Soon after the death of dictator Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas. Here's why it played an important role in shaping the Spanish culture we see today.
With Spain's strict lockdown set to run until late April and plenty of home time on the horizon for 2020, there's no better time than the present to get stuck into an enthralling 'Made in España' Netflix series and improve your Spanish in the process.
Dramatic, warlike and familiarly comic – the 231 Spanish films released in 2019 offer a remarkable variety of genres but very few truly memorable moments.
Two and a half years ago friends Nichole Hastings and Dominic Anglim first discussed their shared passion of independent filmmaking and wondered why the concept of “film slams” hadn’t caught on in Spain.
Spain's film academy said Thursday it had picked veteran director Pedro Almódovar's latest drama "Pain and Glory" to represent the country at the Oscars.
Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, known for films as diverse as "M*A*S*H" and the Hunger Games series, will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain's San Sebastian film festival.
With a non-stop two-hour orgy shot from every imaginable angle, Albert Serra's "Freedom" is the most shockingly explicit film at this year's Cannes film festival.
The former administrators of three pirate film and series sites that became hugely popular went on trial Monday in Spain where they risk jail for violating intellectual property rights.
The first Netflix movie in competition at the Berlin film festival, telling the extraordinary true story of a gay marriage in Spain a century ago, premiered Wednesday amid a protest by German cinema operators.
The spectre of the Civil War continues to haunt Spain in many different ways. It manifests itself overtly in conflicts over Catalan independence but also more subtly through art, literature and film.
US comic actor Danny DeVito, the star of "Twins" and "Batman Returns", will receive a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastián film festival in Spain next month, organisers said Monday.
Don’t be alarmed when travelling on Madrid’s metro this weekend if you hear an unusual announcement over the tannoy: “The next station is Han Solo. Change here for lines 2 and 3”
American actor Viggo Mortensen, known for playing Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has become a member of pro-independence Catalan association Omnium Cultural, the organisation said Thursday.
Spanish Oscar winner Penelope Cruz said Wednesday that putting a firewall between acting and her private life -- even when working with husband Javier Bardem -- had put a stop to the "torture" of her early years in the industry.
It was where Javier Bardem memorably declared his love for Penelope Cruz in 2010 -- now the golden couple of Spanish cinema will open this year's Cannes film festival together on Tuesday.
Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will close the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, hitting the big screen nearly two decades after the director first started the project.
David Simon, the creator of acclaimed television show "The Wire," has teamed up with Spain's Mediapro to make a series on the Spanish civil war, the media group said Monday.
