Four villains seek to wrest from a mute girl the secret location of a prehistoric gold statuette discovered by her father. Read More »
Tag Archives: Spain
La partida / The Last Match (2013) Antonio Hens, Milton García, Reinier Díaz, Jenifer Rodríguez, Drama, Romance
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Read More »
The Dark Night of the Soul (1989) Carlos Saura, Juan Diego, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas, Drama
A fascinating study of the poet Saint John of the Cross, and his spell in solitary confinement. Read More »
Marathon (1993) Carlos Saura, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Linford Christie, Documentary, Sport
A view of the Olympic Games at Barcelona, using the marathon race as the weaving thread. Read More »
Goldsnake – Anonima Killers (1966) Ferdinando Baldi, Stelio Candelli, Annabella Incontrera, Juan Cortés, Action, Crime
When the US government finds out that a Chinese scientist, Chang, has discovered a means of creating astonishingly small atomic weapons, they are concerned. Read More »
A Carta (1999) Manoel de Oliveira, Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Drama
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Read More »
Master Stroke (1967) Michele Lupo, Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee, Crime, Drama
In Madrid, actor Lang is hired by Monsieur Bernard to impersonate a certain Owen for a time. Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War
1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
The Scarlet Letter (1973) Wim Wenders, Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Yelena Samarina, Drama, History
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. Read More »
Land Without Bread (1933) Luis Buñuel, Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O’Neill, Documentary, Short
In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain which was connected to the outside world only in 1922 with the completion of a road. Read More »