Franco regime (francoism) movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant franco regime (francoism) movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing and suspense films and TV shows about / with franco regime (francoism), spanish civil war, spanish history, society, fascism, dictatorship, politics, rebellion, female nudity and civil war plots mostly in Drama, History and War genres shot in Spain, France, Mexico and other countries.
franco regime (francoism)
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franco regime (francoism) movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as franco regime (francoism): Pan's Labyrinth (2006), What the Future Holds (2018), The Invisible Line (2020), While at War (2019), The Sleeping Voice (2011), Someone Has to Die (2020), The Patients of Dr. García (2023), Letter to Eva (2012), Paper Birds (2010), The (Silent) War (2019).

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 8.2
 700K
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
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What the Future Holds (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: In 1966, Justo Gil arrives in Barcelona as a migrant with the purpose of gaining enough money to give his sick mother the best care. His great charisma allows him to socialize with the youngsters of the upper-class, until an unexpected turn of ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, period piece
Plot: franco regime (francoism), informant, love, ambition, double life, society, relationships, changing lives, male female relationship, communist party, urban setting, nudity ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: barcelona, spain
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The Invisible Line (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
Style: political thriller, suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, ideology, violence, political propaganda, murder, family problems, repression, siblings, assassination, secret organization, franco regime (francoism), spanish history ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: basque country, spain
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 6.9
 7K
While at War (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, intellectual
Plot: spanish civil war, spanish history, coup d'etat, dictatorship, moral dilemma, military coup, professor, arrest, military, civil war, danger, society ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century
Place: morocco, spain
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The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pepita travels to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after the baby is delivered. Pepita tries everything to stay the execution, but when ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: spanish civil war, wartime life, political unrest, woman in danger, fall in love, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, family relations, civil war, false accusation, rebellion, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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Someone Has to Die (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 149 min.
TV show
Story: In 1950s Spain, a couple summon their son home from Mexico to introduce him to his fiancée, but are shocked when he returns with a ballerino.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, period drama ...
Plot: gay straight relations, sex with friend's mother, gay, male nudity, gay subtext, high society, gay lead character, gay interest, franco regime (francoism), older woman younger man sex, lgbtq, parent child relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: spain
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The Patients of Dr. García (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In 1936 Madrid, an idealistic doctor's life changes forever when he shelters a wounded spy and joins a decades-long fight against the spread of fascism.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, dramatic, period drama
Plot: franco regime (francoism), politics, espionage, doctors and patients, doctor, spy, diplomat, republican, nazism, nazi, patient, male pubic hair ...
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 7.1
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Letter to Eva (2012)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: Juana Doña, a communist woman; Carmen Polo, dictator Franco's wife; and Eva Duarte, President Perón's wife, the first lady of Argentina, the idolized Evita, crisscross their lives during Evita's official visit to Spain, an autarchic ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: franco regime (francoism), letter, communism, social problems, death sentence, historical figure, historical event, social issues, political unrest, society, political intrigue, death penalty
Place: argentina
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 6.9
 792
Paper Birds (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jorge and Enrique are two artist in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieté company that travel around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the Republic Army ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: spanish civil war, performer's life, artists and showbiz, family relations, life is a bitch, society, orphan, friendship, rivalry, spanish history, world war two, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain, europe
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The (Silent) War (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: political repression, sabotage, manhunt, franco regime (francoism), struggle for survival, military, coup d'etat, military coup, dangerous mission, fight, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
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The Endless Trench (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, sad ...
Plot: dictatorship, political repression, male pubic hair, neighbor neighbor relationship, small village, spanish civil war, secret, delusion, hiding place, revenge, assassination, fear ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, andalusia
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 6.1
 4K
Painless (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the '60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in ...
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot: uncover truth, emotionless, haunted by the past, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, child in peril, secret, spanish civil war, torture, mysterious past, violence, hospital ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: spain
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 7.5
 2K
Arde Madrid (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, black and white
Plot: glamour, spy, female spy, spy mission, pretense, espionage, posing as husband and wife, chambermaid, relationship problems, housekeeper, movie business, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid
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 7.1
 1K
Ogro (1979)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story: At the close of 1973, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted. The caudillo is aging, though, and the future of the régime is ...
Plot: francisco franco, fascism, capitalism, protest, spanish civil war, terrorism, terrorist bombing, terrorist group, terrorist attack, eta terrorist group, franco regime (francoism), bomb ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, year 1973
Place: spain
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The War Is Over (1966)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of Spanish refugees try to organize protests from France. Their network is under constant threat by the police and some of them have recently been arrested. The main character (played by Yves Montand) dedicated his whole life to the battle ...
Style: political, anthology, political thriller, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: civil war, espionage, protest, spy, female nudity, revolution, spanish civil war, time travel, secret mission, spanish history, idealism, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1965
Place: france, spain, paris france, europe, andalusia ...
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 5.7
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Dirty Wolves (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two sisters turns in the center of a plot implying wolfram, Nazis, Franco's prisoners and British spies.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: nazism, love interest, prisoner, nazi, spy, rebellion, jail, dictatorship, prison, sister sister relationship, third reich, owl ...
Time: 1940s
Place: galicia, spain
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Escape from Segovia (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Narrates the escape of 29 political prisoners, led by ETA, from Segovia prison. Based on actual events.
Plot: prison, capitalism, francisco franco, nazi, fascism, gulag, journalist, eta terrorist group, franco regime (francoism), terrorism, political prisoner
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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Salvador (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, dictatorship, death penalty, legal, against humanity, legal investigation, politics, rebellion, missing person, demonstration, fighting the system, journalism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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