Charo López

A liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. this version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. An aged and powerful magnate is dying. He offers Laura, his young and beautiful mistress, a birthday gift and Laura much prefers that her mother, the Duchess, dies instead. To find her, GM engages the Detective.

Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. 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. (imdb)

Fabio Testi is prison escapee with a mission, and we find out in flashbacks just what that mission is, what it has cost him, and what his ultimate payoff will be. (imdb comments)

Luis is the writer of the astrologist column in the newspaper, and when he knows his female fantasy, a singer called Olga, is fan of his column, he starts using it to seduce her, carefully writing things that lead Olga to him.

Four horror stories.

Adapted from a novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina. A police inspector is assigned to a small provincial town. He must face a difficult case: a girl has appeared brutally murdered. (Filmaffinity)

Don Juan, old and tired, is on a final adventure that takes him through a land of lost splendour and earthly pleasure transformed into the Hell of the title. (BFI)

Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies know a rogue and seductive gypsy which proposes them a crazy mission. After that, his luck will change for the worse. (imdb)

A young idealist joins the Mexican Revolution. He has stolen some important military documents that he intends to deliver to Pancho Villa. The Federales will try to stop him with the help of a bandit named Juan Cisneros 'Malpelo". (imdb)

A closeted banker, middle-aged and successful, falls madly in love with a poor but handsome 18-year-old student with some devastating consequences. (imdb)

Carmen and Ana are two mature women who fall in love with a young man of color named Ali (imdb).

Manuela, with her natural beauty and sensuality, attracts the most diverse passions, with subsequent conflicts (imdb).

In an imaginary village of the Galicia region, between 1934 and 1936, there are raging conflicts between four families and Cayetano Salgado, the tyrant owner of the fishing fleet and shipyard. (imdb)

Por Ahora it's a comedy about a woman who works in advertising doing everything she considers morally wrong, while envys her friend's freedom. (imdb)