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Directed by Oscar-winner Milos Foreman, "Goya's Ghosts" is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage...

"Dos niños, Ignacio y Enrique, conocen el amor, el cine y el miedo en un colegio religioso cuando inicia la década de los 60. El padre Manolo, director del colegio y su profesor de literatura es testigo y parte de estos descubrimientos. Los tres personajes vuelven a encontrarse dos veces más a finales de las décadas de los 70 y 80. El reencuentro marca la vida y la muerte de alguno de ellos."-- Container.

Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...

"Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White'"--Container.

A humorous look at the ages of man. Includes eras through the French Revolution.

Teresa Mendoza is transformed from an innocent young girl from a small Mexican village to become the most powerful woman in the dangerous world of narcotics trafficking in Europe.

Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that...

Teresa Mendoza rises from the illiterate girlfriend of a pilot employed by the drug lords to the top of the male-dominated world of drug trafficking following the murder of her lover, in a novel based on actual events.