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Goya Award - Best Spanish Film

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El viaje a ninguna parte
1986 2h 14m

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

El bosque animado
José Luis Cuerda 1987 1h 48m 6.0

In the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Pedro Almodóvar 1988 1h 28m 7.9

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

El sueño del mono loco
1989 1h 48m

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.

¡Ay, Carmela!
1990 1h 42m

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.

Amantes
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Amantes

Vicente Aranda 1991 1h 43m

1950s Madrid: After military service, Paco looks for work to save up and marry his fiancée. She rejects his sexual advances. So when he rents a room with a cute widow making advances, he caves in.

Belle Epoque
Fernando Trueba 1992 1h 49m 7.0

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Todos a la cárcel
1993 1h 39m

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.

Días contados
1994 1h 33m

Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.

Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
Agustín Díaz Yanes 1995 1h 44m

Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.

Tesis
11.

Tesis

Alejandro Amenábar 1996 2h 5m 7.7

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

La buena estrella
1997 1h 35m

Rafael, a lonely 40-something butcher, saves a pregnant Marina from an assault by her boyfriend Daniel. Rafael agrees to take Marina in and they happily raise the child together. Years later, Daniel re-enters their lives and turns them upside down.

La niña de tus ojos
Fernando Trueba 1998 2h 1m

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.

Todo sobre mi madre
Pedro Almodóvar 1999 1h 41m 7.7

All About My Mother / Todo Sobre Mi Madre – Pedro Almodóvar tells the story of a woman searching for the father of her son as she is confronted with her past. This homage to the mother enticed two million Spaniards into the theaters.

El Bola
15.

El Bola

2000 1h 28m

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.

The Others
Alejandro Amenábar 2001 1h 41m 8.1

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

Los lunes al sol
Fernando León de Aranoa 2002 1h 53m 7.0

This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.

The Big Bang Theory
2007 22m 8.5

Physicists Leonard and Sheldon find their nerd-centric social circle with pals Howard and Raj expanding when aspiring actress Penny moves in next door.

Mar adentro
Alejandro Amenábar 2004 2h 6m 8.3

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages...

The Secret Life of Words
Isabel Coixet 2005 1h 55m 7.5

A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.

Volver
21.

Volver

Pedro Almodóvar 2006 2h 1m 7.9

A Pedro Almodóvar film about the power of lonely women and their return in our modern day culture. Almodóvar goes back into his favorite genre of dramatic comedy as well as filming it in his birth town of La Mancha. The film stars Penelope Cruz.

La soledad
2007 2h 15m

Adela and her baby move to Madrid in search of a new start after a tough separation. Antonia is a shop owner with three adult daughters. The film is divided into five chapters revolving around their health, work, relationships and money.

Camino
23.

Camino

Javier Fesser 2008 2h 23m 6.0

Inspirada en hechos reales, CAMINO es una aventura emocional en torno a una extraordinaria niña de once años que se enfrenta al mismo tiempo a dos acontecimientos que son completamente nuevos para ella: enamorarse y morir.

Celda 211
24.

Celda 211

Daniel Monzón 2009 1h 48m 7.5

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Pa negre
25.

Pa negre

Agustí Villaronga 2010 1h 48m

In post war rural Catalunya a boy discovers two buried bodies in the woods. With his father being wrongly accused of the murder, the boy sets out to find the real killers.

No habrá paz para los malvados
Enrique Urbizu 2011 1h 54m

Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the t...

Blancanieves
Pablo Berger 2012 1h 44m 7.0

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados
David Trueba 2013 1h 48m 7.0

David Trueba portrays in his new film the unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16 year old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something...

La isla mínima
Alberto Rodríguez 2014 1h 44m 7.5

Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.

Truman
30.

Truman

2015 1h 45m

Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.

Tarde para la ira
Raúl Arévalo 2016 1h 32m 7.0

The tentative romance between a gentle Madrid labourer and a working single mother becomes a struggle for survival when the woman’s violent boyfriend returns from prison, in the gritty, suspenseful debut feature from Spanish actor Raúl Arévalo.

The Bookshop
Isabel Coixet 2017 1h 50m

Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Campeones
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Campeones

Javier Fesser 2018 2h 4m

A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach Los Amigos, a team of players who are intellectually disabled, and soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.

Dolor y gloria
Pedro Almodóvar 2019 1h 54m 7.7

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating c...

Las niñas
2020 1h 37m

In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges the strict religious teachings and sheltered life she has known. Their friendship pushes her to confront hidden truths at home an...

El buen patrón
Fernando León de Aranoa 2021 2h

Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.

As bestas
37.

As bestas

Rodrigo Sorogoyen 2022 2h 18m 7.6

An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside but clash with villagers.

La sociedad de la nieve
J. A. Bayona 2023 2h 23m 8.0

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

El 47
39.

El 47

2024 1h 50m

Based on a true story, in late 1970s Barcelona, Manolo Vital, a bus driver, takes bold action to protest the neglect of Torre Baró, an immigrant neighborhood. His act becomes a symbol of resistance against systemic inequality during a pivotal moment in the city’s modern transformation.

La infiltrada
2024 1h 59m

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

Los domingos
2025 1h 52m

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting t...