Vicente Aranda

Vicente Aranda

출생 : 1926-11-09, Barcelona, Spain

사망 : 2015-05-26

약력

Vicente Aranda was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen. Aranda was famous for exploring difficult social issues and variations on the theme of desire by employing the codes of melodrama. Love as uncontrollable passion, eroticism and cruelty are constant themes in his filmography.

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Vicente Aranda

참여 작품

Lope enamorado
Screenplay
The poet and playwright Lope de Vega is already a priest officially. The love affairs of the Spanish writer and actress Lucía Salcedo, whom he nicknamed as "La loca", are publicly known. Cervantes dies. Lope falls madly in love with Marta de Nevares. She is an intelligent and delicate woman, interested in literature and music. The two attract and live a romantic story.
Luna caliente
Screenplay
In the autumn of 1970, Juan, a Spanish poet living in Paris working for UNESCO, returns on vacation to his hometown, Burgos. The city is under heavy police and military surveillance due to the so-called Burgos process, a summary military trial against a group of ETA members and other militants against Francisco Franco’s regime.
Luna caliente
Director
In the autumn of 1970, Juan, a Spanish poet living in Paris working for UNESCO, returns on vacation to his hometown, Burgos. The city is under heavy police and military surveillance due to the so-called Burgos process, a summary military trial against a group of ETA members and other militants against Francisco Franco’s regime.
Lolita's Club
Adaptation
The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the film its title. The film was adapted from an eponymous novel written by Juan Marsé.
Lolita's Club
Director
The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the film its title. The film was adapted from an eponymous novel written by Juan Marsé.
Sexo en el plató
Himself
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
은밀한 교육 2
Screenplay
비잔틴 제국을 침략한 투르크족과 전쟁을 벌이다 외아들까지 잃은 노쇠한 황제는 유명한 용병 장군 티란테에게 도움을 요청한다. 비잔틴의 수도인 콘스탄티노플에 도착한 티란테는 황제의 딸 카르멘시나 공주에게 첫눈에 반하고 공주 또한 늠름한 장군에게 마음을 빼앗긴다. 하지만 티란테와 카르멘시나는 신분의 격차 때문에 비밀리에 사랑을 주고 받는다. 그 와중에 카르멘시나와 마찬가지로 티란테에게 반한 공주의 유모이자 미망인인 아니스가 두 사람 사이를 방해하고 시시때때로 장군을 유혹한다. 한편 정상이 아닌 황제 내외와 투르크 족의 위협 때문에 나라의 미래가 불투명해지자 공주의 시녀들은 티란테와 공주를 이어 주고 그에게 제국을 맡기려고 한다. 하지만 순결을 지키려는 카르멘시나 때문에 그들의 동침 시도는 번번이 실패로 돌아간다. 이런 상황에서 투르크 왕이 카르멘시나를 아내로 주면 전쟁을 끝내겠다고 제안해 오는데...
은밀한 교육 2
Director
비잔틴 제국을 침략한 투르크족과 전쟁을 벌이다 외아들까지 잃은 노쇠한 황제는 유명한 용병 장군 티란테에게 도움을 요청한다. 비잔틴의 수도인 콘스탄티노플에 도착한 티란테는 황제의 딸 카르멘시나 공주에게 첫눈에 반하고 공주 또한 늠름한 장군에게 마음을 빼앗긴다. 하지만 티란테와 카르멘시나는 신분의 격차 때문에 비밀리에 사랑을 주고 받는다. 그 와중에 카르멘시나와 마찬가지로 티란테에게 반한 공주의 유모이자 미망인인 아니스가 두 사람 사이를 방해하고 시시때때로 장군을 유혹한다. 한편 정상이 아닌 황제 내외와 투르크 족의 위협 때문에 나라의 미래가 불투명해지자 공주의 시녀들은 티란테와 공주를 이어 주고 그에게 제국을 맡기려고 한다. 하지만 순결을 지키려는 카르멘시나 때문에 그들의 동침 시도는 번번이 실패로 돌아간다. 이런 상황에서 투르크 왕이 카르멘시나를 아내로 주면 전쟁을 끝내겠다고 제안해 오는데...
