25 Mar 1988
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Ay, Carmela!
Across the battlefields of Spain, she won the heart of every man.
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Top Billed Cast
Carmen Maura Carmela
Andrés Pajares Paulino
Gabino Diego Gustavete
Armando De Razza Teniente Ripamonte (as Maurizio de Razza)
José Sancho Capitán
Mario De Candia Bruno CTV 1º
Miguel Rellán Teniente interrogador (as Miguel Angel Rellan)
Edward Żentara Soldado polaco
Rafael Díaz Centinela
Chema Mazo Alcalde
Antonio Fuentes Alférez artillero
Mario Martín Cacique
Emilio del Valle Cabo Cardoso
Silvia Casanova Mujer presa
Alfonso Guirao Campesino
Felipe García Vélez Médico (as Felipe Velez)
Félix Pardo Soldado CTV 2º
Manuel Millán Cabo
Víctor Manuel Mendoza Oficial (As Victor Mendoza)
Francisco Ferrer Oficial
Similar movies
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown The Beasts 
The Beasts 20 Jul 2022
The Beasts
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
All About My Mother 
All About My Mother 16 Apr 1999
All About My Mother
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
The Secret Life of Words 
The Secret Life of Words 15 Dec 2005
The Secret Life of Words
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Volver 
Volver 17 Mar 2006
Volver
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
The Sea Inside 
The Sea Inside 03 Sep 2004
The Sea Inside
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
Take My Eyes 
Take My Eyes 08 Oct 2003
Take My Eyes
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Belle Époque 
Belle Époque 04 Dec 1992
Belle Époque
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
El Bola 
El Bola 20 Oct 2000
El Bola
El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.
Lovers: A True Story 
Lovers: A True Story 23 Feb 1991
Lovers: A True Story
A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.
Solitary Fragments 
Solitary Fragments 01 Jun 2007
Solitary Fragments
Adela and her baby move to Madrid in search of a new start after a tough separation. Antonia is a shop owner with three adult daughters. The film is divided into five chapters revolving around their health, work, relationships and money.
Camino 
Camino 16 Oct 2008
Camino
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Black Bread 
Black Bread 10 Oct 2010
Black Bread
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.
Pain and Glory 
Pain and Glory 22 Mar 2019
Pain and Glory
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
The Enchanted Forest 
The Enchanted Forest 02 Oct 1987
The Enchanted Forest
In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.
Mondays in the Sun 
Mondays in the Sun 27 Sep 2002
Mondays in the Sun
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.
The Girl of Your Dreams 
The Girl of Your Dreams 13 Nov 1998
The Girl of Your Dreams
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead 
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead 05 Oct 1995
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband and his mother, while hitman Eduardo is pursuing her to retrieve information.
Truman 
Truman 24 Sep 2015
Truman
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Society of the Snow 
Society of the Snow 15 Dec 2023
Society of the Snow
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.