Assumpta Serna

Pastoris (2024)

The Servant (2023)

Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard barracks, she meets Mihaela and Julia, two prostitutes with whom she shares the story of Santa Vicenta María, founder of the Religious of Mary Immaculate, which ...

Petra de San José (2022)

Slaves and Kings (2021)

The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer and publisher, missionary, and confessor to Queen Isabella II of Spain. Declared a saint in 1950, Claret is the founder of the religious congregation of the Miss ...

Expansivas (2020)

Two sisters marked by their mother's murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues that lead her to the perpetrator. ...

El método (2019)

An aspiring actor, Juan Luis, suffers an incalculable pain by becoming the laughing stock of his class due to the close relationship he has with his mother. He will learn that pain is a fundamental tool to become a better actor, but at what price? ...

El Cepa Returns (2019)

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), ...

Bernarda (2018)

Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange factory and forced to work as prostitutes. ...

¡He matado a mi marido! (2018)

A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring his recent Pritzker Prize, now she must survive the pain of heartbreak and a night of celebration, without being found out. ...

The Network of Freedom (2017)

France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the realit ...

The Fresco Fiasco (2016)

Documentary about Cecilia Gimenez, the Spanish lady who ruined a fresco of Jesus but in turn restored her home town. ...

Behold the Monkey (2016)

A modern fairytale based on the true story of an elderly Spanish cleaner's infamous attempt to restore a fresco. ...

Love Crisis (2013)

During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is room for anything to happen - even turtles. ...

Atrapats (2012)

El asesino a sueldo (2009)

Uncertainty (2009)

Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July ...

Trash (2009)

Trash tells the story of several characters that transport us to a social reality that is reflected in our personal relationships: the current culture of disposable relationships. ...

Un si beau voyage (2009)

Mohamed is a retired factory worker. He lives alone in a nursing home. However, due to illness, he must now leave his room. He decides to return to Tunisia, a country he has not seen in a long time. ...

I Vicerè (2007)

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime. ...

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale. ...

Teresa, Teresa (2003)

Le intermittenze del cuore (2003)

Germanes de sang (2001)

Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meeting hidden other motives. Marga projects an old super 8 film shot where they can guess the murderer of a f ...

The Journeyman (2001)

In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross paths again ...

Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana (2001)

Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zo ...

Bullfighter (2000)

Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite his fascination with bullfighting he leads a largely peaceful existence. When a crime boss' daughter is acc ...

Why Not Me? (1998)

Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues. ...

Stolen Moments (1998)

1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all ...

Subjúdice (1998)

An advocate for progressive takes the case of a conservative politician to accuse you of sexual harassment. ...

Kiss & Tell (1997)

A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why. ...

Sharpe: The Legend (1997)

Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is t ...

Like a Bolt of Lightning (1996)

Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle c ...

Puro veneno (1996)

Victor finds his wife, Virginia, in bed with another man. Virginia is dead, and the two men decide to lie so as not to tarnish the memory of the deceased. The lover will disappear, and Victor will declare that Virginia died by his side. But the game of fal ...

The Craft (1996)

A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents. ...

Managua (1996)

When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua to sort out the mess. ...

The Shooter (1995)

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador. ...

Les Derniers Jours de la victime (1995)

Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal. ...

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. ...

Belle al bar (1994)

During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very charming girl. ...

Nostradamus (1994)

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond. ...

Shortcut to Paradise (1994)

Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenag ...

Sharpe's Enemy (1994)

Portugal, 1813. Action and romance follow Sharpe as his chosen men risk their lives on dangerous and heroic missions. Sharpe has to do battle with a gang of deserters led by an evil renegade, who uses hostages - including Sharpe's old flame - as innocent ...

Sharpe's Company (1994)

Spain, 1812. The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman to revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first ...

Day of Reckoning (1994)

Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two researchers in the Burmese jungle, meets up with a wartime enemy intent on settling an old score. ...

Henry's Romance (1993)

It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed ...

Havanera 1820 (1993)

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the sh ...

Sharpe's Eagle (1993)

Spain, 1809. The newly promoted Captain Sharpe will be stripped of his rank unless he can save the honour of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle. ...

Sharpe's Rifles (1993)

Portugal, 1809. Fast moving, hard-hitting action adventure filmed on location in the Crimea, Portugal and England brings to the screen all the danger, romance and sheer spectacle of one of the bloodiest periods in English warfare. Richard Sharpe rises thr ...

The Fencing Master (1992)

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobl ...

Chain of Desire (1992)

A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire. ...

La nuit de l'océan (1992)

After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship. ...

Adelaide (1992)

Revolver (1992)

Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major arms-smuggling operation that threatens international security. ...

À quoi tu penses-tu ? (1992)

Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no longer write. The situation is all the more complex as Pierre lives with André's first wife, Mireille, whom he took from her five years ago. He confuses his ...

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (1992)

This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infa ...

Rossini! Rossini! (1991)

A funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto. ...

The Neon Man (1991)

A poor man who scrapes by installing neon advertisements gets a better-paying offer from a pair of journalists who simply want him to receive a package. Instead, he ends up being pursued by thugs. ...

I, the Worst of All (1990)

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition. ...

Wild Orchid (1989)

A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters. ...

Valentina (1989)

Italian erotic thriller television series that originally aired on Italia 1 from September 29 to December 22, 1989. It is based on the Valentina comics series by Italian artist Guido Crepax. The series follows a Milanese fashion photographer, Valentina Ros ...

The Wrath of a God (1988)

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on. ...

Qui t’estima, Babel? (1988)

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World ...

La Brute (1987)

Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to his wife. His lawyer, Mr. Deliot, however, will try to discover the truth, because he is convinced that hi ...

The Hidden Truth (1987)

After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world. ...

Lucky Ravi (1987)

Ballad of Dog Beach (1987)

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection. ...

Crónica sentimental en rojo (1986)

Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach. ...

Matador (1986)

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other. ...

Lulú de noche (1986)

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper. ...

Lola (1986)

Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship. ...

The Young Girl and Hell (1986)

Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a writer her mom allow us to move around in with them for the summer. The mom would love to get it on because of the writer not comprehending that he's being s ...

La vieja música (1985)

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain ...

Beyond the Walls (1985)

This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agree ...

The Secret Garden (1984)

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lov ...

Bajo en nicotina (1984)

A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all. ...

Soldados de plomo (1983)

Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: ...

Circle of Passions (1983)

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife. ...

Pájaros de ciudad (1983)

After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A vigilante state will not allow them to relive their love story. ...

Hunting Ground (1983)

A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance. But her latest defendants have no qualms about making her their next victim. ...

La rebelión de los pájaros (1982)

One day, without knowing how or why, the birds of a big city leave, disappear. It is believed to be a protest against environmental pollution. Some children (the Regaliz group), then embark on an ecological campaign to get the birds to return to the city. ...

Sweet Hours (1982)

Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the ...

Dos y dos, cinco (1981)

La cripta (1981)

A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago. ...

The Crime of Cuenca (1981)

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier. ...

Vecinos (1981)

Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors are classic bores who put loud music, no wave and always call at inopportune to ask for something. But Auro ...

National Heritage (1981)

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy ...

Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman's mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends. ...

Catalan Cuckold (1979)

Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. ...

Magic Powder (1979)

Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch. ...

7 cabalgan hacia la muerte (1979)

L’orgia (1978)

A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not everything is sex, there are also cinematographic digressions, chocolate and churros, and good humor. ...

The Christ of the Skull (2023)

In the darkness of a gothic night, two knights engage in a deadly duel, illuminated only by the mysterious light of a lantern. A noble lady, confined in a castle, has woven a mysterious connection with the contenders. Supernatural forces and inexplicable e ...