Movies: José Luis García Sánchez

  • 1992
    Belle Époque

    Belle Époque (1992)

    Belle Époque

    6.61992HD

    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...

    Belle Époque
  • 1975
    Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love

    Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love (1975)

    Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love

    4.41975HD

    Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tel...

    Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
  • 1985
    The Court of the Pharaoh

    The Court of the Pharaoh (1985)

    The Court of the Pharaoh

    5.61985HD

    In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who suppor...

    The Court of the Pharaoh
  • 1989
    Going Down in Morocco

    Going Down in Morocco (1989)

    Going Down in Morocco

    5.61989HD

    A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who ...

    Going Down in Morocco
  • 1987
    Divine Words

    Divine Words (1987)

    Divine Words

    5.41987HD

    A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....

    Divine Words
  • 1995
    Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

    Suspiros de España (y Portugal) (1995)

    Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

    5.31995HD

    After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to clai...

    Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
  • 1991
    El día que nací yo

    El día que nací yo (1991)

    El día que nací yo

    4.31991HD

    A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job....

    El día que nací yo
  • 1976
    Songs for After a War

    Songs for After a War (1976)

    Songs for After a War

    6.51976HD

    A particular reading of the forties and fifties in Spain, the hard years of famine and repression after the massacre of the Civil War, through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels....

    Songs for After a War
  • 1964
    Anabel

    Anabel (1964)

    Anabel

    61964HD

    Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother....

    Anabel
  • 2004
    With Good Reason

    With Good Reason (2004)

    With Good Reason

    3.72004HD

    A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media....

    With Good Reason
  • 2023
    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

    6.42023HD

    A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances....

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
  • 2001
    Lázaro de Tormes

    Lázaro de Tormes (2001)

    Lázaro de Tormes

    5.22001HD

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    Lázaro de Tormes
  • 1995
    The Seducer

    The Seducer (1995)

    The Seducer

    4.71995HD

    Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay h...

    The Seducer
  • 2009
    Por la gracia de Luis

    Por la gracia de Luis (2009)

    Por la gracia de Luis

    52009HD

    A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their chara...

    Por la gracia de Luis
  • 2000
    Goodbye from the Heart

    Goodbye from the Heart (2000)

    Goodbye from the Heart

    5.32000HD

    Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive....

    Goodbye from the Heart
  • 1993
    Banderas, the Tyrant

    Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)

    Banderas, the Tyrant

    5.11993HD

    In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally....

    Banderas, the Tyrant
  • 1988
    Pasodoble

    Pasodoble (1988)

    Pasodoble

    4.91988HD

    A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the sq...

    Pasodoble
  • 2015
    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015)

    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

    32015HD

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    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
  • 1973
    Speak, Silent One

    Speak, Silent One (1973)

    Speak, Silent One

    5.21973HD

    Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ......

    Speak, Silent One
  • 1991
    The Longest Night

    The Longest Night (1991)

    The Longest Night

    6.81991HD

    Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists....

    The Longest Night