Antonio Fernández Santamaría

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya

Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.

Arturo is married to Elena and they have four grown children, they are wonderfull but they are still living at home. Arthur is writer and that's a job that requires peace, silence and concentration, something imposible at Arturo's home. His editor convince him to make his children go out from home so Arturo start a kind of "guerrilla war" to make his sons become independent.

A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters he writes to his family to tell the vicissitudes of his Spanish adventure.

Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents his story, and a large part of the film is based on his own life, through the experiences of an exiled heroine played by Charo Lopez. She has returned to Spain to look for meaning in her life, something that she never found living in Germany, not even after having a child. She is also in the process of translating the German lyric poet Friederich Holderlin (see the 1985 Halfte Des Lebens) into Spanish, focusing on his epic Hyperion. Excerpts from the translation are voiced over throughout the film. As she looks up old friends from many, many years ago, even those who have achieved worldly success are suffering from the same ennui that propelled her back home.

Madrid, anos 80. Uma cidade incômoda, selvagem e divertida. Nela acontece uma história de amor incomum entre uma jovem ninfomaníaca e o filho de um imperador árabe. Ela, membro de um violento grupo musical, e ele, preocupado em se manter escondido de terroristas de seu país de origem, são o fio condutor de uma série de relações entre os personagens mais díspares que se pode encontrar. Música, violência verbal, perseguições, paixão, sexo... e acima de tudo, o amor e suas dificuldades.

Há milhares de anos, Thulsa Doom, um demoníaco feiticeiro, comanda um ataque em uma aldeia por motivos até hoje não revelados, que poderia ser simplesmente pelo prazer de matar ou para descobrir o segredo do aço, que era guardado pelos moradores desta aldeia. Conan, um cimério, vê seus pais serem mortos na sua frente e seu povo ser massacrado, sendo que ele, ainda criança, é levado para um campo de escravos. Os anos passam e ele desenvolve uma enorme força física, o que faz Conan se tornar gladiador. Ele ainda se mantém determinado a vingar a morte dos pais e quando é libertado tenta alcançar seu objetivo. Conan descobre que Thulsa Doom lidera o misterioso Culto da Serpente e, tentando se aproximar do feiticeiro, faz amizade com dois ladrões, Valéria e Subotai. Ao trio é prometida uma vultosa recompensa pelo rei Osric, que quer que o trio de guerreiros resgate sua filha, que se tornou uma seguidora de Thulsa Doom.