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- Asterix, the most cunning warrior of a Gaulish village resisting Roman occupation, must save their magic potion-brewing druid Getafix when he is kidnapped by an ambitious Centurion.
- Nobody Wants the Night is about the relentless icy landscape that separates and draws these two women together during the long, tense wait for the man they both love in such different ways.
- A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically-entertaining adventure, albeit one with much bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late-16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are at war. Seemingly seeking peace, French dowager Queen Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to marry him to her daughter, which would unite the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry--now married--must use all his guile to stay alive and maneuver for the throne.
- The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
- A wandering cowboy watches over formidable bandits who, to touch an inheritance, must eliminate the members of the jury who sentenced their uncle.
- A college film student, obsessed with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, investigates a murder committed in the apartment building across from his and suspects that his seductive neighbor hired a girlfriend to commit the deed.
- Poor tv series based on crime novels of the famous Catalan writer Manuel Vasquez Montalban. It is an Italian-French-Spanish co-production in six episodes, and two products made in France, two in Spain and two in Italy
- When Colonel Pretis of the U.N. falls in love with Mathilde, a local girl, during the Balkans war, he lets his passion overcome his sense of duty and responsibility in a country torn by civil war. But his emotions and the beautiful Croatian seaside blur the tragedies of war... until they all catch up with him in the most fatal manner.
- The life of the former football player Diego Armando Maradona is recreated in this film, from his childhood up to his first heart attack and his firm decision of recovering himself, passing through his stage of largest football glory when he was awarded with ten titles. This helped him to be chosen, in 2000, as the best athlete in the century, in a vote promoted by the FIFA.
- January 1939. The downfall of Barcelona confirms the default of the Spanish republicans. 500,000 of them had chosen the exile. Once arrived in France, men are disarmed and put in camps: Saint Cyprien, Argelès. Gurs... Concerning their families, women, children and old people, the administration distributes them in improvised centers, most of them in Ardèche. Elles et moi chooses to follow up the destiny of the Estevas all along these terrible months and the five war years that followed them. Lluís, the father, does not accept the defeat. He lives pursuing the reconquest and sacrifices his own destiny to these ideals. Pilar, his wife, expects to survive in this new country that she guesses will be hers during a long time. Together with her two children, Isabel and Ignacio, first in Ardèche and then in Marsella, always brave, firm, and with a prodigious capacity to adapt, she will accept the help and the proofs of a society undermined by the default and the cooperation. Sixty years later, Isabel Esteva, a famous costume designer, presents in Paris her last fashion collection. She evokes the memories of this confused time; her brother when he entered the Pétain's militia at 17 because he was famine; her father died in October 1944, once back in Spain with some other thousand combatants to prepare an insurrection against general Franco. War, exile, oppression, expectancy always disappointing, and at the same time feeling renewed, for a better world. Life goes on.
- The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate...
- Diane of Meridor, aged 23 years, lives a happy country life with her father. For the first time, Diana has her coming out ball, organized by the count of Monsoreau, who, in spite of being much older than her, wants to make her his wife, having a possessive and jealous love for the young woman. The duke of Anjou takes Diana in the ball, and tries to abuse of her exercising his prerogatives of being the brother of the king. Monsoreau will take advantage of this fact in his favor, and kidnaps de lady. He explains her father that Duke of Anjou, a known seducer, has kidnapped her. In order to safe her honor, he offers to marry her. Her father consents to it, with his heart broken by his sorrow. Diana of Meridor is forced to marry the damnable count of Monsoreau. Since then, she will know the Court and will live closely the various plots to betray the king, and discovers all around her the awful taste of deceit, jealousy, betrayal and intrigues of the Court. There is only one man capable of making her keeping her faith in life: Bussy d'Amboise.
- XVIII century. Calabria, in the southern Italy, is a land shocked by violence, bandits and abuse of power. There are, however, in this punished country, some people wishing progress and justice. We find among them Don Angelo, a Eucharistic minister, and Artemisia Sánchez, an independent woman with a strong character. They share a secret passion, a forbidden passion.
- Story in set in Sicily, 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal side, leading to intricate love affairs, difficult parental relashionship and obstacles on their way to the top.
- Vida 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.
- Maria and Jeffrey are a couple in their seventies whose marriage is in crisis. Maria tries to get their two sons and one daughter and their grandchildren together to celebrate the birthday of Assunta, their grandmother, the owner of Maria's beautiful house which remains standing despite the ravages of time.
- The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of the last natural sanctuaries that still exist, the Azéracs, landowners and aristocrats, work as wild bulls breeders. Shaken by passion and revenge, the family will have to face the adversities of a fate marked by the events that define the 20th century. In spite of this, the family will struggle to survive in an environment strongly bound to traditions and land.
- A time and place described through the life of Onofre Bouvila, this film is based on a famous novel exposing the 20 or so year time frame which transformed Barcelona, starting in the late 1880s. Onofre is a youngster down on his luck, abandoned by his fortune seeking father to a life of poverty and misery, alone with his mother. Once an adult, he also decides to seek fortune, and travels to Barcelona on the eve of the Universal Exposition of 1888, which so transformed the city. He immediately falls in love with Delfina, daughter of the owner of the hotel he moves into. Onofre searches for a job in this teeming city full of violence, criminals, sickness and poverty. He finds nothing. Unable to pay the hotel, he accepts a suggestion from Delfina: to produce and distribute pamphlets, during the Exposition, in support of the anarchists - a group she actively promotes, in the defense of the workers. Their relationship quickly turns into passion. But police repression dissuades him from political activity, and he returns to his original ambition of seeking fortune, at odds with Delfina's values. This transition will not only change his socio-economic standing, but will represent a political break which may turn Delfina away from him.
- Eva is inter railing through Europe to meet her boyfriend Klaus in Amsterdam and then travel on to Spain. On the way, Bosse she joins and eventually falls in love with Eva.
- Mario 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.
- Bolivia, 1945. Two murders have been committed in Hotel Central, the inhospitable meeting point of the mixture of indigenous, Creole and European people who live in San Jacinto, a city of despair. Adela, the attractive owner's wife, blames Maria, one of the servants. But Timar, a young traveler, finds out some information that suggests a very different truth. In an oppressive atmosphere, where escaping seems to be the only thing that matters, Timar will struggle between his feelings for Adela and the injustice of convicting an innocent person. The risk of it is losing the few values he still has; the reward, experiencing love at its most.
- A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
- Based on the novel "La mar es mala mujer" (Raúl Guerra Garrido, 1987), "Newfoundland" tells the gauge of a man who faces his fate. Antxón Elizalde, an experienced skipper of a fishing boat, clashes a young captain, Jose Antonio Errandonea, who is also disputing the love of his partner in land, Ainara. The sea and women seem to be the same. Antxón will have to work hard to retrieve his job, his love and his status for the others and for himself. Icebergs going adrift, ice and gigantic sea waves form the landscape of this story loaded with epics and legend. Newfoundland means struggling against the sea and the elements, against accidents on board. Against love and death.