Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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The Devil's Backbone (2001)
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. -
Parallel Mothers (2021)
The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day. -
Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
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 Rafael Sánchez Mazas, who was saved by an unknown soldier. -
The Endless Trench (2019)
After fascism takes Spain. A man marked for killing faces an endless incarceration in his own home. -
Butterfly (1999)
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. -
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. -
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after watching Frankenstein. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own. -
While at War (2019)
Writer Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat. -
Land and Freedom (1995)
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. -
Guernica (2016)
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika. -
The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. -
Black Bread (2010)
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. -
Josep (2020)
A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War. -
Confidential Agent (1945)
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts. -
Oh, Carmela! (1990)
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. -
Freedomfighters (1996)
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 group and eventually goes to the front. -
Los girasoles ciegos (2008)
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. -
Las 13 rosas (2007)
The true story of 13 totally normal young women who suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made-up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s -
The Sleeping Voice (2011)
During the Spanish postwar, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, pregnant while in prison. There, she falls for a bourgeois who still keep the fight alive in the hills. -
La vaquilla (1985)
A platoon of mismatched soldiers crosses the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is to fight on the village's patron-saint's day. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration, they want to butcher the animal to feed their famished troops. -
Uncertain Glory (2017)
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest. -
Death in Granada (1996)
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. -
El viaje de Carol (2002)
Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. -
The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War. -
Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War. -
El año de las luces (1986)
Political and religious prejudices are destroying the relationship between two teenagers in wartime Spain. -
Blockade (1938)
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. -
El bosc (2012)
1936. The Spanish Civil War broke out and the Anarchist militia occupy the Lower Aragon. Ramon and his wife Dora hide a secret ancestral to all other villagers. -
Fiesta (1995)
An aristocrat landowner wants his 18 year old son, Rafaël, to do his duty in the Spanish civil war of the late '30's. So he fishes him out of college and sends him to an old comrade-in-arms of his, Coronel Masagual, who assigns him to the firing squad which, executes Republicans caught arms in hand. -
La hora de los valientes (1998)
A soldier attempts to save a Goya masterpiece amidst the war and violence. -
La buena nueva (2008)
Based on a real story, the film portrays how the young priest commits himself to stand by his parishioners and how he denounces from the pulpit and before the Catholic Hierarchy the atrocities being committed on behalf of the Gospel to the extent that he will risk his own life in the name of Christ. -
Love Under Fire (1937)
During the Spanish Civil War, a detective from Scotland Yard falls in love with a woman he had believed to be a jewel thief. -
Companys, procés a Catalunya (1979)
The last days of Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, exiled in France after the Civil War until he is arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. -
En el balcón vacío (1962)
A woman who was a child refugee from the Spanish Civil War is now living as an adult in Mexico City. She tries to remember the traumatic events of her childhood.
