List of Spanish films of 2001

A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in 2001 in Spain. When applicable, the domestic theatrical release date is favoured.

Films

Release		Title (Domestic title)	Cast & Crew	Ref.
J A N U A R Y	19	Lázaro de Tormes	Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis García Sánchez Cast: Rafael Álvarez "El Brujo" [es], Karra Elejalde, Beatriz Rico, Manuel Alexandre, Álvaro de Luna, Agustín Gonzalez, José Lifante, Francisco Rabal, Francisco Algora, Juan Luis Galiardo, Emilio Laguna, Manuel Lozano, Tina Sainz	^[1]
J A N U A R Y	26	Waiting for the Messiah (Esperando al mesías)	Director: Daniel Burman Cast: Daniel Hendler, Héctor Alterio, Imanol Arias, Chiara Caselli, Stefania Sandrelli, Gabriela Acher	^[2]^[3]
F E B R U A R Y	2	Ten Days Without Love (El cielo abierto)	Director: Miguel Albaladejo Cast: Sergi López, Mariola Fuentes, María José Alfonso, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Geli Albaladejo [es]	^[4]
M A R C H	2	No te fallaré [es]	Director: Manuel Ríos Cast: Eva Santolaria, Antonio Hortelano [es], Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Sancho Gracia (Sandro)	^[5]
M A R C H	30	Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella	Director: Santiago Segura Cast: Santiago Segura, Gabino Diego, Tony Leblanc, José Luis Moreno [es], Eloi Yebra [es], José Luis López Vázquez, Juanito Navarro	^[6]^[7]
A P R I L	20	The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo)	Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, Francisco Maestre [es], José Manuel Lorenzo, Junio Valverde [es]	^{[n. 1]}^[9]^[10]
	27	April Captains (Capitanes de abril)	Director: Maria de Medeiros Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Fele Martínez	^{[n. 2]}^[12]^[13]
	27	Broken Silence (Silencio roto)	Director: Montxo Armendáriz Cast: Lucía Jiménez, Juan Diego Botto, Álvaro de Luna, María Botto, María Vázquez, Rubén Ochandiano	^[14]
M A Y	4	The Hold-Up (El palo)	Director: Eva Lesmes [es] Cast: Adriana Ozores, Malena Alterio, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura	^[15]
	4	Arian's Journey (El viaje de Arián)	Director: Eduard Bosch [ca] Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Abel Folk [es], Sílvia Munt, Txema Blasco, Carlos Manuel Díaz	^[16]
	11	Lena	Director: Gonzalo Tapia Cast: Marta Larralde, Manuel Manquiña, Roberto Álvarez [es]	^[17]
	18	His Master's Voice (La voz de su amo)	Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro Cast: Eduard Fernández, Silvia Abascal, Joaquim de Almeida, Imanol Arias	^[18]^[19]
	25	Pau and His Brother (Pau i el seu germà)	Director: Marc Recha Cast: David Selvas, Alicia Orozco, Luis Hostalot, Marieta Orozco [es], Nathalie Boutefeu	^[20]^[21]
J U N E	8	Sound of the Sea (Son de mar)	Director: Bigas Luna Cast: Leonor Watling, Jordi Mollà, Eduard Fernández	^[22]
	8	La espalda de Dios [es]	Director: Pablo Llorca [es] Cast: Isabel Ampudia [es], Alberto Jiménez, Pedro Casablanc, Guillermo Toledo, Leonor Watling	^[23]
	29	No Shame (Sin vergüenza)	Director: Joaquín Oristrell Cast: Verónica Forqué, Candela Peña, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Rosa María Sardá, Jorge Sanz, Carmen Balagué, Elvira Lindo, Marta Etura, Dani Martín, Nur Levi [es]	^[24]^[25]
J U L Y	6	No Pain, No Gain (Más pena que gloria)	Director: Víctor García León Cast: Biel Durán [es], Bárbara Lennie, Fernando Conde, Manuel Lozano	^[26]^[27]
J U L Y	20	Black Serenade (Tuno negro)	Director: Pedro Barbero & Vicente Martín Cast: Silke, Maribel Verdú, Jorge Sanz, Sergio Pazos [es], Eusebio Poncela, Fele Martínez	^[28]
A U G U S T	3	Fish People [es] (Gente pez)	Director: Jorge Iglesias Cast: Juan Díaz, Diana Palazón [es], David Tenreiro [es], Iñaki Esnaola, Luke Donovan, Ion Gabella [es]	^[29]^[30]
	24	Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo)	Director: Julio Medem Cast: Paz Vega, Najwa Nimri, Elena Anaya, Tristán Ulloa	^[31]^[32]
	24	Killer Housewives (Marujas asesinas)	Director: Javier Rebollo [es] Cast: Neus Asensi, Antonio Resines, Carlos Lozano [es], Nathalie Seseña, Pere Ponce, Karra Elejalde	^[33]
S E P T E M B E R	7	The Others (Los otros)	Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Renée Asherson	^[34]^[9]
	28	Mad Love (Juana la Loca)	Director: Vicente Aranda Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Manuela Arcuri, Mercedes Morán, Eloy Azorín, Rosana Pastor, Héctor Colomé, Roberto Álvarez [es], Andrés Lima [es], Daniele Liotti	^{[n. 3]}^[36]^[37]
		Savages (Salvajes)	Director: Carlos Molinero [es] Cast: Marisa Paredes, Imanol Arias, Manuel Morón [es], Roger Casamajor, María Isasi, Alberto Ferreiro [es], Emilio Buale, Mario Pardo, Alicia Sánchez [es]	^[38]
		Luna's Game (Juego de Luna)	Director: Mónica Laguna [es] Cast: Ana Torrent, Ernesto Alterio	^[39]
O C T O B E R	11	Visionaries (Visionarios)	Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Ingrid Rubio, Karra Elejalde, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Emma Suárez	^[40]^[41]
	19	Fausto 5.0	Director: Alex Olle, Isidro Ortiz, Carlos Padrissa Cast: Miguel Ángel Solá, Eduard Fernández, Najwa Nimri, Raquel González [es], Juan Fernández, Irene Montalà, Pep Molina	^[42]^[43]
	31	Dagon (Dagon: La secta del mar)	Director: Stuart Gordon Cast: Ezra Godden, Raquel Meroño, Paco Rabal, Uxía Blanco [es], Brendan Price, Macarena Gómez	^[44]^[45]
		Clara y Elena [es]	Director: Manuel Iborra [es] Cast: Verónica Forqué, Carmen Maura, Jorge Sanz, Alexis Valdés, Fernando Delgado [es], Francesc Orella, Elena Ballesteros, Vanesa Cabeza, Amanda García	^[44]^[46]
		Mine Alone (Solo mía)	Director: Javier Balaguer [es] Cast: Sergi López, Paz Vega, Elvira Mínguez, Alberto Jiménez, María José Alfonso, Asunción Balaguer	^[44]^[47]
N O V E M B E R	2	Private Lives (Vidas privadas)	Director: Fito Páez Cast: Cecilia Roth, Gael García Bernal, Luis Ziembrowski [es], Chunchuna Villafañe, Lito Cruz, Carola Reyna, Héctor Alterio, Luis Machín, Dolores Fonzi	^{[n. 4]}^[44]^[49]
	9	Intacto	Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Max von Sydow, Eusebio Poncela, Antonio Dechent, Mónica López	^[44]^[50]
		One of the Hollywood Ten (Punto de mira)	Director: Karl Francis Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, John Sessions, Geraint Wyn Davies, Antonio Valero, Christopher Fulford	^{[n. 5]}^[44]^[52]
		Dama de Porto Pim [es]	Director: Toni Salgot [ca] Cast: Emma Suárez, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Antonio Resines	^[44]
		Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón [es]	Director: Carlos Saura Cast: El Gran Wyoming, Pere Arquillué, Ernesto Alterio, Adrià Collado, Valeria Marini	^[44]^[53]
		The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos)	Director: Manane Rodríguez Cast: Irene Visedo, Luis Brandoni, Concha Velasco, Federico Luppi	^[44]
	30	Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios)	Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes Cast: Penélope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Juan Echanove, Cristina Marcos, Elena Anaya, Luis Tosar, Alicia Sánchez [es], Paz Gómez [es], Elsa Pataky, Gemma Jones	^{[n. 6]}^[55]

Box office

The ten highest-grossing Spanish films in 2001, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:^[56]^[57]

Highest-grossing films of 2001
Rank	Title	Distributor	Admissions	Domestic gross (€)
1	The Others (Los otros)	Warner Sogefilms	6,242,330	26,560,672
2	Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella	Lolafilms	5,297,953	22,050,842
3	Mad Love (Juana la loca)	Warner Sogefilms	1,630,645	7,185,574
4	Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo)	Warner Sogefilms	1,258,919	5,305,757
5	No te fallaré [es]	Columbia TriStar	776,724	3,147,126
6	The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo)	Warner Sogefilms	705,531	2,981,037
7	Pellet (El Bola) ‡	Wanda Vision	642,559	2,586,447
8	Black Serenade (Tuno negro)	Lolafilms	575,471	2,284.859
9	Fish People [es] (Gente pez)	Hispano Foxfilm	563,568	2,264.464
10	Don't Tempt Me (Sin noticias de Dios)	Lauren Film	500,142	2,288,206
‡: 2000 theatrical opening

Informational notes

References

External links

Spanish films of 2001 at the Internet Movie Database

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