The siblings Joseph and Chloé are 12 and have just been placed on another children’s home. Read More »
Tag Archives: Spain
Last Images of the Shipwreck AKA Últimas imágenes del naufragio (1989) Eliseo Subiela, Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemí Frenkel, Hugo Soto
The director of the enigmatic, entirely memorable feature Man Facing Southeast confronts viewers Read More »
Taxi for Tobruk AKA Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1961) Denys de La Patellière, Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert. Read More »
Rebus (1969) Nino Zanchin, Laurence Harvey, Ann-Margret, José Calvo
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game Read More »
Black Crown AKA La corona negra (1951) Luis Saslavsky, María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman
A young engineer, Andrés, welcomes a young woman, María, who suffers from amnesia. Read More »
The Executioner AKA El verdugo (1963) Luis García Berlanga, Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert
The history starts with the main character (an old executioner in the Spain of early 60’s) approaching retirement age. Read More »
Jaider’s Gang AKA Verflucht, dies Amerika (1973) Volker Vogeler, Arthur Brauss, Francisco Algora, Joaquín Rodríguez
After serving their sentence in prison, the five members of Jaider’s gang, were expatriated from Germany (Bavaria). Read More »
Our Lady of the Assassins AKA La virgen de los sicarios (2000) Barbet Schroeder, Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin Read More »
Mission Phantom (1967) Guido Malatesta, Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller
A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheel chair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia. Read More »
Amama (2015) Asier Altuna, Kandido Uranga, Iraia Elias, Amparo Badiola
A man runs through the woods, clearly in distress: he is carrying an elderly lady on his back while towing behind him a seemingly never-ending rope. Read More »