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- DirectorJavier FesserStarsNerea CamachoCarme EliasMariano VenancioThe young daughter of sectarian religious fanatics faces a deadly illness soon after falling in love for the first time.
- DirectorMiguel CourtoisStarsEduardo NoriegaJose CoronadoMélanie DouteyIn the 1970s, Spanish dictatorship's secret service recruited a construction worker to infiltrate the Basque separatist underground and become a mole for the fascist state.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsMaría GalianaAna FernándezCarlos Álvarez-NóvoaWhile waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity.
- DirectorSkip WoodsStarsThomas JaneAaron EckhartPaulina PorizkovaA former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsManuel LozanoFernando Fernán GómezUxía BlancoBased in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
- DirectorLes ClarkJoshua MeadorWolfgang ReithermanStarsJane FowlerPaul FreesClarence NashDonald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
- DirectorImanol UribeStarsCarmelo GómezRuth GabrielJavier BardemA member of the ETA terrorist organization belongs to a commando which is preparing an outrage in Madrid. But he sets other priorities when he meets a girl who is addicted to drugs and for whom he feels a strong attraction.
- DirectorÁlvaro Fernández ArmeroStarsFele MartínezMaría EsteveGustavo SalmerónA young artist has gone missing in Spain ad a hardened detective takes the case. Six friends become the focus of the investigation and pressured for their knowledge of the artist's whereabouts. They all deny involvement, and soon they have reason to fear for their lives as it appears that a serial killer is hunting them all down. The one friend closest to the artist watches helplessly as his once-quiet life is shattered by incrimination, suspicion, and ultimately--horrific violence.
- DirectorAntonio NaharroÁlvaro PastorStarsLola DueñasPablo PinedaIsabel García LorcaDaniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, escaping her problems in the arms of total strangers. Yet despite their apparent incompatibility, the two strike up a moving, bittersweet friendship that touches them both and eventually sets them on the road to happiness.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsLouis de FunèsMiou-MiouSuzy DelairA bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenJulie KavnerEd HerlihyAn ordinary American family goes on vacation to Europe. Because of the Cold War they are stuck in the U.S. Embassy surrounding by the Soviet forces.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsCarmen MauraEduardo AntuñaMaría AsquerinoThe accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsElliott GouldJames BrolinBrenda VaccaroWhen the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
- DirectorRadha BharadwajStarsChristian SlaterJared LetoClaire ForlaniA lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsJason Scott LeeEsai MoralesSandrine HoltLove between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsInma CuestaMaría LeónMarc ClotetJust after the Spanish war, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJessica LangeArmin Mueller-StahlFrederic ForrestA lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsCríspulo CabezasTimy BenitoEloi YebraA coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
- DirectorMontxo ArmendárizStarsJuan Diego BottoJordi MollàNúria PrimsCarlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
- DirectorGreg BeemanStarsCorey HaimCorey FeldmanCarol KaneA teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
- DirectorBill MelendezPhil RomanStarsScott BeachBill MelendezDaniel AndersonCharlie Brown and his friends travel to Europe as exchange students.
- DirectorAlberto RodríguezStarsInma AlcántaraAndrés BlancoJavier BergerA squad of four undercover cops are charged with cleaning up the streets of Seville from drugs and prostitution.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsVictoria AbrilJorge SanzMaribel Verdú1950s Madrid: After military service, Paco looks for work to save up and marry his fiancée. She rejects his sexual advances. So when he rents a room with a cute widow making advances, he caves in.
- DirectorLuis PiedrahitaRodrigo SopeñaStarsAlejo SaurasElena BallesterosLluís Homar4 mathematicians are invited to solve an enigma. Once there, they're locked in a mechanically shrinking room and given 1 minute to solve each puzzle via cellphone while also figuring out why they're there.
- DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínEduardo BlancoMercedes MoránThe story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsDonald SutherlandKate NelliganStephen MacKennaA ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
- DirectorEmilio AragónStarsImanol AriasLluís HomarRoger PríncepThe lives of a comics and artists group in the hard times after of Spanish Civil War.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsPerry KingMerrie Lynn RossTimothy Van PattenA new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
- DirectorPaco PlazaStarsErica PriorTrae HoulihanDenis RafterAfter the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father's grave had been opened and his corpse was profaned. She decides to investigate, and receives a message of a diabetic priest, Father Elias, who tells her about an ancient fanatic religious sect of followers of Abraham that kills the first child. Later, she meets a weird man, Toby Harris, who claims to be his legitimate father. Daniella continues seeking the truth about her origins and discloses very dark secrets about her family and friends.
- DirectorSandy TungStarsRicky SchroderBrad PittCarrie SnodgressTwo brothers: one a drug-dealing layabout, while the other is a hardworking "model son." When the one begins straightening himself out by becoming a high school track star, the other is jealous and retreats into alcohol.
- DirectorJack SholderStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael NouriClaudia ChristianA cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsNieves HerranzEduardo NoriegaAlejandro AmenábarA young man hitchhikes on a full-moon night and a young woman picks him up. The woman is a little crazy and gets angry. She takes a gun and shoots him. Next night she picks up another hitchhiker.
