Topic: Spanish Post-War

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Omero Antonutti · Sonsoles Aranguren · Icíar Bollaín · Lola Cardona

Plot "El Sur" ("The South") is the story of Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region...

Direction Miguel Riaño Roa

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Ana Torrent · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Isabel Tellería · Laly Soldevila

Plot In a small Castilian village in the early 40s, in the wake of the devastating Civil War, Ana and her sister, having seen a mobile projection of Frankenstein, becomes obsessed...

Direction Almudena Carracedo · Robert Bahar

Plot "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...

Direction Fernando Fernán Gómez

Cast José Sacristán · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Juan Diego · María Luisa Ponte

Plot Sstory of a family of commediants that work in the Spanish countryside during the 40's and 50's.

Direction José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast Luis Peña · María Asquerino · Francisco Arenzana · Marisa de Leza

Plot At the end of the Spanish Civil War, a working-class family that migrates from rural Spain to Madrid in the hopes of finding a better life, and their hopes are...

Direction Jaime Camino

Cast Dolores Ibárruri · Diego Abad de Santillán · Federica Montseny · Josep Tarradellas

Plot Jaime Camino conducted a number of interviews with historically siginificant people and combined them with contemporary documentary material. The result is an unbelievably vibrant and reliable picture of the political...

Direction Manuel H. Martín

Cast Juan Diego · Ana Fernández

Plot After the end of the Civil War, Manuel Cortés, a former mayor of the town of Mijas in the province of Malaga, had no chance to escape from Spain. After...

Direction Aurel

Plot February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco’s dictatorship, the French government’s solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice...

Direction Jon Garaño · Aitor Arregi · José Mari Goenaga

Cast Antonio de la Torre · Belén Cuesta · Vicente Vergara · José Manuel Poga

Plot Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide...

Direction Guillermo del Toro

Cast Ivana Baquero · Sergi López · Maribel Verdú · Doug Jones

Plot In 1944, the third year of peace a thirteen-year-old girl, Ofelia moves to asmall village with her mother, Carmen who is in the last stages of pregnancy.Vidal, a cruel captain...

Direction Benito Zambrano

Cast Inma Cuesta · María León · Marc Clotet · Daniel Holguín

Plot Benito Zambrano has adaptated Dulce Chacon’s book of the same name, set in the terrible years immediately following the end of the Spanish civil war. The film focuses on the...

Direction Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · María Dolores Pradera · Isabel de Pomés · Alfonso Estela

Direction Basilio Martín Patino

Cast Imperio Argentina · Estrellita Castro · Miguel de Molina · Lola Flores

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Antonio Valero · Carmen Rossi · Lydia Bosch · Paco Catalá

Direction Emilio Aragón

Cast Imanol Arias · Lluís Homar · Roger Príncep · Carmen Machi

Plot The lives of a comics and artists group in the hard times after of Spanish Civil War.

Direction Basilio Martín Patino

Cast Emilio Gutiérrez Caba · Elsa Baeza · Montserrat Blanch · Mary Carrillo

Plot Lorenzo is an student in the Spain of the 50's, that means during the dictatorship after the Civil War. He has been in England on holidays and he has knew...

Direction Mario Camus

Cast José Sacristán · Victoria Abril · Luis Escobar · Charo López

Plot As 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...

Direction Montxo Armendáriz

Cast Carmelo Gómez · Charo López · Sílvia Munt · Vicky Peña

Plot Nine-year-old Javi and his brother Juan have been told that their father's suicide was an accident. However, as Javi begins to mature, he learns that everything is not always as...

Direction Jon Cuesta