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79
7.6
/10527/
76
/309/
73
/241/
3.8
/23157/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
75
68
7.2
/7806/
73
/509/
68
/258/
3.7
/10095/
88
/25/
82
/13/
73
/4/
cc age 16+

The Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
poster
69
52
6.6
/2302/
71
/124/
65
/93/
3.5
/3443/
77
/27/

The 13 Roses (2007)
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
poster
70
50
7.1
/3563/
66
/106/
66
/85/
3.7
/5285/
74
/12/

Ay, Carmela! (1990)
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
68
49
6.7
/2357/
61
/27/
60
/31/
3.2
/1413/
100
/7/
60
/30/

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
49
5.8
/10083/
61
/196/
56
/193/
3.0
/5515/
45
/20/
38
/115/

The Osterman Weekend (1983)
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
poster
55
46
5.9
/3001/
57
/101/
57
/59/
2.9
/3987/
67
/6/
35
/35/

Invisible Agent (1942)
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
70
46
6.9
/2317/
67
/62/
63
/63/
3.6
/1982/
83
/17/

Freedomfighters (1996)
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
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39
6.7
/2501/
67
/201/
65
/52/
2.7
/1296/
75
/2/

The Royal Nanny (2022)
Claire is an MI5 agent who goes undercover as the royal nanny. She must overcome the challenges of her assignment, like resisting the charms of Prince Colin, while keeping the family safe at Christmas.
poster
76
32
7.2
/997/
70
/45/
67
/31/
3.6
/2343/
100
/1/

Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)
In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.
poster
65
31
6.4
/287/
61
/93/
67
/17/
3.4
/2607/

The Good Manners (2025)
In a Valencian village, during the postwar period, Ana tries to get ahead with her family; the civil war has opened a deep wound in all of them, especially in her brother-in-law, Antonio. Ana tries to heal that wound with stews, secrets and silences, but when Isabel, newly married to Antonio, comes to the family, Ana’s attention and care will be worth little or nothing: the sacrifice does not always have its reward.
poster
56
31
6.0
/1658/
59
/34/
57
/24/
2.9
/1229/
60
/5/
46
/10/

Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
poster
59
29
6.2
/1592/
55
/21/
68
/26/
3.2
/1329/
48
/14/

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
poster
65
28
6.7
/1807/
67
/38/
63
/23/
3.4
/804/
62
/14/

Soldiers of Salamina (2003)
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
poster
73
27
8.0
/456/
73
/8/
75
/15/
3.7
/538/
67
/75/

To Die in Madrid (1963)
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades, are some of the items comprised in this document.
poster
60
20
6.4
/1299/
62
/23/
58
/25/
3.1
/583/
59
/7/

The Iron Curtain (1948)
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
poster
57
18
6.3
/991/
58
/18/
59
/18/
3.3
/746/
43
/6/

Shack Out on 101 (1955)
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.
poster
?
6.9
/37/

Over the Sky of Azerbaijan (2013)
During the Spanish Civil War, more than 500 young Spanish pilots went through the Russian Aviation School in Kirovabad, former capital of the current Republic of Azerbaijan. Once the Spanish war was over, some of them remained in Soviet territory and continued their fight against Fascism on the side of the Russian army.
?
7.1
/63/
48
/2/

Spain in Two Trenches (2016)
The extraordinary and moving story of the convulsive years of the Spanish Civil War (1935-1939) is explained as never seen before. Thanks to the latest digital techniques, this first-of-its-kind production in Spain has restored and colored over 150,000 spectacular frames and sequences in order to depict the great tragedy to take place in Spain. It was three years of fighting, destruction and death, which transformed the country forever and led up to the Second World War.
poster
?
70
/1/

Almas sin fronteras: La historia de la Brigada Abraham Lincoln (2006)
N/A
poster
?
3.4
/8/

Torchy Turns Turtle (1933)
One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
poster
?
7.7
/54/
57
/3/

No Pasaran, Souvenir Album (2003)
As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Twenty years later, he went in search of the missing cards.
poster
79
?
7.5
/22/
83
/13/

Las cartas perdidas (2022)
N/A
poster
?
8.1
/13/
75
/2/

Los Canadienses (1976)
This feature documentary profiles the brave Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. To save Spain's constitutionally elected government from the threat of a fascist dictatorship (which eventually prevailed), over 40,000 volunteers from around the world fought in Spain, and 1200 of those were the Canadians of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion. More than half of them never returned. This respectful, emotional and historically rich film is committed to the memory of those who truly believed in the cause of the Spanish Republic.
poster
?
6.0
/63/
10
/1/
70
/2/

