Rosa Morata
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Department: Acting
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Change of Sex
Overview: A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Ice Cream
Overview: A short film about a mysterious ceremony, based on an essay by William S. Burroughs.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Pim, pam, pum, revolución
Overview: Short film dedicated to the "established order" (yet made clearly outside of it) and drawing from the protests of 1968 and the struggle for socialist revolution, it also challenges the Catholicism and nationalism of Franco's Spain. It depicts the breakdown of a relationship, as the woman leaves for Germany where the Marxist struggle needs her help, and the man mocks her revolutionary ideals.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Daphnis and Chloe
Overview: Daphnis and Chloe wander through a forest, intercut with shots of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and following no clear chronological trajectory, in a questioning of sexual roles and the permissible standards of Franco-era cinema.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Swedenborg
Overview: A tragedy that does not avoid irony while showing a couple in a romantically disastrous state.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Pigs
Overview: Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman. It shows a group of friends which make up a surreal symphony of people counting pigs and the actress Rosa Morata, dressed like a decadent cabaret performer, who unsuccessfully tries to escape from a runaway herd of men.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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What's for dinner, dear?
Overview: Short film that addresses family repression through the bond between a brother and a sister in which the stronger takes advantage of the weaker.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Rise, Fall, and Repose of Maria von Herzig
Overview: Spanish actress María de Montenegro marries a Nazi officer, von Herzig, in Berlin during World War II, and years later is forced to return to Barcelona. There she hopes to find what could be her last chance to regain her lost success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Lock-Out
Overview: An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde. Padrós employs a range of musical forms including opera, scores, and choreography to underscore a plot featuring a group of dropouts living in a junkyard who try to re-integrate with "The System" as represented by a party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Men of Fire
Overview: Short film by Antoni Padrós
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Shirley Temple Story
Overview: A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. On this trip she is accompanied by a group of characters who make reference to a fragmented, bipolar society. The film was begun as Franco was ill and completed after his death, and makes reference to the oppression of Spain during this period.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Playing Parents
Overview: Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount of money if she renunciates to the child. As it is very difficult to find the girl, they publish an advertisement in the press. Ana finally applies, as she has no job and lives far away from his family, so she accepts the deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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If They Tell You I Fell
Overview: In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-09-19
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Escenes d’una orgia a Formentera
Overview: Having gained success and artistic acknowledgement for his performances on the stage, Joan Barnat has now definitively abandoned the theatre to work exclusively for television. But a turn of events causes him to lose control of his mind and he becomes obsessed with leaving his work to seek out a past love from the 70’s in the island of Formentera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Journey to the Beyond
Overview: This movie is the first of a trilogy that Sebastián D'Arbó, a specialist in parapsychology, filmed on occult topics. The second film is El ser (1982) and the last one Más allá de la muerte (1986).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-12-31
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Es pecado... pero me gusta
Overview: Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the approval of a new medicine of doubtful effectiveness called Fagatín, whose patent Fabrizzio owns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-23
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¡En qué lío me han metido!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Objetivo: sexo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-01-26
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Una prima en la bañera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Spanish Fury
Overview: Season 1973-1974. After fourteen years of drought, the FC Barcelona of Johan Cruyff is making a spectacular campaign. Sebastián, a great fan of soccer, decides then to join a Barça's supporters club. There he will meet the daughter of his friend Amadeo, an attractive young woman who will not stop until Sebastián agrees to marry her. The couple will celebrate their wedding on the same day that Barça and Madrid compete for the League.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-07-13
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The Victor of Olot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1981-03-09
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Letters from Alou
Overview: A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters he writes to his family to tell the vicissitudes of his Spanish adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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