrincess Alba is abducted by a dragon, and it's up to Klever to save her. But, it turns out that this dragon is an alien spacecraft, and Alba falls in love with the human-alien inside it.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsJosé Luis ManzanoIsela VegaVerónica CastroA gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named 'Jaro' wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged prostitute takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsAjita WilsonLina RomayAntonio MayansPrincess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsSantiago SeguraMariangela GiordanoAldo SambrellA Spanish punk rock band has an accident while on tour. Forced to spend the night at the eerie castle of Countess Von Fledermaus, the musicians soon realise that the mysterious lady's kindness hides macabre, blood-curdling plans.
- DirectorMiguel BardemStarsElia GaleraRoberto ÁlvarezJavivi2012 Madrid DF. Lola Otero, the ugliest woman in the world, suffers the cruelty of the people until at 18 a surgery transforms her into a beauty. When the mutilated corpse of an old woman is discovered, it seems Lola as suspicious.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsLina RomayAntonio MayansMabel EscañoA group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery's monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsLina RomayMonique ParentAldo SambrellA stripper in a private nightclub, Paula is noticed by a rich and libertine couple, the Radecks, who suggest that she come and spend a few days with them in their palace on an island. She accepts their proposal and goes there with her boyfriend. The Radecks offer them a treasure hunt, but this is only a pretext to organize their favorite game: the human hunt. From then on, in the jungle, the Radecks, armed with bows and arrows, track them down in the forest to kill them and then, finally, to devour them.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsVictoria AbrilAna BelénConcha VelascoAs in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsAmparo Soler LealAgustín GonzálezVictoria AbrilThe story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsMichel PiccoliConcha VelascoAmparo Soler LealThe frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsImanol AriasVictoria AbrilAntonio ValeroFirst part of the history of "El Lute", a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60's, converting himself in a popular legend.
- DirectorAlfonso AlbaceteDavid MenkesStarsEmma SuárezJuan Diego BottoMirta IbarraMarga is having a streak of bad luck. She tries to regain her self-confidence through her friendship with Rosa, but love interests again create conflict. While developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor 10 years her junior, Iñaqui, she starts to improve. Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two might have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship as their unique best road to happiness.
- 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.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónDaniel Giménez CachoMaría BottoA month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsVerónica ForquéAntonio BanderasJuan EchanoveA girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsLuis CigesLuis EscobarAgustín GonzálezSecond installment of the saga of the Leguineche's preceded by "The National Shotgun" and completed by "National III". After the death of Franco (1975) and the restoration of the monarchy, the Marquis of Leguineche returns to his palace in Madrid. After thirty years of voluntary exile in his farm in Los Tejadillos, he intends to approach the King to resume the court life of yesteryear. However, it is not so easy to access to the Royal Family.
- 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.
- DirectorPedro OleaStarsOmero AntonuttiAssumpta SernaJoaquim de AlmeidaA fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsMaría RojoCarmen SalinasTito VasconcelosJulia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
- DirectorDaniel MonzónStarsFernando RamalloNeus AsensiJoel JoanBeldar and Sonja, a couple of thieves belonging to the legendary world of sword and sorcery, steal a precious stone shaped like a human heart in the gloomy crypt of the Order of the Thousand Eyes, an evil sect of powerful wizards. When fleeing the scene they realize the gem is cursed. After losing consciousness, Beldar awakens in another world, into the body of a sixteen year old teenager in Madrid eaten by acne.
- DirectorPilar MiróStarsAmparo Soler LealHéctor AlterioDaniel DicentaTwo friends from a small village in Cuenca, Spain, accused of murder by their neighbors, confess to the crime after being tortured,
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsSilvia MuntTito ValverdeSusana García DíezThe bitter life of a girl whose mother wants a boy.
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsAntonio ResinesFernando RamalloMaribel VerdúSet in 1974, during last rales of Francoist dictatorship, plot follows journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along Spanish coast.
- DirectorJaime de ArmiñánStarsHéctor AlterioAna TorrentLuis PolittiIn a town near Salamanca, an eccentric 60-year-old widower is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13-year-old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita), the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Although he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsAlfredo LandaMaría CasanovaMiguel RellánPrivate detective Germán Areta is investigating the life of a man who has apparently abandoned another man. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced. After his assistant is murdered, Areta has to chose between his desire to continue the investigation and his fear of dying for nothing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsAntonio GadesCristina HoyosLaura del SolIn a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
- DirectorEduardo MignognaStarsIngrid RubioJimena BarónFlorencia BertottiTwo Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse...
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsGustavo BuenoToño VegaJosé TejadaThe Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsJosé SanchoLuis TosarLissete MejíaIn the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Damián, Alfonso and Carmelo will seek to establish a relationship with Patricia, a Dominican girl, Marirrosi, a nurse from Bilbao and Milady, a young Cuban.
- DirectorYolanda García SerranoJuan Luis IborraStarsLoles LeónAndrea OcchipintiPedro Mari SánchezIn 1990s Spain, the strong friendship between a gay man and his female best friend is tested by his entering into a relationship with another man. The girlfriend, used to getting all the attention from her gay male friend, becomes somewhat jealous of "amor de hombre" (love for another man). This "new" situation changes the lives of all the characters involved.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsFiorella FaltoyanoAmparo LarrañagaMaribel VerdúIn this latest Spanish-language remake of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic sentimental drama, a group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.
- DirectorAntonio del RealStarsEduardo NoriegaAna ÁlvarezMaría AdánezLucia and Maria are two friends who share everything. Everything except Pablo, Maria's boyfriend. Lucia devises a plan to make Pablo her own while getting María a new boyfriend.
- DirectorÁlvaro Sáenz de HerediaStarsChiquito de la CalzadaBigote ArrocetSol AbadFrench aristocrat Condemor and his assistant Lucas end up in the Wild West. A boy asks them to search for his lost father, who could reveal the path to a hidden treasure.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsLuis Alberto GarcíaCoralia VelozClaudia RojasThree characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.