Joan Minguell

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.

A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain uncovers a terrorist cell.

В одной вполне благополучной семье вдруг, ни с того ни с сего, покончил с собой глава семьи. Молодая девушка, шокированная произошедшим, начинает вести расследование и пытается восстановить последние дни жизни своего отца. Перед ней открывается новая, совершенно неизвестная часть его жизни — правда, способная свести с ума нормального человека. Несчастная оказалась в ловушке, выхода из которой нет…

Выброшенные на берег небольшого острова ужасным штормом Пауль и Барбара нашли прибежище в заброшенной рыбацкой деревушке. Когда Барбара неожиданно исчезает среди уродливых и отталкивающих местных жителей, Паулю приходится столкнуться с пугающей действительностью одинокого городка. Пауль решается на жуткое расследование исчезновения Барбары в одиночку среди полного бездействия страшных обитателей деревушки. Но то, что обнаруживает Пауль в результате поисков вселяет страх и ужас и грозит опасностью всему миру.

Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.

Между главным героем, человеком с мягким характером, и Нормой Валенти большие социальные и культурные различия. Несмотря на это, они женаты уже пять лет. Но однажды муж застаёт Норму с любовником, после чего расстаётся с ней. Это не значит, что он разлюбил Норму, напротив — он продолжает её любить и хочет снова быть с ней. Для этого ему приходится стать совсем другим человеком…

In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.

While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his mistress, Judge. Both cases will cross.

In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic of religion and sex. This causes the people to divide into two camps, those who favor and those against the "Congress", until finally after a series of negotiations between both sides, we arrive at consensus. A large mosaic of characters carry the story to end happily, through critical situations with the conservative church.

Луис Форест, в прошлом известный писатель и политик, после падения режима Франко уединился в своем имении для работы над мемуарами. Неожиданно в тихом уголке появляется его взбалмошная племянница Мариана, под предлогом интервью для журнала навестившая дядюшку. Ее визит вызывает в Луисе массу воспоминаний, ведь когда-то он был влюблен в мать девушки, хотя вынужден был жениться на ее сестре. Тем временем, независимая и свободная во взглядах Мариана начинает поглядывать на своего дядю с интересом, выходящим за рамки профессиональных и, тем более, родственных чувств.

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert’s mother is being even naughtier than her precious boy, sneaking off for some extra-marital action while her hair-obsessed husband is at the salon, having his follicles tended to.

A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not everything is sex, there are also cinematographic digressions, chocolate and churros, and good humor.

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.

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.

Lázaro and Sabino, employees of a large furniture store, fall in love with Laura, a new young and naive employee, who accepts their love. The trio lives a happy engagement. In the big store is planned a sensational advertising campaign with the bed "Eternal happiness," to be launched on New Year's Day. Lázaro and Sabino have to give the last touches on New Year's Eve. When they leave, they enter the exhibition truck and lie down on the bed. When they wake up in the morning, they are surrounded by a crowd and a scandal is organized.

In the Canary Islands there is a love story between a young and attractive woman, dissatisfied in her marriage to a man older than her, and a handsome sculptor of her age who lives in a bohemian way.

Julian is a womanizer who has affairs with several girls at once. To escape the clutches of a cuckolded husband, he is forced to dress as a woman and join a women's professional football team, posing as a famous athlete in Argentina. This is the beginning of a series of deranged adventures.

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?

At the end of the Civil War, Aleck Kellaway, a fighter for the South, is tricked by the brothers Clegg and Elliot into helping them to carry out the robbery of a gold cargo belonging to the Northern Army.

A young police officer fresh out of the academy, sees casually as a man is beaten and forcibly put into a car in the car park at Barajas airport. The rookie cop tracks them down and discovers a band dedicated to trafficking in women in Spain.