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.

女大学生安吉拉（安娜·托伦特 Ana Torrent 饰）正在撰写一篇关于视听暴力的论文，她的教授在为她收集资料的时候心脏病突发死亡。安吉拉觉得事有蹊跷，偷偷从案发现场拿走了教授死亡前正在看的一卷录像带。切玛（费雷·马丁内兹 Fele Martínez 饰）对暴力录像研究颇深，安吉拉带着录像带向他求助。他告诉安吉拉，其中录制的惨绝人寰的暴力行径为真实拍摄，并且受害者很可能就是他们失踪已久的校友凡妮莎。
为了得到真相，安吉拉和切玛四处奔波渐渐产生了感情。他们找到了凡妮莎的男友博斯克（爱德华多·诺列加 Eduardo Noriega 饰），没想到博斯克却把矛头指向了切玛。夹在两个男人之间的安吉拉究竟应该相信谁？一个小小的细节暴露了全部真相，当恶魔展现出他的真正面目，“天使”安吉拉还能够幸免于难吗？

许多年以前，在西班牙某一个小乡村里，有一头小毛驴，名叫小银。
它像个小男孩，天真、好奇而又调皮。它喜欢美，甚至还会唱几支简短的咏叹调。
它有自己的语言，足以充分表达它的喜悦、欢乐、沮丧或者失望。
有一天，它悄悄咽了气。世界上从此缺少了它的声音，好像它从来就没有出生过一样 。
这件事说起来真有些叫人忧伤，因此西班牙诗人希梅内斯为它写了一百多首诗。每首都在哭泣，每首又都在微笑。而我却听见了一个深沉的悲歌，引起了深思。
——儿童文学作家 严文井
《小银和我》是西班牙诺贝尔文学奖得主希梅内斯关于自己与心爱的小毛驴小银朝夕相伴的散文集。希梅内斯用文字描摹出了一组充满着浓郁的乡情和明净淡彩的西班牙南方风情画，也是献给小银的抒情诗。
全书一百三十八个短章，记述了作者希梅内斯和小银共同度过的几年，从拥有小银到小银离去。每篇文章短小、简洁，干净典雅，充满诗意的忧郁，散发出淡淡的哀愁，以孩子天真的口吻道出现实的不完美，字里行间洋溢着爱和温情。在作者眼中，小银充满灵性，高贵、善良。作者对它的情感有热望，有憧憬，有担忧，有苦涩，有甜蜜，把自己与一头小毛驴的一生情谊写得令人动容。

一个炎热的中午，在马德里的一个普通的住宅小区里，一辆电信工程车开了进来，下来四个人，抬下一个普通的单人电话亭，然后把它安装在操场的中央，工程车缓缓离开，过了一会，一个中年男子急匆匆走来，忽然看到了新装的电话亭，于是走进电话亭，开始拨电话，这时候电话亭的门渐渐关闭。打了 很久可能是没人接，于是他放下电话，正欲离开，却发现门无论如何都无法打开。围观的群众开始帮忙，但是无论用什么方法，都无法打开这个电话亭。其实，这些人只是在看热闹，随着开门工作一筹莫展，人们渐渐离去。而里面的他彻底绝望了，但这没有结束，更可怕的事件等待着他。

普通的一个白天，11个普通人被困在一个简陋的酒吧里。里面有老板厨子，有熟客，有偶然进去寻找充电器的陌生人。但是突然之间，大家发现出去的人就要被杀死，而酒吧内部也渐渐危机四伏。