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- DirectorFrancesc BetriuStarsSilvia MuntLluís HomarJoaquim CardonaThe life of a young woman in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsDavid SelvasLaura ConejeroJulieta SerranoEleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsRoser BatallaRubén de EguiaAlbert AuselléA young swim trainer integrity is questioned when one of the kids says something about him
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsNúria EspertRosa Maria SardàAnna LizaranA young drama student interviews three great actresses: an international diva, a television star and a dubbing director, and she discovers, in their memories, the grandeur and the misery of theatre: a real metaphor of life.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsJosep Maria PouRosa Maria SardàMario GasJaume, a sick professor of literature, decides to leave his heritage "an essay on the book of Ramón Llull" to his best student David, a hustler.
- CreatorHéctor LozanoStarsFrancesc OrellaPere PonceCarlos CuevasMeet the renegade philosophy teacher who's not afraid to speak his mind and break the rules to revolutionize his students' lives, including the son he barely knows and a student with a severe social phobia.
- DirectorMar TargaronaStarsMario CasasRichard van WeydenAlain HernándezBased on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsBernhard MinettiLeni RiefenstahlAribert WäscherSet in the early part of 20th century Europe, where a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between 2 men; a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsOcañaCamiloGuillermoPortrait of Ocaña, a multi-artist who exploded the prevailing conventions in Barcelona during the last years of Franco's dictatorship.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsMiquel CorsPepa PalauJoan Pera
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsEnric MajóEnric CusíMaria Aurèlia CapmanyIn a small village in the heart of Catalonia, advantage is made of the holiday visit of an ecclesiastical authority to organie a series of talks on the subject of religion and sex in the present day.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsLluís HomarPepa LópezÀlex CasanovasAn amusing minimalist frieze in fifteen episodes about human behavior (Desire, Submission, Love, Jealousy, Wisdom, Honesty, Sincerity, Passion, Faith...) situated between two fantastic stories about Willpower and Doubt.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsCarme EliasLluís HomarRoger ComaSeven individual stories ending with each character meeting their doom are replayed with alternate endings, showing how one slight shift of events can change their fate.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsRoger CasamajorBruno BergonziniAntònia TorrensTwo young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsLuis Eduardo AuteMaria del Mar BonetTonino CarotoneA musical documentary that rummages around in the memories left by the extraordinary composer, lyricist and singer Gato Pérez, while attending his songs performed by popular voices of the Spanish current musical scene.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsVicky PeñaJoan CarrerasCristina PlazasIn 1971, Mercè Rodoreda met the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva and invited him to her house for a snack. Although she was a very reserved woman, that afternoon she surprisingly opened up and shared many secrets with him.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsEnric MajóNúria HostaRamoncínMario is dominated by his castrating wife, and is also suffering from writer's block. He goes to a local (very mixed) bar where he meets an exhuberant blonde prostitute, through her room mate, a gay gigolo. With Mario's help, the blonde goes on to better jobs in the world of pornography, involving traveling abroad. This may not seem like good news for Mario, but he may also move on to a better phase in his life as a result.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsPaco MorellAntonio FerrandisÁngel BurgosTwo young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in: kidnap the rich guy of the town.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsLloll BertranÁngel BurgosJosé María CañeteThe film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting some 14 different characters. They all have something in common - they're after love, money, live in or visit the same luxury apartment building, and speak Catalan, in the pulsating and hallucinating Barcelona of the 1990s.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsAmparo MorenoPavel AngelovMercè ArànegaRosita, a voluminous and temperamental diva of the opera, precipitately abandoned the shoot of "Tristan and Isolde" in Hollywood on hearing that the producer isn't going to offer her the leading role in his next film, "Romeo and Juliette".
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsRosa Maria SardàIsak FérrizJade PradasAnita has been working at a cinema box office for almost three decades, but the building is demolished to give way to a cinema complex, and she is forced into early retirement because she does not fit into the new company's image.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsBilly CullumGary WilmotMatthew WhiteThe MGMC presents a great show in London. Between the audience: Peter, a freudian psychiatrist married to a Finnish actor, Mika, David, a young British gay living in Banyoles, addicted to Grinder, and Coco Lamour, a Parisian French actress. Peter is a friend of Maria, also a Freudian psychiatrist, and Betsy, David's mother, living in Cadaqués. Maria prepares a trip to spend some days with Betsy. David works at a computer company in Girona directed by a very talented young Indian, Usha. David has a great crisis with his partner, Daniel, a Mallorcan living in Barcelona. Albert is a famous British writer retired in Begur passing the mourning for the loss of his partner. Gilda, a great actress, half Scotish half German, lives in Mallorca and is very close to Joan Laínez and MGMC. At her house every day there's a great party. Everyone is worried about the ending of the love story of David and Daniel, the young guys. But, as Shakespeare says "All's well that ends well" on a trip of the whole group to Mallorca.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsSanti MillánMercè PonsMarc CartesOne night, Pere-Lluc heading home drunk, hits his head on the aluminum ladder a girl is using to hang banners from the streetlights. As the days go by, he becomes more and more obsessed with her.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsJose CoronadoAitana Sánchez-GijónCecilia RossettoAnimals, when they've been wounded, lick themselves where it hurts. Nonetheless, they also pick themselves up and keep going; wounded, but still alive.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsÓscar JaenadaJosé SospedraAntonio ValeroAs a flashback, a young man, living with his parents and with vague aspirations to find a better life, is fascinated by the confidence of a professional gambler, in 1972 Valencia.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsNúria EspertJosep Maria PouRosa Maria Sardà6 characters--contemporary archetypes of urban solitude--in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsAnna LizaranJoan PeraJoan BorràsA family experiences two traumatic events in a lapse of forty-odd years: the loss of one of the family members and how this affects the others; and the arrival of new neighbors, strangers, who upset the family and supposed social harmony.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsMaria MolinsRadoczy ArpadMiquel SitjarAnna returns from Africa where she had been working as a nurse for an NGO on the front line in an area of conflict. She gets a job as a security guard at an exclusive health center where she meets a troubled young man.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsJordi BoschAleix AlbaredaMar UlldemolinsFifteen stories, some contemporary and some historical, where through humor, sarcasm and bravery accounts pain, old age, death and love but above all the human stupidity.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsRosa Maria SardàOriol PlaSanti MillánDavid is 20 years old and newly arrived in Barcelona in search of an opportunity. Gràcia, a lonely 60-year-old woman, offers him free room and boarding in exchange for his companionship.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsIgnasi MilletMercè BonaventuraJusep BoyaIgnasi M. is a documentary about an eccentric HIV positive, gay, Catalan man, who goes about his daily life in a humorous manner. He meets with friends and family members and discusses with them politics, sex, art, and much more.
- DirectorSergi LaraCarles PortaStarsRachel Hurd-WoodAndrés BatistaAlbert PratAlba (age 20) and Dídac (age 10) are the only survivors of a catastrophe that has devastated the planet. Their survival will mark a new beginning for humanity.
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsPilar AymerichColitaBeatriz de MouraDocumentary about well-known Barcelona photographer Isabel Steva Hernández, known as Colita.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGeraldine FarrarWallace ReidPedro de CordobaRamon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon convinces her Andreas dies in prison so she agrees to marry him. On their wedding day Ramon is paroled. Maria then stabs Ramon.
- DirectorManuel HuergaStarsDaniel BrühlTristán UlloaLeonardo SbaragliaA profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
- DirectorJudith ColellStarsMercedes SampietroEulàlia RamonEva SantolariaEight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsFrancesc ColomerMarina ComasNora NavasIn 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.
- StarsÀlex MonnerJoana VilapuigIgor SzpakowskiA group of young kids live in a hospital dealing with choices, love, life, and the people who make them stronger.
- DirectorMarc RechaStarsMacià ArguimbauBlai BonetMiquel GelabertTwo little siblings live in the island of Menorca at the turn of twentieth century. Their parents are gone so they live in the countryside with their uncle, "Es Conco", who takes care of them while he cultivates the farm in raw nature.
- DirectorPatricia FerreiraStarsMarina ComasÀlex MonnerAlbert BaróThree rebellious teens test their limits.
- DirectorManuel HuergaIn the year 2004, the first edition of a new cultural event took place in Barcelona: the Universal Forum of Cultures. During 141 days it brought together people with different interests, knowledge, believes and world views to celebrate diversity and discuss the most significant challenges of the 21st century. This film shows the experiences, ideas, sensations and opinions of many of the individuals who participated in the event.
