Armendáriz reached wide popular success with his third film "Historias del Kronen" (1995) "Stories from the Kronen", about alienated upper class young friends in Madrid, who regularly meet at the bar that gives the film its title. It was adapted from a novel by José Angel Mañas in an Elias Querejeta's production. The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, follows two close friends filling their summer vacation with sex, drugs and rock. The film became emblematic of the Spanish young generation of the 1990s.