Fernando Fernán Gómez Movies

The Spirit of the Beehive

80/100

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.

Belle Epoque

72/100

A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.

Butterfly

76/100

For Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older ... See full summary »

En la ciudad sin límites

73/100

Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the...

The Grandfather

75/100

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.

Mama Turns 100

75/100

Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In ... See full summary »

Anna and the Wolves

75/100

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three...

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

68/100

God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesus Christ disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To solve the dispute they decide to organise ... See full summary »

The Shanghai Spell

58/100

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old ... See full summary »

Plenilune

62/100

Mia Sarah

67/100

In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a long line of psychologists come to cure ... See full synopsis »

La corte de Faraón

65/100

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage... See full summary »

Life Goes On

79/100

Two sisters, between whom exists a tumultuous sibling rivalry, each try to find success, love and status in 1960s Madrid.

La mitad del cielo

72/100

Rosa is an cantabrian woman who travel to Madrid after the Civil War. With the help of Don Pedro, a chief supplies, she opens a restaurant that transforms in a political and intelectual center.

Moors and Christians

59/100

La venganza de Don Mendo

72/100

After losing all his money playing cards, Don Mendo Salazar, Marqués de Cabra go to the house of his beloved Magdalena, daughter of a friend of the King. There, they are discovered by her ... See full summary »

Para que no me olvides

70/100

That Happy Couple

70/100

Good-for-nothing Juan marries Carmen to begin suffering what he thinks her and their friends' scorn at his proven inability to make a living, until he's lured to an apparent sound business that will for sure make them rich.

Vida en sombras

75/100

His director's only film, Vida en Sombras tells the story of a man who from his childhood falls in love...

Carnival Sunday

67/100

The story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film.

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo

66/100

Don Quixote is obsessed with knighthood and its honor codes. Together with his singular squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote remembers the adventures they have shared.

The Sea and the Weather

76/100

La vida por delante

73/100

Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds...

Los zancos

68/100

Ángel is an aging professor, a lonely widower without purpose. His lovely, spirited neighbor, Terese...

Esquilache

70/100