- DirectorFrancesc BetriuStarsMónica CoronadoMariona MillàCarles RexachDocumentary, sometimes hard and sometimes fun, which pretends to be the self-portrait of Mónica, a peculiar quirky-looking woman who, for more than twenty years, has practiced street prostitution in the Raval district of Barcelona.
- StarsJosep Maria PouNino CastelnuovoAnalía GadéVida privada, a 4-episode TV-series based upon the literary work by Josep Mª of Segarra, is first of all the nostalgic chronicle of an era, of a group of different people in crisis. Represented in the late years of the Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, and in the early years of the First Republic, "Vida Privada" explains the lifestyle of the Barcelona high society, dominated by the intrigues and the moral, physical and economic failure of the members pertaining to it. A bourgeois social class surpassed by the events of its social environment. It is not more than the end of a world represented in a family, the Lloberola's, which set them as the symbol of this social environment in disintegration.
- DirectorAntoni RibasStarsÁngela MolinaPau GarsaballJeannine MestreThe story takes place in Barcelona following the disaster in Cuba until the Tragic Week, approximately from 1899 until 1909, by means of events which befall a family in that city.
- DirectorCarlos Marques-MarcetStarsPablo MolineroGloria MarchJany ColladoIn 1993, 18-year old Guillem Agulló, an antifascist, antiracist boy, is murdered in cold blood by an extreme rightwing gang. Based on a true story, his parents have to struggle hard in their quest for justice.
- DirectorLaura MañáStarsMàrcia CisteróEmilio Gutiérrez CabaÒscar MuñozDuring the spanish civil war, Frederica Montseny, an anarchist leader, becomes ministry of health. She was the first woman in Spain to be part of a government.
- DirectorOriol FerrerStarsCandela SerratNao AlbetFélix HerzogA love story set out from the 1960s to the 1980s in Catalunya; a convulsive period of strong political views and convictions.
- DirectorCarla SimónStarsLaia ArtigasPaula RoblesBruna CusíAfter her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsVicenç AltaióLluís SerratEliseu HuertasFamous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.
- DirectorSilvia MuntStarsMarina SalasPablo DerquiMiquel GelabertAdaptation of a very popular Catalan play by Josep María Sagarra, El Cafè de la Marina (The Marina Cafe) is set in a fishing village in the early 20th century, where life is tough and monotonous. The impending wedding of Rosa, the village bar-owner's youngest daughter, has seemingly enlivened the parish but behind this joy, the tragedy of Caterina, her elder sister, has tainted and perturbed the "well-meaning" villagers.
- DirectorDani de la OrdenStarsFrancesc ColomerJan CornetJoan DausàMultiple stories unfold in Barcelona during Midsummer's Eve.
- DirectorLluís DanésStarsRoger CasamajorNora NavasBruna CusíIn early 20th century Barcelona, little Teresa goes missing shocking the country. When police start investigating Enriqueta Martí, the "Vampiress of Raval", they cover a much more sinister affair.
- DirectorJordi CadenaStarsHermann BonnínSilvia MuntRosa NovellIn this free adaptation of the Henry James novel set in the early 19th century, a writer/critic dedicated to the life of poet Jeffrey Aspern, receives a mission in London. He is to sail to the Balearic Islands, the only place any information about Aspern may possibly be found. Unpublished texts by the poet are thought to be there; in the hands of an excentric old lady and her supposed niece, who live as recluses in an old palace on a remote small island off one of the Baleares. In his search, the writer becomes involved in their lives, while trying to obtain untangle the web of mysteries surrounding Alpern, his last work, and his relationship to these two women.
- DirectorElena MartínStarsElena MartínOriol Puig GrauLaura WeissmahrJulia goes to Berlin to study but once there, completely alone, she realizes that she doesn't know herself as well as she thought and that she has no idea what she wants to do while living in a completely new city.
- DirectorDavid MoragasStarsJacob PerkinsDavid MoragasJordan GeigerMarcos lands in New York only to find out his layover flight to San Francisco has been canceled. Having nowhere to go, he ends up in his friend's apartment with a complete stranger: Alan.