Fernando Guillén Cuervo

An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty criminals.

Em uma Espanha consumida pela ambição e pelo poder, o futuro de um império depende do estado de espírito de uma única mulher. Após a morte de Isabel, a Católica, momentos de incerteza e luta pelo poder se sucedem.

Javier encontra trabalho como o Palhaço Triste em um circo com um elenco de estranhos personagens. Lá conhece Sergio, outro palhaço terrivelmente desfigurado, com quem ele inicia uma batalha feroz para ganhar o amor da mulher mais bela e cruel do circo.

A father with problems to communicate with his son and to educate him decide to send the problematic child to a correctional center. The father can't imagine the type of education that this correctional center is going to give to his son.

Perez, o ratinho, agora está empregado. Ele trabalha em uma fábrica de pérolas de dia e, à noite, continua recolhendo os dentes escondidos sob os travesseiros das crianças. Certa noite, ele vai à casa de Lucas para pegar seu dentinho.

Após a morte de Vesper Lynd, James Bond faz com que sua próxima missão seja pessoal. A caçada àqueles envolvidos na morte da mulher de sua vida o leva ao encontro do cruel empresário Dominic Greene, que faz parte da organização que coagiu Vesper. Bond descobre que Greene planeja obter o controle total de um recurso natural vital e deve enfrentar perigo e traição para frustrar o plano.

Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.

O agente da Interpol Tom Brindle investiga o caso de Pygmalion, um serial killer que matou diversas garotas na Espanha e França. Na cena do crime o policial obtém uma amostra de DNA semelhante a de Marco Soler. Brindle descobre que o garoto foi concebido numa clínica de fertilidade e tem um irmão gêmeo. O oficial decide então armar um plano para pegar o assassino.

The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.

No ano 33 d. C. o grande imperador romano Tiberius está perturbado com estranhos eventos: um terremoto balançou seu reino e o céu escureceu como em um eclipse. Parte da população está aos poucos se rebelando, desobedecendo às leis. Tudo isso por causa de uma lenda que está mexendo com todos: um homem, chamado Jesus de Nazaré, teria ressuscitado. Para desmentir esta notícia, Tiberius convoca seu melhor soldado, Tauro, que acaba de retornar da Germânia.

Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.

Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.

Alicia (Cecilia Roth) is a school teacher in his forties who begins a relationship online with Zaz (Nacho Aldeguer), 17. When the affair begins to leak, the story takes a turn of 180 degrees. At that time Zaz's father (Antonio Resines) will take the center of the stage

The president of a major biogenetic laboratory crazy for a board and falls down dead. His daughter Sofia inherited, just eighteen years a true empire, and make it impossible to discover the cause of the strange death of his father.

The film tells the story of Lay, a young woman who belongs to a terrible criminal gang and who, after the death of her great love Hivern, is isolated from the world in a small sea village.

This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.

A father wants his son to become a basketball star, by all means, in order to alleviate the loss of his eldest son, died ten years earlier.

Daniel é homossexual. Tem quarenta anos, um belo emprego e uma família rica que ele está sempre usando. Contudo tem que esconder uma vida paralela a partir do momento em que conhece Kyrill, um jovem búlgaro impetuoso e terrivelmente atraente. Kyrill leva Daniel a caminhos de paixão, crime e perigos até então desconhecidos, que vão se tornar o sentido da sua existência e a a sua destruição pessoal.

Daniel é homossexual. Tem quarenta anos, um belo emprego e uma família rica que ele está sempre usando. Contudo tem que esconder uma vida paralela a partir do momento em que conhece Kyrill, um jovem búlgaro impetuoso e terrivelmente atraente. Kyrill leva Daniel a caminhos de paixão, crime e perigos até então desconhecidos, que vão se tornar o sentido da sua existência e a a sua destruição pessoal.

Daniel é homossexual. Tem quarenta anos, um belo emprego e uma família rica que ele está sempre usando. Contudo tem que esconder uma vida paralela a partir do momento em que conhece Kyrill, um jovem búlgaro impetuoso e terrivelmente atraente. Kyrill leva Daniel a caminhos de paixão, crime e perigos até então desconhecidos, que vão se tornar o sentido da sua existência e a a sua destruição pessoal.

After an old soldier named Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) wrote the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the knight and his squire have become very popular. When he learns that the Turkish comes along the Mediterranean coast with a powerful army, Don Quixote will undertake, again opposed by his niece and his housekeeper, a new adventure that begins in La Mancha and ends on the coast.

"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, local radio, Roberto Alcázar's comics, Thursday cinema with Franco opening swamps and "Yon Güein" chasing and killing Indians. Through the childish eyes of a child Sopeña (Daniel Rubio) and his schoolmates, we discover a way of understanding the world, society and a Spain "of glories and flowery pensil", as the national anthem of those years used to sing.

A prostitute and her boyfriend and pimp extort money from those who hire the services of prostitutes in a Buenos Aires neighborhood by filming them without warning, but one of their victims turns out to be a powerful French businessman.

"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the coast. They feel free and swear that they will always be together. But three years later, everything is quite different. A party at the high school unites them all again. They haven't seen each other for years and the tension is thick. Something unexpected changed the course of their lives. Valle is a dancer at a club and attracted to Ray, the owner, who is also an art dealer under pressure to use his nightspot to peddle drugs.

A young police inspector investigates the bank robbery and subsequent murder of one of the robbers, while discovering that his girlfriend has a lover, an old friend of hers and now their neighbor.

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles happen. Things get complicated as he must dress as a woman to avoid being surprised.

For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.

Passionate and tragic love story in between Alfredo and María, famous spanish singer from the fifties. Se is resurrected by Alfredo, cinema director, with Lupe, the young singer's daughter.

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.

Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.

Cristóvão Colombo sonhava atingir a Índia por mar através de uma rota pelo Ocidente. Após ser recusado pelo rei de Portugal, que tinha os seus próprios planos, é contratado pelos reis de Espanha e, em 1492, parte de Cádis com três navios rumo à viagem de uma vida. Em vez da Índia, descobriria algo muito mais impressionante: um novo mundo.

Long ago, the sect existed in Navarra the sorguiñas. One of them gave birth to a child of the devil, who went to study in Salamanca, frequented the cave and returned to their land, serving as priest in the village of Bargota. Shortly after settling deaths begin to happen in the place and some locals begin to suspect him.

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

July 11, 1952. Two sisters are savagely murdered in their tobacco shop in Seville. The money was in plain sight, but it wasn't touched. Without leads, the police follows a jail rumor pointing to three petty criminals.

As experiências de Lulu e Pablo que iniciam na adolescência um jogo amoroso que continua na vida adulta. Pablo cria um mundo à parte para Lulu, um universo privado onde não há tempo. Mas esse mundo ideal desaparece quando Lulu, com 30 anos, descobre o perigoso e perverso universo dos desejos proibidos.

Sofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met or even seen each other. Disenchanted with love, both have sworn never to fall in love again, until they finally meet.

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.

Pablo ama Juan, mas a paixão não é correspondida. Antonio fica obcecado por Pablo depois de uma noite destinada a ser uma simples ficada casual. Paralelamente a esse perigoso triângulo amoroso está a história de Tina, irmã transexual de Pablo, sobre quem ele está escrevendo uma peça.

This is the sotry about the young Quim and Ona, and what happens one day. the 23 th of June in San Juan´s Night

Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father

After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.

A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.