Requiem For The Deaths

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ram...

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Alejandro Amenábar

Cast

Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of ...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Eleonore Dressel, Heiner Carow

Cast

Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a ...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Kari Skogland

Cast

Linda Fiorentino, Wesley Snipes, Oliver Platt

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Víctor Erice

Cast

Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera

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.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Luis García Berlanga

Cast

Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert