Movies: Rosa Morata

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book character...

A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual....

A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the lett...

Season 1973-1974. After fourteen years of drought, the FC Barcelona of Johan Cruyff is making a spectacular campaign. Sebastián, a great fan of soccer, decides then to join a Barça's supporters club. There he will meet the daughter of his friend Amad...

Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. ...

This movie is the first of a trilogy that Sebastián D'Arbó, a specialist in parapsychology, filmed on occult topics. The second film is El ser (1982) and the last one Más allá de la muerte (1986)....

A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of ...

Short film that addresses family repression through the bond between a brother and a sister in which the stronger takes advantage of the weaker....

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A short film about a mysterious ceremony, based on an essay by William S. Burroughs....

In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic of religion and sex. This causes the people to divide into two camps, those who favor and those aga...

Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant am...

An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde. Padrós employs a range of musical forms including opera, scores, and choreography to un...

Having gained success and artistic acknowledgement for his performances on the stage, Joan Barnat has now definitively abandoned the theatre to work exclusively for television. But a turn of events causes him to lose control of his mind and he become...

Daphnis and Chloe wander through a forest, intercut with shots of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and following no clear chronological trajectory, in a questioning of sexual roles and the permissible standards of Franco-era cinema....

A tragedy that does not avoid irony while showing a couple in a romantically disastrous state....

Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman. It shows a group of friends which make up a surreal symphony of people counting ...

Spanish actress María de Montenegro marries a Nazi officer, von Herzig, in Berlin during World War II, and years later is forced to return to Barcelona. There she hopes to find what could be her last chance to regain her lost success....