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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

I, the Worst of All

  This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Read More

The Class

  An almost autobiographical film that highlights power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what “good” is. Neither side is seen as Read More

The Butcher

  An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

The Spanish Apartment

  As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge Read More

Tune in Tomorrow

  Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns Read More

El Cid

  Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country’s only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston). He knows a divided Spain cannot stand Read More

Volver

  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 Read More

The Official Story

  Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the “junta militar” that had taken Read More