Drama, War
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Election
The Flight of the Phoenix
He Was a Quiet Man
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U Turn
Honey
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Scorpion King
Cobain
The Passenger
Happiness
The First Forgotten
Passion
Blue Velvet
Persona
Inland Empire
To End All Wars
Nowhere
Gerry
The Gift
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IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1965
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IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2007
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IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2006
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IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 1997
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IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 2003
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IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1984
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IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 2002
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IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2018
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IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 1975
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IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1998
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IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2019
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IMDB 3.3 | Jul , 1999
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 1986
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IMDB 8.1 | Oct , 1966
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IMDB 7 | Dec , 2006
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IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2001
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IMDB 6.8 | May , 1997
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2002
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IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2000
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.