Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

1989 · 106 min · ★ 7.2 · Comedy

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

Directed by José Luis Cuerda · Written by José Luis Cuerda

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Streaming

FlixOlé

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 34m together

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

The Enchanted Forest

Both from José Luis Cuerda.

More from José Luis CuerdaSee all →

Too Much for GalvezToo Much for Galvez · 1981
Too Much for Galvez
★ 10.01981
MovieThriller
Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
Mala RachaMala Racha · 1977
Mala Racha
★ 9.01977
MovieDrama
Primer amorPrimer amor · 2000
Primer amor
★ 8.02000
Movie
A short film about first love.
The OthersThe Others · 2001
The Others
★ 7.62001
MovieHorrorMystery
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
ThesisThesis · 1996
Thesis
★ 7.51996
MovieHorrorThriller
While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
Open Your EyesOpen Your Eyes · 1997
Open Your Eyes
★ 7.51997
MovieDramaThriller
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
TotalTotal · 1983
Total
★ 7.41983
MovieComedy
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..
ButterflyButterfly · 1999
Butterfly
★ 7.31999
MovieDrama
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
The Enchanted ForestThe Enchanted Forest · 1987
The Enchanted Forest
★ 7.01987
MovieComedy
In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.
The TunnelThe Tunnel · 1979
The Tunnel
★ 7.01979
MovieDramaTV Movie
Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.
The Blind SunflowersThe Blind Sunflowers · 2008
The Blind Sunflowers
★ 6.52008
MovieDrama
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
Pares y nonesPares y nones · 1982
Pares y nones
★ 6.31982
MovieComedy
Comedy on the effects of affect and impersonal relationships in unmarried couples, couples who cease to be, they should be and never should have been. All focused on ten main characters in that age does not always accompanied by the corresponding maturity.
Makinavaja: La SerieMakinavaja: La Serie · 1995
Makinavaja: La Serie
★ 6.31995
SeriesComedy
Some Time LaterSome Time Later · 2018
Some Time Later
★ 6.22018
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
The Education of FairiesThe Education of Fairies · 2006
The Education of Fairies
★ 6.22006
MovieDrama
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
Tocando fondoTocando fondo · 1993
Tocando fondo
★ 6.01993
MovieComedy
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of ​​learning the trade.

More Like This

WeekendWeekend · 1967
Weekend
★ 6.91967
MovieComedy
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
AmarcordAmarcord · 1973
Amarcord
★ 7.91973
MovieComedyDrama
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Withnail & IWithnail & I · 1987
Withnail & I
★ 7.21987
MovieComedyDrama
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
The Ugly Duckling and Me!The Ugly Duckling and Me! · 2006
The Ugly Duckling and Me!
★ 5.52006
MovieFamilyAnimation
The Hans Christian Anderson tale gets a new treatment, this time with a rat trying to exploit the talents of a little ugly duckling for profit.
CJ7CJ7 · 2008
CJ7
★ 7.32008
MovieComedyDrama
A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
The Doom GenerationThe Doom Generation · 1995
The Doom Generation
★ 6.51995
MovieComedyDrama
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
Little NickyLittle Nicky · 2000
Little Nicky
★ 5.82000
MovieComedyFantasy
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
Very Bad ThingsVery Bad Things · 1998
Very Bad Things
★ 6.31998
MovieComedyCrime
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Son of the MaskSon of the Mask · 2005
Son of the Mask
★ 4.22005
MovieFantasyComedy
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
He Was a Quiet ManHe Was a Quiet Man · 2007
He Was a Quiet Man
★ 6.42007
MovieComedyDrama
An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.
Flickering LightsFlickering Lights · 2000
Flickering Lights
★ 7.22000
MovieActionComedy
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
FidoFido · 2006
Fido
★ 6.52006
MovieHorrorComedy
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.
Repo ManRepo Man · 1984
Repo Man
★ 6.61984
MovieComedyScience Fiction
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
The Quiet ManThe Quiet Man · 1952
The Quiet Man
★ 7.31952
MovieRomanceComedy
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter