Movies: Antonia San Juan

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method....

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent....

Mirtha Del Cañon is the owner of a million-dollar company. Her only son, Bartolo, is a mess, and to straighten him out, she decides to look for a woman for him, to achieve that, she organizes a casting to find the perfect daughter-in-law....

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troub...

A family is on holiday in 1991 when their teenage daughter decides to elope with her boyfriend. Their parents travel forward in time to 2022 and see how much Spain has changed in three decades....

On the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is ...

Victor, who claims to have filmed a number of films he's not been able to release, unites around his deathbed his most faithful collaborator to present his posthumous work....

Victor has a nice life in Madrid with his partner, José. However, after returning to his childhood home in the mountains of Bulgaria for his grandfather's funeral, he decides to stay for the summer. While reconnecting with his father and the village ...

Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos and Toni had a quiet life with no major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, his homosexual tendencies and debts. It was these that forced them to rent one of the bedro...

Juanita decides to abandon her family and go to a convent where, together with a group of extravagant nuns, she must discover the mysterious murder of a priest....

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The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip....

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of...

The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival....

Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an...

Walter (Miguel Óscar Menassa) is married to Silvia (Cruz Gonzalez), but realizes that the desire his wife feels for other men leads her to sleep with his friend Gustavo (Luis Miguel Seguí). She decides to confess to her husband the whole truth in fro...

The life of Macarena, a Spanish immigrant in the USA, becomes complicated when she has to pay a debt contracted by her father....

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and r...

Miranda Vega is the host of a struggling talk show with a tumultuous off-screen life. In an effort to boost the plummeting ratings, the show welcomes a series of eccentric guests who will bring chaos live on air....

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon....