Francisco Merino

Странствующий рыцарь капитан Гром находит в застенках крепости умирающего христианина по имени Хуан де Рибера, которому была доверена чрезвычайно важная миссия — вернуть в Испанию чашу Святого Грааля, украденную из тайников древнего ордена. Вместе со своими друзьями Криспином и Голифом, а также принцессой викингов по имени Сигрид капитан Гром отправляется в Испанию, чтобы завершить дело, порученное Хуану.

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.

Пилар надоело прозябать в подвале, где размещалась квартира родителей её мужа. Пусть это центр Мадрида, но лучше уж иметь свое жильё, отдельное. А то, что средств нет, так для этого придуманы кредиты и рассрочки. Интересно, как бы вы отнеслись к тому, что ваша жена, без согласия мужа, подписалась на выплату 63000 песет за квартиру в доме, строительство которого даже не началось? Мало того, Пилар подделала подпись супруга на расписке о согласии принять на себя указанные в договоре кредитные обязательства. Впрочем, Мартину (муж Пилар) было уже всё равно: незадолго до этого его выперли с работы, лишив мизерного дохода в размере 1300 песет в месяц, и теперь он готовился вместе со своим другом Маркосом ехать на заработки в Швейцарию, лелея мысль о том, что там за один заработанный франк дают 14 песет…

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.

Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates.

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.

Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.

Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.

Купец и махинатор дон Арпагоне, чтобы избежать нежелательного брака с сестрой кардинала, должен немедленно жениться. В качестве свахи для поиска невесты он призывает пронырливую Фрозину, которая управляет принадлежащим опять-таки Арпагону подпольным казино-борделем. Фрозина устраивает для престарелого жениха кастинг невест - и где бы вы подумали? В церкви! Кардинал решает покарать строптивого Арпагона и лишить его самого ценного в жизни - золота и богатств, хранящихся в знаменитом сейфе купца. Однако его высокопреосвященство не знает, что хитрый дон Арпагоне уже давно нанял швейцарских механиков-часовщиков, чтобы они сделали для него защиту от воров - а также от глупых и самонадеянных церковников.

A girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Marocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Marocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open minded there is no problem they would not try to solve. Written by Volker Boehm

1560 год, Южная Америка. Уже открыты Эспаньола и Куба, Венесуэла и Мексика, Панама и Золотая Кастилья, но Эльдорадо, легендарное государство из золота, так и не найдено. Тщеславие и жажда золота все дальше и дальше гонят испанских конкистадоров в дикие джунгли Амазонии. В очередной опасной экспедиции по неизведанным землям набирается команда самых мужественных и отчаянных рыцарей-авантюристов. Здесь нет законов, здесь нет королевской власти. Впереди - неизвестность и страх, голод и смерть, стрелы индейцев и тропическая лихорадка. И еще - Эльдорадо... Золото или смерть - третьего не дано!

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.

4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.

After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.

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

Это рассказ из уст девочки-подростка о ее семье, об отце, которого она боготворила и считала порой за волшебника и который однажды ночью исчез безвозвратно.

In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the truth of this warning, but to find it out the inauguration is suspended

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-Christian interaction, that interaction is complex. The young woman encounters different lovers as she grows into adulthood, but at the same time she is burdened with financially supporting her father and his own rather decadent lifestyle. Again, this difference in generations could be understood as a difference between the "new" and "old" Spain; it is up to the viewers to interpret the story elements as they decide.

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.

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.

Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.

An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society.

Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.

Two aliens come to Earth to take over the planet. To do so, they plan subdue and clone famous pop singers Juan and Junior.

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.