Best Spanish movies of 1990s

Actors : Timy Benito, Eloi Yebra, Marieta Orozco, Críspulo Cabezas,
Directors : Fernando León de Aranoa,

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Actors : Pablo Razuk, Antonella Costa, Enrique Piñeyro, Carlos Echevarría,
Directors : Marco Bechis,

In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ...

Actors : Fausto Cabrera, Delfina Guido, Vicky Hernández, Frank Ramírez,
Directors : Sergio Cabrera,

A lot of people live in an ocupated house; after many years of quiet living, the owner of the house wants them out. They try whatever they can to avoid being put out, without sucess. But ...

Actors : Gabino Diego, Andrés Pajares, Carmen Maura, Maurizio De Razza,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into...

Actors : Blanca Apilánez, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril, Ana Belén,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ...

Actors : Roberto Carnaghi, Jorge Petraglia, Guillermo Angelelli, Annabella Levy,
Directors : Gustavo Mosquera R.,

A train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes.

Actors : Fernán Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Marcelo Piñeyro,

A road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a ...

Actors : Salma Hayek, Marisa Paredes, Rafael Inclán, Fernando Luján,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. ...

Actors : María Esteve, Gustavo Salmerón, Adrià Collado, Fele Martínez,
Directors : Álvaro Fernández Armero,

In Spain a young artist has gone missing, and a hardened detective takes on the case. Six friends become the focus of the investigation, being pressured for their knowledge of the artist's ...

Actors : Lio, Silvia Marsó, Ana Álvarez, Karra Elejalde,
Directors : Juanma Bajo Ulloa,

A criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental home.

Actors : Osvaldo Benavides, Rodrigo Cachero, Ana de la Reguera, Otto Sirgo,
Directors : Juan Carlos de Llaca,

Rocco (Osvaldo Benavides) and Rodrigo (Rodrigo Cachero) are cousins, but they're not at all alike. Rocco is the loose one, Rodrigo's uptight. But when their grandfather Rodrigo Carnicero (...

Actors : José Sancho, Lissete Mejía, Chete Lera, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Icíar Bollaín,

En el pequeño pueblo de Santa Eulalia los solteros organizan una fiesta a la que acude un autocar de mujeres casaderas. Damián, Alfonso y Carmelo buscarán establecer relación con Patricia, ...

Actors : Luis Machín, Gastón Pauls, Pablo Cedrón, Silke,
Directors : Lucho Bender,

Actors : David Sánchez del Rey, Antonio Gamero, Adriana Ozores, Roberto Alvarez,
Directors : Miguel Albaladejo,

The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip.

Actors : Santiago Segura, Mariangela Giordano, Aldo Sambrell, Charlie S. Chaplin,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band "Killer Barbys" has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the ...

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Actors : Najwa Nimri, Gustavo Salmerón, Juan Diego Botto, Alfredo Villa,
Directors : Daniel Calparsoro,

Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when ...

Actors : Olalla Moreno, Patxi Freytez, Julio Núñez, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Isabel Coixet,

A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.

Actors : Federico Luppi, Carmen Maura, Antonio Birabent, Sergi López,
Directors : Antonio Hernández,

Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. ...

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Tiaré Scanda, Jesús Ochoa, Martín Altomaro,
Directors : María Novaro,

A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.