El espíritu de la colmena(1973)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.



La lengua de las mariposas(1999)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 35

For Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older ...



En la ciudad sin límites(2002)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor ...



Belle Epoque(1992)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A 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.



El abuelo(1998)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 29

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.



Ana y los lobos(1973)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by ...



Mamá cumple 100 años(1979)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In ...



El embrujo de Shanghai(2002)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old ...



Mia Sarah(2006)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer... See full synopsis »



Así en el cielo como en la tierra(1995)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesus Christ disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute they decide to organise ...



Plenilunio(1999)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0



La venganza de Don Mendo(1962)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After losing all his money playing cards, Don Mendo Salazar, Marqués de Cabra go to the house of his beloved Magdalena, daughter of a friend of the King. There, they are discovered by her ...



El mundo sigue(1965)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two sisters, between whom exists a tumultuous sibling rivalry, each try to find success, love and status in 1960s Madrid.



Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo(1973)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Don Quixote is obsessed with knighthood and its honor codes. Together with his singular squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote remembers the adventures they have shared.



El anacoreta(1976)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything ...



Los zancos(1984)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ángel is an aging professor, a lonely widower without purpose. His lovely, spirited neighbor, Terese, interrupts his suicide attempt when she comes to borrow wine. She invites him for ...



La corte de Faraón(1985)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage...



La mitad del cielo(1986)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Rosa is an cantabrian woman who travel to Madrid after the Civil War. With the help of Don Pedro, a chief supplies, she opens a restaurant that transforms in a political and intelectual center.



Moros y cristianos(1987)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.



Esquilache(1989)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.




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