Lourdes
Brígida
Duas mulheres, Janis e Ana, dividem o quarto de hospital onde vão dar à luz. As duas são solteiras e ficaram grávidas acidentalmente. Janis, de meia-idade, não se arrepende e nas horas prévias ao parto sente-se pletórica, a outra, Ana, é uma adolescente e está assustada, arrependida e traumatizada. Janis tenta animá-la enquanto passeiam como sonâmbulas pelo corredor do hospital. As poucas palavras que trocam nessas horas vão criar um vínculo muito profundo entre as duas, e esse acaso vai encarregar-se de desenvolver e complicar de forma tão retumbante que mudará a vida de ambas para sempre.
Self - Actress
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
Herself - Actress
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
Old Jacinta
Salvador Mallo é um melancólico cineasta em declínio que se vê obrigado a pensar sobre as escolhas que fez na vida quando seu passado retorna. Entre lembranças e reencontros, ele reflete sobre sua infância na década de 1960, seu processo de imigração para a Espanha, seu primeiro amor maduro e sua relação com a escrita e com o cinema.
María Josefa
Opera in three acts. Broadcast live from El Teatro de la Zarzuela on November 18, 2018.
Herself
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Asunción
Depois de seu amigo ser baleado, Jon descobre um padrão matemático nas mortes ocorridas no local e tenta alertar a próxima vítima.
Petra
Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.
Belinda
Alicia is a selfish brat who is crazy about video games. As her parents work and nobody cares about her, her mother decides to send her to an island where old Aunt Belinda lives. No running water or electricity, by the sea and at the foot of volcano, Alicia fears that the holidays are a bore. In addition, it is rumored that her aunt is a witch, there is a man chasing dragons and two very strange. Something mysterious and magnetic fields emanating from the mountain.
Mrs Rueda
Confundido com um islâmico perigoso, Saadi - um cara normal, que acontece de ser um imigrante árabe ilegal - estabelece no dia mais perigoso de sua vida.
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
María
In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of the people they have loved throughout their lifes. They know that sooner or later they will buy their ticket for their final journey. Marcos and Roma are young and alone. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is a street performer with no home of his own, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all set out on a journey together.
Ana
Carmela
O Filme conta a história de Pilar e Elvira e seu amor que perdura durante um dos mais turbulentos períodos históricos da fascista Espanha. O filme é baseado em uma história verdadeira, o que passaram duas mulheres na época do ditador espanhol, Francisco Franco.Duas professoras que começam sendo amigas e desenvolvem um lindo relacionamento, transformando-se em amantes. A homossexualidade era ilegal, na espanha de Franco, e por isso eram forçados a terminar a sua relação. Pilar é internada num manicômio por sua mãe, quando esta descobre que sua filha é lésbica. Apartir deste fato tudo muda na vida de Pilar e Elvira.
Madre Violeta
A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat romantic drama. Rosa is an artist in her early forties who is recently divorced and looking for a new relationship. Unfortunately, few immediate prospects are on the horizon, and Rosa spends much of her free time commiserating with her close friend Jaime, a gay actor her own age. After consulting Andronica, a fortune teller, Rosa is told that relationships with three different men are on the horizon for her, and soon she finds herself falling for Gustavo, an architect from Argentina. While in Spain, Gustavo is staying at a hotel run by Greta, who is the unwitting center of a web of romantic entanglements; her daughter, is involved with Juan, a delivery boy for a pizza parlor who also has his eye on Rosa, while Greta's ex-husband (Bob Wilson) is also hoping to win Rosa's heart, in his case through poetry.
Magdalena
Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.
Tía Rafaela
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 left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.
Dona gran
Na Espanha do final do milênio, apresenta-se uma série de encontros e desencontros entre personagens comuns de uma grande cidade, todos igualmente carentes e dominados por uma terrível dificuldade de se comunicar com aqueles que amam.
La Moños
Barcelona in the 1930's: with extreme makeup and outlandish clothes, "La Moños" (Julieta Serrano) is a mysterious character of Las Ramblas. Pepi, a girl of nine years, is fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Using her imagination, and collecting the stories she has heard, passionate Pepi reconstructs the life of "La Moños".
Paula Balenyà
Madre de Juan
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
Mariluz
Ana's husband is the perfect wealthy middle-class man. Koro's husband is a cook with no more ambitions. One day, Ana meets Koro in a night club and she proposes Ana to seduce each others husbands. The following morning Ana thinks this was a joke, but things are not always what it seems. Written by Dulzz
Carmen
Alma
Depois de passar metade de sua vida fugindo de orfanatos e hospitais psiquiátricos, o impulsivo e determinado Ricky vai atrás de sua obsessão patológica: Marina, uma atriz pornô com quem dormiu uma vez. Para ganhar o amor dela, ele decide raptá-la e trancá-la em sua própria casa.
Lucía
Em Madrid, Pepa Marcos, uma atriz de dobragens para televisão, é abandonada pelo amante, Ivan. Enquanto tenta falar com ele, é visitada pelo filho deste, Carlos e pela namorada, Marisa, que desejam alugar o seu apartamento. Surge também a sua melhor amiga Candela, que depois de se ter apaixonado por um desconhecido, descobriu que ele é um terrorista xiita e receia ser presa. Enquanto a namorada de Carlos bebe inadvertidamente um gaspacho cheio de soporíferos e adormece profundamente, Pepa faz de tudo para evitar que a verdadeira mulher de Ivan o mate quando ambas descobrem que este planeava viajar com uma segunda amante, a advogada que Pepa tentara contratar para defender Candela.
Mare
María
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
Berta
Um toureiro é ferido por um touro e não pode mais matar na arena. É apenas uma falha, além de muitas outras de vários personagens que colidem de forma insuspeita.
Magda
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Dama de compañía
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
Julia
Not published writer, a sculptor who does not expose, a filmmaker who does not make movies ... amateur and professional around anything. His daughter, which is to care, is the only one who understands. A film producer who bombarded daily with an overview, each more extravagant reproaches his fantasy and challenges to look carefully for 24 hours whichever comes around to check that everything that happens follows a rigorous logic .
Abadesa Julia
Após a overdose fatal de seu namorado, uma cantora de bolero e viciada em drogas busca refúgio em um convento que resgata mulheres envolvidas com drogas, prostituição e assassinato. Mas a redenção não está nem perto, pois o convento abriga numerosos vícios e pecados.
Estela
Angelina
Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Andrea de Cervantes
Mujer Vestida como Escarlata O'Hara
Pepi é violada pelo polícia que a descobre plantando marijuana no seu apartamento. Ela procura vingança fazendo com que a sua mulher masoquista o abandone.
Gloria (segment "La tilita")
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Carlota
Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.
Librera
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Paula
Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.
Mercedes
Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.
Ana (voice)
Em uma casa velha no centro de Madrid, Ana, uma menina de 9 anos de idade, é o veículo usado para contar, mais do que uma história, um clima, uma atmosfera, uma chave vital, os costumes e sentimentos que destróem sua família. Ana acredita ter em suas mãos o poder de vida e morte sobre aqueles que a rodeiam. Assim, neste universo fechado e do ponto de vista de uma criança, o tempo passa, trazendo paixões, esperanças, descobrindo frustrações e impassível, profetizando a morte.
María Rosa
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old Republican exile, returns to his home in the Castilian village of Trescabañas and befriends Aurora, a young and very attractive teacher, with whom Juan, one of her teenage students, falls in love.
Nicole
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
María
South of France, XIX century. Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is reluctant to admit that Vera, his wife, has died. Very concerned, begins to rebuild its surroundings as if she were still alive. The objects, dialogues, gestures ... again everything is back to make sense to him. Even his faithful butler rests on this fiction. But one day, by accident, he meets the daughter of the notary and his world begins to crumble.
Monja
When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.
Isabelita
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
Clara
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
Dorotea
For eleven months a year, Evaristo, Máximo and Jacinto have only thought of one thing: summer vacations. Each one, in his own way, will try to deal with the forty degrees in the shadow of Madrid. Evaristo is a beach man and this year, as always, he approaches the coast with Filomena, his wife. The agglomerations to get a square meter of sand, the cakes in the chiringuito to eat the tortilla will be about to kill him. But it does not matter, September will come to rest from the summer. Maximum, on the contrary, is of the mountain. And this year he has rented a villa for himself and his family, including mother-in-law. Finally, Jacinto, owner of a gym, has sent his wife and children to Benidorm, while he remains "rodríguez" in the capital,
Luisa
Several stories about marriages that receive the news that they will be parents. Alejandro and Mercedes are newly married and receive the news with enthusiasm; Margarita and Enrique have been married for a while, but it will also be their first offspring; Ines and Luis have been in this situation several times, but this is the first time that the pregnancy is real. The reaction of the parents, the cravings of the pregnant women, the name search for the child, everything is always the same and always different. None of the couples resembles the others, but when the moment of delivery arrives, the nerves will be the same.
Aspirante a actriz (uncredited)
Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car with the intention of building a future in show business. After unsuccessfully looking for work, the two youngsters will be immersed in crime and prostitution.
Compañera de Ángela
Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on vacation, the man has an affair with a pretty office worker. The relationship between the two develops slowly before they end up in bed together. Speeded up shots are used effectively to illustrate the thoughts of the characters. Technical aspects and performances are fine and overshadow some uneven editing.