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;LYɪ^ 7LMd]TY_S (2006, Fantasy) Following Spain’s bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world
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path to saving herself and her mother. The lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and
before Ofelia can turn back, she’s at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil.

BPWNZXP 8] 8L]^SLWW (1953, Drama) News reaches a small Spanish village that “the Americans
are coming” to implement the Marshall plan. Anticipating that the American might spend
money on the town, they transform it into a folksy Andalusian village with guitar strummers
and false building facades to please the visitors—but the results aren’t as expected.

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middle-class family. The disturbed eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters
and mourns the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost. Shifting between fantasy
and reality, it evokes the complex feelings of childhood as well as the struggles of a nation
emerging from the shadows.

Portugal
7T^MZY >ZYR (1933, Classic) The story of a young Portuguese student in Lisbon living a
casual, bohemian life on the family dime while half-heartedly working toward a degree.
Complications arise when his relaxed lifestyle goes bad and his supporters discover that he
wasn’t as studious as he led them to believe.

,YTVT -»M» (1942, Classic) From what looks like a simple story about children (the title is from
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played out. Filmed in and around Oporto, the cast is nearly all local children.

1LOZ 3T^_»]TL Oɪ`XL .LY_LOPT]L (1948, Music/Classic) Loosely based on the life of singing
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Portugal’s passionate artistic society. Rodrigues was a successful singer/actress who brought
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several instances of her powerful singing.

7T^MZY >_Z]d (1994, Drama) A straightforward tale of a German sound engineer who falls in love
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old houses, narrow streets, the sounds of the city, and the lives lived in Portugal’s capital. The
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love story to city.

,M]LSLX ALWWPd (1993, Drama) A modern Portuguese twist on Madame Bovary—wherein an
intelligent woman, brought up in restrictive culture of mid-20th century Portugal, marries a
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Portuguese river Douro, and makes good use of the lovely town and landscape.

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