Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

1995 · 91 min · ★ 5.3 · Comedy

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans say.

Directed by José Luis García Sánchez · Written by Fernando Trueba

Your Rating

Cast

Juan Echanove Fray Clemente / Pepe
Juan Luis Galiardo Fray Liborio / Juan
Rosa María Sardà Angélica
Neus Asensi Carmela
Vicente Parra Villalba
María Galiana Amalia
Antonio Gamero Arróniz
Juan José Otegui Rosendo
Luis Cuenca Abad
Manuel Huete Juez

Make it a double feature

3h 20m together

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

Belle Époque

Both from José Luis García Sánchez.

More from José Luis García SánchezSee all →

Cuentos para una escapada

Cuentos para una escapada · 1981

Cuentos para una escapada

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.

Nine Letters to Berta

Nine Letters to Berta · 1966

Nine Letters to Berta

Lorenzo is a young man returns to Spain after spending some time in England, where he fell in love with Berta, the daughter of Spanish immigrants. Lorenzo writes several letters to her trying to convey the beauty of the world her parents left behind.

The Hunt

The Hunt · 1966

MovieDramaThriller

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.

Anabel

Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother.

The Longest Night

The Longest Night · 1991

The Longest Night

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

Songs for After a War

Songs for After a War · 1976

Songs for After a War

MovieDocumentaryHistory

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.

Belle Époque

Belle Époque · 1992

MovieComedyDrama

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Goodbye from the Heart

Goodbye from the Heart · 2000

Goodbye from the Heart

MovieComedyDrama

Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive.

Madrid

MovieDramaRomance

A German documentary filmmaker travels to Madrid to do a TV program about the city and the Spanish civil war commemorating its 50th anniversary.

The Flight of the Dove

The Flight of the Dove · 1989

The Flight of the Dove

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.

And They Lived Happily Ever After

And They Lived Happily Ever After · 1976

And They Lived Happily Ever After

Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.

Orson Welles y Goya

Orson Welles y Goya · 2008

Orson Welles y Goya

MovieDocumentary

Going Down in Morocco

Going Down in Morocco · 1989

Going Down in Morocco

Chusa shares a flat in central Madrid with her cousin Jaime and her lover Alberto. The group makes ends meet by smuggling and selling drugs from Morocco. They take in a naive young woman, Elena, and decide to include her in their next scheme although this will prove complicated.

The Court of the Pharaoh

The Court of the Pharaoh · 1985

The Court of the Pharaoh

MovieComedyMusic

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 of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on

Black Litter

Black Litter · 1977

Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.

Banderas, the Tyrant

Banderas, the Tyrant · 1993

Banderas, the Tyrant

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter