Ana Belén

Break a Leg (2025)

4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a demand develops into political challenge. Concha Velasco, Ana ...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances. ...

El viaje de Julieta (2023)

Las cartas perdidas (2022)

Cruce de caminos (2022)

An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music. ...

Official Competition (2021)

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even ...

FFG, el último gran conversador (2021)

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an e ...

Olea… ¡Más alto! (2020)

An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social a ...

Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor (2020)

La corte de Ana (2020)

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This ...

Stories of Our Cinema (2019)

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, hol ...

Aute retrato (2019)

A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and w ...

¡Ay, Carmen! (2018)

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right. ...

Querido Fotogramas (2018)

The 70th anniversary of the "Fotogramas" magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The docum ...

Mi Querida Cecilia (2017)

The Queen of Spain (2016)

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Yo ...

Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo (2009)

Performed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos from throughout his career. The vaunted Spanish singer and actor first hit the stage as a toddler, and has si ...

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión (2006)

What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of ...

Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena (2004)

Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life ...

With Good Reason (2004)

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media. ...

Antigua vida mía (2001)

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua. ...

La parrilla (1999)

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1997)

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them. ...

El gusto es nuestro (1996)

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. The women's group faces the pr ...

Turkish Passion (1994)

A young woman's passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria's marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is gener ...

Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos (1994)

Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally. ...

The Perfect Husband (1993)

A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her. ...

Rosa Rosae (1992)

After the Dream (1992)

Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to th ...

The Flight of the Dove (1989)

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, ...

Miss Caribe (1988)

A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities a ...

Divine Words (1987)

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law. ...

The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)

After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house. ...

Bilbao Blues (1986)

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has plac ...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham (1985)

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him u ...

The Court of the Pharaoh (1985)

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the ...

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado (1983)

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens ...

Demons in the Garden (1982)

Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. Juan also leaves behind his ...

The Beehive (1982)

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, survi ...

Dolores (1981)

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries. ...

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven (1980)

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychol ...

Erotic Stories (1980)

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. ...

El buscón (1979)

XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo. ...

Check to the Queen (1979)

After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it. ...

Somnambulists (1978)

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in t ...

The Creature (1977)

After a heartbreaking miscarriage, a couple adopts a stray male dog in hopes of saving their rocky marriage. But as the wife develops an obsessive bond with her new companion, it will trigger jealousies and rivalries that may lead to the most inconceivable ...

La oscura historia de la prima Montse (1977)

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker. ...

La petición (1976)

An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society. ...

Emilia... parada y fonda (1976)

¡Jo, papá! (1975)

With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen. ...

País S. A. (1975)

A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist. ...

The Love of Captain Brando (1974)

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher. ...

Tormento (1974)

A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . ...

A flor de piel (C) (1974)

Vida conyugal sana (1974)

Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or t ...

Separación matrimonial (1973)

Romeo y Julieta (1972)

To the Devil, with Love (1972)

On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the ...

Morbidness (1972)

Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust. ...

Aunque la hormona se vista de seda... (1971)

Spaniards in Paris (1971)

Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids. ...

Zampo y yo (1966)

Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performance, where she meets Zampo, an old clown with whom she becomes close friends. ...

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company wh ...

Todo es ausencia (1984)

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all that happened. ...