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The Cubs

  The film tells the story of a group of friends that stand by each other well into adulthood. It starts innocently enough when young Cuellar (12-years-old) enters a new Read More

Raise Ravens

  Set almost entirely in a large, gloomy house walled up against the chaotic life of Madrid outside, Cría cuervos tells the story of eight-year-old Ana, played by Ana Torrent. Read More

Cronicas

  Reporter Manolo Bonilla (John Alberto Leguizamo) goes to a jail in Ecuador to interview Vinicio Cepeda (Damián Alcázar), a hit-and-run driver whose crime incited a riot. After Cepeda tells Read More

Main Street

  Isabel (Betsy Blair) is a good-natured and sensible spinster who lives in a small town with her widowed mother. At the age of 35, she is losing all hope Read More

Desperado

  Desperado is a 1995 American neo-Western action film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the second part of Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy.  Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) plunges headfirst Read More

Rojas: La Celestina

  This film is a superb production of the Rojas masterpiece. The camera expands the boundaries of artistic imagination, so that this Celestina becomes the ideal key to the work Read More

The Poem of the Cid

  El Cid is unique among the world’s great epics because it was composed so close to the actual historical events (a mere 40 years after the death of Rodrigo Read More

Carlos V: Un Monarca, un Imperio, y una Espada

  A child of Belgium, a speaker of French, and a Habsburg on his father’s side, there was little Spanish about Charles V, yet Spain was the core of his Read More

This Man Must Die

  Single father obsessed with murdering the hit&run driver who killed his only child, poses as a screenwriter to get close to an actress who was in the death car. Read More

The Bride

  The Bride is Paula Ortiz’s adaptation of Fedrico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, among the 20th century’s most famous and revered Spanish plays. Nominated for 12 Goya Awards (Spain’s Academy Read More