Mission to Venice (1964)
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
poster
66
?
6.5
/114/
60
/1/
73
/2/

Stanbrook (2020)
Spain, March 1939. The war is dying down. At the Port of Alicante thousands of people are piling, waiting for the arrival of ships that will carry them to exile. Moored, the freighter Stanbrook is witnessing the desperation.
poster
?
6.4
/30/
60
/1/

Radio Dolores (2017)
The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.
poster
?
2.6
/96/
17
/4/
35
/2/

Komisarz Blond i oko sprawiedliwości (2012)
The film tells about the life of Warsaw Commissioner John Blonda.
poster
53
?
5.5
/357/
60
/1/
57
/3/
43
/1/

Sweet Adeline (1934)
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
poster
?
7.2
/53/
45
/2/
77
/5/

Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista (2000)
Filmed between February and March 1999 in La Cupula (Girona), the rehearsal place of the Spanish independent theater company Els Joglars, this documentary reveals the creative process of this company in its project to represent the life of the mythical anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti, as well as the circumstances of his death.
?
7.5
/88/
80
/3/
92
/4/
93
/14/
70
/4/

Castro's Spies (2020)
The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From their recruitment, training and eventual capture on US soil; this film peers into a secret world of false identities, love affairs and betrayal. Using never seen before footage from the Cuban Film Institute’s archive and first-hand testimony from the people at the heart of this story, Castro’s Spies gives a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of a spy – where the stakes are life and death.
57
?
6.1
/413/
50
/3/
62
/5/

Rough Shoot (1953)
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
poster
64
?
6.2
/488/
68
/5/
63
/8/

Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
poster
?
7.6
/66/
72
/7/
67
/5/

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-day Spies (2012)
The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it and the generals who led it. But that epic event in world history has never been told before through the perspective of the strange handful of spies who made it possible. D-Day was a great victory of arms, a tactical coup, and a moral crusade. But it was also a triumph for espionage, deceit, and thinking of the most twisted sort. Following on from his hugely successful BBC Two documentaries, Operation Mincemeat and Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story (Agent Zigzag), writer and presenter Ben Macintyre returns to the small screen to bring to life his third best-selling book - Double Cross The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Macintyre reveals the gripping true story of five of the double agents who helped to make D-day such a success.
poster
58
?
6.1
/580/
50
/3/
63
/13/

They Met in the Dark (1943)
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
poster
59
?
6.5
/547/
44
/7/
69
/12/

Ring of Spies (1964)
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
poster
?
6.9
/68/
65
/4/

El perro negro (2006)
Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented their lives as their homeland is besieged by labor unrest, the collapse of the monarchy, the rise of anarchism, and ultimately the Spanish Civil War.
poster
?
4.6
/45/
30
/2/

Career (1955)
Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
poster
?
6.7
/56/
57
/4/

Memorias del general Escobar (1984)
After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.
poster
?
8.1
/70/
68
/5/

A War in Hollywood (2009)
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
poster
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Todos los nombres. La represión franquista en Valladolid (2009)
The Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Valladolid develops the project "All the names", which has as one of its main objectives the location and recovery of the bodies of all those Valladolid citizens murdered by Franco's repression.
poster
?

Cicatrices de piedra. La Guerra Civil en Aragón (2006)
The story is set in six key scenarios of the conflict in the region: Bielsa, Barbastro, Belchite, Caspe, Teruel and Alcañiz. On this tour we find abundant remains of the war in the landscape and numerous testimonies that narrate this journey through our history.
poster
?

El último brigadista: La historia de Josep Almudéver (2019)
Documentary about the life of Josep Almudéver, born in Marseille (France) and raised in Alcàsser (Valencia), he is one of the international brigade members who participated in the Spanish Civil War on behalf of the Republican side, and the only one still alive today.
poster
?

Tres días de julio (2016)
"Tres días de julio" shows what happened in the city of Cádiz in the hours prior to the coup d'état of July 18, 1936, as well as what happened until the moment the Cadiz capital succumbs to the rebels on the morning of Sunday the 19th. The documentary features the participation of historians, relatives of victims of reprisals, and even some direct testimonies of people who lived those tragic days in their youth. The city and province of Cádiz are described as a fundamental piece in the coup because, when it failed in the main cities of the country, they began to play a fundamental role in the strategy followed by the rebels in the immediate Civil War.


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