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Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with village teacher Maruja and young local boy Tomiche.

After a murder of a child, a cynical detective has a romance with the child's teacher.

The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.

An Argentine bank robber offers a future full of money and recognition to a young boxer with an unpromising career.

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the unimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.

Strange events occur when Eloise, widow of Don Lucius, must ask her neighbor to lend her her house for the wake. This petition resurrects a series of memories involving all the neighbors.

During the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936) a village in the Basque Country was shocked by some supposed apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Dressed in black, crying and with a sword in her hands, the Virgin predicts a horrible war. At least, that's what a group of young people who claim to have seen her announces. When the news reaches the ears of the people, the valleys of the place are filled with believers, curious and skeptics. Everyone wants to see these visionaries.

Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari

An exploited immigrant who works in disgraceful conditions considers put an end to his situation... And his own life.