For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Read More »
Tag Archives: Victoria Abril
High Heels AKA Tacones lejanos (1991) Pedro Almodóvar, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé
A girl’s mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother’s) old boyfriends. Read More »
On the Line (1984) José Luis Borau, David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril
A Border Patrol Agent is determined to catch his old nemesis Read More »
Change of Sex AKA Cambio de sexo (1977) Vicente Aranda, Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho
José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner Read More »
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead (1995) Agustín Díaz Yanes, Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime Read More »
No Trace of Sin (1983) José Fonseca e Costa, Victoria Abril, Saul Santos
A young man coming from the high-bourgeois family, Henry, recives in the barrack where he’s getting the military service Read More »
Baton Rouge (1988) Rafael Moleón, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. Read More »
After Darkness (1985) Sergio Guerraz, Dominique Othenin-Girard, John Hurt, Julian Sands, Victoria Abril
To salve his guilty conscience, an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt Read More »
Entre las piernas / Between Your Legs (1999) Manuel Gómez Pereira, Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Miranda is a crew member of a nightly radio programmme. She and her husband Felix, a cop, are parents of a girl. Read More »
Max Mon Amour / Max My Love (1986) Nagisa Ôshima, Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Comedy
Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. Read More »
Gazon Maudit (1995) Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril, Alain Chabat, Comedy
Laurent and Loli are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. He is an estate agent; she is a housewife. Laurent has extramarital affairs. Loli is unaware that her husband is unfaithful. Then one day, a campervan breaks down in front of their house. The driver is Marijo, a 40s-ish butch lesbian who works as a DJ…
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La lune dans le caniveau / The Moon in the Gutter (1983) Jean-Jacques Beineix, Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Drama
In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his lover Bella whom he neglects, an alcoholic brother who lurks about, and his father who’s stayed drunk since the daughter’s death, ignoring work and his own companion. At a seedy bar, Gerard meets a wealthy, nihilistic hedonist and his beautiful sister. Gerard flips for her and thinks she’s his ticket out of the slum. Bella warns him otherwise and also, in jealousy, sets two thugs on him. Then Gerard thinks he’s found his sister’s rapist. These emotional crises force Gerard to choose what’s most important.
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