In fact, Spanish films have won some of the most renowned traditionally established awards. Past successful productions have taken Spanish cinema to an internationalization and modernization level that today is still highly enjoyed, in spite of some problematic pending issues, such as the state’s involvement or the formation of a strong cinematographic industry that is able to handle interests in favor and not against filmmakers.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes
Plot: Manuela is a hard-working single mom who has raised her son Esteban by herself since the time he was born. On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, Esteban tries to get the main actress' autograph but is run down on the street and dies. Manuela is beside herself with grief and decides to return to Barcelona to tell the boy's transgender father Lola, about the death of the son he never knew he had. Manuela meets up a pregnant nun, Rosa. They become fast friends - until tragedy strikes again.
Genres: Drama / Mystery / Romance
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Darío Grandinetti
Plot: After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
Genres: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Plot: Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimunda after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula.
Genres: Biography / Drama / Romance
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Javier Bardem, Lola Dueñas, Belén Rueda
Plot: Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life.
Genres: Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Plot: A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri
Plot: The film's intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderón's play 'Life Is a Dream'. A once handsome playboy, César finds himself in a mental facility and he can't remember why. All he can remember is meeting the love of his life for one day, and then getting into a car accident which left his face horribly disfigured. But the pain of becoming physically undesirable may help him to find the truth.
Genres: Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac
Plot: Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. Hypatia has no interest in faith. She's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.
Genre: Drama
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Cast: Andoni Erburu, Silvia Munt, Charo López
Plot: Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
Genres: Drama / Thriller
Director: J.A. Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
Plot: A regular family - Maria, Henry and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vacation until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them?
Genre: Thriller
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes
Plot: In honor of his late wife who died in a flaming car accident, scientist, Dr. Robert Ledgard, is trying to synthesize the perfect skin which can withstand burns, cuts or any other kind of damage. As he gets closer to perfecting this skin on his flawless patient, the scientific community starts growing skeptical and his past is revealed that shows how his patient is closely linked to tragic events he would like to forget.
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