Quote:
Piece of industrial cinema about the Basque Worker’s Credit Union.Read More »
Spain
-
Adela Medrano – Las calidades de la vida AKA The Qualities of Life (1974)
1971-1980Adela MedranoDocumentaryShort FilmSpainSpanish cinema under Franco -
Adela Medrano – Esculturas para un paisaje AKA Sculptures for a Landscape (1975)
1971-1980Adela MedranoDocumentaryShort FilmSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoInfo from the Filmoteca Española (auto-translated):
Sculptures for a Landscape (1975) is about the sculptures that were finalists in the International Sculpture Competition for the Mediterranean Highway. The documentary presented several complications during its production: it was very difficult to frame the sculptures due to their large size and the outdoor filming was highly conditioned by the weather. Medrano always had very small budgets, so her team usually consisted of herself, a camera assistant and a sound engineer, and they could not count on cranes or other materials that would have facilitated the filming. So this work was a constant exercise in ingenuity on the part of the director.Read More » -
Manuel Bartual – Todos tus secretos (2014)
2011-2020ComedyManuel BartualSpainThrillerSynopsis
Susana has managed to get her whole group of friends together to celebrate a very special night: Toni’s birthday is coming up, and for the first time he’s doing it abroad, from Germany, but the distance won’t stop them from celebrating it together. What nobody suspects is that after that party their lives will change forever.Read More » -
Mariano Ozores- Agítese antes de usarla AKA Shake Before Use (1983)
1981-1990ComedyMariano OzoresSpainTwo apprentice scammers who meet in a clinic on the Costa del Sol. By running the clinic they want to advertise. So they take advantage of the arrival of a deputy to cast him unnecessarily, waiting for the arrival of television cameras.Read More »
-
Diego Yaker – Pecados (2011)
2011-2020Diego YakerDramaSpainA bloodcurdling drama by Argentinian director Diego Yaker starring Spanish actor Carmelo Gómez. An independent film that achieves maximum brilliance, PECADOS is the story of two young lovers who are unaware of a family secret that could destroy them.
Bepo and Lourdes are madly in love, but they have to confront the deep-rooted traditions of their small town and of their families, who share a horrible secret that could tear them apart. The scene: a remote Argentinian town whose devastating beauty makes it a key element of the film. A true Western carried by larger than life characters.Read More »
-
Leonardo Medel – La Verónica (2020)
2011-2020DramaLeonardo MedelSpainVeronica, a very popular model on social networks, falls out of favor when she discovers that she is the main suspect in an investigation for the murder of her first daughter.Read More »
-
Eloy de la Iglesia – La Criatura AKA The Creature (1977)
1971-1980DramaEloy de la IglesiaSpainTender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog.
Shot in 1977, the film employs bestiality as a symbol of Spain’s political landscape. It makes references to the massacre of Atocha and to political right wing groups that after the death of Francisco Franco, tried to maintain the dictator’s political ideals.Read More »
-
Luis Buñuel – El ángel exterminador AKA The Exterminating Angel (1962)
1961-1970ArthouseFantasyLuis BuñuelSpainAfter a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room… and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they’ve built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals…Read More »
-
Luis Buñuel – Viridiana (1961)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaLuis BuñuelSpainViridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Stirred by her resemblance to his late wife, he attempts to seduce her and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle’s estate. But little good comes from these good intentions.Read More »