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88
8.2
/738412/
80
/17991/
77
/11137/
4.2
/893350/
95
/239/
91
/62198/
98
/37/
cc age 15+

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.7
/22279/
74
/451/
76
/381/
4.2
/50677/
93
/29/
89
/500/
87
/4/

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/56514/
79
/1077/
79
/1039/
4.3
/164883/
100
/30/
91
/543/
82
/14/

Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/11568/
79
/261/
74
/196/
4.0
/27530/
100
/13/
89
/128/

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10453/
76
/302/
74
/238/
3.8
/22072/
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.
poster
Starz
78
7.1
/39583/
68
/1411/
68
/1003/
3.6
/146088/
96
/232/
78
/142/
88
/46/
cc age 15+

Parallel Mothers (2021)
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.
poster
78
7.6
/20746/
76
/315/
73
/258/
3.8
/15864/
82
/28/
93
/581/

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
poster
78
7.4
/74602/
73
/1921/
72
/1304/
3.8
/83666/
93
/120/
89
/2318/
78
/30/

The Devil's Backbone (2001)
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.
poster
77
7.2
/2685/
65
/19/
64
/44/
3.7
/2221/
87
/15/
79
/12/

The War Is Over (1966)
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
poster
77
7.1
/12034/
70
/257/
66
/197/
3.6
/9209/
95
/21/
78
/191/

Belle Époque (1992)
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.5
/2645/
68
/60/
70
/66/
3.7
/4046/
86
/7/
85
/6/

The Hunt (1966)
Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
75
7.5
/12721/
77
/262/
73
/289/
3.9
/12152/
79
/14/
94
/261/

Land and Freedom (1995)
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
7.0
/24887/
68
/568/
67
/329/
3.7
/54708/
82
/45/
77
/839/
69
/16/
cc age 16+

Slacker (1991)
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
poster
71
7.0
/30208/
72
/580/
70
/494/
3.7
/34127/
65
/37/
81
/1197/
61
/11/
cc age 13+

The Way We Were (1973)
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
poster
79
70
7.4
/6525/
72
/108/
72
/117/
3.7
/5024/
100
/10/
82
/151/

Forgotten Silver (1997)
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
poster
73
70
6.7
/8201/
68
/474/
69
/315/
3.5
/7954/
95
/19/
72
/26/

Shrew's Nest (2014)
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
poster
76
69
7.6
/11038/
72
/143/
68
/121/
3.8
/6989/
81
/21/
84
/230/

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
poster
69
7.4
/6232/
74
/165/
75
/130/
3.8
/27518/
59
/17/
76
/47/

Four Days in September (1997)
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
poster
Netflix
75
68
7.2
/7739/
73
/504/
68
/255/
3.7
/9758/
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
Kanopy
67
6.5
/474/
61
/5/
61
/15/
3.5
/330/
69
/86/

The Tree of Guernica (1975)
The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.
poster
Kanopy
68
67
6.5
/15839/
66
/499/
67
/429/
3.4
/13942/
76
/34/
64
/320/
70
/14/

The Last Circus (2010)
A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
poster
Kanopy
67
7.0
/43923/
71
/1542/
68
/978/
3.5
/15783/
68
/80/
69
/194/
58
/15/
cc age 16+

The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
poster
Netflix
72
66
6.8
/13678/
70
/871/
70
/729/
3.4
/20007/
86
/7/
74
/16/
cc age 17+

The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
poster
66
6.9
/7500/
72
/675/
71
/300/
3.4
/14398/
64
/22/
67
55
/4/

While at War (2019)
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
poster
Kanopy
83
61
8.0
/2500/
81
/110/
81
/82/
4.0
/6086/
100
/25/
86
/5/
73
/6/

The Silence of Others (2019)
The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.
poster
The Roku Channel
61
6.3
/4373/
66
/51/
59
/51/
3.0
/1890/
60
/35/
59
/79/
cc age 13+

Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
poster
70
60
7.1
/4059/
69
/77/
64
/64/
3.7
/2073/
60
/5/
85
/44/

Cows (1992)
A film set in the Spanish side of the Basque Country, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
59
7.2
/1840/
75
/46/
72
/32/
3.8
/4191/
100
/18/
74
/38/

Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.
poster
70
59
7.1
/3542/
66
/105/
66
/84/
3.7
/4532/
73
/628/

Ay, Carmela! (1990)
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. Will the fiery and patriotic Carmela consent?
poster
Kanopy
68
59
6.9
/5202/
69
/129/
67
/121/
3.5
/2735/
65
/47/

Black Bread (2010)
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
58
7.4
/2308/
73
/119/
75
/121/
3.9
/8700/
100
/11/
87
/2/
77
/5/

Josep (2020)
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
poster
67
58
6.7
/4680/
67
/110/
64
/109/
3.5
/2949/
68
/949/

The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
poster
Netflix
57
6.4
/15365/
67
/905/
66
/385/
2.9
/8430/
30
/150/
55
/89/
45
/22/
cc age 13+

Red Joan (2018)
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
poster
64
56
6.8
/10944/
67
/215/
65
/199/
3.2
/4319/
64
/14/
58
/13/
68
/10/

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
poster
Netflix
64
55
5.8
/6280/
60
/646/
62
/316/
2.7
/8508/
90
/16/
cc age 16+

Valley of the Dead (2020)
During the Spanish Civil War, sworn enemies must work together when they encounter flesh-eating zombies created in a Nazi experiment.
poster
55
6.1
/1050/
59
/14/
52
/18/
29
/7/
58
/13/

Death in Granada (1996)
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
55
6.1
/6406/
65
/102/
59
/96/
3.0
/2880/
75
/8/
50
/72/
62
/7/

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
poster
70
55
7.5
/2282/
74
/120/
66
/65/
3.8
/3584/
59
/58/

The Heifer (1985)
During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.
poster
55
6.5
/16294/
65
/263/
59
/217/
3.2
/2686/
18
/90/
61
/265/
40
/27/
cc age 18+

Head in the Clouds (2004)
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
poster
Hoopla
54
6.3
/9958/
66
/186/
59
/129/
3.0
/7830/
25
/69/
49
/653/
41
/20/
cc age 17+

Little Ashes (2008)
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
poster
75
51
7.1
/2150/
71
/30/
66
/29/
3.5
/561/
100
/8/
81
/27/
70
/4/

The City of No Limits (2002)
Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. Victor is desperately asked for help by Max. What seems in the beginning mere delusions of an old man losing his mind, begin to show traces of some sort of real 'secret' that is troubling Max's last days. Victor decide to help his father to find that he is searching for.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
55
51
6.3
/11098/
64
/206/
61
/187/
2.9
/4382/
49
/49/
40
/112/
cc age 17+

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
poster
76
50
7.2
/986/
70
/44/
68
/30/
3.6
/2099/
100
/94/

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
74
50
7.2
/2764/
77
/138/
67
/104/
3.6
/2904/
86
/10/

The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
poster
Netflix
61
49
6.4
/3629/
63
/209/
64
/155/
3.1
/3512/
55
/11/
59
/10/
cc age 17+

The Tree of Blood (2018)
Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
poster
Hoopla
70
48
6.6
/1329/
60
/95/
74
/69/
3.5
/1764/
90
/10/
63
/9/

All the Moons (2020)
During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
47
7.3
/1344/
63
/20/
62
/35/
3.8
/1394/
93
/53/

Cousin Angelica (1974)
When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.
poster
62
47
6.4
/2368/
66
/103/
65
/66/
3.4
/1914/
48
/40/

The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…


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