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5.7

♡ 2

Sport

Glenn Tryon Director

Henry Fonda as Kerry Gilfallen

Evelyn Ankers as Party Guest

Pat Noonan as Police Sergeant

Annabella as Young Marie

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

Freedomfighters

1996

6.9

♡ 7

83%

Vicente Aranda Director

Claudia Gravy as Madama del burdel

Ariadna Gil as María

Enrique Villén as Miliciano

Daniel Medrán as Miliciano

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.

The Devil's Backbone

2001

7.4

♡ 37

93%

Thriller

Guillermo del Toro Director

Juan Carlos Vellido as

José Luis Torrijo as

Francisco Maestre as El Puerco

Eduardo Noriega as Jacinto

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

The Silence of Others

2018

franco regime (francoism)

8.0

♡ 9

100%

spain

spanish civil war

Robert Bahar Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Richard Nixon as Self

Adolfo Suárez as Self

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

Behold a Pale Horse

1964

6.7

♡ 5

90%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Jean-Claude Bercq as

Gregory Peck as Manuel Artiguez

Paolo Stoppa as Pedro

Rosalie Crutchley as Teresa, Wife of Vinolas

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.

Land and Freedom

1995

7.5

♡ 13

79%

Ken Loach Director

Frédéric Pierrot as Bernard Goujon

Eoin McCarthy as Connor Coogan

Tom Gilroy as Lawrence

Paul Laverty as Militia member

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

The Endless Trench

2019

franco regime (francoism)

7.2

♡ 11

88%

82%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

countryside

Drama

History

husband wife relationship

spanish civil war

Thriller

Aitor Arregi Director

Ryan Colt Levy as Enrique

Ryan Cargill as Jaime

José Manuel Poga as Rodrigo

Belén Cuesta as Rosa

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

The Photographer of Mauthausen

2018

6.8

♡ 29

86%

74%

Action

based on a true story

Mar Targarona Director

Balazs Lengyel as Austrian Prisoner 1

Balázs Veres as Birthday Guest

Macarena Gómez as Dolores

Rainer Reiners as Poschacher

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973

7.7

♡ 29

93%

Víctor Erice Director

Ana Torrent as Ana

Estanis González as Guardia civil

Isabel Tellería as Isabel

Ketty de la Cámara as Milagros, la criada

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

6.8

♡ 18

64%

Sam Wood Director

Martin Garralaga as Captain Mora

Fortunio Bonanova as Fernando

Ingrid Bergman as María

Jean Del Val as The Sniper

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

While at War

2019

franco regime (francoism)

6.8

♡ 12

64%

Alejandro Amenábar Director

Nathalie Poza as Ana Carrasco Robledo

Luis Callejo as General Emilio Mola

Eduard Fernández as General José Millán-Astray

Luka Peros as Johannes Bernhardt

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

There Be Dragons

2011

5.7

♡ 25

13%

Roland Joffé Director

Olga Kurylenko as Ildiko

Golshifteh Farahani as Leila

Charles Dance as Monsignor Solano

Dougray Scott as Roberto Torres

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

Parallel Mothers

2021

7.1

♡ 28

96%