Manolito Gafotas
Junio 25, 1999
El verano se presenta francamente mal para Manolito Gafotas. Está condenado, un año más, a pasar las vacaciones en su pequeño piso de Carabanchel Alto, con su madre, su abuelo y su hermano pequeño. Y encima ha suspendido las matemáticas, para disgusto de su madre. Manolito espera con ilusión la llegada del padre, camionero de profesión, para que se lleve la familia a la playa.
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Albaladejo- Miguel, Children, Comedy, Spain, Subt. in English | Etiquetado: 1999 | 
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Publicado por bibutrecht
In times of political turbulence during the Mexican Revolution, this film of the new national cinema relates the history of an adolescent couple experiencing the passion and adventure of the 20th century. Determined to save their romance and assist Madero in his fight against the dictatorship, both join a travelling circus in which they will come to know the most admired stages of the country with the hope to arrive to the frontier and provide to the revolutionaries the necessary money to continue the fight. 
Bebé, una muchacha de 18 años, no entiende porqué los demás no son felices como ella. Ella nos contará tres historias paralelas, de tres personajes que no son felices en La Habana, Mariana, Julia y Elpidio. Cada uno de ellos tiene una historia de infelicidad a sus espaldas, que le lleva a elegir entre su felicidad y su desdicha. Sin embargo, todos sus caminos convergen en un momento de la historia, y entonces sabremos cual es el secreto de la felicidad en La Habana del año 2020.
The Colonel waits. They promised him a pension, which for years has remained a promise unfulfilled. Friday after Friday, solemn and dressed in his fines suit, the Colonel waits by the dock in anticipation of the letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Everyone in the small town knows that he waits in vain. He knows it too. Every friday, his wife watches him at the mirror dressing and preparing to pick up the letter that for years has eluded him. But the Colonel, eyes closed to the all too evident truth, stands by his dream, for it not, what else remains for him? There is hunger in the Colonel’s house. His wife is a sack of bones consumed by asthma, and the Colonel lives ashamed of his poverty with the shame befitting a decent man. As his needs become more prevalent.. no one writes to the Colonel.