José Sacristán

A Place in the World

Adolfo Aristarain

José Sacristán, Federico Luppi

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

Rafael Azcona

Fernando Olmeda

Carmen Azcona, Rafael Azcona

Palabras para un fin del mundo

Manuel Menchón

José Sacristán, Marian Álvarez

Spain, 1931. The Second Republic is born. The writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Unamuno dies in his home in Salamanca, the propaganda center of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco.

Tiempos de guerra

Andrey Razenkov

Alena Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Baluev

Oblivious to the strife that awaits them, a group of young nurses from Spain's upper class head to war-torn Marocco in 1921 to help where help is needed. Many lessons in love and life are learned before they overcome deepest conflicts, grow as human beings and find out what they really want from life and whom they truly love.

El viaje a ninguna parte

Fernando Fernán Gómez

José Sacristán, Laura del Sol

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

Proyecto Huemul: El IV Reich en Argentina

Rodrigo H. Vila

Enrique Papatino, José Sacristán

In 1946, President Peron started a secret nuclear project with the help of Nazis refugees which consisted in the use of a new method "Nuclear Fusion". Five years later, he would announce to the world his succeed. Even today, no country around the world has achieved it.

La vaquilla

Luis García Berlanga

Alfredo Landa, Guillermo Montesinos

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

Paseo

Arturo Ruiz Serrano

José Sacristán, Paco Tous

Roma

Adolfo Aristarain

Juan Diego Botto, Susú Pecoraro

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

Yo quería ser Tyrone Power

Gemma Soriano, Manel Arranz

José Sacristán

An account of the life and work, in his own words, of José Sacristán, one of the best Spanish actors of all time.

El último verano

Leire Apellániz

Garlós Hamparzoumian, Roberto Moreno

Mi Marilyn

José Luis Garci

José Sacristán, Marilyn Monroe

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who returns to his childhood and recovers a lost paradise.

Magical Girl

Carlos Vermut

Bárbara Lennie, José Sacristán

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.

Francisco Boix: un fotógrafo en el infierno

Lorenzo Soler

José Sacristán, Joaquín López-Raimundo

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.

Operation Ogre

Gillo Pontecorvo

Gian Maria Volonté, Ángela Molina

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

La colmena

Mario Camus

Ana Belén, Concha Velasco

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.