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
Palm Trees in the Snow (
2015) | IMDb:
7.3
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
Starring:
Mario Casas
,
Adriana Ugarte
,
Macarena García
,
Alain Hernández
,
Berta Vázquez
,
Djédjé Apali
The Skin I Live In (
2011) | IMDb:
7.6
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Starring:
Antonio Banderas
,
Elena Anaya
,
Marisa Paredes
,
Jan Cornet
,
Roberto Álamo
,
Eduard Fernández
Broken Embraces (
2009) | IMDb:
7.2
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Starring:
Penélope Cruz
,
Lluís Homar
,
Blanca Portillo
,
José Luis Gómez
,
Rubén Ochandiano
,
Tamar Novas
Volver (
2006) | IMDb:
7.6
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Starring:
Penélope Cruz
,
Carmen Maura
,
Lola Dueñas
,
Blanca Portillo
,
Yohana Cobo
,
Chus Lampreave