Achero Mañas

Hunters (1997)

A group of children tells to the camera how they torture various animals, such as lizards, cats or mice. One of them tells how last summer, after attacking a cat with his friends, he saw something that made him reflect on what they did. ...

The Frontier Law (1995)

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang. ...

Belmonte (1995)

Seville 1913. Juan is a weak-looking boy who has grown up in a marginal environment. But it transforms when at night it challenges bulls in fences. Calderón, an old bullfighter, looks at him, in his rare ways, in his passionate attitude, and guided by a s ...

King of the River (1995)

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, ...

Tales of the Stinking Military Service (1994)

The Legend of the Handmaiden (1994)

Legend has it that, a long time ago in Galicia (Spain), witches were transformed into hornets to harm men and change the destiny of their lives. ...

Outrage (1993)

Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail o ...

Journey to Jakobsland (1989)

On his way to Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrim recounts his experiences through the letters he writes to his friend. ...

The Adventures of Enrique and Ana (1981)

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world. ...

A Normal World (2020)

Ernesto learns that his mother has passed and yet worse that they plan to bury her in a graveyard. Determined to fulfill his late mum's wishes, he plans to steal the coffin. ...

Anything You Want (2010)

Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her f ...

November (2003)

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins ...

El Bola (2000)

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship. ...

Artificial Paradise (1999)

A young man recounts the various paradises he has experienced throughout his life: altered states of being with substances; glue, hashish, LSD and heroin. ...

Hunters (1997)

A group of children tells to the camera how they torture various animals, such as lizards, cats or mice. One of them tells how last summer, after attacking a cat with his friends, he saw something that made him reflect on what they did. ...