Eloy de la Iglesia
Biography: De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s. Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as quinqui films, to which he contributed with several works. His film are an example of commitment to the immediate reality. They were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time. Beyond their debatable aesthetic merits, his film served a document of the Spanish marginality of the late seventies and early eighties, and they have the stamp of his strong personality. Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1944
Deathday: March 23, 2006
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Known For
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021-08-24
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Overview: Quinqui cinema encompassed a series of Spanish crime films with a unique national sensibility, as they reflected the times of the Franco dictatorship transition. Guided by academics Mery Cuesta and Tom Whittaker, this featurette explores this explosive subgenre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-24
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Navajeros
1980-10-06
Navajeros
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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Overdose
1983-09-04
Overdose
Overview: Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-04
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El Pico 2
1984-11-09
El Pico 2
Overview: Following the events of El pico, the heroin-addicted Paco faces jail time due to his involvement in a double murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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The Minister's Wife
1981-08-27
The Minister's Wife
Overview: Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-08-27
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Confessions of a Congressman
1978-10-20
Confessions of a Congressman
Overview: Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-10-20
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Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
2018-04-15
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Overview: Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.
Genres: Documentary History Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-15
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Fantasía... 3
1966-01-01
Fantasía... 3
Overview: The film is an adaptation of three fairy tales classics of children literature. "The Maiden of the Sea" tells the story of Coraline, a mermaid who wants to be human afte she falls in love with a Sailor Prince. "The 3 hairs of the Devil" tells the story of Tomasin, a young man of humble background, which a seer had a presentiment that he would marry the daughter of the king, who must perform a series of tests to avoid death, and marriage the princess is accepted by the king. "The Wizard of Oz" tells the story of Sylvia, a girl who get lost in the woods with her dog Toto, and along with her friends The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, have been snatched the brain, heart and courage, respectively. They go the Emerald City to request help from the Wizard of Oz adapting three children’s stories: , The three hairs from the devil and The Wizard of Oz.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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