History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
release : 1981.06.12popularis : 14.146
Goya's Ghosts
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family...
release : 2006.11.08popularis : 13.742
The Pit and the Pendulum
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror...
release : 1991.06.27popularis : 16.545
The Pit and the Pendulum
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son...
release : 1961.08.12popularis : 7.967
Captain from Castile
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to...
release : 1947.12.25popularis : 4.804
Man of La Mancha
In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish...
release : 1972.12.12popularis : 8.243
The Wandering Jew
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...
release : 1933.11.15popularis : 8.204
Extraordinary Tales
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
release : 2013.02.28popularis : 6.308
Inquisition
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the...
release : 2002.12.22popularis : 4.096
Inquisición
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to...
release : 1977.12.01popularis : 3.994
Secret Passage
Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 4.865
Akerbeltz: las brujas y el inquisidor
The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logroño, northern Spain, is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical...
release : 2012.04.12popularis : 4.5
A Paixón de María Soliña
A Paixon De María Soliña' is a feature film with a historical setting which describes the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition through...
release : 2012.10.19popularis : 1.982
Nuevo Mundo
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous...
release : 1978.08.10popularis : 2.375
The Monk
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace....
release : 1990.01.17popularis : 3.641
Asesinato en la Universidad
In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who spreads humanist ideas, considered heretical,...
release : 2018.09.27popularis : 2.932