José Luis Alcaine Movies

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a...

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who...

Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother.

Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years of relaxed censorship, it is abolished in 1977,...

A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.

In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.

An ageing artist in the twilight of his career, Fermín's hand has started to shake. On the brink of financial ruin, he will have to move into...

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more...

Eva, a young and promising Spanish lawyer based in Edinburgh, sees her wedding plans with the heir to an important and ultra-conservative Scottish...

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to...

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow,...

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of...

Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns...

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and...

When a Spanish judge has the courage to look into a political murder...

Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the...

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for...

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...