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THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS (2021)
Starring Javier Cámara, Belén Cuesta, Alberto San Juan and Griselda Siciliani. Directed by Cesc Gay.

Julio and Ana have been together for over fifteen years. They don’t look at each other or touch each other anymore and daily conflicts have become the norm. This evening, Ana has invited the upstairs neighbours over. Salva and Laura are slightly younger than them and welcomed them with open arms when they moved into the building, but the constant moaning and groaning coming from their apartment has become a source of arguments for Julio and Ana... perhaps it’s jealousy, they wish their own sex life was as spicy.

TRUMAN (2016)
Starring Ricardo DarÍn, Javier CÁmara and Dolores Fonzi. Directed by Cesc Gay.

When theatre actor Julián (Darín) receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tomás (Cámara), the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Julian’s failing health. Tomas is baffed by his friend’s decision to forgo treatment and instead focus on putting his a airs in order: distributing possessions, reconciling past disputes, and, most importantly, finding a home for his beloved Staffordshire terrier, Truman. It’s this task that is causing Julián the greatest concern.

Over four days, the two men walk the streets of Madrid, visiting bookshops, restaurants, doctors, and veterinarians, and examine their lives – their loves, successes and failures – speculating on what the future holds.

LIVING IS EASY (WITH EYES CLOSED) (2014)
Starring Javier CÁmara, Natalia De Molina and Francesc Colomer. Directed by David Trueba.

t’s 1966, regional Spain: Antonio (played by the brilliant is a teacher and an obsessive Beatles fan – a passion that carries through to his classroom, where he uses the lyrics from “Help!” to teach his pupils English. By the rigid standards of the day, this makes Antonio a radical. When he learns that John Lennon is filming Richard Lester’s How I Won the War on the other side of the country, Antonio drops everything and sets out in in his tiny Fiat to find the production’s location, hoping Lennon can help him understand the lyrics to the newly released ‘Revolver’ LP.

En route, Antonio adopts two hitchhiking runaways: Juanjo, a 16-year-old boy fleeing his Franco-loving father, and Belén, 20 years old, single and pregnant, reluctantly heading home to her mother. Together they travel across the sun- drenched landscape towards a destination where they’ll learn more about themselves – and one another – than they could have ever imagined.

I'M SO EXCITED! (2013)
Starring PenÉlope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Paz Vega, Javier CÁmara, Cecilia Roth, Blanca SuÁrez, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Antonio De La Torre and Lola Dueñas. Directed by Pedro AlmodÓvar.

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BAD EDUCATION (2005)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Nacho Pérez, Raúl García Forneiro, Javier Cámara and Alberto Ferreiro. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.