The Spanish Civil War
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1. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 702,961 | Gross: $37.63M
2. Blockade (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday
Votes: 639
3. If They Tell You I Fell (1989)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Banderas, Javier Gurruchaga
Votes: 458
4. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 605,943 | Gross: $1.02M
That's how Rick's heart was broken and he became a defeatist
5. Dangerous Millions (1946)
Passed | 69 min | Drama
A shipping magnate hatches a plan for testing the worth of his heirs, none of whom he has ever seen. He summons them all to China, and lays psychological and physical snares in the path of ... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Kent Taylor, Dona Drake, Tala Birell, Leonard Strong
Votes: 62
Kent Taylor reminisces about the Lincoln Brigade .
6. Beltenebros (1991)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez, Geraldine James
Votes: 335
7. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,260
Early Bunuel documentary that shows what the Popular Front and the Republic were for .
8. The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley
Votes: 306
9. Refugiados en Madrid (1938)
104 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: María Conesa, Fernando Soler, Vilma Vidal, Arturo de Córdova
10. The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison
Votes: 1,990
Scarred veteran (aren't they all ) pursued by Nazis who want a Republican flag .
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Passed | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova
Votes: 10,227 | Gross: $17.80M
12. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, War
Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile, but Spanish cop Vinolas sets a trap for him.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 2,248 | Gross: $3.00M
13. The Angel Wore Red (1960)
Approved | 99 min | Action, Drama, War
Father Arturo Carrera (Sir Dirk Bogarde) leaves the priesthood over the church's indifferent position during the Spanish Civil War, but finds himself attracted to beautiful entertainer Soledad (Ava Gardner).
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica
Votes: 860
14. Land and Freedom (1995)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, War
David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy
Votes: 12,096 | Gross: $0.23M
15. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don't go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.
Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
Votes: 450,656 | Gross: $42.07M
16. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
17. Days of Hope (1940)
78 min | Drama, War
1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized ... See full summary »
Directors: André Malraux, Boris Peskine | Stars: Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere, Julio Peña
Votes: 361
18. El embrujo de Shanghai (2002)
119 min | Drama, Mystery
Barcelona, 1948: An old man living with 14 y.o. Dani and his mom, arranges for Dani to draw the cute 15 y.o. Susana, bedridden with TB. Her dad's friend visits Susana and her sexy mom and tells about her dad and Shanghai.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Fernando Tielve, Aida Folch, Ariadna Gil, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Votes: 556
19. Carmen fra i rossi (1939)
96 min | Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a Falangist assigned to the University City is ordered to tour Madrid disguised as a Republican militiaman to deliver a message to a leader of the Resistance. ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Rafael Rivelles, Conchita Montes, Juan de Landa
Votes: 55
20. L'uomo della legione (1940)
87 min | Drama, War
Director: Romolo Marcellini | Stars: Roberto Rey, Pastora Peña, Mario Ferrari, Juan de Landa
21. L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)
112 min | Drama, War
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, Maria Denis, Rafael Calvo
Votes: 233
22. Inviati speciali (1943)
90 min | Drama
An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt.
Director: Romolo Marcellini | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Otello Toso, Maurizio D'Ancora, Nerio Bernardi
23. Mich dürstet (1956)
95 min | Drama, War
Director: Karl Paryla | Stars: Edwin Marian, Isabell Carenato, Harry Hindemith, Uwe-Jens Pape
24. Fünf Patronenhülsen (1960)
87 min | War
The Spanish Civil War in the year 1936. Five brigadiers are singled out to stay behind in the Spanish Sierras and fend off the fascist enemy while the rest of the troops recede. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Ernst Busch, Erwin Geschonneck, Manfred Krug, Edwin Marian
Votes: 198
25. Long Live Death (1971)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Arrabal | Stars: Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques
Votes: 1,496
26. Osadeni dushi (1975)
141 min | Drama, Romance, War
The events of the film are related to the Civil War in Spain. This is a film about the beauty of love - exotic and tragic and the maze of human feelings.
