Asunción Balaguer

Магия любовных переживаний царит в Барселоне не только в знойные летние ночи, но и в волшебную зимнюю пору. Семейные пары и одинокие сердца, юные романтики и почтенные сеньоры, загадочные красотки и парни «что надо» в разгар рождественских торжеств переживают радость и горечь любви, теряют и обретают свое счастье. Их истории складываются в картину увлекательной жизни прекрасного города, который в Рождественскую ночь живет в ожидании чуда...

Luisa’s washing machine has stopped working. After the initial misfortune this will represent, it will actually become her perfect alibi to slip away from her slow daily routine. To her husband, the absence of the washing machine will become a greater absence, Luisa is not home anymore dutifully fulfilling her housewife’s chores.

All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn't seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you must enjoy yourself, because Santa Claus is coming, because children are there. Tonight, the secrets are whispered and lies are floating in the air. But who cares about another small lie, it will be the last one. Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow we will tell her everything. So, grandma, Merry Christmas.

The spanish Javier Villanueva is imprisoned with the false accusation of murder of a prosecutor in Bolivia. His father fight to uncover a plot designed to protect the real culprits.

A young couple visits a widow named Amparo on Christmas Eve to possibly buy her floor. But Amparo seems more interested in their lives than a flat sale.

In the window of the house, where some say the sweetness dwells, is reflected, every night, a delicious story.

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.

We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?

Эмилио, стеснительный парниша всегда любил Наталию, самую красивую и умную девочку в классе. В последний день учебы он наконец решается ей признаться в любви, но Наталии вручают в виде приза учебу на медицинском факультете в Оксфорде. Казалось бы у Эмилио теперь нет никаких шансов с ней, но ему готовы помочь друзья. Они подделывают документы и дипломы и поступают в Оксфорд. Эти безмозглые придурки взбаламутят воду в этом спокойном местечке Англии.

Blanca confesses to her aunt Barbara she met the man of her live and he disappeared. By chance in a charming old couples house for sale, they find his picture. It's their son and he's dead. Mad Blanca and Barbara began a crazy investigation in a city underconstruction. An insecure actress, a secretery with ESP and a husband who's fed up with all the madness, will help them unravel these knot marked by humor and intrigue.

Small-scale hustler Marc is stretched to the limit when a drug deal goes wrong and runs him afoul of the mob, which only exacerbates his existing problems with his wife, his daughter and his elderly father, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. As Marc scrambles to save his own skin, he tries his best to repair his fractured relationships. Will it be too late?

Супружеская пара с маленьким ребенком переезжает в старый дом. Жизнь идет спокойно и размеренно, но со временем молодым родителям начинает казаться, что кто-то следит за ними и их домом с намерением похитить малыша. Эта мысль доводит их до стресса. Под угрозой их работа и семейное благополучие, и если не предпринять решительных мер, то может случиться непоправимое.

Филиппо — ведущий рубрики о животном мире на местной телевизионной станции. Однажды, по роду службы, он вместе с оператором отправляется на Канарские острова, чтобы сделать увлекательный репортаж об аномальных миграциях аистов. И там происходит нечто совершенно невероятное. Проснувшись утром, Филиппо обнаруживает, что наступивший день — опять 13 августа, который был уже вчера. НО самое удивительное — это загадочное явление продолжает повторяться, заставляя его переживать один и тот же день снова и снова…

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.

Свадьба известного писателя и дочери крупного издателя проходит не так гладко, как планировалось.

Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.

A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.

The story of a family of bull fighters.

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".

A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be related to an old book enacting a new religion.

Ради быстрого заработка безработный актер устраивается в «Секс по телефону». Однажды он получает звонок от загадочной жены одного из своих лучших клиентов…

Film centred around a mother, Françoise, who is HIV positive and her young daughter Ana.

Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her life, Carmen finds that men around her are interested in offering her more than a shoulder to mourn. The unexpected pregnancy of his daughter, putting even more pressure on Carmen. She brings her daughter back and to look after the baby together. This becomes one more element to overcome in their efforts to organize themselves.

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.

Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.

This drama concerns a seven-year-old boy, Pepe Luis (Lucas Martin, as the younger Pepe and Paco Rabal Cerezales as Pepe at ten) who lives through the rise of Franco and the ensuing years under the fascist dictator. Presented from the perspective of the young Pepe, the Civil War and Franco are irrelevant to his own concerns: daydreaming about a pretty girl he likes, fighting with other boys, helping the priest at a funeral service, and similar activities. Pepe lives with his uncle and grandparents, and whether he is aware of it or not, the war impinges on their lives in several ways. The title of the film derives from little Pepe's contention that God is not responsible for the war, just some "bastard brother" of the Creator.

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.

When a group of gangsters sets out to retrieve a stolen gem, they run into some of the fiercest and most bloodthirsty minions hell has to throw at them, including demons, zombies and witches, all intent on stopping them by any means possible.

La otra imagen is a 1973 Spanish film directed by Antoni Ribas. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on his friend Andrés, the husband of his beloved María Rosa. After being imprisoned Andrés, Marsal becomes the protector of María Rosa while waiting for the development of events.

A sharp, sly portrait of small-town life dominated by a conservative church seeking to police community morals.

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student.