Madrid, Spain. Un hombre mutilado, veterano de guerra, camina, apoyándose en una muleta, por el estadio de la Ciudad Universitaria, lugar que aún conserva en muros y edificios las terroríficas huellas de una de las más sangrientas batallas de la guerra civil española.

1971 Spanish film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem

The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.

Jarabo era un vividor. El romance que mantuvo con una inglesa casada solo les creó problemas a ambos: puso en peligro el matrimonio de ella, y él se arruinó, después de haber gastado una fortuna en hoteles, cenas y regalos. Asfixiado por la falta de dinero, Jarabo le había pedido a ella un anillo de brillantes que inmediatamente había empeñado. Pero ella, la única mujer a quien había querido, le reclamó la joya, alegando que se trataba de un regalo de su marido. Para recuperarla, Jarabo elige el peor de los caminos.

本片是西班牙独裁统治崩溃后，巴尔登执导的第一部影片，具有“公路片”特质。以现实主义、幽默色调，通过男主一路的见闻反映现实，让男主思考，最后结束旅游返回马德里，他的情感已发生很大变化。巴尔登曾说“电影就是证明，否则就什么也不是。”

A workshop employee decides to take advantage of a long weekend to go to Torremolinos to have fun and chat up foreign tourists.

1959 film by Juan Antonio Bardem

Chris Miller, living with her stepmother in a large secluded mansion, finds her isolation interrupted by the arrival of an unknown scythe-wielding killer.

Vincent, a young man from Paris, arrives at the small Spanish village of Caldeya. where his has been loaned a home by his friend, Reginald. He meets Pascal Regnier, a novelist engaged in pursuits of drinking and love affairs, who spends his summers in Caldeya with his son, Daniel.

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

西班牙独裁者佛朗哥去世后，他的继任者依旧想维持着反动的法西斯政权。

Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover

Prologue:let's put it straight.Betsy Blair is miscast.Is this because she played Borgnine's so called ugly girl in the Oscar-winning "Marty" (1955)?Perhaps so ,but her beaming face ,her luminous smile,her intense longing for happiness are anything but unattractive .She's not Ava Gardner,by a long shot,but she easily outshines her would be handsome lover. Prologue 2:Is it possible,considering the high rating of "calle mayor",that nobody -Spanish users,get a life!It's your culture!- felt like writing about this unfairly overlooked gem? "Calle Mayor" (Grand Rue,Hauptstrasse,Main Street)is the place where ,in a provincial town,people meet,talk and wait.All a woman has to do , Tonia says ,is wait wait wait ,behind her window,at the ball,or on "calle mayor".Isobel has been waiting for eighteen years for a man,because,in the fifties in Spain (and in Europa as well),the only way a woman had is marriage.Or she would become a wallflower and a spinster. "Calle mayor" is a trap :the omnipresence of religion can be felt here there and everywhere ,with the church bells marking out the hours in a town that has stood still for years,with the nuns pacing up and down the street ,asking for a few pesetas more for their good works.A group of men ,not so young anymore,is searching for something to do.A good joke would be nice to kill time :so they ask one of them to pretend he's in love with Isobel ,the thirty-five year old woman-at the time,it was much too late !-.Isobel begins to live in a dream,and the buck cannot bring himself to tell her the truth (out of pity?he does not know himself)..I say it again,Betsy Blair,although excellent was not the right choice :first she's not Spanish ,and mainly she 's not ugly .So it does not always work well,because,if we were in the man's shoes,we would fall in love head over heals with her.But this must not prevent you from watching Juan Bardem's sensitive work:his depiction of the provincialism is absorbing , the sad landscapes on the edge of town or this little railway station where the tragedy is resolved are masterfully filmed. Juan Bardem was a committed artist.He was arrested before he finished "Calle Mayor" and later he produced Bunuel's masterpiece "Viridiana".It's really too bad that ,now that Spanish cinema triumphs again with Amenabar ,Bardem's name should be virtually forgotten.

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.