List of Spanish Civil War films
Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films which include events of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) in the narrative.
For short films about the Spanish Civil War, see the List of World War II short films.
Films made during the Spanish Civil War
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | United States | The Last Train from Madrid | James P. Hogan | Drama. Refugees flee bombing of Madrid | |
| 1938 | United States | Blockade | William Dieterle | Drama. Peasant supports the Republic | |
| 1938 | Germany | Comrades at Sea | Kameraden auf See | Heinz Paul | Drama. German sailors save Spanish civilians at he beginning of the Civil War |
| 1938 | Mexico | Refugiados en Madrid | Refugiados en Madrid | Alejandro Galindo | Drama. Refugees in Madrid |
| 1938-39 (released commercially in 1945) | France and Spain ("Subsecretaría de Propaganda del Ministerio de Estado" of the Second Republic) | Espoir: Sierra de Teruel | La Esperanza. Sierra de Teruel | Boris Peskine & André Malraux | Action Drama. Shows defense of the 2nd Spanish Republic by the Republican air force, filmed on location in northeastern Spain. Includes scenes of street fighting and a bombing raid. |
Spanish guerrillera and American anti-Fascist in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Films made afterwards
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Italy | Carmen Among the Reds | Carmen fra i rossi | Edgar Neville | Tragic love between two Nationalist agents among the Republicans[1] | |
| 1939 | Italy, Spain | Front of Madrid | Frente de Madrid | Edgar Neville | Tragic love between two Nationalist agents among the Republicans[2] | |
| 1940 | United States | Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | Romantic comedy. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940 | ||
| 1940 | Italy | The Man of the Legion | L'uomo della legione | Romolo Marcellini | Italian veteran of the War of Ethiopia volunteers to fight for the Falange in Spain | |
| 1940 | Italy, Spain | The Siege of the Alcazar | L'assedio dell'Alcazar (Italian) Sin novedad en el Alcázar (Spanish) |
Augusto Genina | Drama. Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936 | |
| 1943 | United States | The Fallen Sparrow | Richard Wallace | Spy thriller based on Dorothy B. Hughes novel | ||
| 1943 | United States | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | Drama based on Ernest Hemingway novel. American joins guerrillas in attack on bridge | ||
| 1943 | Italy | Special Correspondents | Inviati speciali | Romolo Marcellini | An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt during World War II | |
| 1956 | East Germany | Mich dürstet | Karl Paryla | |||
| 1960 | United States, Italy | The Angel Wore Red | La sposa bella | Nunnally Johnson | Romantic drama from Bruce Marshall novel | |
| 1960 | East Germany | Five Cartridges | Fünf Patronenhülsen | Frank Beyer | ||
| 1964 | United States | Behold a Pale Horse | Fred Zinnemann | Drama loosely based on the life of Francesc Sabaté Llopart. After the war, a Republican exile in France launches raids into Spain. | ||
| 1971 | France | Viva la muerte | Fernando Arrabal | |||
| 1975 | Bulgaria | Doomed Souls | Osadeni Dushi (Осъдени Души) | Vulo Radev | Romance drama based on Dimitar Dimov novel | |
| 1976 | Italy | A Life Sold | Una vita venduta | Aldo Florio | Two Italian soldiers of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. Based on Leonardo Sciascia short novel L'antimonio | |
| 1976 | United Kingdom | The Madness (TV) | James Cellan Jones | [3] | ||
| 1977 | Canada | Bethune (TV) | Eric Till | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spain, then China for Sino-Japanese War | ||
| 1980 | Finland | The War We Left Behind | Espanjankävijät | Mikael Wahlforss | Drama. Story of Finnish volunteers of the International Brigades, including interviews of Finnish veterans and Dolores Ibárruri. | |
| 1982 | Spain | Valentina (TV) | Crónica del alba. Valentina | Antonio José Betancor | A Spanish Republican POW recounts the story of his childhood sweetheart | |
