Ocho y Medio

Its name is a tribute to the classic by Federico Fellini and, in 1995, Ocho y Medio took the baton of former Librería Alphaville –located inside the legendary movie theatre- to start a space entirely devoted to publications about the seventh art and the film industry and including all the disciplines related to audiovisual media, like television, photography or video.

Now, accessed from the street and surrounded by the largest group of theatres showing films in their original language –Golem and Renoir Princesa-, this bookstore features an extensive catalogue with over 15,000 references in many languages, mainly Spanish, English and French, but also Portuguese, German, Catalan or Galician.

Many figures from the world of film, theatre, literature have left their mark on the walls of the bookshop. Ocho y Medio is devoted mainly to the world of show business, and particularly to everything related to audiovisuals. Books on directors, actors and actresses, film techniques, DVDs and a long etc. fill the shelves of the bookshop. There is also a careful selection of fiction and essays.

There is also a cafeteria