167 Films & TV Shows Set In Spain During The 20th Century
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Pan's Labyrinth
🇪🇸 Spain The 1940s The 1930sWhat happens when make-believe believes it's real? — Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
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Salvador (Puig Antich)
🇪🇸 Spain The 1970sThe story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
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The Business
🇪🇸 Spain The 1980sThis firm will blow you away. — During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
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Bad Education
🇪🇸 Spain The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sTwo children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
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The Sea Inside
🇪🇸 Spain The 1990sSensitive Drama About a Polemic Theme — The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
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Head in the Clouds
England 🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThree lives. One destiny. — A romantic drama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain. 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.
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Wolf
🇪🇸 Spain The 1970sBased on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
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Unconscious
🇪🇸 Spain The 1910sUncover Hidden Desires. — A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.
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Soldiers of Salamina
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sProfessor 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.
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El lápiz del carpintero
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
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The End of a Mystery
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930s The 1980sJoaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
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No Pasaran, Souvenir Album
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sDirected by Henri-François Imbert
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The Devil's Backbone
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sWhat is a ghost? — 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.
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Love & Basketball
California 🇪🇸 Spain The 1980s The 1990sAll's fair in love and basketball. — Quincy McCall and Monica Wright grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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The Sea
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sChildhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.
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All About My Mother
🇪🇸 Spain The 1990sPart of every woman is a mother/actress/saint/sinner. And part of every man is a woman. — A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
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Butterfly
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sStop and taste the world — 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.
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The World Is Not Enough
Scotland England 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1990sAs the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on. — Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
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Talk of Angels
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThis is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland
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The Girl of Your Dreams
🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sA romantic comedy about war, filmmaking and impossible love. — A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
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A Time for Defiance
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sAfter the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.
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Human Remains
🇨🇳 China 🇩🇪 Germany 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sHuman Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
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Live Flesh
🇪🇸 Spain The 1970s The 1990sLife, love, desire... and everything in between. — A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
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Actresses
🇪🇸 Spain The 1990sIn order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.
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In Praise of Older Women
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sLove & Sex as vital harmony — In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
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