Rafael Fernández

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 the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

Gambler-horsethief-womanizer ends up hiding out in a church-run orphanage. Spiritual regeneration stuff happens.

When rancher, Don Trinidad is on his deathbed, he confesses to his fumbling son Rogelio, that he has two other illegitimate sons and that he wishes them to be included in his will. When Rogelio tracks them down, he discovers that each of them has a completely different life.

In order to remain unnoticed in the eyes of justice, a clever rogue poses as a generous teacher at a small town school.

A crime takes place on the beaches of the Caribbean and a man will have to find the culprit.

Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.

Stranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved...