spanish second republic 1931 39 movies

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2019)
6.985 / 10

Animation, Drama, History

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a...

The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
7 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and...

Painless (2012)
6.2 / 10

Drama, Horror, Thriller

While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

The Endless Trench (2019)
6.908 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio,...

While at War (2019)
7.144 / 10

Drama, History, War

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the...

Land Without Bread (1933)
7.1 / 10

Documentary

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932....

Barefoot in the Kitchen (2013)
6 / 10

Documentary

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and...

Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman (2011)
7.2 / 10

Drama, History, TV Movie

Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish...

Words for an End of the World (2020)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the...

Days of Hope (1940)
6.3 / 10

Drama, War

Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza,...

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)
5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940...

La conspiración (2012)
6 / 10

Thriller, History, TV Movie

Manda huevos (2016)
8 / 10

Documentary

A look at the different masculinities portrayed in Spanish cinema through time. (A sequel to “Barefoot in the Kitchen,” 2013.)

A War in Hollywood (2009)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in...

Experiment Stuka (2018)
6 / 10

Documentary, History

Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat and Vilar de Canes, were bombed from the sky and...

El precio de la risa (2017)
6 / 10

Documentary

The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical...

Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice (2021)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, History

The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected...

El elefante del rey (2003)
6.3 / 10

Comedy, TV Movie

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be...

The Man Who Was There (2013)
6 / 10

Documentary, History

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik...

Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée (2020)
8 / 10

Documentary, History

While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived...