Eusebio Poncela

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

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.

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.

On a stormy day, Nat a Parisian woman, arrives by boat in Ibiza; invited by her childhood friend Sandra. Very quickly, she'll find herself in the middle of a group of initiated, within which, the suicidal master intends to lead them towards an apocalyptic end. But Nat, Sandra and their friends will take matters into their own hands in order to save Ibiza...

Ernesto, um homem comum que, após fazer um acordo com um personagem estranho, tem a chance de voltar ao passado e viver sua juventude novamente, tenta recuperar oportunidades perdidas e evitar certos comportamentos para mudar seu presente cinzento e insípido.

A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.

Luisa Llorente, uma reconhecida especialista na avaliação de casas antigas, desaparece sem deixar rasto depois de ter sido contratada para ir para avaliar a lendária e misteriosa mansão Valdemar.

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

Itália, século XV. Rodrigo Borgia é um maquinador astuto. Por trinta anos ele trabalhou na Igreja Católica Romana e agora foi eleito papa pelo Colégio de Cardeais. Borgia não tem motivos religiosos, é tudo uma questão de poder para ele. Com seu poder papal, ele inicia um reinado de terror, eliminando rivais. Uma nova era vai começar para a família Borgia, ele pensa, e seus quatro filhos são os peões mais importantes. Sua linda filha Lucrécia e o filho passivo Jofré se casam para estreitar os laços com famílias rivais. O mesmo vale para Juan, que também foi nomeado capitão do exército do Vaticano. O primogênito de Rodrigo, Cesare, agora é cardeal. Ele não gosta de tudo. Como o lutador nato da família, ele se vê mais adequado à posição de Juan. Cesare fica cada vez mais insatisfeito como cardeal e cada vez mais agitado com a família. Então Juan morre repentinamente após uma agressão.

Max e seus amigos resolvem morar nas montanhas, para se isolarem do mundo. Como as coisas não saíram como o planejado, apenas Max ficou por lá. 30 anos depois eles se encontram com boas recordações e alguns conflitos.

Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984.

Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades. Julián Torralba and his partners, veteran film stuntmen, survive there, recreating pathetic action scenes for the pleasure of the few foreign tourists who visit the isolated region.

Stop-motion animation featuring Ken and Barbie dolls. Engaging in sexual (and some rather kinky) activities. Also some violence. The plot evolves around troubles in their marriage, due to Ken being a jerk. Will Barbie find happiness?

The life and tragical death of the young Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.

Certas pessoas nascem com sorte; já algumas poucas pessoas nascem com o dom de "roubar" a sorte alheia. Samuel é uma delas. Tendo sobrevivido aos campos de concentração, ele agora se dedica a uma série de jogos em que alguns raros afortunados apostam a própria vida. Federico perdeu sua sorte para Samuel e agora busca vingança. Para concretizá-la, ele precisa encontrar alguém que seja mais sortudo do que o seu rival. É quando ele conhece Tomas, o único sobrevivente de um terrível desastre aéreo, e talvez o único com sorte suficiente para vencer Samuel em seu próprio jogo.

Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.

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.

Grand Magician Tulan walks the arid desert paths, accompanied by his wife, Marta. On this crossing, they join the mysterious Jenifer, who travels to Chile for a sex change operation, the dwarf Tachuelita, the beautiful young Martita and, completing the troupe, two twin nuns, Ana and Maria. Although each of them has personal goals, they manage to join this "Brancaleone Army" at the end of the millennium. In this vast world, where loneliness and helplessness reign, each one looks at a different horizon. Some find it. Others do not.

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.

An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend

This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..

The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic.

Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man who twenty years before had been his secretary. Soon after, a boy, the son of the man, moves to the house. The return of the past will have unforeseeable consequences.

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her young lover, will live their passion among the violence that surrounds the port city.

A história de uma expedição pelos rios Orinoco e Amazonas em 1560 por soldados espanhóis em busca da lendária cidade do ouro, El Dorado.

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 adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.

Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.

Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

Carvalho goes to Galicia to meet his daughter.

Carvalho travels to France in search of a missing girl

Pepe Carvalho investigates the murder of a young woman.

In a situation of political crisis, an immobilist group prepares to carry out a coup d'état by assassinating the president of the government, for which an American mercenary is hired.

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.

An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca.

Young Serra , after a boxing match dies falling from the roof of his house. The coach of his opponent that night, and old friend of Young, hire the services of Pepe Carvalho to find the mother of the son of Young so it will not be alone .

After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation.

María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead.

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

Espanha, 1973. O ditador Francisco Franco governa o país desde 1939 com um punho de ferro; mas agora é um homem muito velho e doente. O futuro do regime enfraquecido está em perigo. O almirante Carrero Blanco é seu sucessor natural. A quadrilha terrorista basca ETA decide que ele deve morrer para impedir que a ditadura continue.

Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel

A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.

The film plunges the intrigue of a love triangle in which is involved a former actress who has a relationship with her husband, a film producer, her lover, the screenwriter of the films he produces, and a criminal lawyer.

Tony wants to carry out a perfect robbery and get a lot of money during the celebration of the 24 Hours of Montjuic, a motorcycle race. To accomplish this, he counts with the complicity of Peter, a runner who wants to switch to professional level. Everything is carefully planned, but at the last moment a crime is committed and Peter is trapped in the house of the victim unable to get out as the gate has been locked. The only way to help Peter is that Tony gets a copy of the key that Carmen has, the girl who took care of the victim, before she returns home.

A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and Romans battling Celtic vampires.