Movies and TvShows featuring "spanish-second-republic-1931-39" theme.

During the Spanish Civil War, a man named Higinio hides in a small village and lives in a hidden trench to avoid political repression. He spends decades in fear and isolation, experiencing hallucinations and struggling with the memories of the war. His neighbor becomes his only connection to the outside world. As time passes, Higinio's secret becomes a burden, leading to revenge, betrayal, and the discovery of a hidden room that holds shocking secrets.

In the midst of World War II, a Spanish photographer named Francisco Boix becomes a prisoner at the infamous Mauthausen concentration camp. Determined to expose the horrors and document the truth, Boix risks his life to secretly capture photographs of the brutal Nazi regime and their war crimes. Through his lens, he provides evidence that would later be used in the Nuremberg Trials to bring justice to the perpetrators. This gripping biographical drama tells the courageous story of a man who fought against oppression and stood up for the truth.

Land Without Bread, a banned film, is a surreal and subversive documentary set in a poverty-stricken village in Spain. It explores the themes of suffering, hardship, and despair through the lives of its inhabitants. The film uses mockumentary and dark comedy elements to shed light on the social and political subtext of the era.

While at War is a historical drama set in Salamanca, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The film follows a college professor who is faced with moral dilemmas as he navigates the political repression and military uprising under the Franco regime. Based on a true story, the film explores themes of dictatorship, rebellion, and political repression.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles is a film that tells the story of the making of the movie 'Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread' by the renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel. Set in the 1930s in Paris, the film follows Buñuel as he embarks on a journey to the impoverished region of Las Hurdes in Spain to make a documentary. The film explores Buñuel's struggles, the challenges faced during the production, and the impact the movie had on both himself and the world of cinema.

Spanish miniseries.

A War in Hollywood is a documentary that explores the role of Hollywood in producing war propaganda films during the Spanish Civil War. It delves into the stories of screenwriters, filmmakers, and journalists who worked in the film industry during that era. The documentary also discusses the impact of the McCarthy era and the Franco regime on the Hollywood film industry.

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius.

Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political thought and reflects on the recent political history of Spain.

In the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, 'Words for an End of the World' delves into the consequences of fascism on freedom of speech. The film sheds light on the conspiracy theories and political repression prevalent during the 1930s in Salamanca, Spain. Through the lens of a renowned Spanish writer, it reflects the anti-fascist sentiments and the struggle to preserve Spanish literature and culture.

A documentary exploring the impact and significance of cinema during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy.

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.

The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh.

In post-Spanish civil war Spain, a neurosurgeon with a mysterious past uncovers family secrets and political repression while treating a young patient.

Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…

Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat and Vilar de Canes, were bombed from the sky and ravaged. 38 people died. Inhabitants never knew for sure who piloted the planes responsible for such atrocity, although the rebel propaganda attributed the act to the republican side. Now, 80 years later, the truth is finally exposed.

While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.