Pain and Glory (
2019) | IMDb:
7.5
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Starring:
Antonio Banderas
,
Asier Etxeandia
,
Leonardo Sbaraglia
,
Nora Navas
,
Julieta Serrano
,
Penélope Cruz
El Angel (
2018) | IMDb:
6.9
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
I'm So Excited! (
2013) | IMDb:
5.6
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Starring:
Antonio Banderas
,
Penélope Cruz
,
Coté Soler
,
Antonio de la Torre
,
Hugo Silva
,
Miguel Ángel Silvestre
Lucía, Lucía (
2003) | IMDb:
6
Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young dude upstairs as she tries to find him. Things take a bit of a twist as she realized the kidnapping may not be as simple as it seems on the surface.
Starring:
Cecilia Roth
,
Kuno Becker
,
Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa
,
Margarita Isabel
,
Max Kerlow
,
Mario Iván Martínez
Directed by:
Antonio Serrano
All About My Mother (
1999) | IMDb:
7.8
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Starring:
Cecilia Roth
,
Marisa Paredes
,
Candela Peña
,
Antonia San Juan
,
Penélope Cruz
,
Rosa María Sardà