Civil Spanish War Movies
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- DirectorKen LoachStarsIan HartRosana PastorIcíar BollaínDavid is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsKarra ElejaldeEduard FernándezSanti PregoWriter Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat.
- DirectorAntonio Sau OliteStarsFélix de PomésEnriqueta SolerRomán González 'Chispita'When returning from holidays with his family, a worker is fired. After a hard search of work, Juan feels disappointed and acquires a certain social restlessness. His wife, Marta, is forced to accept a humiliating job in order to feed her children. Juan reacts by sending Mata and their kids to a little village, while he wanders around Barcelona. Outraged by the conformism of the people, Juan assembles a rally, while organizing a Hunger March among the unemployed. When he goes with his colleagues to protest before the authorities, and precisely when he passes through the village where his family is, the revolution breaks out. Juan takes a riffle with the others and they all march forward, hoping that a better future will dawn.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsMadeleine CarrollHenry FondaLeo CarrilloA simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
- DirectorHeinz PaulStarsTheodor LoosIngeborg HertelJulius BrandtMilitary drama involving a German torpedo boat and a steamer captured by Russians during the Spanish Civil War, with some romance on the side between a young Nazi lieutenant and a dark Hispanic beauty engaged to his commanding officer.
- DirectorEduard von BorsodyStarsHedwig BleibtreuJoachim BrenneckeHeinz GoedeckeAt the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts to his friends and relatives. Inge is still waiting for him. After the beginning of WW II, German radio starts broadcasting the "Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht" - a program made of wishes from the soldiers. He hears the song, he wanted to hear, and so does Inge. A friend of Inge, who hopes she is willing to marry him, comes to the same squadron where Koch flies. Koch and Inge arrange a date at a Hamburg restaurant, but he and Ilse's friend are shot down the day before. In the hospital Koch finds out, that he and his friend love the same girl. He thinks they are already engaged and is willing to give her up.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsFosco GiachettiMireille BalinMaria DenisSet during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
- DirectorCarlos ArévaloStarsConchita MontenegroIsmael MerloRafaela SatorrésFrom early childhood, Luisa and Miguel have always been close. But several years later, as adults and being Spain at the beginning of the civil war, the two young persons give their support to ideologically opposing camps. The communist Miguel and Luisa the Falangist not they will agree, but the tragic events that loom over the country will make them pay a high price: she is stopped, after a house search, in a red hordes cheka and he eventually is searching her desperately.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsJohn GarfieldMaureen O'HaraWalter SlezakIn 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- DirectorHerman ShumlinStarsCharles BoyerLauren BacallKatina PaxinouIn 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
- DirectorLorenzo Llobet GraciaStarsFernando Fernán GómezMaría Dolores PraderaIsabel de PomésHis director's only film, Vida en Sombras tells the story of a man who from his childhood falls in love with cinema and grows to be a director and cameraman. While struggling to make pictures he gets married and is seriously struck by the Spanish Civil War. Life events with lights and shadows mix with a deep love for movies which will prevail in the end.