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51. The Hunt (1966)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 2,469
52. The Sleeping Voice (2011)
128 min | Drama, War
Just after the Spanish war, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: Inma Cuesta, María León, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín
Votes: 2,613
53. Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
New York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford
Votes: 406
54. Talk of Angels (1998)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Irishwoman becomes governess to 3 daughters of a rich family in Spain in 1936, just before the civil war. The mom likes Franco - the dad doesn't. She becomes family. She befriends 5 Irishwomen.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Frances McDormand
Votes: 900 | Gross: $0.02M
55. Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990 TV Movie)
R | 83 min | Romance, Drama
Three short stories, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a ... See full summary »
Directors: Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson, Ken Russell | Stars: Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Carmen Segarra, Felipe García Vélez
Votes: 360
56. Deseo (2002)
106 min | Drama, Romance
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Director: Gerardo Vera | Stars: Leonor Watling, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 318
57. Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
The work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, as seen by Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Votes: 1,753
58. Las 13 rosas (2007)
129 min | Drama, History
The true story of 13 totally normal young women who suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made-up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Stars: Pilar López de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez, Gabriella Pession, Marta Etura
Votes: 2,172
59. Painless (2012)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In the 1930s, a group of children are born with a rare condition: they feel no pain. After being locked away for life for their own safety, the children are subjected to rehabilitation away from society.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart, Mot Harris Dunlop Stothart
Votes: 3,580
60. Cows (1992)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Torrent, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 3,940
61. The War Is Over (1966)
121 min | Drama, War
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté
Votes: 2,453
62. The Silence of Others (2018)
96 min | Documentary
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo | Stars: María Martín, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, José María Galante
Votes: 2,376 | Gross: $0.07M
63. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,374
64. Cousin Angelica (1974)
107 min | Drama
After being given permission to re-inter his mother's body in their family vault, a middle-aged man who survived the Spanish Civil War as a child returns home and relives old memories.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa
Votes: 1,221
65. Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
103 min | Drama
The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.
Director: Jaime Chávarri | Stars: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustín González, Victoria Abril, Alicia Hermida
Votes: 885
66. In Praise of Older Women (1997)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Director: Manuel Lombardero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Miguel Ángel García, Faye Dunaway, Carme Elias
Votes: 417
67. Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
119 min | Drama
When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of ... See full summary »
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontserè, Joan Dalmau, María Botto
Votes: 1,744
68. Espionage Agent (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft
Votes: 467
69. Josep (2020)
71 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.
Director: Aurel | Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais
Votes: 2,161
70. The Angel Wore Red (1960)
Approved | 99 min | Action, Drama, War
Father Arturo Carrera (Sir Dirk Bogarde) leaves the priesthood over the church's indifferent position during the Spanish Civil War, but finds himself attracted to beautiful entertainer Soledad (Ava Gardner).
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica
Votes: 862
71. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,044
72. The Garden of Delights (1970)
GP | 95 min | Drama
A middle age construction tycoon is wheelchair-bound and amnesiac from a car accident in the company of his mistress. He alone had access to all his business's secrets, including the combination to the safe and his Swiss bank account.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Luchy Soto, Francisco Pierrá, Charo Soriano
Votes: 742
73. El viaje de Carol (2002)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol ... See full summary »
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Álvaro de Luna, María Barranco
Votes: 1,088
74. The Spanish Civil War (1983– )
315 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
Stars: Frank Finlay, Enrique Lister, Ramón Serrano Súñer, Narcís Julián
Votes: 197
75. Angel of Death (2001)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Olivier Martinez, Féodor Atkine, Alida Valli
Votes: 801
76. La vaquilla (1985)
122 min | Comedy, War
A platoon of mismatched soldiers crosses the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is to fight on the village's patron-saint's day. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Guillermo Montesinos, Santiago Ramos, José Sacristán
Votes: 2,105
77. The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
112 min | Drama, History
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie Noëlle, Peter Sehr | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, María Valverde, Alba Barragan, Ainoa Ruiz
Votes: 594
78. The Secret Masonic Victory of World War Two (2022)
330 min | Documentary, History
Western Freemasonry and their Masonic Eastern communist friends won WW2, with everything we see today stemming from that secret holy war. The aim of Freemasonry and all secret societies is ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Wise | Stars: Ronald Bernard, Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, Christopher Hitchens
Votes: 26
79. Oh, Carmela! (1990)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Armando De Razza
Votes: 3,347 | Gross: $0.30M
80. Death in Granada (1996)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Director: Marcos Zurinaga | Stars: Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Naim Thomas, Gonzalo Penche
Votes: 1,016 | Gross: $0.23M
81. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
82. Los girasoles ciegos (2008)
98 min | Drama, History
Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Roger Príncep
Votes: 2,278
83. Uncertain Glory (2017)
115 min | Drama
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Marcel Borràs, Núria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí
Votes: 1,034
84. Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story (2021)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A rich player emotionally abuses his girlfriend until she discovers the bond of multiple past lives that ties them into present day and turns the tables.