¡Hay motivo!
Director
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
카르멘
Writer
19세기 중반 스페인. 곧 진급을 앞둔 건장하고 잘생긴 군인 호세는 담배공장에서 위병근무를 하던 중 카르멘의 매력에 영혼을 사로잡힌다. 카르멘은 공장에서 칼을 휘두르고 호송되는 길에 거짓말을 하며 호세를 유혹한다. 이미 카르멘의 매력에 눈이 먼 호세는 카르멘의 애원대로 그녀를 풀어 주게 되고 직무태만으로 군생활에 오점을 남긴다. 그러나, 절망적인 상황에서도 호세의 머리에는 카르멘에 대한 생각이 떠나지 않는다. 카르멘을 다시 만나길 고대하던 호세는 우연히 그녀를 다시 만나 동정을 바치는 불타는 사랑을 나눈다.
카르멘
Director
19세기 중반 스페인. 곧 진급을 앞둔 건장하고 잘생긴 군인 호세는 담배공장에서 위병근무를 하던 중 카르멘의 매력에 영혼을 사로잡힌다. 카르멘은 공장에서 칼을 휘두르고 호송되는 길에 거짓말을 하며 호세를 유혹한다. 이미 카르멘의 매력에 눈이 먼 호세는 카르멘의 애원대로 그녀를 풀어 주게 되고 직무태만으로 군생활에 오점을 남긴다. 그러나, 절망적인 상황에서도 호세의 머리에는 카르멘에 대한 생각이 떠나지 않는다. 카르멘을 다시 만나길 고대하던 호세는 우연히 그녀를 다시 만나 동정을 바치는 불타는 사랑을 나눈다.
Mad Love
Screenplay
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Mad Love
Director
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Jealousy
Screenplay
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
Jealousy
Director
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
The Naked Eye
Screenplay
Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.
The Naked Eye
Director
Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.
프론트 라인
Writer
1936년 7월 19일. 바르셀로나 근처의 한 마을. 혁명군에게 점거 당한 수녀원에서 탈출하여 피신처를 찾아온다. 그녀가 도착한 곳은 한 창녀촌. 이곳에서 그녀는 혁명군들에게 저항하는 레지스탕스들을 만나 그들에게 합류한다. 파이로가 이끄는 이 레지스탕스들은 먼저 창녀들을 해방시키고, 혁명군들에게 빼앗긴 자유와 정의를 찾으려 한다. 비굴하게 사는 것보다 차라리 죽음을 택한 이 6명의 여성 레지스탕스들은 지옥 같은 전쟁터를 뚫고 나아가며, 이 와중에 마리아는 한 남자를 통해 사랑을 체험하고 더 없는 전우애를 느끼게 된다.
프론트 라인
Director
1936년 7월 19일. 바르셀로나 근처의 한 마을. 혁명군에게 점거 당한 수녀원에서 탈출하여 피신처를 찾아온다. 그녀가 도착한 곳은 한 창녀촌. 이곳에서 그녀는 혁명군들에게 저항하는 레지스탕스들을 만나 그들에게 합류한다. 파이로가 이끄는 이 레지스탕스들은 먼저 창녀들을 해방시키고, 혁명군들에게 빼앗긴 자유와 정의를 찾으려 한다. 비굴하게 사는 것보다 차라리 죽음을 택한 이 6명의 여성 레지스탕스들은 지옥 같은 전쟁터를 뚫고 나아가며, 이 와중에 마리아는 한 남자를 통해 사랑을 체험하고 더 없는 전우애를 느끼게 된다.
뤼미에르와 친구들
Director
1995년 영화탄생 1백주년을 기념하기 위해 제작한 작품으로서 현재 활동중인 유명 감독들이 뤼미에르가 촬영했던 카메라를 들고 찍은 50초 분량의 단편영화 39편과 감독들의 인터뷰, 촬영장면 등이 함께 들어간 극영화 겸 다큐멘터리. 테오 앙겔로풀로스, 코스타 가브라스, 피터 그리너웨이, 압바스 키아로스타미, 스파 이크 리, 데이비드린치, 빔 벤더스, 마틴 스콜세지등 39명의 유명 감독들이 참가했다.
패션 투르카
Screenplay
꿈많은 처녀 시절을 마감하고 사랑하는 남자의 품에 안긴 데시(Desideria Olivan: 아나 벨렌 분)는 남부러울 것이 없었다. 그러나 아이를 무척 좋아하는 데시 부부에게는 아이가 없다. 결혼 생활은 점점 생기를 잃어 간다. 친구들 부부와 가족 단위로 관광갔던 터어키의 이스탄불에서 데시는 여행 가이드인 터어키인 야만(Yaman: 조지 코라페이스 분)을 보는 순간 강렬하게 이끌려 거의 순식간에 그의 품에 안겼고, 그 순간 전혀 경험해 보지 못했던 환희를 맛보게 된다. 스페인으로 돌아온 후 데시는 임신한 사실을 남편에게 알리지만 자신이 불임이라는 사실을 이미 알고 있는 남편은 그녀의 부정을 힐난한다. 위태롭던 두 사람의 가정은 태아로 있던 아기가 죽자 정상으로 돌아갈 것 같았다. 하지만 데시는 남편을 떠날 결심을 하고 터어키로 향한다. 한동안은 야만의 품에서 관능적인 쾌락에 젖어 모든 걸잊지만 차츰 정열이 식어 가면서 데시는 야만이 줄타기 같은 삶을 살고 있다는 사실과 함께 지독한 바람둥이라는 걸 알게 된다. 결국 데시는 야만을 총으로 쏘고 정처 없이 길을 떠난다.
패션 투르카
Director
꿈많은 처녀 시절을 마감하고 사랑하는 남자의 품에 안긴 데시(Desideria Olivan: 아나 벨렌 분)는 남부러울 것이 없었다. 그러나 아이를 무척 좋아하는 데시 부부에게는 아이가 없다. 결혼 생활은 점점 생기를 잃어 간다. 친구들 부부와 가족 단위로 관광갔던 터어키의 이스탄불에서 데시는 여행 가이드인 터어키인 야만(Yaman: 조지 코라페이스 분)을 보는 순간 강렬하게 이끌려 거의 순식간에 그의 품에 안겼고, 그 순간 전혀 경험해 보지 못했던 환희를 맛보게 된다. 스페인으로 돌아온 후 데시는 임신한 사실을 남편에게 알리지만 자신이 불임이라는 사실을 이미 알고 있는 남편은 그녀의 부정을 힐난한다. 위태롭던 두 사람의 가정은 태아로 있던 아기가 죽자 정상으로 돌아갈 것 같았다. 하지만 데시는 남편을 떠날 결심을 하고 터어키로 향한다. 한동안은 야만의 품에서 관능적인 쾌락에 젖어 모든 걸잊지만 차츰 정열이 식어 가면서 데시는 야만이 줄타기 같은 삶을 살고 있다는 사실과 함께 지독한 바람둥이라는 걸 알게 된다. 결국 데시는 야만을 총으로 쏘고 정처 없이 길을 떠난다.
Intruso
Screenplay
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?
Intruso
Director
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?
El amante bilingüe
Screenplay
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
El amante bilingüe
Director
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
아만테스
Writer
군에서 막 제대한 파코(Paco: 조지 샌즈 분)는 고향으로 돌아가지 않고 마드리드에서 살기로 결심한다. 도시에서의 생활이 훨씬 편리하고 좋을 것이라고 생각한데다 애인 트리니(Trini: 마리벨 베두 분)가 마드리드에서 일하면서 파코와의 결혼을 기다리고 있기 때문. 그녀는 파코가 군에 있을때 상관의 집 하녀로 일하고 있다가 알게 된 사이로, 그녀는 파코가 아무리 그녀와의 잠자리를 원해도 결혼 전까지는 순결을 지키려 한다. 젊고 매력적인 미망인 루이사(Luisa: 빅토리아 아브릴 분)의 집에 하숙을 정한 파코는 그녀의 유혹에 넘어가 성의 신비와 환상을 경험하게 되면서 그녀와의 육체적 쾌락에 몰두하게 된다. 이러한 둘의 관계를 짐작하게 된 트리니는 마님의 충고대로 지금까지 지켜온 순결을 버림으로써 파코의 애정을 되찾으려 하지만 불행히도 파코는 루이사와의 욕정에서 헤어나지 못하는 상태. 더구나 루이사는 파코를 이용, 트리니의 돈과 목숨마저 빼앗으려 한다. 두여자 사이에서 번민하던 파코는 일단은 트리니와 결혼하기로 결심하고 트리니와 그녀의 고향으로 향한다.
아만테스
Director
군에서 막 제대한 파코(Paco: 조지 샌즈 분)는 고향으로 돌아가지 않고 마드리드에서 살기로 결심한다. 도시에서의 생활이 훨씬 편리하고 좋을 것이라고 생각한데다 애인 트리니(Trini: 마리벨 베두 분)가 마드리드에서 일하면서 파코와의 결혼을 기다리고 있기 때문. 그녀는 파코가 군에 있을때 상관의 집 하녀로 일하고 있다가 알게 된 사이로, 그녀는 파코가 아무리 그녀와의 잠자리를 원해도 결혼 전까지는 순결을 지키려 한다. 젊고 매력적인 미망인 루이사(Luisa: 빅토리아 아브릴 분)의 집에 하숙을 정한 파코는 그녀의 유혹에 넘어가 성의 신비와 환상을 경험하게 되면서 그녀와의 육체적 쾌락에 몰두하게 된다. 이러한 둘의 관계를 짐작하게 된 트리니는 마님의 충고대로 지금까지 지켜온 순결을 버림으로써 파코의 애정을 되찾으려 하지만 불행히도 파코는 루이사와의 욕정에서 헤어나지 못하는 상태. 더구나 루이사는 파코를 이용, 트리니의 돈과 목숨마저 빼앗으려 한다. 두여자 사이에서 번민하던 파코는 일단은 트리니와 결혼하기로 결심하고 트리니와 그녀의 고향으로 향한다.
If They Tell You I Fell
Screenplay
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
If They Tell You I Fell
Director
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
Screenplay
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
Director
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.
Lute: Forge On or Die
Screenplay
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Lute: Forge On or Die
Director
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Tiempo de silencio
Screenplay
Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully bred them with the help of the natural heat of his daughters. The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice. There, Pedro meets Muecas, Muecas's wife Ricarda and their two daughters Florita and Conchi. With the warmth of the women’s breasts, as the flirtatious Florita shows Pedro, the mice are able to reproduce.
Tiempo de silencio
Director
Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully bred them with the help of the natural heat of his daughters. The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice. There, Pedro meets Muecas, Muecas's wife Ricarda and their two daughters Florita and Conchi. With the warmth of the women’s breasts, as the flirtatious Florita shows Pedro, the mice are able to reproduce.
El crimen del capitán Sánchez
Director
Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.
Fanny Straw-Top
Writer
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend
Fanny Straw-Top
Director
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend
Murder in the Central Committee
Screenplay
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Murder in the Central Committee
Director
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Girl with the Golden Panties
Screenplay
Luys Forest is a writer with a political past Falangist, who lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send his daughter Mariana on how it is. Mariana comes to town and shake the world of Luys stable with free and uninhibited personality. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
Girl with the Golden Panties
Director
Luys Forest is a writer with a political past Falangist, who lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send his daughter Mariana on how it is. Mariana comes to town and shake the world of Luys stable with free and uninhibited personality. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
Change of Sex
Screenplay
José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve. However one of the acts is a pre-operative transsexual, and there is a full frontal exposure at the end. Father has arranged that after the show...
Change of Sex
Director
José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve. However one of the acts is a pre-operative transsexual, and there is a full frontal exposure at the end. Father has arranged that after the show...
The People Who Own the Dark
Screenplay
A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.
Clara es el precio
Director
In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge, finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Screenplay
A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Director
A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.
The Exquisite Cadaver
Director
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
The Exquisite Cadaver
Writer
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Left-Handed Fate
Screenplay
The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.
Left-Handed Fate
Director
The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.
Brillante porvenir
Story
The adventures of a young provincial, and their relationship to the upper class.
Brillante porvenir
Screenplay
The adventures of a young provincial, and their relationship to the upper class.
Brillante porvenir
Director
The adventures of a young provincial, and their relationship to the upper class.