Movies

The Barber of Seville (1987)

Gioachino Rossini's world-famous comic opera is performed before a live audience in this film graced with the sounds of the Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra. French dramatist Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais explains the plot of The Barber of Seville in his foreword: ''An amorous old man intends to marry his ward on the following day; a young man who is more clever forestalls him, and on that very day, captures the girl in the guardian's house, right under his nose, and makes her his wife.''

Flamenco (1995)

Flamenco is Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura's tribute to the beauty and diversity of Spain's national dance. Filmed in an abandoned Sevillan train station, the film presents the 13 rhythms of flamenco.

Volver (2006)

Written and directed by Spanish film icon Pedro Almodóvar, the film follows Raimunda (Penelope Cruz), a mother in Madrid, who lost her parents years ago in a fire in La Mancha. After her aunt's death, Raimunda's sister Sole returns to the village for the funeral and finds that her aunt continues to speak to her departed mother after her death.

Abre los ojos (1997)

Directed by Alejandro Amenábar and remade by American director Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky, this film follows César, a successful and handsome young man in Madrid who becomes severely disfigured in an automobile crash. The surreal plotline also involves a company specializing in cryogenically preserved human beings.