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Tag Archives: spanish
Los tarantos (1963) Francisco Rovira Beleta, Carmen Amaya
A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love. Read More »
Tear This Heart Out (2008) Roberto Sneider
Set in 1930’s in Puebla, Mexico, a young woman finds herself in an arranged marriage Read More »
Los albañiles (1976) Jorge Fons, Jaime Fernández
A watchman is murdered at a building site. The film narrates several versions Read More »
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) Richard Thorpe
An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin Read More »
The Garden of Delights (1970) Carlos Saura
Surreal look at a family’s attempts to shock, bully, frighten, coach, and cajole Antonio Cano Read More »
Red Shoes (2022) Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser, Eustacio Ascacio, Natalia Solián, Phanie Molina
Tacho, a farmer, tends to his plot of land as life passes him by. Read More »
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) La ilusión viaja en tranvía
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned Read More »
The Cock’s Crow (1955) Rafael Gil, Francisco Rabal, Jacqueline Pierreux, Gérard Tichy
A priest in a communist country tries to escape denying his religious condition. Read More »
The Last Supper (1976) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
During Holy Week at the end of the eighteenth century, a count visits his Havana sugar Read More »