Pere Portabella’s first work as a director starts with the following phrase: “defeated…but not conquered”. This may or should be taken as an allusion to the technical K.O. taken by Portabella from Franco’s regime during the sixties as regards his work as a producer. Through the extremely raging playthings of the words of Catalan poet Joan Brossa, Portabella attempts to dismantle the forms of advertising discourse of that time.

Two sisters living with their aunt in a mountain village are fond of a writer whom they have the chance to meet, both of them falling in love with him. When he proposes to one sister, not wanting to hurt the other she is ready to renounce.

A young factory worker sends out pictures of herself to a beauty contest and hopes to be chosen. In the same place works Fernando, whom the other employees do not like because of his being very arrogant. In revenge, Rosita pretends to love him. Fernando discovers her double game, but also pretends he is not aware.

Short fictional film made by the anarcho-syndicalist labour union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), about the development of the social revolution in Spain.

An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.

A 30-year-old actress named María struggles with deep-seated dissatisfaction and emotional emptiness within her marriage. Seeking a remedy for her existential restlessness, she attempts to reconnect with a former lover. Her journey of self-discovery unfolds across the modernist architecture of Barcelona.

A teacher whose true vocation is that of a bullfighter and, since bullfights are frowned upon in Catalonia, he is having a hard time working on what he likes. The crisis will force him to work in a theater performing a pornographic act to replace his partner's partner, whose social security problems have forced him to leave his job.

Spanish Zorro adaptation

In the year 2000, in a world where nations exercise strict control over their populations, Dr. Ulop is researching a way to transfer human memories to another brain.

Derek, a handsome young Englishman, begins seducing the local women of a Spanish seaside town, only for a murderer to start picking them off one by one.