Movies: Amparo Rivelles

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his ...

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards....

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage....

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals....

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)...

La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love....

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed....

In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city....

In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week....

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension....

A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him....

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ......

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences....

Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her....

Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the i...

Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas....

Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children....

Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children....

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values....

Eugenia de Montijo, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, educated and intelligent daughter of the Count of Montijo, decides to start a European tour when she discovers that the Duke of Alba, whom she believed her suitor, actually intends for her siste...