La vida en rojo is a 2008 Spanish film directed by Andrés Linares based on the novel El vano ayer by Isaac Rosa.

It stars José Luis Gómez, Ingrid Rubio, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Pilar Bardem, and Miguel Ángel Solá.

Set in Francoist Spain against the backdrop of the history of desaparecidos during the dictatorship as well as the regime's expulsion of University of Madrid's professors Aranguren [es], García Calvo, and Tierno in the 1960s, the plot tracks the plight of university lecturer Julio Denis and student and Communist Party of Spain member André Sánchez, disappeared after an interrogation at the Dirección General de Seguridad precinct.

[1][2] Penned by Andrés Linares and Isaac Rosa, the film's screenplay is an adaptation of Rosa's work El vano ayer.

[7] Distributed by Sagrera TV,[5] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 24 October 2008.