1. Érase un vez Juan Marsé (Érase un vez Juan Marsé)
On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, family members, friends and writers offer a sincere portrait of the best chronicler of life in Barcelona, Catalonia, during the post-war period and the worst days of the General Franco dictatorship, in the forties and fifties, and during the economic development and the hard conquest of freedom, in the sixties and seventies.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley? (Le Procès de lady Chatterley : orgasme et lutte des classes dans un jardin anglais)
England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer D. H. Lawrence , published privately in Italy in 1928, which celebrates nature and deals with sex without taboos.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
3. Mifune: The Last Samurai
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune , the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
It has an average vote of 7.17 on TMDB.
4. Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité (Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité)
(Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité)
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
5. Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas (Sexo, maracas y chihuahuas)
A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat .
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
6. The Voice of Thaïs (La voz de Thaïs)
Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi , vaudeville star, actress and the first woman director of Spanish cinema, to her hometown, while trying to find a copy of Thaïs, the only film she directed.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. Madonna: Truth or Dare
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
It has an average vote of 6.24 on TMDB.
8. Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah , a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
9. Duras and Cinema (Duras et le cinéma)
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.
10. Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime
British author Agatha Christie is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. FFG: un retrato (FFG: un retrato)
An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. Ramón Masats: el ojo irónico (Ramón Masats: el ojo irónico)
A journey through the life and outstanding work of the Spanish photographer and filmmaker Ramón Masats.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (Les Mondes de Philip K. Dick)
An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick , whose outstanding work predicted like no other the dystopian debacle toward which the chaotic world of the 21st century is inevitably heading.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. On l'appelait Roda (On l'appelait Roda)
(On l'appelait Roda)
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
15. FFG, el último gran conversador (FFG, el último gran conversador)
Fernando Fernán Gómez , actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
It has an average vote of 8.1 on TMDB.
16. The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein (Le Funeste Destin du docteur Frankenstein)
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Ernest Hemingway: 4 Weddings and a Funeral (Ernest Hemingway : quatre mariages et un enterrement)
A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway , a man infinitely more complex than his public image suggested, through the story of his relationship with his four wives.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
18. Jean Daskalidès (Jean Daskalidès)
Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès.
19. Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
20. Regreso a Coronel Vallejos (Regreso a Coronel Vallejos)
A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas. Its inhabitants never forgave him. However, a woman, owner of a painful and enigmatic past, will build a bridge between Coronel Vallejos, the town created by Puig, and the real General Villegas, trying to reconcile the place with the writer.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
