
Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Read More »
Tag Archives: Spain
Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón / Bunuel and King Solomon’s Table (2001) Carlos Saura, El Gran Wyoming, Pere Arquillué, Ernesto Alterio, Adventure, Fantasy

Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon Read More »
Dalí (1991) Antoni Ribas, Lorenzo Quinn, Sarah Douglas, Michael Catlin, Biography, Drama
This is a biographical film on the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Young Dali, already famous in Europe, arrives in New York in the 1940s because that’s where the money is, and the war isn’t. Read More »
Rottweiler (2004) Brian Yuzna, William Miller, Irene Montalà, Paulina Gálvez, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 2018, in Spain, the prisoner Dante (William Miller) escapes from a prison and is chased by a robot dog. Read More »
Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama

When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Action, Adventure

The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. Read More »
La mano de un hombre muerto / The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962) Jesús Franco, Ana Castor, Howard Vernon, Paula Martel, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In the Austrian Alpine town of Holfen, a young woman is found murdered. Theo and Hansel, two wood-cutters, stop off at a bar where they tell Dr. Kalman, an academic studying local folk tales Read More »
Laberinto de pasiones / Labyrinth of Passions (1982) Pedro Almodóvar, Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Comedy, Drama

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). Read More »
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013) Antonio Mayans, Jesús Franco, Irene Verdú, Comedy, Erotic

Al Pereira was so disappointed after his last film that he doesn’t ever want to work with Jess Franco again, who is constantly insisting on it. Read More »
La torre de los siete jorobados / Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944) Edgar Neville, Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

In the Madrid of the 19th century a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number where the ball is going to fall. Read More »
