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poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.7
/22431/
74
/458/
76
/386/
4.2
/52765/
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
/56920/
79
/1119/
79
/1056/
4.3
/171047/
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
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10515/
76
/307/
73
/241/
3.8
/22975/
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
/39839/
68
/1430/
68
/1014/
3.6
/148670/
96
/232/
78
/140/
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
The Roku Channel
78
7.4
/74981/
73
/1950/
72
/1317/
3.8
/86166/
93
/121/
89
/2319/
78
/31/

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
The Roku Channel
80
76
7.5
/12782/
77
/265/
73
/291/
3.9
/12747/
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
78
70
7.4
/6538/
71
/109/
72
/117/
3.7
/5208/
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
Netflix
75
68
7.2
/7792/
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
67
6.9
/7579/
72
/688/
70
/302/
3.4
/15041/
70
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
/2508/
82
/111/
81
/83/
4.0
/6248/
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
Kanopy
68
59
6.9
/5211/
69
/131/
67
/123/
3.5
/2913/
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
Netflix
69
56
6.8
/13807/
70
/882/
69
/732/
3.4
/21523/
72
/4/
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
64
56
6.8
/11008/
67
/216/
65
/199/
3.2
/4681/
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
70
55
7.5
/2300/
74
/124/
66
/66/
3.8
/3871/
59

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
/16347/
65
/263/
59
/218/
3.2
/2828/
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
69
52
6.6
/2301/
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
74
51
7.2
/2774/
77
/141/
66
/105/
3.7
/3178/
86
/11/

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
HBO Max Amazon Channel
54
49
6.3
/11142/
64
/208/
61
/189/
2.9
/4541/
49
/49/
40
/112/
cc age 17+

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
poster
The Roku Channel
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.
poster
65
44
6.0
/471/
69
/292/
65
/27/
3.4
/2234/

May I Speak with the Enemy? (2024)
Madrid, Spain, 1936. The young Miguel Gila lives happily with his grandparents in a humble attic; but the outbreak of the Civil War forces him to go to fight.
poster
fuboTV
70
43
6.7
/2522/
64
/35/
59
/37/
3.5
/984/
90
/10/
71
/13/

Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
poster
58
42
6.1
/3681/
62
/130/
62
/185/
3.2
/1184/
41
/22/

Painless (2012)
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
poster
63
41
6.5
/1679/
59
/28/
58
/40/
3.5
/2163/
65
/24/

Long Live Death (1971)
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
39
5.7
/5271/
64
/175/
50
/138/
2.8
/997/
13
/40/
54
/121/
33
/19/

There Be Dragons (2011)
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
poster
Kanopy
66
36
6.7
/1144/
65
/39/
61
/34/
3.3
/779/
73
/40/

Carol's Journey (2002)
Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
poster
60
34
6.6
/2129/
66
/28/
58
/27/
3.2
/1069/
50
/92/

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
poster
63
30
6.5
/920/
58
/14/
65
/20/
3.4
/916/
80
/5/
42
/7/

The Spanish Earth (1937)
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
poster
65
29
6.0
/225/
51
/6/
61
/16/
3.3
/657/
88
/8/

Endless Night (2019)
Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.
poster
65
28
6.7
/1805/
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
/455/
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
74
26
6.9
/862/
72
/34/
66
/34/
3.6
/757/
92
/5/

Paper Birds (2010)
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
poster
76
25
7.6
/294/
75
/5/
80
/14/
3.5
/340/
83
/32/

The Mexican Suitcase (2011)
The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City.
poster
62
22
6.5
/1570/
61
/19/
54
/26/
3.2
/561/
67
/8/

Confidential Agent (1945)
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
poster
64
21
6.7
/900/
66
/59/
58
/34/
3.4
/441/
67
/2/

The Chosen (2016)
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
19
5.6
/689/
54
/12/
55
/13/
3.2
/241/
57
/46/

Blockade (1938)
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
poster
59
18
5.6
/859/
65
/46/
53
/44/
3.1
/348/
62
/1/

The Mule (2013)
A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.
poster
68
17
7.1
/333/
71
/9/
60
/16/
3.6
/784/

El camino (1964)
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
poster
57
15
6.1
/613/
63
/29/
55
/23/
50
/6/

The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
poster
71
14
7.5
/342/
67
/8/
72
/11/
3.6
/608/

Life in Shadows (1949)
The creative and ambitious Carlos, a young Spanish film buff, manages to become a professional camera operator with time and effort, and is also blessed with the love of Ana, which he has longed for; but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 changes everything for both of them.
poster
74
13
7.5
/160/
80
/17/
67
/13/
3.7
/395/

Words for an End of the World (2020)
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.
poster
70
13
7.3
/281/
70
/11/
65
/10/
3.7
/548/

Songs for After a War (1976)
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
poster
77
12
8.0
/166/
78
/13/
77
/11/
3.7
/321/

Living the Utopia (1997)
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.
poster
53
12
5.8
/918/
55
/9/
48
/10/
3.2
/352/
36
/17/

The Angel Wore Red (1960)
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
poster
63
12
6.4
/388/
58
/6/
63
/13/
3.5
/368/

Days of Hope (1940)
Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…
poster
44
10
3.4
/711/
43
/8/
48
/15/
2.6
/397/

Raza (1942)
The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
poster
57
8
5.5
/143/
62
/31/
50
/10/
3.2
/299/

Ebre, del bressol a la batalla (2016)
In 1938 the Spanish Civil War has worn both armies and destroyed the mood of the people of both sides. The differences between national Republicans however are revealing: The fascist side has the unconditional support of arms and men facilitated by Hitler and Mussolini while the Republican army is ignored by a Europe more concerned of a possible World War than the fate of Spain. Thousands of young people between 17 and 18 rows are called by the republican army. These are the main characters, four young for whom the Battle of the Ebro will be the first direct contact with the war. This film tells the story of these young people forced to leave behind innocence and into whistling bullets.
poster
67
8
6.7
/148/
75
/5/
59
/11/
3.4
/226/

Red and Black (1942)
Since childhood, Luisa and Miguel have always been good friends; but several years later, as adults, when Spain faces the abyss of the Civil War (1936-1939), they support ideologically opposed camps.
poster
?
20
/1/

Exilio. El exilio republicano español (1939-1978) (2002)
N/A


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