Blanca Portillo – MRQE

Maixabel

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasas husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. Everyone deserves a second chance, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.

Escape (2012/IV)

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man raised in captivity and surrounded by books goes outside for the first time. In practice, nothing fits with the theory read in his immense library. His gridded rationality, his love for strict rules and his allergy to everything ambiguous and hypocritical cause him to turn everything upside down and make others have to adapt, facing their own inconsistencies and the duplicity of the social, moral and judicial system. human. Locked in his own mind, everything is unknown, hostile. He needs an escape route. Where will he find it? Jail seems to be his only option.

Los abrazos rotos

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Patio de mi cárcel, El

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends — a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant — in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.

Siete mesas de billar francés

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy’s grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man’s lover, explains the dire traits suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables.

Goya’s Ghosts

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Elsa y Fred

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A fender bender on a Madrid street brings together 78-year-old Alfredo (Manuel Alexandre), a widowed hypochondriac, and Elsa (China Zorrilla), close in age to Alfredo but as free-spirited as he is uptight. The unlikely pair begin a late-life romance, with Elsa tempting the man she renames “Fred” into such acts of daring as ordering a hugely expensive meal at a restaurant and skipping out on the check. Alfredo in turn decides to make the one great wish of Elsa’s life come true.

Volver (2006/I)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter’s murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.

I Know Who You Are

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.

Color de las nubes, El

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Clementina befriends Lolas nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lolas house. The adventure element of pic is in a smuggling gangs attempt to recover the drugs.