Luis Ciges

Ex-bullfighter who is getting turned on by killing, lady lawyer with same problem and young man driven insane by over-religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark sides of human nature. (imdb)

In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.

A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults. (imdb)

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral. The shepherd kills him and releases the woman. (imdb)

An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him. (imdb)

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia's "biggest fan", helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style. (imdb)

The Knight Templars return in this fourth installment of the Blind Dead seris. On this outing, the Templars haunt a fishing village, where they rise seven nights every seven years to claim their sacrificial offerings in return for the safety of the townspeople. (imdb)

In the celebration of the day of the political prisonner the victims of the Franco repression meet in the jail of Valencia. Among them are parvenues, mafiosi, bankers, and a communist priest... (imdb)

Spanish horror star Jacinto Molina, best known as Paul Naschy, stars in this bloody horror film from gore specialist Carlos Aured. Molina plays a knight who is decapitated and whose wife is cut in half, cursing his descendents when they come to the old mansion looking for his head. The knight's head is rejoined to his body, his wife (Cristina Suriani) is revived, and much mayhem follows. (Allmovie.com)

Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son...

A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants. (imdb)

Lorenzo, an unemployed man, starts working for an old gay writer who can't walk on his own anymore.

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)

A man remembers his days as a detective and a rhythmic dancer, the case of the centrifugator 2000, and how it changed his life and dance.

A Marquis suddenly becomes inspired to reclaim his palace, now gone to seed, right in the heart of Madrid. He and his son head for the city, without taking into account that his wife, the aged Marquesa is thoroughly ensconsed in the palace, has been for more than 40 years, and has no intention of leaving. In order to settle the issue, the Marquis decides to get his wife committed - not an unreasonable proposition given the fact that she has preferred to stay in bed all these years. (All Movie Guide)

The last part of Berlanga's Leguineche family trilogy.

A Spanish professor working in the U.S. returns to Spain for a sabbatical and finds himself in a small village with a series of strange characters.

It goes in depth into the future Eisenstein-like structure of Portabella's films which do not advance through a lineal narrative, but rather by a succesion of semi-autonomous scenes and almost always unexpected links.

Year 2598. Three days ago, the end of days in London, an small and lost castillian village. Lorenzo, sheep shepard, tell us the events that came before the apocalypse: cows wanted to go to school, walls fall suddenly, Paquita appears in unexpected places... (FilmAffinity)

God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesus Christ disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute they decide to organise the apocalypse. (Miguel A. Andrade)

A sailor escapes a mutiny on his ship and finds himself stranded on a jungle island--with a tribe of gorgeous amazon women. (imdb)

Four horror stories.

After several years of marriage, Cristina manages to finally get pregnant. Shortly before giving birth, the shock that produces a dog rushes delivery, and stillbirth. (Filmaffinity)

Forty-eight million pesetas disappear from a bingo. (Filmaffinity)

Ristol, an actor, decides to separate his mind from his body to escape the physical world that imprisons him.

A famous composer faces a creative crisis due to a painful breakup.

In a Barcelona beach corpse of a young man appears, his face eaten by fish, who has tattooed on his arm the phrase: "I was born to revolutionize hell." So begins a strange enigma. To begin we must find a name for this dead find their identity. This is the task that receives Pepe Carvalho, Galician detective, former CIA and vocational skeptical, which does not prevent you enjoy and savor the pleasures of good food and good bed.

The story of a man who has been living in voluntary seclusion in his own bathroom for 11 years. The only contact he keeps with the rest of the world are the occasional visits of his friends and a few messages he sends through the toilet, hoping that somebody will answer. One day, a woman who claims to have read one of his messages appears.

The portrait of an amateur boxer who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning professional.

A fable for adults set in an empire where the sun never sets and which has a king without offspring. The whole court, from nobles to jesters, will do everything possible to get an heir.

A Spanish gentleman in exile, is unable to accept the idea that Vera, his wife, has died. He is so concerned that everything in the house continues to function as if she were still alive.

In 1947, the Franco regime opened the first film school in Spain. The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema.