Rafael Azcona

Explores the extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho (Lozano), and his incredibly compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio (Gomez), who teaches Moncho to find his way in a world that is increasingly frightening. (Miramax Films)

A new teacher for literature, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman... (imdb)

A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death. (imdb)

In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of her and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love (imdb)

Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians... (imdb)

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...

A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. (imdb)

Juan is a young Spanish man whose dream is to become one of the famous toreros. When he was caught making an illegal (and in fact for the real torero life endangering) night bullfight with one of the destinated bulls for the corridas on the property of the Sols he meets the daughter of the American landowner Dona Sol, half Spanish, half American, and falls desperately in love with her... (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.

An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement. (imdb)

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously... (imdb)

Luis journeys to Segovia to obtain his mother's remains and goes through repeated vivid flashbacks of the area pre-Spanish Civil War.

In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women. (imdb)

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. (imdb)

The story centers around a man named Julian who becomes obsessed with the wife of an old friend, believing her to be a mysterious drummer that he once fell in love with at a festival. (Wikipedia)

This Spanish drama verges on parody as it explores the convoluted, repressed personalities of a family dominated by a powerful mother. The mother's frustrations have warped the men. The three men's foibles are revealed during the visit of a young English woman. (AllMovie)

An absurd "Western" set in Paris following Custer, Buffalo Bill, Custer's boss, General Terry and a white woman-exploiting Indian scout.

The Audience follows the course of a catholic young man, Amedeo, which left its cheap native, in the north of Italy, to come to Rome, with an obsession: to obtain a private audience of the Pope Paul VI with whom it has revelations very important to make. The determination of Amedeo is such as it appears suspect with the authorities of the Vatican.

The story of various inhabitants of rural village in northwestern Spain struggling to make ends meet, and the mysteries of the forest they use for travel.

Antonio, a charming ne'er-do-well, happens upon young Maria, who outside of the fact that she is covered with hair from head to foot is a normal woman with normal desires and dreams. Antonio inveigles her into the European carnival sideshow circuit as "The Ape Woman", securing her cooperation by making love to her. (All Movie Guide)

Philippe Leroy stars as a speed boat racer who is almost killed during a race due to sabotage. He sustains a head injury and so retires to his country home to recover. He suspects his wife of having an affair with his best friend so he decides to begin one with a close friend. Meanwhile, people close to the dysfunctional couple begin to be murdered in brutal ways. Is he hallucinating because of his head injuries or is someone really trying to kill him. (European Trash Cinema)

Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment. (imdb)

A beautiful young woman marries a blind old man for his money. She carries on an affair with her husband's valet, but soon finds herself in the middle of a murder-for-money plot involving the household servants. (imdb)

A dishonored army officer saves the lives of some hardened criminals on condition that they help him regain his honor. Will they live up to his expectations? (IMDd)

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

It concerns a businessman who joins the nation's most powerful figures on a hunting expedition and provokes a crisis of state. The film was inspired by a real event that took place in the 1960s when the newly-appointed Government Minister of Information, Manuel Fraga, joined Franco and his family on a hunting expedition and by accident fired pellets into Franco's daughter's rear end. (sensesofcinema)

Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has. His greedy relatives would love to put Vasquez away and claim his fortune. But there's a fly in the ointment: the money is in a secret Swiss bank account, and the only one who knows (or who knew) the account number is the amnesiac Vasquez. (AllMovie)

The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl

Gérard is an engineer who is married to Gabrielle and has a nine-month-old son, for whom he cares deeply. When his wife leaves him for feminist reasons, he is left with custody of their son. To satisfy his romantic longings, Gérard embarks on an affair with Valérie, his son's daycare worker. (Wikipedia)

An aging man sees that his elderly friends are having the time of their lives on their electric coaches - in a ploy to obtain his own electric wheelchair, the elderly man attempts to dupe friend and family alike, with dire consequences.

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks. After Celestina convinces Melibea of Calisto's love and arranges a brief clandestine meeting between them, Calisto gives Celestina a valuable chain of gold...

A married couple move into an isolated avantgarde dwelling in rural Spain. The house causes them to start role-playing and acting out parts of their past or imagined lives, until the game begins to get out of control.

A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies. (imdb)

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.

In the 1920s, latin american fierce caudillo Santos Banderas faces the rebellion of his own people.

A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to famine-stricken North Africa. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they are eaten by cannibals. (allrovi.com)

Four satirical episodes depict the crisis of the institution of marriage in comtemporary society.

Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. (imdb)

Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense (imdb)

In this offbeat comedy, a clerk and his mother visit the beach the day before his wedding. He leaves his mother alone for a few minutes and returns to find she has drowned. Not wanting to delay his wedding with the standard mourning period, he packs his mother in ice. (allmovie.com)

A Milan industrialist is obsessed with the bursting point of toy balloons. (bfi)

A middle aged Italian accompanies a colleague to America, and tries to marry an American woman so that he can stay there. (bfi)

Surrealist comedy of an industrialist who has a whistling sound in his nose and enters a clinic. He is moved from floor to floor and no treatment has any effect, so he prepares for death. (bfi)

A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the procession and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side. (imdb)

In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Communists who throw tomatoes at them. To get them to stop, the actor changes their minds by placing emphasis on the romance between the two rather than the politics. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A trilogy of vignettes directed by Claudio Guerín, José Luis Egea, and Víctor Erice. Dean Selmier appears in all three, playing a hippie, an American soldier, and a wanderer. In each episode, he meets an untimely, unsightly end. (mubi)

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.

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. (imdb)

Madrid, 1933. After murdering her 18 year old daughter Hildegart, Aurora Rodríguez turns herself in to justice. In prison, she recalls the circumstances that moved her to commit such a heinous crime. In her early childhood, Aurora Rodríguez, conceived the idea of ??having a daughter whom she would educate to devote herself to fighting for the liberation of women.

Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn". (imdb)

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the hardest times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players tries to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. (Paco Delgado)

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness (imdb).

A peculiar family who owns a nougat factory decides to set out on a trip to Madrid to advertise their products in a Food Fair (imdb).

1975... Días grises para España. Franco agonizaba y el Príncipe, Jefe de Estado en funciones, se encontraba en una posición difícil para afrontar un problema fundamental. (themoviedb.org)