The best Marta Belaustegui’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Marta Belaustegui’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 Marta Belaustegui.
Nicotina
6.5/10
A real-time dark comedy about a science geek who tangles with a clutch of Russian gangsters after he delivers them the wrong computer disk.
Sara's Notebook
5.9/10
Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the embassy, have news on her whereabouts until a photo appears of Sara in a mining town. Apparently, Sara is being held captive by The Hawk, the fearsome rebel leader who controls the mafias behind the prized mineral coltan.
Malena es un nombre de tango
6/10
The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate relationships with men. Based on the bestselling novel by Amanda Grandes.
Question of Luck
6.1/10
Julio is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems strangely unenthusiastic about marrying into Concha’s affluent family lottery business. Things get complicated when he finds a fortune in jewels...
Cha cha chá
6/10
This Spanish romantic comedy focuses on ad-agency career girl Lucia and her best friend, dance-teacher Maria. Maria's boyfriend is the sexist Pablo. One night Lucia puts away too much alcohol, sleeps with Pablo, and hatches a plan to have Pablo to herself by finding a new man for Maria.
Gipsy
3.6/10
Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.
X
5.8/10
The film tells the obsession of a policeman to find out who is the murderer of a young homosexual. The character played by Antonio Resines, is a cop who gets up in a strange house with a huge hangover and has no memory of what he did last night, when the homosexual was killed. He is the prime suspect.
Las razones de mis amigos
6/10
Santiago, Marta and Carlos meet once a month to eat together, always in the same restaurant. They have known each other since university, more than 15 years ago. Then they shared many dreams and illusions, but over the years each has followed his own path. In one of those meals, Carlos borrows four million pesetas from Santiago and another four from Marta because his computer company has problems with a project they are developing. Months go by and Carlos can't get their money back. Santiago and Marta assure him that it does not matter, but in reality their lives have changed since that meal.
Marta and Surroundings
6.6/10
A group of friends, all about in their thirties, gather at Julio's home, one of them, to help him paint the walls. During the hours they are together, their problems, their envy, their failures, their quarrels come to light. Around them, Marta will find how they really are.
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.
My Brother
7.3/10
Alberto has fled as far as possible from his conservative family. He lives in Berlin with his partner, and works as a comics illustrator. But an unexpected event forces him to return home and face the past.
L'amore imperfetto
6.5/10
By My Side Again
6.8/10
When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.
Le coup du sort
6.2/10
In the French Basque Country, near Saint-Jean-les-Bains, young man Julien (Noriega) finds a corpse, buried with jewels, in an abandoned car near a ravine. Julien cannot resist the temptation and takes the jewels with him. He later learned from the press that the man in the car was killed. Maria (Galiena), the boarding lady who accommodates Julien, brings him into contact with a healer. Julien and Maria become lovers, cash in on the loot and flee. It is quite obvious that this does not lead to a happy ending and that the opportunistic amateur thief is confronted with professional criminals. Galiena, in particular, as an Italian hotel keeper, Maria, impresses in a beautiful drama written by Valérie Bonnier, Carlos Perez-Merinero, Luis Maria and Robert Valey.
