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Series
Criterion collection volume 838
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a...
3) Perras
Publisher
DistriMax Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Ten girls are being detained in their high school under suspicion that one of them committed an atrocious crime. Until someone confesses, none of them can leave.
4) Cria cuervos
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Multiple
Formats
Description
"Throughout a career that encompasses both visually arresting art-house hits and big-budget Hollywood spectacles, director Guillermo del Toro has continually redefined and elevated the horror genre with his deeply personal explorations of myths and monsters. These three Spanish-language films, each a tale of childhood in troubled times, showcase his singular fusion of the fantastic and the real. Drawing inspiration from a rich variety of sources,...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
Publisher
Warner Home Video México
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that...
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