Fernando Méndez-Leite Movies

  • 2008
    The Blind Sunflowers

    The Blind Sunflowers

    The Blind Sunflowers

    6.52008HD

    Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful...

    The Blind Sunflowers
  • 2024
    Marisol: llámame Pepa

    Marisol: llámame Pepa

    Marisol: llámame Pepa

    6.52024HD

    A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career,...

    Marisol: llámame Pepa
  • 2023
    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

    6.42023HD

    A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with...

    The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
  • 2019
    El Quijote desde la platea

    El Quijote desde la platea

    El Quijote desde la platea

    4.52019HD

    How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons,...

    El Quijote desde la platea
  • 2009
    Por la gracia de Luis

    Por la gracia de Luis

    Por la gracia de Luis

    52009HD

    A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the...

    Por la gracia de Luis
  • 2018
    ¡Ay, Carmen!

    ¡Ay, Carmen!

    ¡Ay, Carmen!

    5.32018HD

    The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a...

    ¡Ay, Carmen!
  • 2015
    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

    32015HD

    Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
  • 2019
    Wild Session

    Wild Session

    Wild Session

    6.92019HD

    A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that...

    Wild Session
  • 1980
    El hombre de moda

    El hombre de moda

    El hombre de moda

    51980HD

    Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina,...

    El hombre de moda
  • 2023
    Icónica Chamorro

    Icónica Chamorro

    Icónica Chamorro

    22023HD

    Journalist Paloma Chamorro symbolized openness and modernity in Spain in the early 1980s. Her personality and her shows on TVE (then the only TV...

    Icónica Chamorro
  • 2020
    La corte de Ana

    La corte de Ana

    La corte de Ana

    82020HD

    She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a...

    La corte de Ana
  • 2019
    Stories of Our Cinema

    Stories of Our Cinema

    Stories of Our Cinema

    5.52019HD

    In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor...

    Stories of Our Cinema
  • 2008
    La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso

    La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso

    La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso

    62008HD

    La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso
  • 2003
    Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972

    Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972

    Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972

    02003HD

    In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs,...

    Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972
  • 1995
    La Regenta

    La Regenta

    La Regenta

    01995HD

    The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's...

    La Regenta
  • 2006
    El productor

    El productor

    El productor

    02006HD

    A conspirator? A man with his own ideas, obstinate in making them come true? An arm-wrestler? The greatest mocker of Franco's censorship? Someone...

    El productor