Amparo Rivelles

La Regenta

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.

Esquilache

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.

Who Killed Grandpa?

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

La playa vacía

Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after reaching the motel Gloria, a beautiful biologist who claims to be working on a book and, to the surprise of Paul, seems to know everything about Victoria and her past.

Fuenteovejuna

A village bands together to kill its tyrannical Comendador, and when officials try to discover who is responsible, the villagers respond that the village committed the crime.

Ambush in Tangier

An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.

Mr. Arkadin

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

Hay ángeles sin alas

Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.

La Regenta

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.

Esquilache

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.

Who Killed Grandpa?

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

La playa vacía

Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after reaching the motel Gloria, a beautiful biologist who claims to be working on a book and, to the surprise of Paul, seems to know everything about Victoria and her past.

Fuenteovejuna

A village bands together to kill its tyrannical Comendador, and when officials try to discover who is responsible, the villagers respond that the village committed the crime.

Ambush in Tangier

An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.

Mr. Arkadin

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

Hay ángeles sin alas

Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.

The White Widow

The story of a woman who, when forced to marry a man she does not love, remains a virgin. Her husbands die until she knows the true love of her life.

El día de las madres

Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.

Sabela De Cambados

El día que nací yo

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.

La coquito

La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love.

Mar de luna

Story of impossible love between a knight and his sister. From them born a son who is repudiated by the gentleman, who takes him to live with monks in a monastery. When the boy grows up, escapes from the monastery to see the world and especially the sea. On the way he meets a peddler who teaches him to function in life.

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Soldados de plomo

Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: A semirruinoso house that is about to be declared a historic monument. But his desire to settle the matter soon are broken by the intrusion of his brother Ramon in buying the house. Andrés relationships with his family and with old attorney Don Dimas and her daughter Whitey complicated.

Alma de Dios

The Nail

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.

The Shadow Battalion

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...

Omen

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

La casa de Bernarda Alba

A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

Hay que deshacer la casa

Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament

Barefoot in the Kitchen

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)

The Faith

Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloistered nun. Along the way, they have to stop at an inn for the night and that's where Father Luis will test his faith.

Lo Siguiente

Los Gozos y las Sombras

Lo imperdonable

La Regenta

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores’s life unbearable and inevitably tragic.