Topic: Spanish Post-War

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The War Is Over

1966 · Movie · 122 min. · France

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Yves Montand · Ingrid Thulin · Geneviève Bujold · Jean Bouise

Plot For some soldiers, the war is never over... Legendary "New Wave" director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) helms this emotionally-charged suspense-drama set in France and on the streets of...

6.9

856 votes

6.9

856 votes

6.8

6K votes

Black Bread

2010 · Movie · 108 min. · Spain

Direction Agustí Villaronga

Cast Francesc Colomer · Nora Navas · Roger Casamajor · Marina Comas

Plot In the harsh years of post-war rural Catalonia, Andreu, a youngster relegated to the losers’ side, comes across the bodies of a man and his son in the woods. When...

6.8

25K votes

6.8

25K votes

Out in the Open

2019 · Movie · 103 min. · Spain

Direction Benito Zambrano

Cast Luis Tosar · Luis Callejo · Jaime López · Vicente Romero

Plot A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

6.6

19K votes

The Hidden Battle

2017 · Documentary · 53 min. · Spain

Direction Paula Cons

6.5

259 votes

6.5

259 votes

6.4

23 votes

6.3

990 votes

Behold a Pale Horse

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gregory Peck · Anthony Quinn · Omar Sharif · Raymond Pellegrin

Plot Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck), a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly...

6.3

482 votes

6.3

482 votes

Barbaric Years (The Stolen Years)

1998 · Movie · 120 min. · Spain

Direction Fernando Colomo

Cast Jordi Mollà · Ernesto Alterio · Hedy Burress · Allison Smith

Plot Spain, year 1947. Two young students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

The Year of Awakening

1986 · Movie · 103 min. · Spain

Direction Fernando Trueba

Cast Jorge Sanz · Maribel Verdú · Verónica Forqué · Manuel Alexandre

Plot April, 1940. Manolo, 15 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

Among Wolves

2010 · Movie · 116 min. · Spain

Direction Gerardo Olivares

Cast Juan José Ballesta · Sancho Gracia · Manuel Camacho · Carlos Bardem

Plot Entrelobos (Among wolves) tells the true story of a boy who grew up among wolves in the wild nature in Spain.

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes

Demonios en el jardín

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Blind Sunflowers

2008 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

Direction José Luis Cuerda

Cast Maribel Verdú · Javier Cámara · Raúl Arévalo · Irene Escolar

Plot Each time Elena closes the door to her house, she locks away her secrets. At the same time as overcoming the post-war hardships, Elena puts on an outward show, along...

6.2

19K votes

6.2

19K votes

Luna de lobos

1987 · Movie · 112 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Sánchez Valdés

Cast Santiago Ramos · Antonio Resines · Álvaro de Luna · Kiti Mánver

Plot This is movie is about the story of the people who keep on fighting after the Spanish Civil War were officially finished. They were republicans who took shelter among the...

6.2

542 votes

6.2

542 votes

Estratexa

2003 · Documentary · 25 min. · Spain

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

The Devil's Backbone

2001 · Movie · 106 min. · Spain

Direction Guillermo del Toro

Cast Marisa Paredes · Eduardo Noriega · Federico Luppi · Fernando Tielve

Plot It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy...

6.2

22K votes

6.2

22K votes

The Days of the Past

1977 · Movie · 109 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Pepa Flores "Marisol" · Antonio Gades · Gustavo Bergés · Antonio Iranzo

Plot A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain...

6.2

640 votes

6.2

640 votes