Director: Vulo Radev | Stars: Jan Englert, Edit Szalay, Rousy Chanev, Mariana Dimitrova
Votes: 588
27. A Sold Life (1976)
War
Director: Aldo Florio | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Gerardo Amato, Rodolfo Bianchi, Germano Longo
Votes: 15
28. The Madness (1976 TV Movie)
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Bill Fraser, Patrick Stewart, Zena Walker, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 9
29. Bethune (1977 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, David Gardner, James Hong
Votes: 103
30. Valentina (1982)
PG | 92 min | Drama
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio José Betancor | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jorge Sanz, Paloma Gómez, Saturno Cerra
Votes: 432
31. Dragón Rapide (1986)
100 min | Drama, History
The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Juan Diego, Manuel de Blas, Saturno Cerra, Eduardo MacGregor
Votes: 206
32. El viaje a ninguna parte (1986)
134 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: José Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,858
33. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
34. Freedomfighters (1996)
125 min | Drama, History, War
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Apilánez
Votes: 2,209
35. Death in Granada (1996)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Director: Marcos Zurinaga | Stars: Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Naim Thomas, Gonzalo Penche
Votes: 1,015 | Gross: $0.23M
36. Lorca, muerte de un poeta (1987–1988)
118 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of the Spanish poet and playwright Lorca, who was executed by followers of Franco in 1936.
Stars: Nickolas Grace, Antonio Iranzo, Francisco Jarque, Mario Pardo
Votes: 138
37. A Federico García Lorca (1937)
11 min | Short
Director: Justo Labal | Stars: Manuel Gómez, Francisco Moreno de Flores, Francisca Sardá
38. L'assassinio di Federico Garcia Lorca (1976 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Alessandro Cane | Stars: Roberto Bisacco, Federico Pacifici, Alessandro Haber, Bruno Cattaneo
39. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,516
40. Butterfly (1999)
R | 96 min | Drama, War
Based in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte
Votes: 9,751 | Gross: $2.09M
41. Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
119 min | Drama
When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of ... See full summary »
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontserè, Joan Dalmau, María Botto
Votes: 1,740
42. Head in the Clouds (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 15,780 | Gross: $0.40M
43. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,229 | Gross: $0.04M
44. Un Dios prohibido (2013)
133 min | Drama, History
August 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. 51 members of the Claretian community of Barbastro (Huesca) are martyred, die for their faith. The film recounts the last weeks of his ... See full summary »
Director: Pablo Moreno | Stars: Iñigo Etayo, Jerónimo Salas, Álex Larumbe, Eneko Capapay
Votes: 227
45. There Be Dragons (2011)
PG-13 | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 5,101 | Gross: $1.07M
46. Bajo un manto de estrellas (2014)
91 min | Drama, History
In the ancient convent of Calatrava were installed in 1936 the house of higher studies, the novitiate and seminary of humanities for children taking their first steps in the Dominican ... See full summary »
Director: Óscar Parra de Carrizosa | Stars: Manuel Aguilar, Zack Molina, Sergio Raboso, Jose Antonio Ortas Cayuela
Votes: 86
47. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,000 | Gross: $0.75M
48. The War Is Over (1966)
121 min | Drama, War
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté
Votes: 2,440
49. Cambridge Spies (2003)
59 min | Drama, History
The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West
Votes: 2,206
50. Nuò'ermàn Baiqiú'en (2006– )
90 min | Biography
Stars: Trevor Hayes, Cindy Busby, Jayne Heitmeyer, Rafael Petardi
Votes: 25
51. Raza (1942)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
When the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers go separate ways. One, a priest, is killed by leftists. One, a member of the government, betrays his family's traditional ... See full synopsis »
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Alfredo Mayo, Ana Mariscal, José Nieto, Blanca de Silos
Votes: 686
52. Terror House (1942)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard
Votes: 860
James Mason is a composer living alone on the moors , bitter after fighting for the Republic . Nice summing up of the war early on .
54. The Man from Morocco (1945)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Adventure
A story of war, mystery, love and adventure following a group of members of the International Brigade and their artist captain fighting in the Spanish Civil War who undergo internment in a ... See full summary »
Director: Mutz Greenbaum | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris, Reginald Tate
Votes: 78
Adventure film , based on the use of International Brigade prisoners as slave labour in Vichy North Africa
55. Love Under Fire (1937)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During the Spanish Civil War, a detective from Scotland Yard falls in love with a woman he had believed to be a jewel thief.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Frances Drake, Walter Catlett
Votes: 95
56. I Cover the War! (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Newsreel cameraman Bob Adams heads to North Africa to cover an Arab uprising against the British. When he refuses to help his younger brother become a cameraman, Don becomes the dupe of less savory types posing in the trade.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Gwen Gaze, Don Barclay, Charles Brokaw
Votes: 209
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