While the great and the good of Spanish cinema were celebrating the annual film awards at a hotel Madrid, thieves made off with jewellery worth €30,000 from an unguarded hotel bedroom.
Looking for something to give you goosebumps this Halloween? The Local looks at eight Spanish films that are sure to have you cowering beneath the covers.
A documentary film compiled of video contributions from thousands of Spaniards filmed on a single day last year providing a beautiful and poignant snapshot of Spain is released in cinemas today.
Oscar-winning Spanish actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will begin shooting a movie about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar next month, the married couple's first film together since 2008.
Few issues marked Spain's recent history as much as the violence of Basque separatist group Eta, but it
was only when peace finally came that this bloody period made its way into films without taboo.
US film director Oliver Stone on Thursday accused President Barack Obama's administration of implementing a surveillance system worse than that of the feared Stasi secret police in East Germany.
Film director Pedro Almodóvar accused the Spanish media on Tuesday of exaggerating his role in the Panama Papers scandal as he screened his latest film "Julieta" at the Cannes film festival.
In his latest film to compete in the Cannes Film Festival, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar has ditched the humour and quirkiness that marks much of his work to tell a dramatic mother-daughter story.
Spanish films snagged a domestic market share of nearly 20 percent this year, one of its best home-turf results, with five movies drawing over a million viewers, the country's main film producers lobby said Tuesday.