Victoria Abril
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
"El cielo envía a la tierra a su mejor agente y el infierno a su peor, para luchar por la supremacía final. Quien obtenga el alma de Manny, un boxeador enojón que ha recibido demasiado puñetazos, será quien venza. Estas son sensuales serafines que usan el cerebro, el ingenio y, por supuesto, el atractivo sexual para cumplir con su misión. No será fácil sobreponerse a las tentaciones del demonio, pues sus huestes las dirige nada menos que Jack...
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world₂s most beloved and provocative auteurs.
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Paco is a handsome young man engaged to Trini, an innocent young woman who has amassed considerable savings for their eventual marriage. While in search of a job, Paco rents a room from Luisa, an exotic and worldly widow (Victoria Abril), and begins a torrid affair with her. Luisa's sexual hold on Paco is so strong that she soon convinces him to kill Trini, steal her money, and run off with her. But can Paco break free from her control before it's...
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
In the post-Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would tell stories, known as "aventis, " these tales consisted of war stories, local gossip, fantasy and real events. Set in Barcelona during the mid 1980s, a doctor and a 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. The discovery of this body, belonging to someone long presumed dead, leads the...
7) Kika
Series
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.
8) Atame!
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs.
Publisher
Tanelorn Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"Set in '50s Spain, a young man (Sanz) leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée (Verdu) can get married. He rents a room from a widow (Abril), and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story." --IMDb.
11) The 7th day
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Set in the Spanish village of Extremadura, and based on a true account, the story is a tale of warring families and bloodshed that would stain the region. The festering hatred between the Jimenez and Fuentes households, born out of a broken marriage vow, will unleash a vengeful wrath that engulfs an entire village, leaving no one unscathed.
Publisher
MHz Choice
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Captain Marleau has a hunter's instinct, disguised under a deliberately offbeat veneer. As she says herself, she doesn't skim over cases; she plunges into them. Always on the prowl, she lies in wait for clues and her prey and takes them by surprise. In each episode, her hunt centers around a character played by a famous actor, men and women who are a match for the outstanding cop. The volume one DVD set includes episodes one through six of the series....
13) El 7° Dia
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jimenez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The matriarch of one of two feuding clans presses her family to avenge real and imagined injustices. Based on events which took place in Puerto Hurraco, a village in Benquerencia de la Serena municipality in the Province of Badajoz, Spain on August 26, 1990.