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 Blood Spattered Bride

1972

Spanish

6.2

♡ 5

based on novel or book

family secrets

Horror

husband wife relationship

isolated house

Mystery

vampirism

Vicente Aranda Director

Dean Selmier as Doctor

Simón Andreu as Husband

Alexandra Bastedo as Mircala Karstein / Carmila

Maribel Martín as Susan

A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.

El Lute: Run for Your Life

1987

Spanish

6.6

♡ 2

Vicente Aranda Director

Rafael Hernández as Guardia Civil en tren

Manuel de Blas as Policía

Daniel Medrán as Preso

Luis Barbero as Sacerdote

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

Carmen

2003

Spanish

6.1

♡ 7

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Vicente Aranda Director

Paz Vega as Carmen

Simon Shepherd as Magistrado

Jay Benedict as Próspero

Ginés García Millán as Tempranillo

A French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent passions leading to tragedy. A path chained to obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and blood.

Lovers: A True Story

1991

Spanish

6.9

♡ 6

100%

Vicente Aranda Director

Victoria Abril as Luisa

Jorge Sanz as Paco

Saturnino García as Pueblerino

Maribel Verdú as Trini

Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story.

The Naked Eye

1998

Spanish

4.7

♡ 3

20%

Drama

Vicente Aranda Director

Laura Morante as Begoña

José Coronado as Elio

Ana Obregón as Marian

Rodolfo Sancho as Novio

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.

Mad Love

2001

Spanish

6.5

♡ 3

50%

hispanic monarchy (spanish empire)

Vicente Aranda Director

Luis Fernández de Eribe as

Giuliano Gemma as De Veyre

Pilar López de Ayala as Juana

Jennifer Díaz as Maria

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

Spanish

5.1

♡ 4

Drama

Thriller

Vicente Aranda Director

Palmiro Aranda as El médico del pueblo

Victoria Abril as Mariana

Raquel Evans as Mari-La madre de Mariana

Consuelo de Nieva as Tecla

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

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Freedomfighters

The Blood Spattered Bride

El Lute: Run for Your Life

Carmen

Lovers: A True Story

The Naked Eye

Mad Love

Girl with the Golden Panties