The best Alberto Jiménez’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alberto Jiménez’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alberto Jiménez.
The Sea Inside
8/10
The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
Roma
7.4/10
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
El Bola
7.3/10
El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.
Shooting Elizabeth
5.2/10
Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
The Best of Me
6.2/10
Raquel, a young radio broadcaster, is deeply in love with Tomas, an Olympic runner. On the day she finds a house for them to share, he collapses during training and is rushed to the hospital. His life is in danger; his liver crashed and he is in need of an urgent transplant. Without any warning, Tomas turns from a fine athlete to an exhausted, dysfunctional, sick person. Raquel devotes herself to helping him. How far will she go for love? And what will she find out about intimacy and about herself in the process? The Best of Me is an intriguing film about the tension between love and sacrifice and about the unbearable fine line between them.
Rough Winds
5.8/10
Two strangers flee from their past and settle in an urbanization on the Cádiz coast. There, hundreds of kilometers from Madrid, they try to rebuild their lives, even though the memories are still very strong.
Sólo mía
6/10
A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Oviedo Express
4.8/10
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
Carol's Journey
6.7/10
Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
The Sandman
6.3/10
Two love birds fly out of the cuckoo's nest in a stirring Spanish romance of mad love and doomed passion.
Amo tu cama rica
6/10
Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
Reflections
4.5/10
Un buen hombre
6.3/10
The world that was (and that is)
7/10
The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.
Pájaros muertos
5.6/10
249. La noche en que una becaria encontró a Emiliano Revilla
On October 30, 1988, the businessman Emiliano Revilla had been kidnapped by ETA for 249 days. After more than eight months of captivity, hopes of liberation were increasingly scarce and very few journalists were still standing guard at the employer's house. María José Sáez, a young editor, formerly of the EFE Agency, was the only one who was close to the house on the night of October 30th.
The Bogeyman
6.5/10
When 10-year-old Nemo's mother suddenly dies, the boy is forced to go live with his maternal uncle's family. They are cordial and treat him well, but his 12-year-old cousin, Iván, begins to tease and tell him stories about the Bogeyman and how he'll come and get him if he doesn't behave. At first young Nemo doesn't believe the stories, insisting that Iván is just making things up...
El gran salto adelante
La mirada violeta
5.4/10
El principio de Arquímedes
6.5/10
Sonia and Rocio are two friends who are not happy with their lives. Sonia is a fashion executive who hardly sees her son and husban, while Rocio wants to find a good job. Both believe that the life of the other would make them happier.
