The Internationalist

Five Cartridges

1960 · ★ 7.6

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), five International Brigade soldiers of different nationalities are given a crucial assignment as their commander lies dying: they are to smuggle top-secret information across enemy lines.

Conte de llops

2015

Rafael and Fermin are comrades in the republican army during the Spanish Civil War. In the last days of the conflict, Fermin is fed up with the war and thinking about going home, while Rafael writes a letter to his wife which includes a story for their son. This story, inspired by Jack London's 'White Fang', runs in parallel to events in the war and towards a shared outcome.

Leica Story

2016

Robert is a war photographer who moves to an andalusian village after the Spanish Civil War, watching in the population a panorama of sadness and pain. Because of his arrival, stories that happened there in the past resuscitate.

Cunetas

During the Spanish Civil War, a family of farmers must face the fascist threat. Tired of turning the other cheek, they will make an unexpected decision.

Requiem

2018

1938. During the Spanish Civil War, a soldier is executed along with his comrades. Under the corpses of his friends he discovers that he is not dead.

Alsasua 1936

1994 · ★ 10

Based on the life of Marino Ayerra, who was appointed as parson priest of Alsasua (Navarra) two days before the start of the Spanish Civil War.

Líneas de fuego

2002 · ★ 10

Love story during the Spanish civil war in a psychiatric hospital.

Lorca

1999 · ★ 10

In the last four days of his life, fear took over the figure of the poet Federico García Lorca.

El libro de las aguas

2008

Ángel Pedrosa (Álex González, Fernando Luján) returns to Bruma (Córdoba), his hometown, from where he had to flee during the Civil War. He returns to reconstruct his family's history, to forgive himself, and to remember others. Ángel stitches together the fragments of his life during Spain in the second half of 1939. His first love, the hatred of the post-war period, the intolerance and the passages he went through until he had to flee, hastily, out of his homeland to not return until many years later.

Flores de mármol y caballos morados

2020

During the early moments of the Spanish Civil War, in a spanish village, Isidoro lives with his father Lucas and his horse Coco. Isidoro witnesses how his father, torn apart by their debts, wages his frustration upon Coco.

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973 · ★ 7.6

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.

The Devil's Backbone

2001 · ★ 7.3

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.