Luis Hostalot

End of Trip, Sahara (2024)

In the 1970s, groups of young Europeans ventured into the Sahara Desert with the intention of crossing it and experiencing "an adventure". Unprepared, reckless and ignorant of the terrain they were crossing, they faced extreme situations with unexpected co ...

Guilt (2022)

After being sexually assaulted, Anna isolates herself in a cabin in the woods, unable to overcome her trauma. Shame, pain and guilt will accompany her for months during which she will be transformed by more than just hatred. ...

Ignatius of Loyola (2016)

Historical biographical religious drama film based on the memoirs of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order who was also canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism. ...

Make Your Life a Masterpiece in Progress (2013)

Eight people eager to change the course of their lives come together in a castle to take part in a personal improvement seminar. When the seminar is not as big as planned, the members get to know each other very quickly. Their interactions help them to und ...

Going South (2009)

In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, pr ...

The Consul of Sodom (2009)

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's ' ...

Clandestinos (2008)

Xabi, a troubled boy, meets Iñaki, a member of the terrorist gang ETA who becomes his mentor and ideological inspiration. Some time later, Xabi is arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and confined in a juvenile detention center, where he meets Joel, a ...

The 13 Roses (2007)

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without ev ...

The Violet Look (2004)

El secreto del héroe (2003)

Based on true events, Rafael is a journalist who has had great success in his career. One day he witnesses a terrorist attack in Madrid and decided to follow the perpetrators of it taking several photographs and informing the police of the route. ...

No Big Deal (2003)

Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past. ...

Solo mía (2001)

A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive. ...

Pau and His Brother (2001)

A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the village in S ...

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to ...

Nada en la nevera (1998)

Carlota is an ambulance driver who becomes infatuated with porno-comic artist Number One, whom she meets after the latter suffers indigestion from eating ten hard-boiled eggs. A trail of misunderstandings between them ensue. ...

Bert (1998)

Albert Teixidó (Bert) travels to the island of Mallorca after receiving a mysterious letter from his childhood friend Bernardo, who disappeared months earlier in the Tramontana mountains. On the island, he searches for clues to locate his friend, clues th ...

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 ...

Tocando fondo (1993)

Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of ​​learning the trade. ...

Mala yerba (1991)

The Monk (1990)

In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin t ...

Doblones de a ocho (1990)

Un negre amb un saxo (1988)

Héctor Barrera, former boxer and crime writer, decides to embark on a journey through the world of prostitution in Valencia and meets a variety of very characteristic characters ...

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 ...

Werther (1986)

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's m ...

Bandera negra (1986)

Begoña, a waitress at an elegant club in Bilbao, manages to get shipowner Javier Uriarte to hire her father, Patxi Barrenechea, as captain of the merchant ship Urkia. Begoña meets Esteban, the leader of a gang of ship thieves operating in the estuary, wh ...

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. ...

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others. ...

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. ...

All Fired Up (1982)

Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work f ...

The Imprint of Giants (1980)

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965. ...