Los años bárbaros (The Stolen Years)

Based on a true story, this film is about two university students in Franco-era Spain who are caught painting anti-government graffiti (which interestingly is still visible at the University of Barcelona). In an effort to make an example of the students and to show that political dissidents will not be tolerated, the students are sentenced to 8 years in prison. Through the help of a French activist and his politically-involved Canadian girlfriend, the students escape from prison and spend the rest of the movie trying to get out of Spain. The movie becomes more comical as the getaway car is a red convertible and the accomplices are an American and a Canadian girl, pretending to be tourists. The students are pursued the entire film by Franco's chief of security forces, which provides suspense, but becomes slightly unbelievable and contrived.