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Browse 16 movies from Sideral Cinema
Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.
Oct 2025
Follows two friends, Juan and David, they will find themselves on a rooftop terrace after an intense party in Madrid. Juan witnesses David falling to the void, and his body disintegrating into ceramic pieces after hitting a car.
Jun 2023
A rock band has to record their third LP, which will either propel them to stardom or fade into oblivion. Despite executives’ reservations, their idea is to have the recording take place in New York. But everything complicates, and the creative process turns into a hellish ordeal. A love triangle with all its consequences unfolds, band members desert, romantic relationships shatter, rehearsals become rampant with drugs and alcohol, and the unbearable pressure from the record label leads to endless fights and arguments only interrupted by fleeting moments of happiness. Meanwhile, unknowingly, they will be composing an album that will leave a mark on an entire generation.
May 2024
Dec 2024
With the chasms that doing so entails, Leiva personally paints a raw and unpretentious portrait of the frenetic spiral of his existence today, giving us an unwonted glimpse of his life at the height of his career. An irreversible vocal cord issue constantly challenges the present and future of a Leiva incapable of conceiving any option other than to keep going. Until his voice gives out.
In 1935, a storm caused an English ship carrying coal to run aground in Bizkaia. Residents of Algorta gathered to rescue the coal, but Sabas Jauregui ignored their pleas and dragged his children into the storm.
Sep 2026
In a small town haunted by the struggles of life and death, ghosts and humans alike embark on a desperate journey to end their torment, resorting to extreme measures to achieve their goals.
Feb 2025
Carolina and Leo, who have met through a chat room, agree to meet in person in a secluded city park.
Pablo returns to his hometown after serving time for the murder of his wife — the very place where it all happened. Only the audience can decide whether he deserves a second chance — ostensibly one his victim will never have.
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In 1994 Vigo, two disgraced police officers team up to rob a local businessman. One is a suspended father on the brink, the other a volatile high-stakes gambler. As their scheme unfolds, their fragile alliance begins to crack.
In the early 2000s — a period of rapid disruption in viewing habits and the community spaces built around cinema culture — Mila fights to keep alive the neighborhood video store she has just inherited from her father, even as a nearby Blockbuster threatens to wipe it out. When the shop becomes a refuge for a small community of outsiders, Mila is pushed to confront loss, change and her own fear of letting go. Based on the 2025 short film of the same name.
Bea is a 50 year old woman who is separating from her husband. The day she has to leave the house where she has lived for the last twenty years, she arrives at her house and finds everything upside down and one of the thieves sleeping in her bed. Denís is a 28-year-old trans man who, despite having studied a career, struggles with job insecurity and lack of opportunities. After spending three days together, each of them must continue on their own way. When they resume their lives, they are no longer the same.
Feb 2026
A vacationing family’s dissimilar takes on an event threatens to drive them apart. A father takes his two kids on a beach holiday, where the girl, Cris, has fallen for a boy, causing a rift in her friendship with pal Miri. Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri. Meanwhile, their father is engaged in a secret affair he desperately tries to conceal from them. Over these three days at the beach, the family will struggle to reconnect as insecurities, jealousy and hidden truths unravel their close-knit world.
Set in Madrid, Mara and Sandra are two women who could hardly be more different except that each is hiding a dark secret from their pasts. As their relationship grows stronger and their feelings towards one another become more intense, the fear of losing Sandra sparks Mara’s cannibalistic impulses to hold onto her at all costs, as she has done with anyone who ever got close to her in the past.
Defeated in combat, Ángel returns home to his village in a remote part of the Peruvian Andes. When he arrives, however, he finds the place has completely changed. What was the 18th century is now the present day. What has become of the ideals of the revolution he fought for? The people who live in Peru today, what are they fighting for?
Jul 2025