Francisco Maestre
Рождение : 1957-07-02, Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Смерть : 2011-01-27
Tolentino
Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.
Gerardo
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
Laguna
Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?
Padre José
Энрике, преуспевающий 27-летний режиссёр, находится в поиске нового сюжета. Однажды к нему в офис приходит молодой человек, который представляется его другом детства Игнасио. Он говорит Энрике, что остро нуждается в работе, а также передаёт ему написанный им рассказ об их детских годах и просит называть его не Игнасио, а Анхель.
The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...
Conserje
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.
'El Puerco'
Пугающий рассказ о 12-летнем Карлосе, который после смерти отца попадает в школу Санта-Лусии на попечение директрисы Кармен и профессора Касареса. Отец мальчика был мятежником, убитым в сражении против режима Франко. И хотя приют перегружен большим количеством детей, директор школы сочувствующе принимает молодого Карлоса.
Baez
У молодого человека прямо у него на глазах убивают его любовницу. Здорово расстроившись, Джон начинает думать, не свести ли ему счёты с вмиг опостылевшей жизнью, но тут встречает некоего седовласого джентльмена, назвавшегося буквой «М», и без долгих сомнений продаёт ему душу — в обмен на возможность отомстить мерзким убийцам. После чего и начинается заваруха, а оттуда и до психушки недолго. Там-то на страшного мстителя и натыкается молодая врачиха, пытаясь вылечить беднягу с помощью классической музыки. Так и начинается любовь навеки между Джоном и Джэйд…
Energúmeno
El camarero
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.
Encargado pizzeria
Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.
El Maestro
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
Psiquiatra
Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her gay estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village. She learns that he was conducting secret experiments searching for tortured souls trapped behind the energy of the living world. This leads her to an old, abandoned house where the experiments took place - and there she finds a world of secrets and horror...
Bene
Carmona
Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
2nd Patrolman
Obispo
19 июля 1936 года в Испании разразилась революция. В маленьком городке близ Барселоны революционерами был разрушен монастырь. Мария, монахиня из разрушенного монастыря, находит убежище в борделе, куда вскоре с миссией освобождения проституток заявляются активистки Организации Свободных Женщин. Некоторое время спустя, попадая под влияние Флорен, Мария вступает в эту организацию и участвует в вооруженной борьбе наравне с другими активистками, которые предпочитают умереть, сражаясь плечом к плечу с мужчинами, чем жить, прислуживая им.
El capitán ucraniano
Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.
Tipo Enorme
Католический священник отец Анхель с помощью библии вычисляет день, когда на земле родится Антихрист. Он знает дату, но не знает место, поэтому пускается во все тяжкие, чтобы сам Дьявол подписал с ним контракт о покупке души. Помощниками святому отцу становятся случайный знакомый из магазина тяжелой музыки и популярный ведущий оккультной телепередачи.
Renco
Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.
Iñaki
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
Odo
В средние века немой но умелый охотник Дамиан отправляется на поиски лучшей жизни вместе со своей семьей: красивой и преданной женой Присциллой, сыном Пабло (тоже немым) и бабушкой Агатой. После долгих скитаний они решают обосноваться в деревушке, где заправляет местный дворянин дон Родриго, который тут же пытается соблазнить Присциллу. Дамиан решает остаться, пока не умрет Агата, но деревня, поначалу казавшаяся вполне дружелюбной, превращается во вражескую территорию, и семья обязана сделать все, чтобы выжить.
El abuelo
2012 год. Миром правят богатые и красивые. Уродливые повстанцы борются против диктаторского режима. Банда странных террористов во главе с Рансоном, похищает с целью выкупа прямо со свадьбы Патрисию - дочь одного из богатейших людей планеты. Казалось, что цель преступников близка. Но количество претендующих на часть выкупа вдруг стало уменьшаться...
Впечатляющий дебют испанского режиссера Алекса Де Ла Иглесиа, впоследствии отметившегося такими фильмами, как «День зверя» (1995), «Идеальное преступление» (2004) и «Оксфордские убийства» (2008).
Guardia
After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.
Chato
Основанный на воспоминаниях Элеутерио Санчеса "Луте", молодого осужденного убийцы, ставшего легендарным в Испании благодаря побегу из тюрьмы в 1960-х годах.
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.
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
Camillero
Cerdito (as Paco Maestre)
A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.