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1. 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: 702,824 | Gross: $37.63M
2. Evita (1996)
PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail
Votes: 37,569 | Gross: $50.05M
3. Marshland (2014)
TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
Director: Alberto Rodríguez | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod, Perico Cervantes
Votes: 36,435
4. El diputado (1978)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama
Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ... See full summary »
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: José Sacristán, María Luisa San José, José Luis Alonso, Enrique Vivó
Votes: 739
5. 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
6. Conversation Piece (1974)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani
Votes: 5,185
7. 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: 10,857 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Triage (2009)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, War
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly
Votes: 10,674
9. The Priest (1978)
TV-MA | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Simón Andreu, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, José Franco, Ramón Repáraz
Votes: 272
10. The Other Side of the Bed (2002)
R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two couples entwine on their search for love.
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo, Natalia Verbeke
Votes: 5,843
11. The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy
In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by a group of Spanish maids that live in the same building.
Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura
Votes: 10,700 | Gross: $0.72M
12. The Star Maker (1995)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer and the types of people he encounters.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 5,478 | Gross: $0.12M
13. The Silence of Others (2018)
96 min | Documentary
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo | Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, José María Galante
Votes: 2,367 | Gross: $0.07M
14. A Place in the World (1992)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 2,792 | Gross: $0.10M
15. 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
16. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
17. Don Quixote (1992)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Pepe Mediavilla, Juan Carlos Ordóñez
Votes: 906
18. 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
19. À la vie, à la mort! (1995)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret. There is José, the owner... See full summary »
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jacques Boudet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jacques Gamblin
Votes: 172
20. Paname (2010)
Unrated | 73 min | Drama, Romance
This is the story of three lost young lovers in an exotic and distressful Paris.
Director: Alessandro Avellis | Stars: Nicolas Villena, Clémence Beauxis, Tom Hénin, Marie Casterez
Votes: 30
21. Lucía, Lucía (2003)
R | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A woman trying to cope with the recent disappearance of her husband finds that the event uncovers some dark secrets. Subtitled.
Director: Antonio Serrano | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Kuno Becker, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 1,075 | Gross: $0.27M
22. La faute à Fidel! (2006)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Director: Julie Gavras | Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $0.17M
23. Beltenebros (1991)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez, Geraldine James
Votes: 335
24. La morte rouge (2006)
32 min | Short, Drama
Spanish director Victor Erice discusses the first film he saw as a 5 year old and the impact it had on his life.
Director: Víctor Erice | Star: Víctor Erice
Votes: 348
25. Elles et moi (2008)
222 min | Drama
January 1939. The downfall of Barcelona confirms the default of the Spanish republicans. 500,000 of them had chosen the exile. Once arrived in France, men are disarmed and put in camps: ... See full summary »
Stars: Ariadna Gil, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Danielle Darrieux, Alex Brendemühl
Votes: 37
26. Adriana's Pact (2017)
96 min | Documentary
An astonishing documentary about a woman who is looking about her aunt past during Pinochet's period in Chile.
Director: Lissette Orozco | Stars: Adriana Rivas, Lissette Orozco
Votes: 240
27. Orson Welles en el país de Don Quijote (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Carlos Rodríguez | Stars: Orson Welles, Dominique Antoine, Peter Bogdanovich, Juan Luis Buñuel
Votes: 21
28. 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
29.
The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001–2011)
Episode:
Salvador Dalí: Christ of Saint John of the Cross
(2006)
49 min | Documentary
An examination of Salvador Dali's 1951 painting "Christ of St. John of the Cross." A convert to Catholicism and banished from the Surrealists, Dali finds inspiration in a drawing by a Catholic mystic. The work's uneasy home in Glasgow.
Director: Mick Gold | Stars: Samuel West, Salvador Dalí, Dawn Ades, Rosemary Clark
Votes: 18
30.
Life in Squares (2015)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2015)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama
In 1937 the sisters and their families meet up at the house Vanessa shares with Duncan before Duncan's lover George departs for America and Vanessa is unable to stop her idealistic son ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Kaijser | Stars: Eve Best, Ed Birch, Lucy Boynton, Emily Bruni
Votes: 36