This document provides summaries of several famous Spanish films including "The Impossible", "Orphanage", "Agora", "Tad the Lost Explorer", "Start Over Again", "Belle Époque", "Everything About My Mother", and "Out to Sea". It notes the directors and main actors for each film, when they were made, what they are about, and which ones won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

1. SOME FAMOUS
SPANISH FILMS

2. Nowadays, most of the films are made in the
EEUU or in the UK. But in Spain also films are
made but they don’t become as popular as
the films in the other countries mentioned.
Here some of those films:

3. “Lo imposible” (The impossible):
• This film was directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, a
spanish director, but the actors in this film are
from EEUU, like Naomi Watts and Ewan
McGregor. This film was one of the most
successful in 2012 because it hadn’t the premiere
only in Spain, also in many other countries. This
film is about a family that was spending their
Christmas holidays in Thailand when one day,
when they were in the pool, there was an
earthquake causing two tsunamis. This film is
based on a true story.

5. “El orfanato” (Orphanage):
• This film was directed by the same director as The
Impossible. In this case, the main character,
Laura, is an spanish actress called Belén Rueda.
Laura settled with her family in the orphanage
where she grew up as a child. Her purpose is to
open a home for disabled children. The
atmosphere of the old house wakes up the
imagination of his son, who starts being left
dragging for the fantasy. The games of the child
worry increasingly Laura, who starts suspecting
that in the house there is something that
threatens her family.

7. “Ágora” (Agora):
• This is a film directed by Alejandro Amenábar, a
spanish director. The main character, Hypatia,
was played by Rachel Weisz. This film is based on
the VI century. Hypatia, philosopher and
atheistic, fights to save the wisdom of the ancient
world, without perceiving that her young slave
Davo is debated between the love that she
practises privately and the freedom that might
reach joining the unstoppable ascent of the
Christianity.

9. “Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones” (Tad,
the lost explorer):
• This film is for kids. It’s a spanish movie
directed by Enrique Gato. This film is about a
boy who wants to be an archaeologist. People
think he’s a famous archaeologist so he have
to save a mythical lost city from an evil
treasure hunting company.

11. “Volver a empezar” (Start over again):
• This film was directed by José Luis Garci in 1982.
Antonio Miguel Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis)
arrives to Gijón, his hometown, from Stockholm,
where he had just received the Nobel prize of
literature. For forty years he has been teacher of
Medieval Literature in Berkeley’s prestigious
University (California), where he has alternated
his educational labor with the literary production
that has given him world reputation.
• This film won an Oscar to better movie of
not english speech.

13. “Belle Époque”:
• This film was directed by Fernando Trueba in 1992
although it is set before the Spanish Civil War (1936-
1939). Fernando decides to wake up and he shelters in
a country house, where he is received by Manolo, an
eccentric painter who lives withdrawn due to his
political ideas. The boy maintains relations with the
four daughters of his protector (Rocio, Violeta, Clara
and Luz) without knowing very well which of them he
is in love with.
• This film won an Oscar to better movie of not
english speech.

15. “Todo sobre mi madre” (Everything
about my mother):
•
This film was directed by Pedro Almodóvar in
1999. It is set in Madrid. Manuela, a single
mother, sees die his son the day of his
birthday. Shattered, she travels to Barcelona
to look for the father of the boy.
• This film won an Oscar to better movie of
not english speech.

17. “Mar adentro” (Out to sea):
• “This film was directed by Alejandro Amenábar in 2004.
Ramón (Javier Bardem) leads almost thirty years humbled
in a bed to the care of his family. His only window to the
world is that of his room, which gives to the sea, where he
had the accident that interrupted his youth. Since then, his
only dream is die worthily. In his life, two women exercise a
great influence: Julia (Belén Rueda), a lawyer who supports
his cause, and Rosa (Lola Dueñas), a neighbor who tries to
convince him that living worth it. But also they, captivated
by luminous personality of Ramón, will rethink the
beginning govern his lifes. He knows that only who really
loves him will help him to undertake his last journey