spanish folklore
10 movies and shows
Who Can Kill a Child?
Mon, 26 Apr 1976
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
The Water
Fri, 04 Nov 2022
Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.
Mad in Xpain
Fri, 16 Oct 2020
In a post-apocalyptic Spain different tribes survive, struggling to take control of the only existing sustenance: a red wine of negligible quality. (A sequel to Made in Spain, 2016.)
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Fri, 09 Nov 2001
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Salamanca
Tue, 01 Jan 1929
A walk through the landscapes of the province of Salamanca, Spain, as well as a testimony of the daily life and customs of its inhabitants.
Lujuria
Invalid Date
Mateo, a young Mexican man, embarks on a pilgrimage through Spain to confront his past, but becomes entangled in a dangerous Catholic cult where forbidden love threatens his very survival.
Far from the Trees
Fri, 19 May 1972
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.
Barcelona
Tue, 01 Jan 1929
A walk through the landscapes of the province of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a testimony of the daily life and customs of its inhabitants.
Made in Spain
Thu, 14 Apr 2016
An absent-minded traveler arrives at a Spanish beach where chaos is about to break out. (Followed by Mad in Xpain, 2020.)
Mi cielo de Andalucía
Tue, 19 May 1942
Rafaelillo, a young upper-class Andalusian man and medical student in Madrid, has not told his parents the whole truth about the kind of life he leads in the capital. Once home, he will have to face the consequences of his many lies… (Film produced in Argentina by the Spanish company Filmófono, after the forced exile of most of its members since 1937.)