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List of spanish civil war movies

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Para que no me olvides (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Irene lives with Mateo, his father, and her son David, 22 years old. Living together is harmonious and happy, but there is a conflict: David, a brilliant student of architecture, has decided to go and live with his girlfriend Clara, a supermarket ...
Plot: spanish civil war, blindness, blind man, love, beach, hospital, father daughter relationship, book, bicycle, house, suicide attempt, manuscript ...
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Broken Silence (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sincere
Plot: fall in love, heroes, political unrest, rebelliousness, society, against humanity, small town, politics, repression, francisco franco, spanish civil war, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, europe
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Cousin Angelica (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin ...
Style: controversial, contemplative, biting, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: cousins in love, children, spanish civil war, traumatic childhood, first love, family relations, travel, forbidden love, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, europe, barcelona
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Wait for Me in Heaven (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, ...
Style: biting, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: francisco franco, spanish civil war, satire, politics, kidnapping, disorder, society, hidden identity, switching roles, state affairs, dishonesty, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid
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The Camomile Lawn (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. Follows very closely the Mary Wesley novel. Begins with a funeral and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of Richard and Helena and ...
Style: controversial, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, spanish civil war, family relations, family gatherings, unrequited love, cousin, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 80s, 1930s ...
Place: england, hawaii, europe, london, cornwall
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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, nazism, world war two, concentration camp, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, slave labor, spanish civil war, forced prostitution, concentration camp survivor, nazi war criminal ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: spain, germany, central europe
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Berkeley Square (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nanny, family relations, civil rights, feminist, spanish civil war, human rights, colleague, abbey, butler, child abuse, bittersweet, master and servant ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, middle ages, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style: harsh, atmospheric, visually stunning, bleak, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, vengeance, organized crime, hitman, criminal's revenge, violence, revenge, road trip, murder, on the road, on the run, assassin ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, persia, michigan
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Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, ...
Style: suspense, stylized, factual, exciting, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, bank robber, gunfight, mobster, group of criminals, heist, manhunt, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, fbi, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, year 1933
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, tucson arizona, illinois ...
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Valentina (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, ...
Plot: spanish civil war, girl, tutor, first love, teacher student relationship, homework, spoiled brat, unhappiness, con artists, little boy, male nudity, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1939
Place: spain
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The Shanghai Spell (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, undercover, teenage love, resistance, youth, love and romance, parents and children, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, village, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, china
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Bad Education (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, sexy, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexual abuse, transsexual, gay, child abuse, transvestism, boarding school, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, gender, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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Cambridge Spies (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense ...
Plot: kgb, treason, espionage, politics, traitor, betrayal, university, spy, communist, cold war, secret agent, hidden identity ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, england, big ben london
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Triple Agent (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot: spy, politics, government agency, secret agent, betrayal, undercover, life is a bitch, political corruption, rebellion, uncover truth, dishonesty, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, russia, paris france, europe
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The Baby's Room (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, gothic ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, family in danger, old dark house, family problems, obsession, supernatural horror, parallel world, missing child, mind game, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, spain
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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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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
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Frozen Silence (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1943, during the midst of World War II, a serial murderer appears in the Blue Division, volunteer body of Spanish soldiers who fought on the Russian front with German troops. After finding the body of a Spanish soldier who has been stuck in the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, world war two, murder, soldier, army investigation, riddles and clues, rivalry, superior officer, military, danger, freemason, gay ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: 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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Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Oblivious to the strife that awaits them, a group of young nurses from Spain's upper class head to war-torn Marocco in 1921 to help where help is needed. Many lessons in love and life are learned before they overcome deepest conflicts, grow as ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thought provoking, tense, medical drama ...
Plot: sexism, interracial romance, nurse, war, danger, adaptation, society, wartime, medical, world war one, anti war, friendship ...
Time: 1920s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: spain, north africa, morocco, middle east
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Riot Police (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min.
TV show
Story: A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, conflict, swat, investigation, corruption, female protagonist, murder, urban setting, riot, police investigation, partner, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid
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The Executioner (1963)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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.
Style: dark comedy, social, semi serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: death penalty, retirement, death row, death, genocide, bureaucracy, employment, machine, labor, exploitation, lawyer, spanish civil war ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 1920s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, mallorca, madrid
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To an Unknown God (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ageing man comes to terms with his mortality and his sexual orientation. The film was groundbreaking in its frank and mature examination of homosexuality.
Style: social, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: lgbt, gay, spanish civil war, male homosexuality, couples, gays and lesbians, elderly, introspection, unfulfillment, gender, aging, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: madrid, spain, europe
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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 Beehive (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot: post war, struggle, female nudity, francisco franco, freedom, revolutionary, revolutionary war, conflict, lgbt, spanish history, spanish civil war, brothel ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: madrid, spain, europe
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master ...
Style: social, manga, realistic, captivating
Plot: rich and poor, francisco franco, spanish civil war, human rights, provincial life, spanish history, poverty, servant, family relations, rural area, landowner, animal ...
Time: 60s, year 1984
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, milan italy
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The Stolen Years (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
Style: road movie
Plot: gulag, spanish civil war, nazi, man with glasses, striptease, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, bare chested male, nudity, beach, male nudity, bare breasts ...
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Red Joan (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, factual, realistic, depressing ...
Plot: woman, world war two, atomic bomb, propaganda, female spy, politics, kgb, soviet spy, oppression, russian spy, spanish civil war, female secret agent ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, year 2019, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: soviet union, hiroshima japan, russia, canada, montreal ...
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The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Pursuit of Love is an upcoming romance drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nancy Mitford.
Style: psychological, captivating, period drama
Plot: friendship, friends, unfulfilled love, looking for love, social relations, couple relations, love interest, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
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The Garden of Delights (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The greedy relatives of an amnesic and paralytic 45 years old millionaire try him to recover his memory by any means.
Style: cynical, surreal, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, memory loss, spanish civil war, politics, disability, family relations, isolation, bank, family life, eccentric family, satire, mogul ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 70s
Place: europe, switzerland, spain
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