All Spain articles – Page 56

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    La Rabia De Los Angeles

    2009-11-19T16:43:00Z

    Maria, a prostitute, loses her memory following a violent attack and tries with the help of a suicidal lover, Angel, to remember what happened.

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    Monsieur Paco

    2009-11-19T16:40:00Z

    Francisco Serrano Velez, otherwise known as Paco, and his Spanish republican companions are forced to flee the dictatorship of General Franco and travel to France following the Spanish Civil War.

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    The Barcelona Connection

    2009-11-19T16:38:00Z

    A hapless US art expert arrives in Barcelona to examine newly discovered Dali paintings, but falls in love and gets caught up in a kidnapping while the US president is in town for a world peace conference.

  • Cell 211
    Reviews

    Cell 211 (Celda 211)

    2009-11-17T11:57:00Z

    Dir: Daniel Monzon. Spain/France. 2009. 114 mins.

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    Midday Sun

    2009-11-11T11:50:00Z

    Midday Sun is a thriller about an English couple, Dan and Sarah, who move to Spain, but their son is murdered soon after they arrive and a local boy is charged and released, but then dies suspiciously in a hit and run for which Dan is wrongly blamed.

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    Animals

    2009-11-11T11:48:00Z

    A coming of age fantasy tale in the vein of Donnie Darko.

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    Bunker

    2009-11-11T11:47:00Z

    A Spanish musician is commissioned to direct the Bogota Opera House, but when he brings over his girlfriend to Bogota, she disappears.

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    Bruc

    2009-11-11T11:42:00Z

    A Catalan drummer boy retreats to the high sierra to escape Napoleon’s army, but then manages to almost singlehandedly defeat them.

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    Hitman

    2009-11-11T11:41:00Z

    A terminally ill assassin is sent on a mission to kill a Colombian drugs smuggler living in Mumbai, India.

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    There Be Dragons

    2009-11-11T11:39:00Z

    A journalist investigates Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, controversial founder of Opus Dei, but discovers his own estranged father’s disturbing connection to the man.

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    Betsy And The Emperor

    2009-11-11T11:39:00Z

    Tells the story of the last few years in Napoleon’s life on the island of Saint Helena where he had a relationship with a 14 year old British girl.

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    Heroes

    2009-11-11T11:37:00Z

    Tells the story of a busy executive who looks back on his childhood in the 1980s when his life was full of love and adventure.

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    Paper Birds

    2009-11-11T11:35:00Z

    A film that narrates the adventures of a group of dirt-poor Spanish vaudeville performers in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

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    Verbo

    2009-11-11T11:34:00Z

    A dark thriller exploring the difficult life of a troubled teen.

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    Di Di Hollywood

    2009-11-11T11:32:00Z

    The second film of a trilogy about women trying to improve their lowly existence.

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    Dakota

    2009-11-11T11:30:00Z

    Spaniard Joan Fuster lives in New York and has an accident, after which he can then suddenly foresee events, including a mass murder and his wife having an affair. This surreal comedy mixes dream sequences and reality.

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    Knight & Day

    2009-11-11T11:29:00Z

    Action-comedy about a fugitive couple on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure across the globe, with their survival hinging on the battle of Truth vs. Trust.

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    Balada Triste De Trompeta

    2009-11-11T11:26:00Z

    The film centres on two clowns in love with the same trapeze artist at a Spanish circus.

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    Blackthorn

    2009-11-11T11:24:00Z

    James Blackthorn (alias Butch Cassidy) raises horses in Bolivia, but is dying and wants to return to the US. Along the way he crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship. 

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    The Perfect Assassin

    2009-11-11T11:17:00Z

    This drama, set during Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War, focuses on Republican and Nationalist hit squads banding together to kill politician Don Rojo.