Pilar Ordóñez
2021El año de las luces
Fernando Trueba
Jorge Sanz, Verónica Forqué
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.
Year of Enlightment
Extramuros
Miguel Picazo
Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It's a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is not a lesbian "Nun sense" or another "Dark Habits" (by Almodovar, which also starred Carmen Maura, and also set in a Spanish convent, with some lesbian nuns). Perhaps, best of all, 'Extramuros' is realistic and frank. It isn't shy about its characters' sexuality. Their sexuality, and the film as a whole are genuine.
Beyond the Walls
Taxi
Carlos Saura
Ingrid Rubio, Carlos Fuentes
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
Taxi
Luz de domingo
José Luis Garci
Alfredo Landa, Paula Echevarría
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
Sunday Light
Tiovivo c. 1950
José Luis Garci
María Adánez, Francisco Algora
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Tiovivo c. 1950
Cha cha chá
Antonio del Real
Eduardo Noriega, Ana Álvarez
This Spanish romantic comedy focuses on ad-agency career girl Lucia and her best friend, dance-teacher Maria. Maria's boyfriend is the sexist Pablo. One night Lucia puts away too much alcohol, sleeps with Pablo, and hatches a plan to have Pablo to herself by finding a new man for Maria.
Cha cha chá
Moros y cristianos
Luis García Berlanga
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Verónica Forqué
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.
Moors and Christians
Evelyn
Isabel de Ocampo
Cindy Díaz, Agnes Kiraly
Evelyn travels to Spain from his native village in Peru. She thinks she will work with her cousin in a restaurant. But is deceived and kidnapped to engage in prostitution at a club road. This is the story of brainwashing, which transforms a small town girl into a sex slave.
Evelyn
El juego más divertido
Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero
Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.
El juego más divertido
Licántropo: El asesino de la luna llena
Francisco Rodríguez Gordillo
Paul Naschy, Amparo Muñoz
1996 Spanish horror film that is the eleventh in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. Following his near-fatal heart attack in 1991, Naschy made this film as an intended comeback, but it was poorly distributed and received bad reviews.
Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders
Desde que amanece apetece
Antonio del Real
Gabino Diego, Arturo Fernández
Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?
Desde que amanece apetece
