Movies & TV Shows/Series by A Contracorriente Films at a glance

23 movies found (page 1/1):

Cuánto me queda(2023)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama

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The Bookshop(2017)

1h 50min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 199 votes)

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Directed by Isabel Coixet - With Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Nighy, Charlotte Vega, Frances Barber, Barry K. Barnes, ...

Le Chef(2012)

| 1h 24min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 255 votes)

A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

Directed by Daniel Cohen - With Jean Reno, André Penvern, Geneviève Casile, Issa Doumbia, James Gerard, Julien Boisselier, ...

Turning Tide(2013)

1h 37min | Adventure, Drama

3.1/5 (with 102 votes)

Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Frank at the last minute for the start of the Vendée Globe. Nine days into the race and leading, Yann is forced to stop in Cape Verde to repair his broken center-board. Back in the race, Yann discovers a stowaway on board, a Senegalese teenager named Moussa. Faced with the risk of disqualification because of Moussa’s presence, Yann hesitates… Their encounter leads to the most unforgettable round-the-world race ever.

Directed by Christophe Offenstein - With François Cluzet, Arly Jover, Guillaume Canet, Jean-Paul Rouve, José Coronado, Karine Vanasse, ...

Painless(2012)

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| 1h 45min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 72 votes)

While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

Directed by Juan Carlos Medina - With Derek de Lint, Irene Montalà, Félix Gómez, Tómas Lemarquis, Juan Diego, Àlex Brendemühl, ...

Black Snow(2017)

1h 30min | Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 86 votes)

Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.

Directed by Martín Hodara - With Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Dolores Fonzi, Federico Luppi, Laia Costa, Mikel Iglesias, ...

The Movie Teller(2023)

1h 56min | Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A poor young girl living in Chile with her wheelchair-confined father and four siblings tries to save up enough money to watch movies at her local cinema.

Directed by Lone Scherfig - With Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl, Sara Becker

The Best Summer of My Life(2019)

1h 31min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

A father in financial problems takes his son on vacation as he tries to solve his life.

Directed by Dani de la Orden - With Leo Harlem, Toni Acosta, Maggie Civantos, Stephanie Gil, Arturo Valls, Nathalie Seseña, ...

Carpoolers(2021)

1h 27min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Four travellers meet in Madrid’s city centre through a rideshare app. Four individuals who could never imagine the journey they are about to embark on, as they gradually exchange secrets, emotions and mistrust, eventually arriving at a very different destination to the one they had planned. Along the way, they will learn a lot about who they are travelling with... and about themselves.

Directed by Hugo Martín Cuervo - With Salva Reina, Ana Polvorosa, Pol Monen, Andrea Duro

The Distinguished Citizen(2016)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 107 votes)

After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worse idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!

Directed by Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn - With Oscar Martínez, Andrea Frigerio, Dady Brieva, Belen Chavanne, Nora Navas, Gustavo Garzón, ...

The Broken Crown(2016)

1h 53min | Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.

Directed by Jordi Frades - With Irene Escolar, Eusebio Poncela, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, José Coronado, Ramón Barea, Fernando Cayo, ...

Requirements to Be a Normal Person(2015)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 54 votes)

Maria is 30 years old, she is a peculiar person and has one goal: become a normal person. But first of all she must discover what is exactly this. Which kind of person is she? Is she a normal person? What does exactly means? That question goes deeper into her mind. After she lists every requirements, she proposes to reach them. In that journey she will find her brother's help, Alex, a 25 years old boy who is mentally challenged and achieves every list requirements. She meets Borja as well, a boy obsessed with diets and lose weight. They will make a curious pact: she helps him to live an active and healthy live, and he helps her to meet her goal: become a normal person.

Directed by Leticia Dolera - With Leticia Dolera, Manuel Burque, Silvia Munt, Miki Esparbé, Alexandra Jiménez, Blanca Apilánez, ...

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The Enchanted(2023)

1h 48min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

After her recent separation, Irene seeks to regain her calm in a village in the Catalan Pyrenees, but the familiarity of the place forces her to confront her fears.

Directed by Elena Trapé - With Laia Costa, Pep Cruz, Aina Clotet, Daniel Perez Prada

Litus(2019)

1h 25min | Drama, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

A group of friends reunited after the suicide of one of them must face all the secret and lies between them.

Directed by Dani de la Orden - With Belén Cuesta, Miquel Fernández, Marta Nieto, Adrián Lastra, Quim Gutiérrez, Álex García, ...

Not Such An Easy Life(2023)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Today Isaías runs back and forward between the park where he plays with his kids and his architecture studio, where he complains to his colleague Nico. No matter where he is, Isaías feels he should be somewhere else. And when he's with Ainhoa, his wife, they realise just how tiring children can be when they're so young. In the park, he makes friends with Sonia, the mother of another child, from whom he learns that raising children and coming of age isn't that easy. It never was.

Directed by Félix Viscarret - With Miki Esparbé, Álex García, Ana Polvorosa, Julián Villagrán, Ramón Barea, Ione Irazabal, ...

Todos lo hacen(2022)

1h 39min | Comedy, Crime

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The story follows several couples who return to the hotel where they celebrated their wedding years ago at the invitation of the owner of the accommodation. Some live happily married, others on the contrary are on the verge of divorce. They all have something in common, an enemy. And it is that the owner of the hotel is on the verge of ruin and is willing to get out of that situation no matter what.

Directed by Hugo Martín Cuervo - With Andrea Duro, Salva Reina, Kira Miró, Carlos Santos, Mariam Hernández, Julián López, ...

The Inseparables(2023)

1h 30min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

The animated buddy movie follows the misadventures of Don, a runaway puppet with boundless imaginations, and DJ Doggy Dog, an abandoned plush looking for a friend, who cross paths in Central Park and team up against all odds for a epic friendship adventure in New York.

Directed by Jeremy Degruson

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders(2019)

1h 32min | Documentary, History

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.

Wild Flowers(2022)

1h 47min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more Julia asks herself if Óscar is the person she really needs by her side, prompting her to set out on a personal journey to find happiness for herself and for her family.

Directed by Jaime Rosales - With Anna Castillo, Oriol Pla Solina, Manolo Solo, Carolina Yuste, ...

One for All(2020)

1h 31min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.

Directed by David Ilundain Areso - With David Verdaguer, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ana Labordeta de Grandes, Clara Segura, Betsy Túrnez, Miguel Ángel Tirado, ...

Journey to Somewhere(2021)

1h 48min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing objects, feels overwhelmed by the weight of memories and her new responsibilities. Fortunately, the former inhabitants of the house soon come to her aid. (An account of the life and work of Fernando Fernán Gómez [1921-2007] and his wife Emma Cohen [1946-2016], two singular artists and fundamental figures of contemporary Spanish culture.)

Directed by Helena de Llanos

Dear Grandma(2022)

1h 40min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Mikel is a Basque who hates "what is Basque" and decides to emigrate to Argentina, with the misfortune that he arrives in a community of Basque descendants from the interior of the country who live the traditions of their ancestors with great passion and who organize life in around his Basque club.

Directed by Jabi Elortegi - With Joseba Usabiaga, Eduardo Blanco, Itziar Aizpuru, Inés Efron, Laura Oliva

Unzué. L'últim equip del Juancar(2023)

1h 32min | Documentary