Director: Michelle Arthur | Stars: Michelle Arthur, Kevin Caliber, Patrick Stalinski, Kathleen Randazzo
Votes: 28
85. Sweet Hours (1982)
106 min | Drama
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Iñaki Aierra, Assumpta Serna, Álvaro de Luna, Jacques Lalande
Votes: 249
86. Raza (1942)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
When the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers go separate ways. One, a priest, is killed by leftists. One, a member of the government, betrays his family's traditional ... See full synopsis »
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Alfredo Mayo, Ana Mariscal, José Nieto, Blanca de Silos
Votes: 686
87. Madrid (1987)
108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A German documentary filmmaker travels to Madrid to do a TV program about the city and the Spanish civil war commemorating its 50th anniversary.
Director: Basilio Martín Patino | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Verónica Forqué, María Luisa Ponte, Félix Dafauce
Votes: 91
88. The Whore and the Whale (2004)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Pep Munné, Mercè Llorens
Votes: 1,036
89. Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish (1992– )
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Family
A man has just told his family about a secrete and they hire a lawyer to find out if it is true.
Stars: Liliana Abud, Arturo Puig, Yazmin Pereira, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 198
90. Vida en sombras (1949)
90 min | Drama
His director's only film, Vida en Sombras tells the story of a man who from his childhood falls in love with cinema and grows to be a director and cameraman. While struggling to make ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomés, Fernando Sancho
Votes: 315
91. La buena nueva (2008)
108 min | Drama
A young priest arrives in his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness of the military uprising that precipitates ... See full summary »
Director: Helena Taberna | Stars: Unax Ugalde, Bárbara Goenaga, Gorka Aguinagalde, Guillermo Toledo
Votes: 283
92. Broken Silence (2001)
TV-PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco ... See full summary »
Director: Montxo Armendáriz | Stars: Lucía Jiménez, Juan Diego Botto, Mercedes Sampietro, Álvaro de Luna
Votes: 706
93. The Spanish Earth (1937)
Unrated | 52 min | Documentary, War
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Director: Joris Ivens | Stars: Enrique Lister, Carlos Romero Giménez, José Díaz, Gustav Regler
Votes: 863
94. L'arbre de Guernica (1975)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War
The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at the outset, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Arrabal | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Ron Faber, Cosimo Cinieri, Rocco Fontana
Votes: 452
95. Tu nombre envenena mis sueños (1996)
118 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The investigation of an apparent suicide in post-war Spain leads Inspector Barciela to discover a story of revenge for the hatred and grudges of the past.
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Ángel de Andrés López, Anabel Alonso
Votes: 224
96. The Long Winter (1992)
135 min | Drama, History, War
In this sequel to "Long Vacations of 36", the son of a large bourgeois family returns to Barcelona to find out what happened after he fled the country in '39. He learns the details of the fascist takeover from his former butler.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Penot, Elizabeth Hurley, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 120
97. El año de las luces (1986)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Political and religious prejudices are destroying the relationship between two teenagers in wartime Spain.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 1,130
98. Days of Hope (1940)
78 min | Drama, War
1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized ... See full summary »
Directors: André Malraux, Boris Peskine | Stars: Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere, Julio Peña
Votes: 364
99. Terra de canons (1999)
128 min | Drama, History, Romance
Eduard de Siscart, firstborn of an aristocratic family, supports the resistance against Franco's forces. Precisely for this reason, when the Civil War ends (1936-1939) he is forced into exile.
Director: Antoni Ribas | Stars: Lorenzo Quinn, Cristina Pineda, Mario Guariso, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 60
100. Vidago Palace (2017)
Drama, History, Romance
Vidago Palace is set on 1936 and tells us a love story between two young people from different classes, ready to face all obstacles.
Stars: Mikaela Lupu, David Seijo, Pedro Barroso, Anabela Teixeira
Votes: 210