Miguel Arribas

Un cine como tú en un país como éste (2010)

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. Hi ...

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 ...

Mis estimadas víctimas (2005)

Plauto, Distorted Memory of an Eventual Fool (2004)

Plauto, the clown, tells us the story of the Circo de las Alegrías. Doña Alegría, owner of the Circus is determined that her son Palevhi, maintain the classic line of the show, which begs for a complete renovation. During the last years, the Circus has ...

The Color of the Clouds (1997)

Clementina befriends Lola's nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola's ho ...

La hermana (1997)

The Dog in the Manger (1996)

Countess Diana de Belflor is in love with Teodoro, her secretary, but he is engaged to Marcela. ...

África (1996)

Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his ste ...

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 ...

El último guateque II (1988)

A group of young people meet the harsh reality after graduation. ...

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 ...

Dos mejor que uno (1984)

Rafa and Jeromo are a curious couple of friends. Their friendship began in childhood as well as his love for Silvia, which have been in love since childhood. Silvia Jeromo elected, and Rafa decided to disappear. Years later he returns and finds that the co ...

La conquista de Albania (1983)

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While t ...

Las trampas del matrimonio (1982)

A writer, a professional journalist currently working for his father-in-law's company, has a bad relationship with his wife and is dumped by her. He then decides to return to his real profession and moves to a new city. While there, he begins a relationshi ...

The Semester We Loved Kim Novak (1980)

In the late '50s, a young student falls in love with actress Kim Novak and fills the walls of his room with her photographs. One day, he meets a girl who looks a lot like her at a party, but is so shy that he needs to get drunk to declare his love. ...

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978)

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape ...

I Wanted to Sleep in Peace (1978)

Two night watchmen take a man sleeping on a park bench to the police station. ...

The Last Party (1978)

Paper Tigers (1977)

Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpable. Protagonists, Carmen and Juan were once married and now living separately, both have a child. It's ...

Mortal Sin (1977)

Uno del millón de muertos (1977)

With Lots of Love (1977)

Don Luis is the owner of an industry and all his family work in it, allowing he to become a staunch patriarch. ...

Pomporrutas imperiales (1976)

Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Casado. They were school mates and haven't met for a long time. They begin to remember old times, for instance, when they had to sing the post civil war Spanis ...