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Browse 42 movies from Generalitat de Catalunya - Departament de Cultura
Jan 2000
"Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the adversities of destiny. There, Laia lives, a woman marked by a miserable and unhappy childhood, that is debated between her cruel husband and lover who is his best friend and faces the hatred of a whole town while dreaming of a freedom that only the sea can grant.
Sep 2016
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother ...
Jan 2019
A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.
Aug 2019
In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of the past and the events that shaped their lives and careers. This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story.
Jan 1997
A first-person chronicle of the journey of Barcelona activist mayor Ada Colau in the form of a personal diary.
May 2016
Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.
Feb 1998
Ona lives peacefully with her teenage son in a quiet village of the Pyrenees where she works as a gardener, although her big dream is to pilot a tourist plane. One day, everything changes for Ona when some foreigners, a group of henchmen, arrive in the village and bring to light certain dark secrets of her life which she had forgotten about. She will then be compelled to face those secrets from the past once and for all.
Nov 2023
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.
May 2025
Small-scale hustler Marc is stretched to the limit when a drug deal goes wrong and runs him afoul of the mob, which only exacerbates his existing problems with his wife, his daughter and his elderly father, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. As Marc scrambles to save his own skin, he tries his best to repair his fractured relationships. Will it be too late?
Jan 2008
Marta is a young, pretty and provocative radio talk show host who engages in sexual adventures during the day and talks about them on her steamy nightly show The Neckline. Her only rule is no strings attached - and it's about to be tested.
Feb 1987
Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.
May 2022
El somni (The Dream) is a remarkable film directed by Franc Aleu, which shows the creative process of over 40 international artists who participated in a dinner put together as an opera in twelve dishes, with gastronomic creations by the Roca brothers, from the restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. A visual experience that enables the spectator to get to know the dynamic approach and the challenges that have taken the Roca brothers to the top. Images, matter, music, flavor and smell converge on this journey with guests such as Ferran Adrià, Zubin Mehta, Miquel Barceló, Freida Pinto, Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Harold McGee.
May 2014
A swim instructor dealing with a child terrified of the water is accused of inappropriate behavior -- but the stories offered don't line up, leaving parents suspicious and doubtful.
Sep 2015
Aug 2018
Roc and Sara have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, Roc and Sara meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city. They have decided to stop being children and become adults.
Mar 2023
Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that Sita is alive and well in Barcelona. However, Sita's adoptive parents have erased all traces of her past. She is now called Paula, works as a researcher in Biology and has no recollection of her Indian background, let alone of Mina. Faced with the shocking truths of her past, Paula begins a long journey of self-discovery, aided along the way by her budding romance with the handsome Indian immigrant Prakash. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.
Nov 2014
Oct 2007
A young, honest cop investigates the arrival of international crime in Barcelona just before the Olympic Games.
Feb 1988
Claudia lives happily married with an architect and is part of a rich family of builders. In a children's party going on an apparently unrelated to it: a clown found hanged.
Dec 1998