Sangre de mayo

Young Gabriel Araceli works as a cashier for a modest printer in Madrid. His girlfriend, Inés, is a pretty orphan who lives in Aranjuez in the house of her uncle, Celestino Santos del Malvar, a humble priest and a distant relative of the powerful minister Godoy. Gabriel is visiting the Real Sitio to see his [...]

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Luz de Domingo

In Cenciella, a small village in Asturias, the bitter struggle between two political groups brings misfortune to two kind, naïve people; the couple made up of Urbano and Estrella. The secretary at the town hall is a liberal, idealist person but in spite of this a member of one of the political groups that considers [...]

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Ninette

Once again (Lullaby, The Luminous Wound, The Grandfather) José Luis Garci enters the theatre and looks at it through the film camera. On this occasion he does this from the romantic, amusing view point which a comedy such as Ninette requires. Ninette is a reworking and film adaptation of two works (Ninette and the Gentleman [...]

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Tiovivo C.1950

This film has no plot. It is not so much an etching, as a folder of those “while you wait” portraits painted by artists down on their luck (and in some cases low in talent) in the streets of Madrid c.1950. The “capital of the Empire” was then more then ever the breakwater of Spain. [...]

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You’re the one

Towards the end of the 40′s, Julia, daughter of a wealthy family in Madird, travels to the remote Asturain town of Cerralbos del Sella to get over a great loss. The family home -Llendelabarca- lies there and its where she spent the happiest summers of her life. Gradually, her relationship with the keepers, the schoolmaster [...]

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El Abuelo

Don Rodrigo de Arista-Potestad, the Count of Albrit (Fernando Fernán-Gómez), the very symbol of an aristocratic family, returns to his town after a lengthy stay in America, ready to reveal a big secret. Soon he discovers the resentment of an ungrateful town, the power of the honour of the Arista-Potestad and the true bravery of his family. [...]

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