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Calderon de la Barca: La Vida Es Sueno

  The Spanish classic, performed in the classic Spanish style—beautifully spoken and clear to the ear. With Julio Núñez as Segismundo and a first-rate supporting cast. La vida es sueño Read More

The Sea Inside

  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, Read More

Tiempo de silencio

  Set in the 1940s, in the early days of the Franco’s regime, the plot follows the story of an ambitious doctor who is accused of killing a woman while Read More

Take My Eyes

  One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He Read More

The Widows of Thursdays

  A mystery unfolds as a woman (Ana Celentano) returns home to find her husband (Pablo Echarri) and his two friends dead.  The story focuses on a crime committed in Read More

Yerma

  Despondent after several failed attempts at pregnancy, Yerma (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) talks to an old pagan woman (Irene Papas), who counsels that her husband, Juan (Juan Diego), is actually the Read More

Waiting List

  A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of Read More

Viridiana

  Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to Read More

I Am Cuba

  This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back Read More

Intact

  Federico (Eusebio Poncela) has a rather unique talent: he can steal the luck of others. For Samuel Berg (Max von Sydow), who runs a lavish casino, that makes him Read More