A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Following the random path of a lighter that is being lost by their owners occasionally in different parts of the world, this story is built with the common stories of relationships, the "amour fou" and the surprising appearance of main characters of unusual stories and fitted with a sincerity not always timely.
In a Spanish city three young married couples celebrate the failed coupe d'etat of Feb 23rd 1981. They have gone through a lot in life. The country is changing and things will not be the same anymore. Their steps will take them through different walks of life.
Ana, a young Spanish woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and her brother Tono, receive a call from their father to tell him that he is getting married in Mexico to a woman he met on the Internet. When they get there, they discover that the girl is 30 years younger than her father and they begin to live with her new in-laws, with the inevitable cultural clashes that this will entail.
Vulcania is a small, isolated community ruled by an enigmatic leader where nothing is quite as it seems.
On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for freedom and for Mexico.
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing.
Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.
After the failure of her marriage, Iris goes back to her hometown during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), where she becomes a war photographer.
The story of Maria Montez, an exotic and glamorous Dominican actress who achieved fame and popularity in Hollywood and Europe until her untimely death in 1951.
A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.
Mario is torn between the commitment to do what he wants and the impulse to do what is most comfortable for him.
Icíar and Fernando are young. They are both going through the most traumatic experience of their short lives: the loss of a parent. But Fernando and Icíar can neither share the pain nor the strategies for dealing with it. They live in different times. Fernando in 1977 in Bilbao faces the kidnapping of his father by ETA. Icíar in 2011 in Navarra faces her mother's fulminating cancer.
A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
During a hunting day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving abroad, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.
Cristina is a 35-year-old woman who has life figured out: she has a job she loves and a beautiful house. However, her life begins to change when she starts feeling attracted to one of her clients.
A large, multinational company is badly shaken when three of its employees commit suicide. Sofía Cuevas, one of the company’s top executives, is chosen to prepare an in-house report to try and shed some light on the events.
A grandfather, a veteran communist militant, runs away on his birthday with his granddaughter Adriana.
"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack nowadays, and therefore the result could have been more than acceptable.
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Palencia, Spain, late 1990s. While Gema and Toribio, who live in their own cloud of precarious happiness, always smile stupidly as if they have to apologize for something they have not actually done, their little son Martín suffers, every day at school, an unbearable ordeal, tragic but also comical, that they, a peer of daydreaming simpletons, are unaware of.
Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.
A ruined businessman who lives as a homeless, struggles to recover the love of his daughter, whom he abandoned as a child and who is now almost a woman. He along with a peculiar group of vagabonds will become her guardian angels.
Madrid, Spain. A mysterious serial killer murders art collectors and uses their bodies to reproduce scenes from Los Caprichos, a famous series of drawings by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya.
Humberto, a seductive con artist, lives a quiet life in Madrid after having done his time for a big job that cost him his relationship with his son Jorge, who reaches out to him for help when the jewellery where he works is robbed.
The failed coup d'état of February 23, 1981, which began with the capture of the Congress of Deputies and ended with the release of parliamentarians, put at serious risk the Spanish democracy.
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
Silvia decides to commit suicide and leaves a video note saying that she wishes to donate her organs and save the lives of a few strangers.
A mother tells her fellow Alcoholics Anonymous members how her life has been, how she became an alcoholic.
Toni Lomas, a successful talent show performer, is broke and reunites with his past love, Malena, to steal a valuable painting. He forms a team with Mari and Gallego, a sharp satire of the country's picaresque society.
