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A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.
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León Klimovsky – Una libélula para cada muerto AKA A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1974)
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Luis Tinoco – Caronte (2017)
2011-2020Luis TinocoSci-FiShort FilmSpainCaronte explains the story of Debbie, a teenager whose only concern is herself, social media, cellphone and friends. She is rude with her own family, specially with her little brother. But after a dramatic car accident, she starts to regret about the way she behaved with them. Unexpectedly, Debbie’s story connects with Arsys’s, an experienced military and space fighter pilot who tries to survive a huge spatial battle which takes place on other time…other galaxy….other universe.Read More »
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Santiago Lorenzo – Mamá es boba AKA Mom is Dumb (1997)
1991-2000ComedyDramaSantiago LorenzoSpainPalencia (Spain). Little Martin gets pooped every day at school, which is making his life bitter. He feels embarrassed for his parents, Gema and Toribio, two lovers who always smile as if asking for forgiveness for everything and who, moreover, ignore the drama that their poor son suffers every day in class.Read More »
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Denis Delestrac – Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping (2016)
2011-2020Denis DelestracDocumentarySpainIn an audacious investigation, Freightened will reveal the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.Read More »
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Jesús Franco – La casa de las mujeres perdidas AKA The House of Lost Women (1983)
Jesus Franco1981-1990DramaEroticaSpainDesdemona lives on an isolated island with her strange family: her father Mario, her stepmother Dulcinea and her mentally challenged sister Paulova. As the only inhabitants on the island loneliness and desolation engulf all members of her family. Desdemona tries to ward off her boredom by taking long walks along the beach or engaging in acts of self-gratification. She often tries to seduce her own father Mario to engage in acts of a sexual nature. Their daily routine is interrupted by the arrival (by boat) of a robust male stranger who brings friction into Desdemona’s family.Read More »
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José Luis Guerín & Jonas Mekas – Correspondencia Jonas Mekas – José Luis Guerín (2011)
José Luis Guerín2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalJonas MekasSpainIMDb User wrote:
This correspondence, or exchange of letters and video diaries between acclaimed filmmakers Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerin is extremely potent, there’s sorcery at play in the mixture of the two. Together they’re light and dark. Mekas knows life’s joys, and is always a participant in what he films, Guerín is a detached observer, cold, present only as a black mote, reflected in the eye of one of his subjects. Guerín shoots in black and white and strives for formalism, Mekas loves hazard, loves his chaotic hand-held colour camera. Jonas Mekas felt that his images were inferior to those of Guerín, but a picture of his son Sebastian devouring a pickle, followed by Jonas on the deli sausage and wine, and then a cheeky close up of Goethe’s Faust; which of them Faust and which Mephistopheles? That one shot set me thinking about the nature of art and the privilege of artists, and could be interpreted in any one of several fruitful ways.Read More » -
José Luis Garci – El crack (1981)
1981-1990CrimeFilm NoirSpainPrivate detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies…Read More »
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Vicente Aranda & Román Gubern – Brillante porvenir (1965)
Vicente Aranda1961-1970DramaRomán GubernSpainSynopsis
Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, lives a monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in an architecture company. From that moment on, a new life will open before his eyes. He befriends Lorenzo, one of his co-workers. Lorenzo has more experience than Antonio and shows him a new, more sophisticated life in which Antonio feels out of place. In addition, Antonio falls in love with Montse, Lorenzo’s sister.
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Jesús Franco – Bahía blanca (1985)
1981-1990CultJesus FrancoSpainThrillerBahia Blanca is an obscure but beautifully atmospheric thriller shot on the Spanish coast. Part crime, part character study, and all Franco… (MondoDigital)Read More »