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The Impeccable Sinner (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
El pecador impecable
other title: El pecador impecable
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
Streetcar for Sale (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Se vende un tranvía
other title: Se vende un tranvía
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.
El paraíso ya no es lo que era (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
El paraíso ya no es lo que era
Mercedes (Neus Asensi), Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) y Carmen (Miriam Díaz-Aroca) necesitan escapar de algo: del stress del trabajo, de un divorcio o de una existencia gris y aburrida. Y las tres buscan algo: una aventura amorosa en un país exótico. El destino es Túnez, la tierra de los contrastes, de los desiertos y también de las playas. Pero lejos de aterrizar en un paraíso inédito, emprenden viaje junto a un grupo de extravagantes personajes
The Flight of the Dove (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
El vuelo de la paloma
other title: El vuelo de la paloma
A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.
Pasodoble (1988) [Movie] Douban
director: 何塞·路易斯·加西亚·桑切斯 actor: 更多...
Life Size (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Grandeur nature
other title: Grandeur nature / Tamaño natural
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
Long Live the Bride and Groom (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
¡Vivan los novios!
other title: ¡Vivan los novios! / 新娘和新郎
Leo Pozas, native from Burgos and high bank clerk, arrives to a town on the Costa Brava, with his mother to marry Loli. Unexpectedly, Leo's mother died. This may mean the suspension of the wedding, a year of mourning and, perhaps, another relief, so that Leo and Loli hide the corpse of the old betrothal until after the wedding...
The National Shotgun (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
La escopeta nacional
director: 路易斯·加西亚·贝尔兰加 actor: 拉斐尔·阿隆索 / Luis Escobar
other title: 国家的枪 / La escopeta nacional
Few sacred cows go un-gored in this satirical Spanish movie. In Spain, as in England, instead of getting together over a round of golf, it is customary for the power elite to gather at a country estate for a long weekend of "hunting," which basically consists of standing in one spot shooting at game which is being driven toward the hunters. Between shots, the elite converse. In the story, a Catalan businessman pays an impoverished nobleman for the use of his country estate and its game. He is hosting this party to win the goodwill of a group of investors whom he hopes will back one of his schemes. Sprinkled among the businessmen are some more twisted types, every one of them a genuine aristocrat or the member of some government or other -- even a dictator in exile from his Latin American country. A powerful but disapproving priest surveys the scene with outspoken scorn. When the businessman learns that he has backed the wrong horse, and that a new government is being formed, he scrambles to curry favor with those few of his guests who are part of the next group to come to power.