The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door 2024

7.19

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

2024

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In 2011

7.51

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

2011

Wild Tales

Wild Tales 2014

7.87

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

2014

Volver

Volver 2006

7.47

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

2006

All About My Mother

All About My Mother 1999

7.60

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

1999

Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers 2021

6.83

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

2021

Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory 2019

7.39

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

2019

The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone 2001

7.29

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

2001

High Heels

High Heels 1991

7.10

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...

1991

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988

7.41

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

1988

Bad Education

Bad Education 2004

7.40

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

2004

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1990

6.88

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

1990

Talk to Her

Talk to Her 2002

7.59

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

2002

Live Flesh

Live Flesh 1997

7.00

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

1997

Kika

Kika 1993

6.50

When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the young man, then falls in love with him. Forces conspire against the couple, though, as Nicholas wants Kika for himself.

1993

Law of Desire

Law of Desire 1987

7.19

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

1987

Julieta

Julieta 2016

6.99

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

2016

The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words 2005

7.00

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

2005

My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me 2003

6.00

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

2003

The Flower of My Secret

The Flower of My Secret 1995

6.80

Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.

1995