El libro de las aguas

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

Prisoners await execution by firing squad when they are captured during the Spanish Civil War in this drama taken from the novella by Jean-Paul Sarte. Pablo is a loyalist jailed after he searches for his brother. An Irish mercenary and a Belgian physician are his cellmates. Flashbacks recall their lives before the war as they spend their last moments on Earth waiting for their date with death.

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.

Spain, 1938. A woman is quietly planting seeds in her garden when two armed soldiers appear. Before being detained, she hides some of the seeds in her pocket.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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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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 intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

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.

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.

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.