Movies by Àlex Brendemühl
![Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xOA4MbyJZVJHGZ38wC4LPpruBBX.jpg)
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.
![From the Land of the Moon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6TDhHR8nTJnMfZRi9XSEdutYzcW.jpg)
From the Land of the Moon
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
![The Silence Before Bach](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nv6tOTiYaRy8VEqkhr0kP14BvOD.jpg)
The Silence Before Bach
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
![The German Doctor](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3ZwX3U4eRQBB8ZWTjsxAmnikk1J.jpg)
The German Doctor
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
![The Prayer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/78dnETPv7Mcm587KaRo23i8y9e4.jpg)
The Prayer
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
![In the same boat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jthfvU7vB34yvwfL9Veat0XqZZq.jpg)
In the same boat
A documentary about the technological progress responsibility in employment destruction, analyzed by philosopher Zygmunt Bauman and others.
Razones sentimentales
Mario, a young and uprooted Menorcan fisherman, falls in love with Irene, a Barcelona socialite who spends her holidays on the island with her young daughter. After the ambiguous initial relationship, victim of the rumors and slander, she decides to leave him. Mario, unable to resign himself, follows her to Barcelona, where he finds her imprisoned in a marriage lacking in love, in which her husband, a rich and powerful industrialist related to shady business, holds her under the threat of separating her from her daughter.
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Painless
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
![Mother](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/j8wRmze5yJ9uN9zrvXpx9ZcfoO2.jpg)
Mother
Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year old son has disappeared. The last thing she heard of him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Nowadays, Elena lives on this same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two of them will embark on a relationship which will sow chaos and distrust around them.
![Sanctuary](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hjUajX5hv6HhIeQOkHCvyzYAZjo.jpg)
Sanctuary
In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the sanctuary they have created in the south of France. Grégoire Fortin, advisor to the French Minister of Justice, and Domingo 'Txomin' Iturbe, leader of ETA, are forced to negotiate in order to find a solution to the violence that plagues the region.
![Stories Not to be Told](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yjkxgOovtGpt0lTgHkQ9ImWS6td.jpg)
Stories Not to be Told
Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.
![Transit](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tXSyYkUaRZDwCSoddW83M6P6qBa.jpg)
Transit
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
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ma ma
After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.
![Dying Beyond Their Means](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xNHYWbb6EzzicxI5qgXFVm4mN1e.jpg)
Dying Beyond Their Means
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
![Falling Star](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vPAQ3HYEnsKJThr2s1ibyJlq2Gt.jpg)
Falling Star
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
![Truman](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/p4MFl06ePJGKMIF7zFCJhex95Vi.jpg)
Truman
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
![Parisiennes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sjswq1y3CWqm1eJHmBqf1Pk1g9u.jpg)
Parisiennes
Japanese writer Kyoko Murakai comes to in Paris with the purpose of meeting “mythic Parisian women” and uncover the secret of their fulfilling lifestyles, which, she hopes, will serve as an inspiration for the main character of her next novel. This literary and sentimental saga, is also for Kyoko an attempt to emancipate herself from a still misogynistic Japanese society.
![Call Me Francis](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eOFLjnUmxBhjtaKBhEB681TCHoX.jpg)
Call Me Francis
Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.
![La silla](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/q05xHpWgjixtzStrvlZUou3DABb.jpg)
La silla
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
![Nemez](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/daawnwUdSrkCl4Ug40BqLLNKOSs.jpg)
Nemez
Right out of jail, Dima tries to make a new beginning in Berlin, Germany. But his past holds him back. His criminal associates continue to rely on Dima and his father wants to take his family back to their native Russia. Only the relationship with art student Nadja gives Dima hope. If only there wasn't his ciminal past.