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Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert. (2024)

Now with Mugaritz, the Valencian will document what happens behind closed doors in this restaurant and record the creation process, conceptualisation and commentary of the dishes, but not the making of the dishes themselves. Because the creation of Mugarit ...

Sister Death (2023)

Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher. ...

Traición Santa (2023)

The Grandmother (2022)

Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar. ...

Freddy (2021)

Madrid, Spain, 1982. TV director Chicho Ibáñez Serrador asks André, a lousy actor playing a ventriloquist, to work with Charlie, a disturbing dummy. ...

The Vault (2021)

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet. ...

Campofrío: Disfrute en vida (2020)

A hymn to life and a tribute "to those who left" in this difficult year are the messages that the company Campofrío launches in its traditional Christmas advertisement, which stars Quique San Francisco and Silvia Abril, among others, and is directed by Da ...

Eye for an Eye (2019)

Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people's home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Ma ...

Veronica (2017)

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment. ...

Requirements to Be a Normal Person (2015)

Maria is 30 years old, she is a peculiar person and has one goal: become a normal person. But first of all she must discover what is exactly this. Which kind of person is she? Is she a normal person? What does exactly means? That question goes deeper into ...

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014)

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine fac ...

Ultraviolet (2014)

Lola, an art restorer, has to work through the night to reveal a painting hidden beneath another painting. Her obsession with the task and her squandering of energy will bring her more than she bargained for. ...

Habitantes (2013)

We live anesthetized, isolated, immune to pain. What would happen if one day that emotional anesthesia disappeared? ...

[REC]³ Genesis (2012)

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies. ...

A or B (2010)

Completely desperate, an unemployed actress resorts to her agent looking to help her to make an important decision. ...

Luna di miele, luna di sangue VII (2010)

A kidnapped bride is expecting to die. A psycho is approaching, but anything can happen in one minute. ...

Bunbury 3D (2010)

Canal + and Vértice 360 performed on April 16 and 17, the first 3D recording of a live concert in Spain, the protagonist was the Aragonese Enrique Bunbury as part of his "The Consequences" tour. He directed Paco Plaza, director of [REC]. ...

[REC]² (2009)

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation. ...

Quarantine (2008)

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers. ...

[REC] (2007)

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying. ...

Sr. Rosso (2007)

A female driver picks up an elderly man at the airport. During the journey, she realizes she has picked up the wrong man... ...

A Christmas Tale (2005)

Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere. ...

Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)

A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) fall ...

Second Name (2002)

After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father's grave had bee ...

OT: The Movie (2002)

Focuses on the life of the singers from the first series of the Spanish reality TV talent show "Operación Triunfo" during the tour they made throughout Spain. ...

Abuelitos (1999)

A moody, atmospheric tale of sinister happenings in an old person's home, stunningly photographed and seeped in spiritual pain. ABUELITOS ranks among the strongest films to have emerged from the contemporary Spanish horror revival. ...

Jokes & Cigarettes (2023)

Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright. ...

[REC]: Horror Without Pause (2022)

The horror film [REC] — directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007 — was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milesto ...

Berlanga!! (2021)

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, ...

La suite nupcial (2020)

Beyond Blood (2019)

High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left huge impact around the world. This movement is called New Wave of French Horror. This film explores the mea ...

Cult of Terror (2017)

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic ci ...

Heirs of the Beast (2016)

The story of the making and subsequent success of The Day of the Beast, the Spanish cult film directed by Álex de la Iglesia and released in 1995. ...

Queridos monstruos (2014)

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror (2014)

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign ...

Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies (2010)

In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about ...

Spanish Movie (2009)

Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises constitute the ingredients of this crazy comedy: Spanish Movie. ...

[REC]² (2009)

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation. ...

Suburbs (1996)

A young auditor live peacefully in a residential block consisting of identical townhouses. However, a purely casual visit to the veterinarian on duty with his dog, causes a chain of lies under which the auditor notices the hidden face of all his daily life ...