| 1986 | Spain | Dragon Rapide | Dragon Rapide | Jaime Camino | Drama. Gen. Franco prepares his uprising against the Republic from Spanish Morocco, 1936 | |
| 1986 | Spain | Voyage to Nowhere | El viaje a ninguna parte | Fernando Fernán Gómez | Comedy-drama based on director's novel. Travelling comedy troupe during war and post-war Francoist Spain | |
| 1990 | Canada, France, China | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | [4] | Phillip Borsos | Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spain, then China for Sino-Japanese War | |
| 1995 | United Kingdom | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | Historical drama with similarities to George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia. | ||
| 1996 | Spain | Libertarias | Libertarias | Vicente Aranda | Drama. | |
| 1997 | Spain, France, United States, Puerto Rico | The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca | [4] | Marcos Zurinaga | Drama based on Ian Gibson book. Poet Federico García Lorca, 1936 | |
| 1998 | Spain | The Girl of Your Dreams | La niña de tus ojos | Fernando Trueba | Comedy-drama. Actress Imperio Argentina and pro-Franco movie-makers travel to Nazi Germany | |
| 1999 | Spain | Butterfly's Tongue | La lengua de las mariposas | José Luis Cuerda | ||
| 2003 | Spain | Soldiers of Salamis | Soldados de Salamis | David Trueba | War drama | |
| 2004 | Canada, United Kingdom | Head in the Clouds | John Duigan | Drama. | ||
| 2010 | Spain, France | The Last Circus | Balada triste de trompeta (Spanish) | Álex de la Iglesia | Horror comedy-drama. Son of Republican militiaman carries out his own war over a woman | |
| 2011 | Spain | Ispansi! | Ispansi! (Españoles) | Carlos Iglesias | Drama. Secret Falangist escorts orphans to USSR in time for Second World War | |
| 2011 | United States, Spain, Argentina | There Be Dragons | [4] | Roland Joffé | Drama. | |
| 2012 | United States | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Philip Kaufman | Story depicts the occasion that the two journalist met each other in Spain while they were both covering the Spanish Civil War. | ||
| 2013 | Spain | A Forbidden God | Un Dios prohibido | Pablo Moreno | Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War | |
| 2014 | Spain | Under a Blanket of Stars | Bajo un manto de estrellas | Óscar Parra de Carrizosa | Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War |
Actress Ivana Baquero of Pan's Labyrinth in Toronto
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
| Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Spain, Mexico | The Devil's Backbone | El Espinazo del Diablo | Guillermo del Toro | Horror/Thriller. |
| 2006 | Spain, Mexico | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | Guillermo del Toro | Fantasy/Drama. Parable influenced by fairy tale of young girl's escape into abandoned labyrinth with mysterious faun creature in Francoist Spain, May–June 1944 |
| 2012 | Spain | El Bosque | El Bosc | Óscar Aibar | Sci-Fi/Drama. Story of a family torn apart during the Spanish Civil War in Lower Aragon. The husband takes refuge using a portal to another world. 1936 |
See also
References
Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.
- ↑ Filmed at the same time of Frente de Madrid, but with some different members of the cast (for example the male protagonist is Fosco Giachetti instead of Rafael Rivelles).
- ↑ Filmed at the same time of Carmen fra i rossi, but with some different members of the cast (for example the male protagonist is Rafael Rivelles instead of Fosco Giachetti).
- ↑ The cast of characters in The Madness, a BBC production, includes the following historical figures: Prieto, Largo Caballero, Dolores Ibárruri, Gen. Queipo de Llano, Andrés Nin, General Mola, Gen. Asensio Torrado, Vicente Uribe, Jesús Hernández Tomás (Education Minister), Garcia Oliver, Giral, Galarza (Interior Minister), Federica Montseny, Alvarez Del Vayo, Juan Negrín, General Miaja, and General Rojo. Generals Queipo de Llano and Mola are Nationalists; the other leaders are all Republicans. The role of Francisco Largo Caballero was played by Patrick Stewart.
- 1 2 3 This film is an international co-production shot in English.
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