Héctor Alterio

At age 42, Rafael Belvedere (Darín) is having a crisis. He's overwhelmed by his numerous responsibilities and just isn't having any fun. But when his father makes the decision to fulfill his mother's dream of getting married in a church, it gives Rafael a task to focus on, stirring him to action, and bringing the family together to create a new memory they can share. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Argentina, just after the 1976 revolution. A lawyer takes his wife and children to the country after the coup, and they adopt new identities. Their new life is difficult, but a visit with grandma and grandpa shows that these people are still a close-knit unit. Eventually the older son makes friends with a fellow teenager named Lucas.

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth. (imdb)

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 over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter. (imdb)

A road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team. (imdb)

Carlos Saura wrote and directed this powerful psychological drama in which family crises which reflect the embattled soul of a nation are seen through the eyes of an unusually perceptive child... (All Movie Guide)

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.

A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip. (imdb)

The story of two train workers, a professor and a little child that decide to hijack an old train that has been sold to USA for a film production. With the machine they travel across the country (Uruguay) trying to escape to Brazil. (imdb)

The story of four children and their various adventures on their uncle's farm is a touching one, and is made up for by strong performances from the young leads and Tomas Vamos' sun-dappled photography. (IMDB Comments)

In Buenos Aires of the 1840's, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story. (imdb)

The story of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), a nun in a convent in Mexico who paid dearly for challenging the church with her poetry.

Erdosain is a failed inventor who allows himself be pressured into giving up his dreams, marrying a woman he doesn't know, and taking up a job as a bill collector that he grows to hate. A weak man, Erdosain can't say no to anyone, including an astrologer who enlists him as one of seven members in a secret anarchist society that sets out to destroy the Plaza de Mayo, Argentina's religious, commercial and government center. (imdb)

In 1920's, striking workers demanding better conditions are slaughtered after a misunderstanding by the government troops.

Alterio is a tired and widowed office man, whose life seems to have been wasted and whose age begins to threaten him. He seeks some peace, while he reflects on his past to try to come to terms with it and with his children who are now adults, but still living with him due to economic hardships. (imdb)

Serafín is a strict-obsessed with order doctor that works in a artificial insemination clinic. When he meets Ariadna, a crazy trapezist, he must inseminate her, but, due to destiny, he must use his own semen, which will cause to born in him an unusual (for him) sense of paternity, which, being totally inefficient in manners with people, will cause a bunch of theoretically funny situations (well, there's someone that is funny). (imdb)

A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror... (imdb)

Lola Otero, the ugliest woman in the world, was born in Madrid, January 1st 1982. Lola is raised by nuns that cannot protect her from the world's cruelty. When she is 18, discovers love's not blind, and decides to have surgery to solve her poblem and became one of the most beautiful women alive. But not everything is about beauty. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story of a withdrawn middle aged man and his relationships and encounters with various people from his life.

A fishing club finds themselves eating rotten trout at an annual dinner, but no one dares to admit that something is wrong.

Based on true events. In 1913, Gregorio Valero Contreras and León Sánchez Gascón, friends and neighbors from Osa de La Vega (Cuenca) are arrested for murdering José María Grimaldos López, their partner, though his body hasn't been found. Everyone acusses them, even Gregorio's wife. After several tortures, they confess the crime. (translated from filmaffinity)

A drama series that traces a Spanish man's emigration to Argentina in the 1930s, and, years later, his son's return to modern-day Spain. (imdb)

In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners... (imdb)

Lucas and Maria are brother and sister, and they are elderly. They share a house with their memories and the friendly ghosts of the people they have loved. Marcos and Roma are alone, and they are young. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is lost, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all set out on a journey together. (imdb)

Tango draws hoards of young people to steamy underground nightclubs by singing of love and freedom, loyalty and peace. While being detained by the police for his participation in a student demonstration, Tango meets Mariana, a student committed to freedom but tied to her bourgeois past. They fall in love, only to be dealt a devastating blow when the chief of police tries to use Tango as a pawn in his battle to uncover the leaders of the youth movement. (imdb)

After Argentina's 1999 economic crisis, the lives of two men intersect in Buenos Aires. Santamaría is a disgraced banker, now homeless, who survives by finding and returning other people's stolen wallets. Ariel, a Jewish videographer, has recently lost his mother and finds a job in television. Each man grapples with the shocks in their lives and encounters unexpected, unlikely romance.

During a ceremony in an old parish in the city center, a group of worshipers die of poisoning after taking communion. The police take up the investigation while the priests, who have remained in the church, begin to suffer strange visions. (imdb)

Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and long term memories are affected, and he has temporary lapses of perception. However, Paloma finds Mario to be a fascinating individual, not just a regular patient. (Written by ElianaG (imdb)

José and Elena were friends. They share everything, except for some unfinished business: sex. Now, with the return of democracy to the country, both have remained friends, but married to other people, and now become lovers. José is involved in politics. (wikipedia)

A thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes. (imdb)

Rosa, divorced and with two children, lives in anguish because her ex-husband is still trying to control her life. Through a friend of hers she discovers a new world in the nightlife of 1970's Madrid.

José, a gay magician 50, spent his childhood in Granada. His father was a gardener in the house of the Buendía. There he sometime saw Federico Garcia Lorca. An evening of July 36, a group of fascists murdered the father of José at the garden doors. Today José feels the need to return to the place of his childhood. Perhaps to recover the memory, perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to reveal to Miguel, his current lover, the depths of his feelings. (Filmaffinity)

Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a snowstorm, the flight is delayed. Staying in a hotel, the terrorist will have to live with the 332 people who he will kill until the storm ceases, which prevents him from continuing his mission. Slastan knows, speaks and relates to his future victims and begins to wonder if suicide and ending the lives of all these innocent people is really right. (imdb)

The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers. The trio decide to split up, but then a young violinist shows up and convinces them to reform the group and let him take over.

A meeting of the Communist Party is taking place when suddenly the lights go off and the head of the Party is murdered. The government runs an official investigation and the Communist Party hires Pepe Carvalho, a private investigator. As both investigations unfold, they soon come to very different conclusions.

Higueras, a small town nestled in the hard and mountainous lands of León, lives days of anguish because it is going to be flooded by a swamp. After many years of voluntary exile in Argentina, Manuel Perea comes to town, a skeptical writer who returns to share the tragedy with his countrymen, although the real reason for his return is to recover the love of Virginia, his former girlfriend, and start with her a new life. (FILMAFFINITY)

A bus called Sueños (Dreams) links three modern-day tales set in exotic Ecuador - the equator-straddling country that calls itself "The Middle of the World." Each of these stories carries a woman's name, and each features a mysterious, alluring female outsider who bewitches men. In the first tale, a blonde woman with an unclear past arrives in a remote, male-deprived Andean town and offers piano lessons, only to become the focus of wild rumors and innuendo. (imdb)

Fabiola, a 40 years old woman, travels to a little island to visit her mother. Her intuition tells her that nothing is like it seems and the secrets could be linked to an accident that, many years ago, changed her life

La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885. (imdb)