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Feb 13, 2023 · In The Beasts, the movie directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the protagonists are Antoine and Olga, a French couple living in a small village in Galicia, threatened by their neighbors. The movie is inspired by the true story of Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool, a Dutch couple who moved from the Netherlands to the little Spanish village of Santoalla ...
- Welcome, Mr Marshall! (1953) Dir. Luis García Berlanga
- The Executioner (1963) Dir. Luis García Berlanga
- The Spirit of The Beehive (1973) Dir. Víctor Erice
- Law of Desire (1987) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Land and Freedom (1995) Dir. Ken Loach
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Dir. John Woo
- Sexy Beast (2000) Dir. Jonathan Glazer
- Sex and Lucia (2001) Dir. Julio Medem
- Morvern Callar (2002) Dir. Lynne Ramsay
- Talk to Her (2002) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Language: Spanish Run time: 95m N/A Rotten Tomatoes Though modern, 21st-century films are unsurprisingly more popular and wanderlust-inspiring to most viewers, I like to offer a few recommendations for the classic film fan. So my the first film on my list of incredible films set in Spain is Welcome, Mr Marshall! The political climate pre-1908s in S...
Language: Spanish Run time: 90m N/A Rotten Tomatoes Ten years after Welcome, Mr Marshall!, Luis García Berlanga directed another masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this time filming in Madrid as well as the Balearic Island of Mallorca. José Luis Rodríguez is an undertaker whose father-in-law is an executioner. When he retires, José reluctantly takes ov...
Language: Spanish Run time: 97m 96% Rotten Tomatoes Are you getting bored of me calling every movie on this list of films set in Spain a masterpiece? Well, I hope the word hasn’t lost its substance because I really mean it this time. Promise. The Spirit of the Beehive appears on ‘The Best of World Cinema’ lists on the reg’. I’m also going to sound ...
Language: Spanish Run time: 102m 100% Rotten Tomatoes It didn’t take us long to reach our first film set in Spain directed by the one, the only, Pedro Almodóvar. A punk rocker, a maverick, an uncaged, vivacious, homosexual Madrileño with big hair and big themes. He is mi amorand my favourite filmmaker of all time. Almodóvar came of age in precisely...
Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan Run time: 109m 77% Rotten Tomatoes Our first English language film set in Spain! And it’s directed by none other than that British barrel-of-laughs, Ken Loach. His film, Land and Freedom, may seem like a jump from his usual downbeat commentary on UK social issues since it’s set in Catalonia, but it’s not much of...
Language: English Run time: 123m 57% Rotten Tomatoes So, I’m cheating a *little* bit with this movie, as so little is actually shot in Spain. But I needed a few more popular movies to flesh out the most obscure Spanish ones, so here we are. Also, Mission: Impossible 2 is categorically not a good movie, so this isn’t a recommendation as much as it i...
Language: English Run time: 88m 86% Rotten Tomatoes Is there a character so utterly detestable than an Englishman with too much money retiring to a villa in Spain to live out the rest of his days frying himself under the Mediterannean sun like a greasy sausage, barking orders at his poor, local staff? No? Usually, I’d agree with you. But Ray Winsto...
Languages: Spanish, English Run time: 128m 71% Rotten Tomatoes Another film based on one of Spain’s Balearic Islands, Sex and Lucía is set in the rugged terrain and remote white villages of Formentera, the smallest of the islands. The film is told like a dream, flitting back and forth in the lives and loves of Lucía and Lorenzowho is an author stru...
Language: English Run time: 97m 84% Rotten Tomatoes Finally, a female director on my list of films set in Spain! Lynne Ramsay is one of the best British directors working at the moment and the gripping Morvern Callar was her second feature film. The titular young woman is living in Oban, Scotland and awakes to find her boyfriend has killed himself....
Language: Spanish Run time: 112m 92% Rotten Tomatoes Are you ready for back to back Almodóvar recommendations? I’m not sure you are, but we’re starting with Talk to Her. It’s the first Almodóvar film I ever saw and it’s so overflowing with Spanish culture, appreciation for different art forms and crazy weird charactersthat I just fell in love with ...
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Oct 26, 2018 · Mid90s: Directed by Jonah Hill. With Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith. Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
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Mar 16, 2015 · The Others (2001) Directed by Alejandro Amenabar and starring Nichole Kidman. Filming took place at Kent and also at Hornillos Palace in Las Fraguas, Cantabria (Spain) and in Madrid. The chilling tale is set in Jersey after WWII and revolves around a mother with two young children who suffer from photosensitivity.
Jun 16, 2000 · The Island of Lies (La isla de las mentiras) May 14, 2020. Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to ...
Galicia in films. Feature films located in Galicia, Spain. 1. La casa de la Troya (1925) 162 min | Comedy. Santiago de Compostela and the Galician countryside, Spain, at the end of the 19th Century. A love story runs parallel to a student story.
Galicia ( / ɡəˈlɪʃ ( i) ə / gə-LISH (-ee)-ə; [3] Galician: Galicia [ɡaˈliθjɐ] or Galiza [ɡaˈliθɐ]; [a] [b] Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. [4] Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra .
