d. Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
c. Spain
y. 1973
description:
"This Spanish drama explores an encounter between a well-educated mountain-climber and a young shepherdess who has been kept mute by her suffocating family. Lost during a climbing expedition, Don Ramiro (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) finds shelter and safety through the help of the speechless girl (Kili Manyer). Though her brother is deaf and half-mad, there is nothing wrong with the girl, and Ramiro begins to teach her how to speak. This interferes with the established pattern preferred by the girl's family, and Ramiro is accused of rape and carted off to prison." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.5 (9)
_AMG... n/a
size: 730MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Speak, Little Mute Girl
Tuset Street
d. Jorge Grau & Luis Marquina
c. Spain
y. 1967
description:
"Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, rich, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing salary with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset. Jordi and friends have no idea of who she is when they see her dancing at "The Pub," a Tuset disco. With nothing better to do, Jordi makes a bet with his friends that he can make Violeta fall in love with him. At the beginning, she takes him for just another "customer pickup" but is surprised when he refuses to have sex with her after paying her. In the following nights Jordi pursues Violeta making her believe that he is really falling in love with her. He complains about loneliness and his search for real love. Violeta gives in and starts caring for the young man, not knowing that his friends are taping all their encounters. As day passes Violeta and Jordi become inseparable. One day Violeta walks in "The Pub" and Jordi's friends play for her the tape of their love conversations. She realizes that the affair has been a lie for the amusement of the Tuset Street crowd and dumps Jordi for good. At the same time he realizes that he really loves Violeta and tries to gain her forgiveness but to no avail. She goes back to singing at El Molino while Jordi is left alone with the realization that this affair was the only true thing in his life. Tuset Street seems now desolate." (IMDB)
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 810MB
qlty: Sat
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The Delinquents
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1960
description:
"In cold print, 1960's Delinquents sound like a Spanish-language precursor to a Mickey Rourke/Sean Penn flick of the 1980s. The delinquents of the title are three restless slum kids, given to petty thievery. When one of the boys expresses a desire to become a bullfighter, the others pool their energies to pull one big heist in order to finance their pal's dream. The would-be bullfighter makes a disastrously dismal debut in the ring, and the gang is rounded up by the cops. Delinquents was originally released in Spain as Los Golfos, but might have been more appropriately titled Los Goofos." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.8 (17)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1000MB
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Weeping for a Bandit
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1964
description:
"El Tempranillo (Francisco Rabal) returns from the Napoleonic wars with a desire to continue fighting. He turns to banditry rather than live in poverty in his native Spain. Though his wife (Lea Massari) pleads for him to change his dangerous way of life, he refuses. When she is killed, the bandit sets out for revenge. He soon meets Pedro Sanchez (Phillipe Leroy), an escaped convict who was imprisoned for his political activities. The two continue on together until El Tempranillo is offered a pardon and an estate from the king. Basing the lead character on a legendary Spanish bandit, Carlos Saura co-wrote and directed this drama early in his career. Filmed on location in Spain's Sierra Morena." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.0 (28)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 900MB
qlty: VHS
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Garden of Delights
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1970
description:
"Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has. His greedy relatives would love to put Vasquez away and claim his fortune. But there's a fly in the ointment: the money is in a secret Swiss bank account, and the only one who knows (or who knew) the account number is the amnesiac Vasquez. Those familiar with the work of Spanish director Carlos Saura know for darn sure that he's not about to go the expected route with this surefire material: Garden of Delights, is just that, a bountiful garden of the surreal, the symbolic, the illusory, and at times the hilarious." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.4 (79)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
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Sweet Hours
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1982
description:
"In this story (within a story) a man is remembering his years as a little boy living in Madrid during World War II, particularly important because his mother committed suicide in 1942. Scenes flip back and forth between the man in the present, and the man as a little boy, very much attached to his mother and intensely disliking his father. As these memories move into the complexities of life back then, the story stops and it is shown to be something entirely different than what it seemed." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.2 (32)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 910MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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The Stilts
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1984
description:
"Carlos Saura's The Stilts (Los Zancos) features Fernando Gomez as a middle-aged professor/playwright. Falling head over heels in love with actress Laura DelSol, Gomez begins obsessing on the girl, despite her unwillingness to make a commitment. When another, younger man (Francisco Rabal) enters the scene, the drama darkens into melodrama. While the story material in The Stilts may seem old-hat at first glance, Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura invests his characters with enough conviction and humanity to keep the viewers riveted to their chairs. Eschewing his previous "nonlinear" narratives (which ignored such trivialities as chronology and reality), Saura directs The Stilts in an austere, near-documentary fashion." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.5 (63)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 1270MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no
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Cuentos de Borges: El Sur
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1992
description:
"To see El Sur is like slipping as a guest into one of Jorge Luis Borges' tales." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 8.5 (11)
_AMG... n/a
size: 600MB
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Little Bird
d. Carlos Saura
c. Spain
y. 1997
description:
"A relatively simple coming-of-age drama with autobiographical overtones from Carlos Saura, one of Spain's leading directors, the story is told from the viewpoint of 10-year-old Manu as he is shuffled from relative to relative in the hometown of his parents, who are busy trying to decide whether or not to divorce. That each of Manu's relatives is eccentric only adds spice to the low-key tale." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (83)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 530MB
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The Happy Couple
d. Luis Garcia Berlanga & Juan Antonio Bardem
c. Spain
y. 1953
description:
"After the success of the political satire Bienvenido Mister Marshall (co-written by Juan Antonio Bardem, uncle of actor Javier Bardem, and Luis García Berlanga), That Happy Couple -- written and directed by Bardem and Berlanga in 1951, and starring the legendary Spanish actor/director Fernando Fernán Gómez -- was released in Spain in 1953. Gómez stars as Juan, who struggles to make a living working as a technician at the local film studio and is always on the lookout for some moneymaking scheme. He has a bunch of correspondence school diplomas on his wall, but he still can't fix his radio. His wife, Carmen (Elvira Quintillá), meanwhile, is obsessed with contests and sweepstakes, for example buying more soap than the pair will ever need in hopes of winning some prize. A shady character working in the local theater convinces Juan to "borrow" some film from the studio and invest his money and equipment in a photography business. Juan loses his job, and then learns that his business partner has run off. The tension that has been simmering between him and Carmen, rooted in their financial woes, reaches a boil. Just then, a gentleman enters their apartment with important news. Carmen has won a contest sponsored by a soap company, and she and Juan have been selected as "That Happy Couple," and are expected to spend the day visiting fancy shops and restaurants in Madrid, and promoting Florit Soap. Juan impulsively decides to use the Florit car to track down his shady partner, but when he joins Carmen later, they find that the high life is not all it's cracked up to be. That Happy Couple was shown at the Walter Reade Theater as part of a tribute to Gómez during the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2004 edition of Spanish Cinema Now." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (69)
_AMG... 4.0 / 5.0
size: 730MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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El sueno de la maestra
d. Luis Garcia Berlanga
c. Spain
y. 2002
description:
A comic short.
IMDB... 6.5 (24)
_AMG... n/a
size: 70MB
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Nacional III
d. Luis Garcia Berlanga
c. Spain
y. 1982
description:
"This is the third film in a sequence that started in 1978, about the Marquis de Leguineches, his hopeless son Luis José, his mistress/servant Viti, and in this instance, a Catholic priest. The Marquis has been living in Madrid since he lost his villa, and when his father-in-law dies, the family gets together and that becomes a catalyst for thinking more directly about their future. This leads to the Marquis' decision to leave Spain with the family's money, yet it will be difficult to cross the border without having their wealth confiscated by the authorities. So the Marquis fakes a broken leg and stashes the wealth inside his cast on a journey to Lourdes to seek a miracle. Unfortunately, France is no more amenable than Spain to the wealthy aristocracy since Mitterand's socialist government has just been elected into power. Between his unwieldy cast, the crazy family members, and the problem of where to go next to keep his fortune intact, the Marquis has a rough time of it. The repartée among the Marquis' family members and friends will entertain most audiences, but the originality of the 1978 family has worn thin by now and will be difficult to stretch into yet another episode in the future." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.5 (58)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no
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Boyfriend in Sight
d. Luis Garcia Berlanga
c. Spain
y. 1954
description:
n/a
IMDB... 6.0 (44)
_AMG... n/a
size: 710MB
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Long Live the Bride and Groom!
d. Luis Garcia Berlanga
c. Spain
y. 1970
description:
"A bank clerk and his mother visit the beach the day before his wedding to a beautiful Spanish woman. He leaves his mother alone to talk to some nude female sunbathers, and returns to find she had drowned. Not wanting to delay his wedding with the standard period of mourning, mommy dearest is packed in ice in the resort hotel managed by his fiance. Jose Luis Lopes Vasquez plays the eager groom who won't delay the marriage for his mother's funeral in this offbeat comedy." (AMG)
IMDB... 5.9 (46)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 840MB
qlty: ?
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Los motivos de Berta
d. Jose Luis Guerin
c. Spain
y. 1985
description:
"Berta is a young teen experiencing all the changes that occur when childhood is left behind and life as an adult woman begins to dawn. This first film by novice director Jose Luis Guerin is excellently structured around action and events, gestures and facial expressions, that subtly reveal the differences in Berta's expanding life. In black and white with a soundtrack that enhances the simple story, the movie is minimalist, but effective." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.0 (18)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1360MB
qlty: VHS
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Innisfree
d. Jose Luis Guerin
c. Spain
y. 1990
description:
"This documentary focuses on the modern-day village of Innisfree, the location used by legendary director John Ford for his Irish romance The Quiet Man starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Featuring some excerpts from the movie, and an amusing moment in which some schoolchildren describe the plot of that film, most of the documentary simply shows images of the village without any narration or commentary." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.5 (40)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1280MB
qlty: VHS
subs: no
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Tren de sombras
d. Jose Luis Guerin
c. Spain
y. 1997
description:
"Director José Luís Guerin uses several types of film media and distinctive lighting techniques to explore the mystery of Paris lawyer and amateur filmmaker Gerard Fleury who on November 8, 1930 disappeared on a lake near the village of Le Thuit in Normandy while looking for proper lighting conditions around the lake shore. A challenging and arty drama, much of the story centers around the events leading up to the disappearance and is based on some recently discovered, but poorly preserved home movie footage that was shot just before Fleury vanished (though it looks convincing, the footage is totally bogus). Interwoven around these home movies are shots done in new black-and-white film of the same locale and color sequences depicting the people around Fleury." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.1 (90)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: TV
subs: no
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Misterio en la marisma
d. Claudio de la Torre
c. Spain
y. 1943
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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Aventuras de Juan Lucas
d. Rafael Gil
c. Spain
y. 1949
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1000MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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