Movies by Mario Pardo

The Platform

The Platform

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

Los hijos

Los hijos

Antoñito vuelve a casa

Antoñito vuelve a casa

In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he tries to free himself from the perverse amalgam of ideas, values and beliefs with which his family, the Catholic Church and the repressive elements of the Franco Regime poisoned his mind during his childhood.

Golfo de Vizcaya

Golfo de Vizcaya

After of living in France for fifteen years, Lucas, a journalist with a dark past, returns to Bilbao, his hometown. He begins an intense romance with a young woman, but a series of circumstances will make the intimacy of the couple almost impossible.

The Beehive

The Beehive

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

The Valley of Love

The Valley of Love

Pedro, who is having a tough time, receives the news that his grandfather died. He inherits 2 cows and a donkey. He and his uncle go to the village where his grandfather lived. But this journey will end up as they never expected.

Gente de mesón

Gente de mesón

Luciérnagas

Luciérnagas

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.

Close Your Eyes

Close Your Eyes

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque)

Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque)