≡ Category: Recommended, Spain, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Suspense
Director: Mateo Gil
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Nobody Knows Anybody AKA Nadie Conoce A Nadie is a reasonably competent suspense thriller, but the most entertaining aspect of the movie, at least for me, is how the Spaniards express themselves in the scenes of everyday life that open the film.
Simón Cárdenas (Eduardo Noriega) is […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Fantasy, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Spain, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance/ Drama/ Art/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Trueba
Year: 2009
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
El Baile De La Victoria aka The Dancer and the Thief is terribly twee, an utter fantasy. And yet, it’s a fantasy set in the ugly realities of the real world. Elements of the plot includes porno theater blowjobs and the disappearance […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Spain, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bigas Luna
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Aspiring filmmakers who want clues about how to make a compelling film on a shoestring could do a lot worse than to study Jamon Jamon. The film takes place in some Godforsaken location in Spain, dominated by a highway with nonstop truck traffic, with a bar/whorehouse being […]
≡ Category: Art, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Spain, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Suspense
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tesis works on two levels: as an American style thriller about a snuff film ring, and as an implicit criticism of the torture porn trend before it even existed.
Angela (Ana Torrent) is working on a thesis about violence in the media when she stumbles across a […]
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Country: Spain
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m not really sure if I should recommend Intacto for the audience of this website. It lacks the directness of most trash cinema. It’s virtues are more ephemeral. It’s concerns, which revolve around concepts like luck and fate, are largely philosophical.
The biggest thing Intacto […]
≡ Category: Drama, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Spain | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Drama
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Forty minutes into Between Your Legs, if you’re anything like me, you will have no idea what the heck is going on.
Here are some of the elements of the plot: several of the characters attend a meeting of Sex Addicts Anonymous, there’s a dead body […]
≡ Category: Drama, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Spain | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Those familiar with the work of director Pedro Almodóvar will know that his films tend to be considered Art, with a capital A, especially these days. All About My Mother won the best foreign film Oscar a few years back. Almodóvar is notorious for writing strong […]
