Pilar López de Ayala

Close to the Sultan (2024)

An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers. ...

El molino (2024)

It tells the story of Mayte, an engineer who returns to a small town, with only 12 inhabitants, to carry out an important project. Her visit coincides with the valley's annual event. There she reunites with Jaime, her childhood love. ...

Agadah (2017)

A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thie ...

Rumbos (2016)

During a long night of August, some people have different experiences that leave a deep impression in them. Linked by a radio night show, all them cross the city of Barcelona, not knowing that their fates will collide with each other in unexpected ways. ...

Night Has Settled (2014)

In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-ol ...

101 (2012)

An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema. ...

Good Night, Spain (2011)

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside and meets a lost woman. During the trip, they discover a museum housing the expatriated paintings of the most ...

Intruders (2011)

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow's beloved 12-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line ...

Sidewalls (2011)

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildin ...

The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From th ...

Lope: The Outlaw (2010)

A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. T ...

Baby Love (2008)

They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay? ...

Walking Vengeance (2008)

A woman and her three partners-in-crime plan a revenge heist against her violent narco husband in order to get rid of him and steal his money. ...

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 ...

In the City of Sylvia (2007)

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier. ...

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 ...

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)

In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier. ...

Bienvenido a casa (2006)

Young couple Samuel and Eva move to Madrid and start living together when he finds work as a photographer. Although Samuel doesn't knows, Eva's expecting a baby. ...

Train Strasbourg-Paris (2006)

Train Strausbourg–Paris primarily consists of Guerin's earlier, preliminary attempt at filming the elements of a scene that appears in In the City of Sylvia. ...

Mujer esperando al tranvía (2006)

Obaba (2005)

A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery. ...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge. ...

Mad Love (2001)

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria. ...

Kisses for Everyone (2000)

Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn to decid ...

Fill Me with Life (2000)

An urban drama of love and marginality, drugs and falls into the abyss. This is where Josetxo San Mateo's long-distance survey begins when David, a chic who lives on the street for vocation, begins to see María. One day she decided to approach her and ent ...

Living It Up (2000)

Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides that l ...

By My Side Again (1999)

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has ...

Paradise Lost (1999)

A picnic by the river. Pablo is in love with his pretty older cousin, but she would rather be alone with her lover, so she gets rid of the boy by sending him off in search of a gift. Something strange happens to Pablo during his trip. Upon his return, he i ...

El niño invisible (1995)

A group of children find a magic stone that transports them to the XII century. ...