Elvira Quintillá
Helena is a 70 year old woman living in a nursing home. His daughter, and especially his son, not want to have at home. Already expelled six residences, Helena thinks if escape this, it will not be accepted in another and can not do anything but let her go home. For this flight uses the help of James, another resident who has no family and is in love with him.
It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.
The Eternal Spain, birthplace of the Cid, Hammer of Heretics... and other deserved historical appellations, is suddenly transformed, through democratic elections, in a chaotic Tower of Babel where every province, every town, each village wants to have its own opinion. Comedy about the rise of nacionalism in the different Spanish regions with the arrival of democracy.
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Don Luis is the owner of an industry and all his family work in it, allowing he to become a staunch patriarch.
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town.
Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.
Soledad enters a women reformatory led by modest nuns who look constantly for the welfare of their girls. These include the Sister Consolación, a humorous and cheerful nun who uses a little disconcerting methods to teach but very useful for the girls, to try to forget their past and prepare for a better future. Soledad takes confidence quickly and said she hopes a son of Fernando, a womanizing Andalusian young gentleman very attractive, which coincidentally, the Sister knows.
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand…
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