- DirectorSergio ToledoStarsAnthony HopkinsNorma AleandroFernanda TorresBased on true events: a Paraguayan doctor and his family seek justice for his son, who was tortured to death by the dictatorial regime of Alfredo Stroessner.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsSterling HollowayIvanMischaAnimated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMaxwell CaulfieldCharlie SheenPatti D'ArbanvilleRoy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
- DirectorDavid WintersStarsKirk DouglasSusan GeorgeSusan HampshireMusical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtA hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.
- DirectorStanley DonenJohn BarryStarsFarrah FawcettKirk DouglasHarvey KeitelTwo lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.
- DirectorLuis OliverosStarsFrancis LorenzoAna FernándezJános BánThe real story of Angel Sanz-Briz, the Spanish Embassy diplomat in Budapest, who in 1944 acting on their own saved more than 5,000 Jews from the Holocaust. To get it granted them passports and visas stating that Sephardic Jews were entitled to Spanish nationality to be descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled by the Catholic Monarchs, although the 5,200 Jews whose life he saved, only about 200 were of Sephardic origin.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsBradley GreggTraci LindMalcolm McDowellThree ex-military robots are reprogrammed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs. They begin to respond violently to unruly students, and their military training starts to take over.
- DirectorDavid MooreStarsRay WinstoneEssie DavisDavid WarnerA BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
- StarsPaul 'Bubble' FergusonJaime WinstoneAndy NymanDuring a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsRex AllenIngvald LieberkindRobert DalbanWhen both parents are killed by man, the wolf Lobo learns the ways of the hunter.
- DirectorJosé Antonio PajaresStarsJulián VillagránAntonio DechentGeli AlbaladejoBruno is a young man near thirties, has to face to the most important challenge of his boring life: to get his driving licence.
- DirectorJuanfer AndrésEsteban RoelStarsCarolina BangTomás del EstalOnly somebody brave, with a rebel soul, may enter the jungle of the outlaw and fight face to face against the most dangerous men at this side of the river.
- DirectorRyan A. LevinStarsSimon AnthonyRobert E. BeckwithRob G. KahnFour friends struggle to find a fifth player for their weekly poker game.
- DirectorGeorge ScribnerStarsWayne AllwineBill FarmerArthur BurghardtA poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPowers BootheMeg FosterYara VaneauAfter the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
- DirectorMarcello FondatoStarsTerence HillBud SpencerJohn SharpAfter a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
- DirectorPriit PärnSeveral episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
- DirectorRoger GómezDani ResinesFourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.
- DirectorJoseph KahnStarsJosh HutchersonShanley CaswellSpencer LockeAs a copycat killer named after movie villain Cinderhella stalks the student body at Grizzly Lake High School, a group of co-eds band together to survive while serving detention.
- DirectorIrwin WinklerStarsVal KilmerMira SorvinoKelly McGillisA blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsGeorge O'HanlonArt GilmoreKit GuardJoe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsTchéky KaryoF. Murray AbrahamRutger HauerNostradamus (1503-66) was a French doctor, astrologer and seer during the Inquisition, successful in treating patients during an outbreak of plague.
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsFernando Fernán GómezPaloma ValdésJuanjo MenéndezAfter losing all his money playing cards, Don Mendo Salazar, Marqués de Cabra go to the house of his beloved Magdalena, daughter of a friend of the King. There, they are discovered by her fiancé, Don Pero, Duque de Toro. Don Mendo thief poses as not to stain her honor and is enclosed. Although Don Mendo promised he would not say anything about their affair, she asks her father to be executed. Don Mendo escapes with the help of his friend Moncada, and tries to carry out his revenge against Magdalena, posing as a minstrel to approach her.
- DirectorLejf MarcussenA short animated film that starts with a close up on a Paul Delvaux painting then pulls back the shot while continually changing the picture.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsRaquel Gómez-RosadoNieves HerranzAlejandro AmenábarA group of students are shooting a horror short film in a high school.
- DirectorSandy ColloraStarsClark BartramAndrew KoenigKurt CarleyThe Joker has escaped from Arkham and Batman must once again bring him in - once and for all. Unfortunately for the bat, there is something even more sinister than the Joker waiting in the alley for the dark knight detective..
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksLesley Ann WarrenJeffrey TamborA filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
- DirectorPhil TippettStarsWilliam GroebeAs the sun goes down in the dark and terrifying Mutantland, hunters are lured into a forbidden zone in their quest for food only to find themselves candidates for the main course.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary FullerCharles OgleAugustus PhillipsThe first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
- DirectorJesus OrellanaIn the near future, humanity has disappeared, leaving behind a large megalopolis devoid of natural life. From the destruction awakes ROSA, a robot part of the KERNEL project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem using recovered samples of long-extinct plant species. Wandering among the ruins of the lifeless city, Rosa will soon discover that she is not the only part of Kernel that has awakened.
- DirectorStefan HaverkampJan JaworskiBranden KramerStarsJasmine OsborneJamie AllenThom MillerWhile a young woman is being spied on, through her webcam, more and more strange things happen in her life.