71. Sex and Lucia ( Lucía y el sexo )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julio Medem
Actors: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya, Silvia Llanos
72. The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Animation/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Lucas
Actors: Helmut Bakaitis, Joel Edgerton, Jude Beaumont, Richard Moss
73. Skin I Live In, The ( piel que habito, La )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Jan Cornet
Plot: Based on the book Mygale by Thierry Jonquet - a plastic surgeon plots his
revenge against the men responsible for raping his daughter.
74. I Am Cuba ( Soy Cuba )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Actors: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Luz María Collazo, Luisa María Jiménez
Plot: A film directed by Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov. I am Cuba tells a story of the decadence of Battista's Havana and the poverty and oppression of the Cuban people in pre-revolutionary Cuba. The film tells it's story through four vignettes which allows it's audience to see Cuba through the experiences of four different types of Cuban people.
75. Confession, The ( aveu, L' )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold, László Szabó, Jean Bouise
Plot: Based on the true-life story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London: Anton Ludvik, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs in Czechoslovakia finds he is being watched and followed. Suddenly he finds himself arrested and thrown into solitary confinement before undergoing a brutal interrogation.
76. Last Circus, The ( Balada triste de trompeta )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Actors: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé, Alejandro Tejerías, Sancho Gracia
Plot: A boy watches his father, a clown in a circus, taken away to fight
instead. Years later he seeks to save his father from a brutal life
working the mines, but instead witnesses his death. As an adult he
becomes a "sad" clown for a small circus and finds himself falling for a
trapeze artist who happens to be the owner's mistress. She is cruelly
beaten by the owner, leading to a confrontation that sets the young man
down a path of revenge and madness.
77. Pain and Glory ( Dolor y gloria )
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Raúl Arévalo
Plot: An aging film director, his career on the decline, reflects on his past - moments of his life coming to vivid color as he recollects the most powerful, important memories - and how those moment shape his life and art in the present.
78. Jamón, jamón
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bigas Luna
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Armando del Río, Juan Diego, Tomás Martín
Plot: Jose Luis is an executive at an underwear factory who falls in love with Sylvia, who works the floor. When she becomes pregnant - his parents do everything they can to stop him from marrying this lower-class girl - including hiring an underwear model to seduce her away.
79. Broken Embraces ( abrazos rotos, Los )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Tamar Novas, Rubén Ochandiano
Plot: After an accident took from him his sight and his love, writer Mateo Blanco increasingly turns to his pseudonym, Harry Caine, eventually erasing all traces of his old life. But what begins as a simple bedtime story for a child turns into an emotional roller-coaster, forcing him to once again face his true self.
80. Common Wealth ( comunidad, La )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Actors: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino, Jesús Bonilla, Marta Fernández Muro, Paca Gabaldón
